That was my thought, too. It comes across to me as just a lazy way to keep Dany from walking all over Cersei.

Dany didn't blow up the gold. The gold was already inside King's Landing. That was just the grain they were taking to stave off what they correctly assumed is going to be a siege.

Although, truthfully, I half-expected Jaime to commence stabbing her to death instead.

If you want to make that leap, whatever, but it wasn't what I had intended.

When did I once say it was sexual assault? Jesus Christ.

No, I'm not going to be "equally offended," mostly for the reasons Eloise Pasteur describes further downstream.

I agree with all of this up to the point where you think he was "acting innocently based on what he thought." This was not a compassionate kiss between two friends. He wasn't try to assure her that somebody still cared. It was an attempt at romance. When a shocked Tracy asked if Eugene kissed her because of the…

It wasn't a good scene. They tried leaning into the black humor of Tracy's suicide, but it didn't work because Eugene and Tracy are BOTH caricatures. You can't get a whole lot out of the scene as a viewer if there's not a recognizable human in it.

Uh, sure.

Not dating somebody unless they graduated from an Ivy League institution is a high standard.

I mean, Eugene was trying to take advantage of a fragile teenager who just tried to blow her head off. He doesn't come across even remotely innocent, especially in light of the fact Tracy clearly trusted him and thought of him as a loyal friend and confidante.

Having arrived at the end of the season, I'm now more convinced than ever that the near-homonym of "Varga" and "Fargo" is intentional, and that like the show itself, Varga is an empty, bloviating sack of shit who seems deep in passing, but whose portentous aphorisms disguise a total lack of intelligence or complexity.

I don't think he's acting pissy so much as just pointing out the obvious.

Eastern Montana is gorgeous. The Calyspo trail, Makoshika, and the Missouri River Breaks are all so significantly different from the mountains you get in the west, but no less beautiful for it.

I really like "cocksucker." It has a pleasing consonance. I wish we could all collectively agree to absolve it of any lingering homophobic baggage so that I could use it without risking hurting the wrong people.

What? As an editor, this is exactly the kind of thing I'd be in the business of researching. It's honestly a huge embarrassment that they let something like this get by them.

Alright, I take my snark back. That doesn't sound half bad.

Yes, what a missed opportunity. If only we'd have been able to cast an Asian-American in a stereotypical Asian martial arts role. We could've made him a math genius, too!

It sounds like they've become Sky Ferreira with half the skill and none of the talent.

That's not a bad Christopher Walken impression.