I think Dany's now in a good position to slaughter all her enemies and leave.

The opportunity to screw over the Blackfish after all that "Just kill him" talk must have been tempting.

That wouldn't be easy. She's awaiting trial so she'd have to fight or sneak her way out, and she doesn't have many allies.

Because it gives Dany a chance to build up her forces before arriving? Because it gives her time to think about the responsibilities that come with being a ruler? Because it gives her dragons a chance to grow up? Because it gives the other characters a chance to play out their internal power struggles rather than…

Maybe we'll get that next episode?

I don't think those plots have been particularly predictable, apart from Arya's. Were you saying at the start of last season, "I predict Jamie will try to get his daughter back from the Dornish but they'll poison her, then I predict he'll set a Edmure Tully free in order to end a siege?"

Ah, those doctors who ignored the evidence that they were killing enormous numbers of people and said things like, "a gentleman's hands are always clean". The good old days.

Until very recently, the death rate in cities almost always exceeded the birthrate - cities relied upon a constant influx of immigrants from the country to keep their numbers up.

Ah, I'm sure that would just give me a cutesy version of a Marvel superhero…

They live in houses that are magically warded to repel muggles without them noticing. Magic screws up electronics, so it's not convenient for them to watch our media.

If the character in that picture turned up alive (which may or may not happen, given how much the show is willing to alter timelines and make up new plots to replace stuff from the books), it would have been a big suprise for the non-readers who hadn't seen that picture, which I'm sure the AV Club will sensibly remove.

Twisting a knife isn't sadism; it's what you do when you're going for a quick kill. A narrow stab wound causes slow bleeding. A twisted stab causes fast bleeding.

She wouldn't be the first person to implausibly survive a severe injury in Game of Thrones.

"all races, sexes and demographics checked off"
Well, the white male, white female and black male demographics, the same ones who get to appear in superhero movies.

Fallout is set in a universe where before the apocalypse people drank radioactive Nuka-Cola, and took Rad-Away pills to cure the side-effects. That's a very different feel to Mad Max.

How is it not a CGI cinematic?

The hero was basically an off-brand hobbit. I can't help feeling LotR may have been an influence.

This is based on the first RTS? The one that was mildly popular twenty years ago? That seems like an odd commercial decision.

Pfft. Anyone can kill more people than Jack the Ripper.

It's certainly popular with the guy in Ecuador who hacked my Netflix account.