Same difference. The lack of visibility contributes to the bestness.

As part of her job. She's an actress, for Christ's sake.

If you're looking to avoid feminism… you might have come to the wrong place too.

I don't think there's much to sell, if you go by the source material. Book!Dany might be thinking about Daario a lot, but it's all lusting, no pining. Her Daario-related anguish is all about "Can I afford to indulge this appetite or does it conflict too much with my royal duties?", not "Does he love me?", because his…

I've been reading the newbies and my impression is they're pretty 50/50 on whether Oberyn is going to make it to the next season.

Fellow Iron Island storyline fan here - we're definitely a minority. But maybe our ranks will swell if they cast sufficiently compelling actors for Euron, Aeron and Victarion. I put my faith in Nina Gold.

I can see it, but I wouldn't like it. The reveal of LS is such a "Fuck yeah, George Martin!"-moment (because she's raining destruction on the Freys in righteous fury and who wouldn't want to see this at that point?), whereas her capture of Brienne is more of a "Fuck you, George Martin"-moment (because she forces…

I wouldn't be suprised at all if Dany dies - in the climactic battle in the last book. Anything sooner is highly improbable, I feel.

They haven't cast Euron and Victarion yet, so all Asha can potentially do this season is getting news of Balon's death.

Did I hear this correctly? - When Helena rants about "pretty dirty sexy" Rachel, she also says "just like my mother". Now, I'm assuming that the nuns shittalked her mom to Helena, since any woman who had to give up her baby would be a fallen woman to them, and maybe that's all there is to it. But who exactly would…

The problem is that he he was blackmailed into accepting the position as Rachel's monitor.

I think losing both your parents at a young age is an absolutely sufficient excuse for being somewhat messed up.

Her presumably loving parents died when she was still very young.

I guess the idea was that she should indicate by nodding that she was ready to talk, and then they would take out the thread.

I would count "being locked into a cellar by religious nutjobs" as environmental factors.

This is the first Jared theory I've read here I could actually see being true.

I think Arkady wanted Oleg to do that. I think that was the whole point of that conversation they had when Arkady told Oleg about Nina's treason. ("I can''t do anything about it, because I have no protection, no one to cover for me" = Whereas you, dear Oleg, are the son some party fat cat and have a bit of a wider…

Yep. The first movie was not supposed to make you fall in love with any of its characters, but with the idea of doing an erasmus-semester, which it did quite successfully, at least in my case. I liked it well enough (and it probably strenghtened my resolve to go through all the red-tape you have to conquer to get the…

Maybe it's her zodiac sign.

I do suspect some feel that this is something they need to do to survive. I don't agree, but I can see where they're coming from.