I know. Goddammit.

The Lord of Light is fed by your tears.

Mountainstein?

Also, "rapers." Does changing what rapists are called really help to facilitate a sensawunda, or the illusion of a real yet distant land, or a feeling of antiquity, or in fact anything useful at all? No, George. No. It really doesn't. It just sounds stupid.

I thought that too. For a moment there I was thinking "Boy, I guess they really want to make sure that this one's not coming back as a zombie."

The High Sparrow talked about the young man only gradually, step by step, being brought into the light or whatever. I took that to mean that Lancel had done something like confessing his affair with a married woman, but neglecting to mention that the woman in question was his cousin the Queen (he seemed to be trying…

I just kept thinking about the fact that the actor himself is 92 years old. I don't know how you can reach that age and *not* think about your own mortality a lot. It made me wonder how emotionally rough on the actor that scene may have been.

Dangerous fauna and all!

In S1 he told Arya that his nickname comes from his family's holdings, the smallest of the "Fingers." Peasants don't have land holdings

No, that would be someone like Gendry. Born a bastard in the slums, but has managed to claw his way up to higher status by virtue of learning a valuable trade (smithing). And even Gendry had some outside help, since he probably got that apprenticeship in the first place because he was the King's bastard.

The Night's Watch would be another democratic group, with no quotation marks even required. They elect their Commander by popular vote. Of course, most of them are not there by choice, but once there, they at least have a say in their leadership.

Yeah, there are exceptions, but it's more common, in my experience, for female protagonists to escape rape, even if all the women around them fail to do so.

Fair enough. Like I said, I'm not really big on fight scenes, so I'm likely far from the best judge of them. Maybe they should just try to stick to one-on-one fights then? Because I thought the Sand Snake fight, the fight with the Dornish horsemen last episode, and the Harpy fight in episode 4 were all noticeably…

Are you claiming that silence equals consent?

I have no idea how you could have gotten that from the Cogman interview. He said nothing that could even very loosely be construed that way.

So Sansa's story was derailed for half a season so she could get raped.

Oh, now you've done it. From here on out, I am going to be thinking things like "Servile Mode!" every time Littlefinger speaks.

Well, I think the issue of "POV character" starts getting really tricky once you move from a written medium to a visual one like film or TV. In a written medium, the subjective or personal third is a grammatical person chosen by the author, and it has a number of very specific effects, one of the most important of…

Thanks. It was a good question, and like most good questions, not one that lent itself very well to a yes-or-no answer.

Indeed, I remember thinking at the time "Gramma Olenna taught you better than that, Marge!"