One detail I really liked in this episode was Will's psycho-carrying cart. It's a crazy high-tech number that looks more like an electric wheelchair than anything. When I first saw them strapping Will up, I sort of had a sinking feeling, because I thought the show was chasing its Silence of the Lamb references too…

Yeah, I caught that one on a re-reading, and it was pretty clever. But I kind of resent the implication that I'd still care about or even remember Lommy Greenhands. Until RedBlueGreen jogged my memory, I had completely forgotten about him, and upon remembering that passage, I mostly remember him being incredibly…

AAAAAAAAA THAT'S AWESOME but also fucking hell, George, I guess I have to re-read the entire series before beginning every chapter.

I think it's like a Shakespeare historical drama, where the characters are sometimes put into places and situations their real-life counterparts were not, if it makes a more interesting story. The playwright probably decided that no one would care about the death of a random whore, and decided to put Tyrion's wife in…

EVEN MORE SPOILERS AND LOOK, JUST SKIP THIS THREAD IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE BOOKS AND THE EXCERPT, OKAY?

SPOILERS ABOUT THE EXCERPT BELOW

Are the others easily available on the web? I've only read the one that [ahem] takes place outside Winterfell.

Why would he drive all the way to Arizona from New Mexico?

In addition to Saboteur, Hitchcock also made a movie called Sabotage, which was based on Conrad's The Secret Agent- not to be confused with the Hitchcock movie The Secret Agent, which was based on another book.

So which Conrad novel is this movie based on?

Perfect avatar/comment synergy.

Boyle, even at his worst, would never stoop to caveman grammar.

They're probably the only type of people who can tell when he's making a romantic overture.

"Don't think you can soften me up."

Of course, the office could take the smile as meaning "I've been waiting to shitcan this asshole ever since he pitched a fit about wearing a tie."

Heads are going to roll when she realizes that her management booked the wrong Portland.

Well, yeah, obviously it doesn't apply to everyone- I'm a Ph.D student who teaches Sunday school and watches sports in my spare time, so clearly I don't believe either of my examples are universal. I just think that if you divide the population into "people who don't like sports" and "people who like sports," people…

Or porn name.

I'd say that sports fans tend to be religious for the same reason that atheists tend to be more educated than average, at least in the US. The cultural background of this country is big on religion and sports- it's likely that the "average family" would be both religious and into sports- and people who are educated…

The show creators have said that they really wish they had an extra week or two to work on the script for that episode, so I think they share your frustration.