It's not anything like "official", like for a census or something, but there are generally two sections of the "midwest" — the Great Plains region and the Great Lakes region. The Plains are the "flyover" states, tornado alley and so on, down to the Kansas-OK border. And the Great Lakes region of the Midwest is just…

I'm thinking that Dany and the Dragons deal with the threat from the North in one fell swoop. We haven't seen the WWs deal with fire, but the wights burn rather well.

She's also on Arya's list, as is the Mountain. Supposedly this show stands all the tropes on their heads, but I kinda doubt that Cersei makes it through the series without someone killing her in grand style. Geezus — Tyrion, Arya/Sansa/Bran/John Snow, the Tullys, Olenna, Ellaria, all have a claim on her head. …

Or, from the tv movie of Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere":

Wow, that one was just left hanging up there.

Yeah, when Arya had needle right in Jaqen's chest and said she was Arya Stark of Winterfell, etc., then she splits — I could feel that Jaqen all smiley had a real marshal stiffy … or was it just me?

Somewhere along the line, I stopped hanging on episodic tv for an episode by episode orgasm. A lot of tv doesn't work that way for me, and I don't think a lot of it is written that way anymore. I regard GoT as a series of 10-hour movies. This episode was a kind of bridge episode and I didn't mind at all, since for…

That's the problem — too many hats.

Oddly, I was sure at the time that he'd made her, but kept his mouth shut. He reacted — he didn't just act like she was part of the furniture — but he quickly recovered. At least that's how I remember it.

Or the great, tragic, suicidal actress-poetess, Willamina Spearshaker.

"Who among you will, as I fly into the sky on my dragon, cram themselves onto the ships and pis and shit and puke over one another for a solid week — and then fight and die for me?!"

Wow, that was my solution after the last episode. Seriously, I wanted Arya to set up some wildfire grenades inside the place, and nail the door shut from the outside as they go off. That would make a great episode tag. "Valar Morghulis this, asshole."

Dan Rather's still alive?

Thank you for your post, I'm not used to reading informed intelligence here. Just to say — I never got that Kinison was a mean-spirited man, but he was one of his era to push the PC button till he broke it, is all. Truth is Americans are generally not very aware of what those in Third World live under — and…

True enough. I am always startled and amazed at how many millions of people, and how much of America's economy, are situated in a desert region that was overdeveloped and has from the moment of its inception been entirely dependent on water sources nowhere near them.

I highly recommend "the Worriker trilogy", all three very good U.K. tv movies, but the second, entitled "Turks and Caicos", features Bill Nighy, Helena Bonham Carter, Winona, Christopher Walken, Ruper Graves, the guy who plays David Lee on the Good Wife, and a few others. Winona almost steals the show, but is…

Indeed, I love Maria. I hope it's enough of a hit for her. She's been through a lot, in her career and her life, and seems to handle all the rocks with grace and dignity, and she just keeps on getting more and more creative. I haven't seen this, but I'm hoping it's good and is a success.

For those of you under 30, when riffing on the famine in Ethiopia, Sudden Sam shouted, among other things, "They don't need food, they need luggage, so they go where the fuckin' food is! We have deserts in America, we don't LIVE in them!"

With Lithgow chasing them.

Seriously, in terms of a city full of people who for decades went into largely dehumanizing unpleasant locales and had to punch a clock and were herded to work to the whistles at tasks that were mindless and/or dangerous — or else you don't get paid, and even then, you're raising a family paycheck to paycheck. But I…