Yeah, I always thought Winterfell was a long way from the coast.  The North is supposed to be huge, after all.

For bonus comparison, Stannis thinks he's Louis I.

This is the second time I've managed to fit French history references into a Game of Thrones comment thread, and it's not even home time yet.  And they said my degree would never be useful for anything after I graduated.

As mentioned above, Littlefinger is the kind of guy who figures everything out, all the time, always.  For better or worse.

I think it's less that and more that he thinks these women are probably in the same circumstances his mother was when Ned knocked her up, so while he's not worried about actually porking his mother by accident, it kind of feels like he might as well be.

The "Scheming Mastermind Pulling Everybody's Strings (TM)" character is a tricky one.  The difficulty in pulling it off is only matched by the self-satisfaction that writers derive from including the character.

One of the sadder parts of the story is that Robb, Jon and Theon were once really tight, but events are dragging them away from one another.

@avclub-29501df08e5d9ae59e432e4f188d3735:disqus Well, OK, that's true.  I more meant that as far as he knew, all he had to do was wait.  I imagine that if Balon had died, when he returned to the Iron Islands Asha would have posed a pretty hefty challenge to his reign.

@rawbun:disqus Naw, it's definitely England, or at least Britain, specifically.  I mean look at the names, they're all very English sounding (with the exception of the Martells, but then, they're specifically meant to be very different).

@avclub-bcb7c13ff9746a60fa8c3e748acd054d:disqus It's funny you should say that, because I think in the loose Westeros-as-England metaphor that the series sporadically has going, the Targaryens (sp) are the Norman conquerors.

For somebody who's supposed to be the Big Bad King who everybody's scared of Joffrey gets slapped more than all the other characters put together.

The ironic thing about Theon is that he could have had everything he wanted - respect, power, acknowledgement - if he'd just sat on his pasty arse and waited for Balon, obviously about a million years old, to just die already.  But nooooooooo.

That's why the guillotine was invented, all that sawing and hacking was just inefficient.

It is weird and counter-intuitive but that kind of works for me - it's exactly the kind of bullshit policy a big company would come up with without really thinking about the consequences of, and brow-beaten employees would have to deal with.  In other words, it's the kind of thing The Office should be about.  A shame…

My most recent rewatch of TNG revealed quite a lot of nice moments where other Klingons act with muted disbelief at Worf's taking seriously traditions that, it's subtly implied, are viewed as archaic and pointless by most Klingons.

This always bugs me… the Rodzhenkos are Belorussian, not Russian.  Worf clearly states several times that he was brought up in Minsk, which is not in Russia.

I thought the whole "book covers made of shit" thing was up there with anything The Thick Of It did.

Wow, as a non-American person I am deeply impressed by your knowledge of British-English collouqialism, popular culture, and willingness to put down your own country's culture and institutions!  Here's an official Cooler Than Other Americans Badge!

I think the stuff that The Thick Of It worked off isn't really that Brit-specific.  Despite what some people have claimed here, British people are not unusually (let alone uniquely) distrustful of their politicians.  The only stuff in The Thick Of It that really wouldn't have worked in a non-British context was the…

I remember POTUS being used in Tom Clancy novels in the 90s (Sigh, misspent youth)