I really don't like it when you guys at the AV club makes assumptions about a show's audience and then judge an episode based on what you think the audience will think of it, rather than relying upon your own subjective experience.

No, they're decidedly worse. The "dark passengers" in the books are literal demons residing in the psyches of criminals and serial killers, the spawn of an ancient demon named Moloch.

Oh, and also, I think there's like a 50/50 chance that the photo of Andrea and Brock is just there to try and make Jesse feel at home. Fucking Todd.

Two notes about Walt's call to Skylar.

She died as she lived: With bodily fluids leaking from her orifices.

"They wasted all that plot time on her, gave her an actually interesting thing to do and then just killed her."

@Bender:disqus: Not really to the Red God, but to the Many-Faced God, Death. The Faceless Men believe that the Red God is just one aspect of Death, as is the Drowned God worshiped by the Ironborn and the Stranger in the Faith of the Seven, and several other gods around the ASoIF world.

@Brass: It doesn't really matter. It's heavily implied, if not outright stated, that that particular use of "magic" was just her pretending to be responsible for things that she'd already seen were going to happen in her fire visions.

@avclub-e57f718840a576abbb40a7d046c4e3b0:disqus Oh, cut the guy a break. It's not he like was trying to cripple Bran… just kill him a little bit.

Since the reviewer mentioned "the books" I thought I'd touch on his point a bit — this deals more with the production and scripting end of the adaptation and doesn't contain any spoilers, but feel free to avert your eyes if discussion of "the books" offends you.

It would be much more elegant as a jaunty bar song in the fifth season, heavily disguised with euphemisms.

@avclub-1f93a5d50953fac07d7e6f54827ce9bc:disqus Are you trying to say that he doesn't have any balls…?

Since it hasn't been mentioned in the show at all, I think it might be worth mentioning that in the books, Renly is described as looking almost *exactly* like a young Robert Baratheon. To the extent that when certain people see him, they momentarily mistake him for Robert.

Without giving anything away, it's not clear if he was killed or captured or escaped. It's left completely ambiguous in the book. The author has maybe kinda sorta implied that Syrio's dead, but only kinda sorta.