That's interesting, because I sort of saw it the other way. Olenna just couldn't imagine that Cersei would really ever make such crazy, stupid and self-destructive moves. Even after trying to point out to Cersei that her position depends on the Tyrells and Cersei not getting it, I think Olenna still couldn't quite…

No, he is much younger in the book. But on the show, he's supposed to be about 12. That is how old his actor referred to him as being in an interview.

1-4-2-3 for me. I seem to be in a minority in finding S3 the weakest so far.

Not just you. This show works much better binge-watched than it does when watched an episode a week. Were it not for wanting to take part in discussions like this, I would always wait until after the season was finished before watching this show. When you're describing (everything feeling like prelude, etc.) is often…

Yeah, I really don't watch this show for the fight scenes. Not only do I tend to find even very well-done fight scenes boring, but the ones on this show are…well, they're never really very good.

How would getting help have furthered Sansa's game? She gets smuggled out of Winterfell by sympathetic servants and/or Brienne and Pod, and….then what?

No worries! I have followed suit.

Sorry, was "for the most part" too difficult a construction? When I mean "always," I don't write "often;" I write "always." There are certainly such works of fiction. They're just far more rare than one might expect, given how often protagonists suffer other sorts of violence, even types of violence far less common…

Pssst, forget_it_jake. You are, like, my champion on these threads today and I find myself upvoting you like whoah, but (redacted stuff is redatcted)

This may be a circuitous answer to your question, but it is nonetheless mine.

Wow. That's a pretty large assumption to be making based on…exactly the opposite of what I wrote. I explicitly said that I did not have a problem with Dany, and that the reason for this was that people play the hands they're dealt. How you leap from there to "you don't understand that sometimes life deals you a shit…

No kidding. His cheekbones this season look like they could cut glass. I'd love to know how many pounds he shed for this role, because boy looks seriously gaunt.

Do I overuse this question and answer technique? Maybe, just a bit.

"Thank heavens we settled upon 'experts' as the designation for our articles for book-readers. What a great decision that was!" said no AV Club writer ever.

Do you have any commentary that…doesn't have rape in it?

This was an episode about truth and lies.

Oh, could you imagine? People are getting upset over feeling bored with Arya's arc after what? maybe eight minutes of screen time total? I can just imagine how they'd squeal if we had an entire three seasons of Brienne wandering aimlessly through the war-ravaged Riverlands, Arya doing exactly what she's doing now…

There is also that entire weird phenomenon of men being raped by animals (usually while being themselves disguised as the same species of animal) being treated as a form of comedic karmic Just Deserts. I have no idea how that became so prevalent, but it's amazing how often it happens to the villains in goofy '70s and…

Latin would also appear to be the holy language of the church of the 7, with all of its septas and septons and so forth.

I think the "give me your hand" scene last week was partly there to convince the audience that Theon has been well and truly terrorized and broken by this man, and that he's not going to rebel against him just like that.