This story takes place in a medieval setting. To say otherwise is to be intellectually dishonest. Fantasy is added, but it’s clearly reflective of the middle ages and a time of kings, queens, serfs, knights, etc. A time when those in power treated people like shit, especially commoners, women, the deformed and…

A man eaten alive without proof of wrongdoing? What about another man being forced into a political marriage? How about a girl finding true love with her rapist? What about an adult woman committing statutory rape with a teenage boy? A little girl ordering the murder of 2 people and assisting in the murder of another…

In Westeros, it isn’t considered rape. It’s considered a husband doing his duty. It’s a fucked up world.

The scene isn’t taking place in 2015. It’s taking place in a medieval setting as the result of an arranged, political marriage that requires consummation. Is it horrible? Yes. Is Danerys having an possibly innocent man eaten by a dragon horrible? Yes. It chopping the head off a deserter who saw ice zombies horrible?…

They had to show Theon’s face. That was the point of the scene.

I think it’s pretty shortsighted to call Theon useless. He’s linked to the Starks, the Boltons and the Greyjoy’s. He could actually be quite pivotal.

Obviously he wasn’t going to free himself from the chains for those reasons. He’s been in that position for 4 years. Effectively, Theon just say his sister, the most innocent of his real Stark family, brutalized. He has no self worth but he may still have empathy and that is why he may now break free.

GTFO. Ramsay and Myranda both provided plenty of foreshadowing that things weren’t going to be great for Sansa.

It’s possible but it doesn’t mean that it’s the best way to analyze it. A single battle lost in a war that results in numerous deaths can be argued as a discrete failure, but a month or years later when when it turns out that it was a ploy to win more battles, it becomes a success.

No, Theon has been so broken that someone he cares about and is truly innocent needs to be brutalized to free him from Ramsay’s grip.

Motivation for Reek to become Theon.

That scene was about Reek and providing him a way to climb back to becoming Theon. Ramsay has taken near total control of him through fear of pain and punishment. I think this scene is supposed to be the point where Theon can choose to fight back for someone (a member of his true family) that cares about. To become…

Well, BIG TV seems to think that the zero financial investment of the average TV goer is a multi-billion dollar investment. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The last two teams to have blackouts, the Chargers and Bills in 2013, have salary cap numbers of $142M and $145M respectively this year. The Patriots have a salary cap number of $144M. The TV money drives the league and pays for the majority of the talent.

The rest of us watching the games on TV.

Would having your pain numbed to the point that you can still compete alter competition?

Ahh, so now the recruiting rankings aren’t worth a damn. Oregon was middling before Kelly showed up - well Nike was a big influence on recruits. Oregon has nationally ranked recruiting that was typically outside the top 20 - well who can trust those rankings because the SEC (which won 9 of 16 BCS championships) is…

Your Highness

You mean the facility that opened in the summer of 2013, approximately 6 months after Chip Kelly left the program? I wonder if his success with recruiting classes that never reached the top 10 had anything to do with that.

Yet that didn’t seem to do much for Oregon before Kelly showed up and even still doesn’t seem to do much in terms of recruiting even though they still won.