As I've said in many threads, GoT is an organizational and logistical nightmare. If it helps, think of it as a grotesquely gargantuan machine composed of a bewildering number of parts, both large and small, trying to churn out a 10-hour — or, this season, 7-hour — fantasy film every year. It's brutally costly, it…

So, it was easy to Chekhov that request?

Cold as this is, if/when the show establishes that Jon can control the dragons, the show really doesn't need Daenerys anymore.

Exactly, which is why buying Jon time is important.

Sansa is often an unbelievable idiot. As much as people love her, she has made stupid decisions even recently. Openly challenging Jon in public not once but twice is a pretty obvious thing. That doesn't mean she's entirely an idiot, of course, but she has proven that she can be.

My guess is yes. And that it'll be one of the many plot functions Bran will ultimately have in the series' endgame.

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Saturday, we lose Dick Gregory. Today, we lose Jerry Lewis. A lousy trifecta is now in play…

I think Finn Jones can do what you describe in terms of the tortured character as we saw in Game of Thrones, particularly in his broken scene at the hand of the Sparrow and in his self-renunciation in his final episode. But, (a) that's not playing to Jones' strengths; and (b) fuck, do we really want more…

Take my word on this, 80s ninjas were so much cooler….

I think the show made fairly clear that Danny was just trying to get information out of Cole, who, from their perspective, was just a mercenary member of a clean-up crew (which he was, but….). My sense was that Danny was just trying to get him to talk, more by intimidation than necessarily wanting to hurt him.

The larger point is that both are thinking (and fighting) with blind-spots: LC has no idea what the kid, Cole, was part of (i.e., the burning/eradication of bodies), nor does he have any real knowledge of Danny's actual history. On the other side, Danny is responding just to the incident within his larger plot and…

Leave it to Patton Oswalt to know exactly what to look for. Here's DG from nine years ago — and, f*ck yeah, it's a barn-burner…. Part of the fun is watching everyone else on the stage respond to him.

I wish I could upvote this more.

Afterthought: imagine how many more people would buy into the myth that Donald Tr*mp is funny, were it not for the work done by Gregory, Wallace, Pryor, Sammy Davis and so many others. Imagine where our collective sense of humour would be. As scary as 2017 already is, that'd have been much more horrifying.

By the time I came to know him as a kid in the late 70s/early 80s (one side or the other of ten years old on my part), he was a mainstay of comedy. I don't mean that in a cynical way: he had led a charge, the charge, and been a fixture afterwards. He was always someone I enjoyed seeing on TV, even before I was…

Angus leads to hate. Angus leads to the dark side of the Force….

Preferably accompanied with one for George Wallace.

Well, it didn't help that "substance" sounded like a sexual innuendo along the lines of essence//gist/jism/jizz.

Or maybe that's why she was able to get out after Episode 6. ;-)