i'm wary about casting great voice actors in live action roles. it's such a different kind of acting. i don't think it would work in this case. (and i say that as someone for whom brown IS the definitive lex luthor. live action? spacey was the best.)

DCAU supes is given much stronger reasons in-character to unleash his devastation, and it takes place while the rest of the league is busy helping save innocents. superman himself is coming to the rescue of batman when the fight starts, iirc. plus, if man of steel had anything even remotely as resonant as the "world…

yeah, that's kind of my point. they don't want to cut their losses, so they're reluctant to settle for tywin just "because the war's over so of course they'll get their money". which is why it was possible (read: so easy) for stan and davos to convince them over. again, i'm only talking about what we've seen in the…

yeah, that's why i said structure and punctuation, not grammar or diction. going by those alone, your sentence implied joanna (who was a man in this reality) consistently humiliated the lannister name. tywin was never a candidate for being the person who belonged to that "his" based on his location in the sentence.

hm. points taken.

i think their faith in tywin is more or less gone. at the very least, very shaken. i agree, their incentive to back stannis is next to nothing — the show has not sold it very well. but i don't think the bank sees "ending the war" as "getting our money back", like you apparently took from it. you say "there's no reason…

actually, i don't know if i'd call tywin a chess player. he's more of a poker player — expertly playing whatever hand he happens to be dealt. the realm's premiere chess player is certainly littlefinger (unless varys outshines him there in the end).

well, that should tell you everything about tywin. the only time he doesn't win is when he's playing against his own family, because he has too much personal hatred getting in the way of his chess playing.

i wouldn't, were i cast. or, i might. i'm not sure. i would talk in depth with the showrunners about the pros and cons (of which there are many both ways).

no, he told her. or someone else did. iirc, she already knows he was a slaver when he tells her his story.

the structure and punctuation of your sentence implies joanna consistently humiliated the lannister name.

i'm not sure "ending the war" is the sole reason they support stannis. more war means draining lannister gold, which means tywin is less likely to pay them back — and already they must be sensing that the crown is in deeper than it can afford. settling for tywin would mean the bank cutting its losses — backing stannis…

like her husband, she kills it when she's speaking a fictional language with over-the-top braavado (typo, but, leaving it) but falls down when we know the language she's speaking and how… not quite naturally it is being delivered.

It's certainly filling a double purpose. tywin works like that. Think of all he'd get out of the trial, if all went to plan: (1) Tyrion is out of the picture, or well enough; (1a) Tyrion's claim to Casterly Rock and the family line is ended; (2) "justice" is neatly served in a fair trial that (2a) also restores the…

oh, @avclub-1fcf31aafbfce2375f45f315a5628117:disqus. you're goldbluming.

i'm not that familiar with comics-GA, so i'll definitely take your word for it. my point was just that they've shown tremendous and admirable willingness to futz around with names, identities, character profiles, while staying true to the characters from the canon, or at least, providing strong characterisation for…

URGH. i thought this episode was the finale, and i started freaking out about the half hour mark that there was no way to wrap all this up before the end of the season.

the stabbings on this show are freaking brutal, for a show like this. those two swords through blood's collarbone made me gasp.

"i hope so, for your sake, brother blood. shado is not as forgiving as i am."

you know, i don't really see them trying to force a laurel=canary on us. i mean, "speedy" is still oliver's nickname for thea, not roy. as much as we love sara and don't want her to go (and also as much as laurel is a giant chore), i think we should all stop freaking out about what they might do in the future and try…