@avclub-d980b15d49101608dc407770f35b1d75:disqus  Thaddeus Stevens is in the movie pretty prominently, played by Tommy Lee Jones.  They have an fun denouement with him, ascribing a reason for his abolitionist views.  I don't know if the epilog is historical, but it's entertaining.

Her regular old pretty face.

@avclub-e53fc2424af041d07a7eef5cd8773505:disqus   The Lincoln thing was not bullshit.  On the one hand it's good that we've become aware enough to be automatically suspicious of simplistic narratives like "great white father liberated helpless dark-skinned slaves;" but in the case of the American Civil War, that…

That's funny, my experience of reading the books was not that GRRM was doing a lot of fakeouts that characters were dead.  He did a couple of high-profile fakouts: Bran/Rickon, and Theon.  But then he did several normal, garden-variety cliffhangers.  Arya gets conked on the head to end the Red Wedding chapter: that's…

How have they cocked up Arya's story?  Isn't she exactly where she is supposed to be: present at the Red Wedding but conked on the head and born away by the Hound?

How many HBO seasons will Feast For Crows and Dance With Dragons be spread over?  3?  4?

That whole last image was very much a let-down for me.  I liked that they put the book 3 prologue in as the season 3 finale; that was a cool idea.  But in actually SHOWING the wights and Others, it became literal and mundane.  The way they zoomed out to show a field of wights made it look like a shot from Walking…

That whole last image was very much a let-down for me.  I liked that they put the book 3 prologue in as the season 3 finale; that was a cool idea.  But in actually SHOWING the wights and Others, it became literal and mundane.  The way they zoomed out to show a field of wights made it look like a shot from Walking…

@avclub-0b231288a1ba66b9ceeb8238d0902cff:disqus  I doubt I have a better opinion of Cersei than anyone does, since I think she's a crazed dumb-ass bitch cunt.  She committed all the stupidities you mentioned, and more.

@avclub-315b70a591bfd3c281d13e458aed35fa:disqus  Talk about the Virgin Mary.

Pon Farr. Kalifee!

@avclub-0b231288a1ba66b9ceeb8238d0902cff:disqus  It seems that wasy, doesn't it?  Which makes me believe that we have never gotten the full story about how Robert had his accident.  Cersei doesn't depend only on luck.

@avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus  I've noticed before that there's a big difference between my level of "expertise", having read the books only once (in the offseason after HBO season 1 ended) and those of you who've read the books multiple times, and who waited years for DwD to come out (I waited for…

@avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus  Yes, exactly, although I contend that Weese himself was not a waste of one of her "3 wishes".  He was very, very dangerous to her.  She only "wakes back up," becomes herself again, after Weese is out of it.  If she had taken out Weese and Tywin, and then used wish #3…

My brother-in-law is of the same opinion, that it's all Catelyn's fault.  I agree with the other commenters on this thread, that the idea is nonsense.  "Blaming the victim," as others have said.

Joffrey's a monster.  Someone should poison that fucker, or strangle him, or something.

@avclub-bc6a370435552949bcf7927a391bac45:disqus  Except that defeating the Lannisters on the Fords was itself a wrong move.  Even if done "correctly".

@avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus I don't get how Edmure can be held that responsible.  Are you talking about his mistakenly, overzealously preventing Tywin from crossing the river?

@avclub-1f3e9145ab192941f32098750221c602:disqus  @avclub-50e41ddd6afc9d71b73b1c0b47496b4c:disqus Book 5 spoilers:

@avclub-bbb3af3d466d7231aa738ff95762091d:disqus  EXACTLY.