Rhys and Russell are awesome. This show is great. What a riveting episode.

Yeah Arkady's response was badass. I agree that Gaad seems to be competent and non-delusional, but he's on the ropes.

Where do the reviewers claim we murdered Soviet military personnel? Are you just making shit up to fit your argument and generalized hate of liberals?

I wonder if this conservative troll just keeps changing his ID so he can be obnoxious. Many liberals were against the Soviet Union and Communism.

Marxists believe religion is the opiate of the masses. It soothes the pain but doesn't really heal the sick or address the fundamental issues.

You're probably right. Overrall the show has been very good on women's issues. What happens is that their frank depiction of how bad things are for women in that world (like so much rape during wartime) is seen by some people (not me) as an endorsement or titillating focus on male domination. But they have many strong…

That part does matter. Why are you being disingenuous? The whole scene matters. Type out the whole scene why don't you? Okay I will. It's much different from the show where Cersei ALREADY told Jaime he was gone too long and too late. Cersei starts it (ASOS page 851 in the paperback.) Remember they've been in love and…

Why not quote the whole scene instead of selectively out of context? You're obviously wrong as Josh points out.

He has a small part as the translator but does hang with Willem DeFoe's cool half of the Platoon.

Nick Cage? Or Depp in Rango? It just occurred to me that Depp was in Platoon with Charlie Sheen. As weird as Depp can be he's coped with fame and success better than Sheen.

Fair enough. So there's the "mainstream" and the promotional complex and then there's the majority of thousands of less-well known movies?

And he has a sense of humor which is tough to pull off when you're being countercultural. Because being countercultural means political cause you're implicitly arguing that the mainstream is lame and/or soul-draining, money-grubbing etc. And then if you're political the douches say you're too serious. Stop bring us…

Oliver Stone's Platoon? Before Night Falls with Javier Bardem before he got huge?

And yet rapists are sent to the Wall as punishment so it's frowned upon. All the examples you give occur during wartime. Martin really shows how bad things get during war. The farmer in the last episode reminisced how things weren't that bad during the peace under Hoster Tully. And then there are the backward Dothraki…

Maybe my writing is lacking. I'm not the best to judge. I was just responding to the OP Osiris who wrote "Jaime never said in the show that he hates rapists." I pointed out that in season 3 episode 2 (says in comic book shop guy voice) Jaime told Brienne that he'd never submit to rape and would rather be killed. But…

Many people comment on how Arya goes a little bad. (Plus Polliver did kill her friend.) It's the same thing in the books, unlike the rape scene. In the show at least she's upset over how the Hounds stole from the farmer and his daughter.

I agree with you about the realism of Martin's world and creators D&D have translated his books wonderfully to television.

I bet the people who make criticisms actually do more to make the world a better place than the people who are annoyed by them. At least they have their actions better thought-out.

That's how I remember it. It wasn't rape and she was saying "no" about the location. There's an argument about it being unreliable since it's from Jaime's point of view, but that's a stretch in my opinion.

I think it's the greatest show that ever was or will be. But the scene under discussion is disappointing. We'll see what happens with Jaime and Cersei in the future.