I don't think I'm arguing against a story having texture. It's more about logic and progression. Remember, we are talking about a narrowly constrained adaptation from a wide-ranging and ever expanding less constrained source material. Thus what the producers choose to include or exclude from the source means that on…

Apologies for being a bit muddled in my original post. I read the books after Season Three ended. So watching it first, the scenes where this power is revealed, and Arya's questioning on whether it could be used on her father, gave me, what I feel is a reasonable assumption that the power of resurrection would come…

Only real question I have if LSH does not appear in the TV series, then what was the point of having Thoros resurrect Beric after he is killed by The Hound? From the POV of a non-book reader, knowing that in TV Westeros there's this guy with the ability to bring someone back to life (even if that person is…

That's been my biggest complaint about the reaction to the episode. The people who are disappointed due to their own expectations (either due to be being book readers or having stuff spoiled) rather than simply just enjoying a great episode with a lot of fantastic scenes and acting.

I bet she'll be the "New Warden" as the replacement for Fig, OR the director for the prisoner production of "New Warden: The Musical" with script by Stefan Gentles and music by Buckethead

No, we don't see Vee's transition. That's probably because for her story arc, it's not really important. The Vee we see in flashbacks is the Vee we see in prison, a woman who survives in a harsh game, by being calculated and manipulative. To me that is what separates her from any other previous inmmates, because there…

It's not necessarily an issue of race or gender. We really don't know what Vee is in Litchfield for. It's probably safe to assume it's drugs, but there are different magnitude of dealers. Vee seems to be small potatoes compared to the kingpin Alex and Piper worked for. From what we can tell his schemes were…

In my mind, I'm defining "criminal" as a cold, calculating schemer, who doesn't break the law out of some emotional impulse prompted by poverty, opportunity or being addicted to a drug, but as a way of life, as a business, as part of her identity.

I thought the Vee character was brilliant and necessary in keeping the show grounded in plausibility; that these women are still in prison, and not a summer camp.

Sue, did the President call?

I said possibly. And really that's because Death and Glory is next and it is perhaps my favorite Clash song.

I don't like getting into the label game (are they punk? rock? proto-punk? post-punk). The Clash definitely started punk but moved on to other genres. Whether that means they are still punk or not is more academic at this point.

Mick was trying to woo back Ellen Foley with that song! (Which was a thing in the 70's. She is the female vocal in Paradise by the Dashboard Lights. Though it's not her in the video)

Well you can still just riot on your own.

I got the Strummer biography by Chris Salewicz around the same time I got the 30th anniversary Born to Run box set. Salewicz wrote about how Strummer saw Bruce at the London show which inspired him to play the Telecaster. Of course in that 30th anniversary box sex, the DVD of that show was included. It's kinda cool to…

This is what it sounds like when Doves cry.

Or This is England.

Lover's Rock has that funky disco groove at the end. It's what makes it for me, but I do have to be in the right mood.

He who hates Death and Glory, will later join the Church.

From the Hundred Years war to the Crimea
With a lance and a musket and a Roman spear
To all of the men who have stood with no fear
In the service of the King.