his accent has always been the weakest on the show. it has ALWAYS distracted me from liking his littlefinger. every time someone says how great his performance is, i feel like i'm livin' in a cuckoo clock.

i don't know that littlefinger wants the vale, necessarily. i mean, not long term. he wants the throne. what does "acting lord of the vale" get him?

no no, i know, haha. i was making a joke about the relative invisibility of the two shows.

right, as if with sansa on hand, he's going to be interested in lysa arryn! i don't trust littlefinger as far as sansa could throw him. i see the baelish/arryn marriage lasting as long as littlefinger needs to arrange lysa's "tragic fall" through the eyrie's hole in the floor.

99.5% of the viewers of game of thrones: "who?"

i think it's been made reasonably clear that the poisoning of Jon Arryn was a lannister plot, helped along by maester skeezebeard. (at the very least, he seemed to know about it and let it happen.) i didn't really see it as a mystery any more. but who knows, maybe littlefinger organised that too. sounds like him.

what?

"do Targs warg?"

i was 0! the simpsons premiered on the day of my birth!

that would be a dark turn for Agents of I.N.C.O.M.P.E.T.E.N.T.

she's an 084 (an object of unknown origin), not the product of an experiment. well, i suppose she could be both.

i was just thinking about LMDs yesterday: i think they're better off left unexplored in the MCU, because then there's a get out of jail free card for EVERY human death in the entire continuity. as much as i want oswalt back, and as much as "nobody dies forever*" is totally a part of marvel mythology, i hope they have…

they clearly do. indiscriminately? i don't know.

i agree with all of this. the "skye is magical and important" thread was tiresome from the very start. but placing that anger on skye herself (or worse, chloe-god-dammit-i-can't-remember-her-surname) is misplaced.

excellent point. the show has managed to achieve the worst of both worlds: a group of highly important and powerful individuals who are actually less useful and competent than normal people.

it's also obvious that the writers have forgotten about the fact that this show was at some point going to be about "the little guys", the normal people on the fringes of superheroics. instead, we have a resurrected spy chief, an agent so deadly she's nicknamed "the cavalry", the best espionage specialist ever, the…

UGH. you're so right about the running scene. the showmakers just not getting it. it really was Agents of U.G.H. in a microcosm.

i think it's fair that, now the show is starting to pick up a bit, the grading curve should reflect that. i thought this was roughly in line with the last few, but agree with the harsher grade. anyway, who cares about grades. i just thought i'd say something agreeable about them for once.

i choose to put the missing hyphen between "ass" and "point".

i am a person of unflagging optimism, but i simply can't believe we'll ever get anything that tops "mobbed up to the eyeballs".