I've never been madder at someone for something that you can't really blame someone for than I was at Chris Hardwick for not making Wilson talk about Freaks and Geeks during his Nerdist interview.

Grades should die for all TV club reviews.

I'm old enough that it was either Angela Chase or Darlene Connor.

Probably a decent investment at $8. It's worth watching twice just for a musical number the content of which I will not spoil. Russel Brand is really awesome, IMO, mostly because the movie doesn't ever demand that you like him.

There was an AV Club in '99. You had to buy an onion* wrapped around it and tie it to your belt, but you get one.**

As my wife put it, "That's stupid. They think I know any of these character's names?"

@avclub-10e60fa84b4c7c8d1f0c166bd731058a:disqus I think Osama Bin Laden's POV chapter would show similar. I don't think it matters so much.

Ygritte is actually cast. It's the red-headed maid from Season 1 of Downton Abbey. Apparently secretarial work didn't pan out, so she took up Wildling-ing.

That's good fun for Martin and everyone reading the books a third time, but I don't think there's any way you can start translating Patchface's rantings into USEFUL prophecy ahead of time. But I tend to think that Martin is mostly fucking with people with people on these prophecies, in that there is no Azor Ahai,…

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Mance knocks heads when he has to. I don't you think you can sing the Magnar of Thenn into doing anything.

That whole concept just seems so damn crazy, though. Okay. Even if you get perfect King Aegon VI who reigns for 70 years, what happens next? And if Varys has been pulling strings all along for chaos in order to create his perfectly ruled society, he's pretty much Eunuch Hitler, because he's abetted a lot of dead…

These books lack for comic relief, so Lommy's pretty essential. Unless we're going to have Tywin Lannister develop a sense of humor.

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Just what the hell Varys and Illyrio are up to is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the series.

The sea captain's daughter could testify to that, I'm sure, poor girl. Theon's a frat boy, through and through.

I like the theory that Ser Robert is going to get dismembered by a certain gravedigger who's come to the faith recently.

@avclub-1a0942083b83d8f3eb8ef33d4731b7e4:disqus  I'd guess if they go that route it'd be Rodrik (that facial hair is too great to lose) or Luwin. It'd make no sense to introduce some other new Winterfell character who wasn't the Reeds. But that would have its problems, because….

I'd bet on the Hound over old Barristan. Sandor was the only guy Jamie in his prime was a little afraid of because of his speed combined with size and strength. The rest of the King's Guard, yeah, but only because Jaimie wasn't there and Sandor wasn't officially a member yet.

It was probably a technical violation, but Ramsay was threatening the Night's Watch by saying he was going to march on the wall, no?

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Apparently they aren't casting Aeron this season, either. Theon's gonna get blessed by a random Drowned God priest. Whether Aeron Greyjoy is a big deal further on or not, we'll see.

I liked them, both as backround to Song of Ice and Fire and for their own sakes. Dunk and Egg are nice characters in a more traditional fantasy vein. He's supposed to be releasing another one this year, Dunk and Egg meet the She Wolves of Winterfell.