My problem with Theon is that in the care of the Starks he was just a mildly douchey kid who was well cared for, not a borderline tratorious megalomaniac. A lot of the action this season has hinged on people making bad or stupid decisions and sometimes it feels like its straining credulity for the sake of plot.

Don't blame Sondheim so readily, your opinion of the music may have been skewed by the fact that Burton casted his best buddy and his wife over people who could actually sing.

While reading: "Huh. So this is somewhere between Failure and Secret Success?"
At the end: "Oh."

I mean, the puns write themselves.

Nice takedown of steampunk, Whitney! You are our champion of cultured coolness!

Why the hell didn't she kill him in his sleep? She knows his "occupation" is just a bunch of scumbags led by a spoiled brat. I know she had no great love for Winterfell, but just bleed the guy for good measure, at least for Brann's sake.

The manner of the three executions so far is important: Ned did it cleanly and with honor, Joffrey did it completely dishonorably, and Theon tried to do it himself but ended up making a mess of it. All of those things happened for a reason.

Whatever farm animals of war, Lana!

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Ugh. Friends. Talk about a show that ran out of gas after the second season. After that they stopped being funny people and just got divided up into "stupid" and "mean", which is a sign of writers who have too much job security. How I Met Your Mother is the spiritual successor to Friends' golden age, and even…

[equips nine iron]

I think Theon's betrayal is the greatest failure in storytelling the series has seen so far, though I don't know if that's Martin's or the showrunners' fault.  While the Starks usually made it pretty clear Theon was just a ward, Robb did see him as a brother and they at least took care of him.  He was right when he…

You can be in blackface without having shoe polish smeared on your forehead.

Meredith complaining about lack of story in the live 30 Rock, now you wanting more character development in the "Law and Order Spoof" of Community? Especially after the mostly laughless psychological examination of Abed last week? Sometimes you can just laugh without having to think too much about it, people.

Agreed, once again the live one is the best of the season. Is it just the context or is it actually funnier?

+1 for guns as a state issue.  Why do the residents of North Philly have to live in constant fear of gun violence?  Because we need to protect the freedom of Jethro in Kentucy to shoot the squirrels in his front yard with an M-16.

As Eddie Izzard said: "Guns don't kill people, people kill people.  But the gun helps."  You'd think that removing the option of killing someone simply by putting a few ounces of pressure on a thin piece of metal would make it harder for people to kill people, but that would require you to actually think.  Would…

You're not wrong about Danaerys, in truth her neutrality in the war weighed heavily on my assessment of her, as did the need for a True Neutral in the first place (and I didn't have enough to write about The Hound).  My definitions of good, evil, lawful and chaotic were also pretty fluid for this, making it a more…

There's a listicle on Cracked about the problems with this show.  One of them is that the author can't tell all the grizzled, bearded men with similar names apart. Thank you, and I shall edit!

Because I feel like it and I like writing better than graphics: the Game of Thrones season two alignment chart!  Subject to change.