You know, people keep talking about the problem of denying agency to women, and how uses of rape in fiction do that.

We saw said birthmark in the first episode. It was in a "no pearls were clutched when this episode aired" place on his thigh.

Yeah, those parasites sure are annoying, aren't they? They'd probably go to pieces without your sterling insights. Have you ever considering John Galting yourself off the internet?

You ever see the one where all the social justice clowns pile out of that tiny car? Haha! That was rich! I could not stop laughing!

Ah, yes. The two scenes that take all of those faint "oooo, could THIS one be a sympathetic character maybe? Please? For once? Perhaps?" hopes of the reader and dash them to pieces while GRR Martin laughs heartily and yells "Tricked you again! See, *they're* vengeance-obsessed monsters, *too*! You really thought you'd…

Only on their wedding night, when he mysteriously transforms — for one night and one night only! — into Fabio, in a scene that virtually defines the phrase "authorial failure of nerve." After that, he rapes her every night. Every. Goddamned. Night. He hurts her. She has to bury her face in the pillows to muffle her…

It's really too bad. The original actress was a sweetheart, very excited about the show, and very giving to the fans. And, as that photo shows, she also has a great sense of humor.

Nope. Different blonde girl.

Agreed. Nothing about this series has squicked me half so much as the way some viewers responded to Dany and Drogo. I had a very hard time dealing with people cheering on that relationship. I can understand Dany, because y'know, we all have to play the hands we're dealt and Stockholm Syndrome is a thing that happens,…

Yeah, it really doesn't make much sense in this quasi-historical setting. Everything else we've seen about Westeros tells us that it is a society considerably less precious about nudity than our own.

Yes. Imagine.

Oh, is that a thing? 'Cause the Moon Landing is certainly my earliest datable memory, and a very vivid one, but I've never heard anyone else cite it as a generational marker before.

Good timing! By the time you finish, this season will likely be over, at which point the show will have run through all the existing book material. So you'll be joining the Sullied at exactly the moment at which we *all* become effectively Unsullied. We can all be ignorant together!

There is still one active leper colony in Romania:
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No, in the show it was Joffrey. There's a scene early in S2 when Tyrion accuses Cersei of having ordered it, and she says nothing. He then realizes that it was Joffrey, and she attempts — rather poorly — to defend her son's action. The scene made it clear that he did it without consulting her first, and IMO also that…

*SUCH* a dick.

That's a really good point. It is harder to remember the fine details, I think, when you binge watch something. It's like it all goes into shorter-term memory when you watch it over the course of only one or two days.

I'm more surprised that in a world that suffers from years-long winters, a world in which starvation is quite common, Walda's body type would not be considered rather fetching. That's a woman who will still have the fat stores to breast-feed your kids, even in the dead of winter! You'd think they'd value that.

Bloody Flux is more like cholera. Liquid bloody diarrhea, which in a pre-modern setting makes it pretty much impossible to keep the water supplies clean, so it spreads very quickly. It's quite realistic as a highly contagious killer, but it would be awfully nasty and unappealing to show on-screen, so I suspect that…

Kill the girl, and let the Mad King be reborn!