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It's disgusting how book readers are talking about the producers. I've read people threatening them on comments, saying they deserve the sword of (Stannis/Brienne/whomever) down their throats or to be burned alive.

Serious question(s): if she opposes the great Other, isn't she a hero in the story? So then what if she's not actually working against the army of the long night? Let's see what she did: killed Renly, helped ignite the war of the five kings, might have killed some other kings, destroyed thousands of soldiers, gave one

During this season, I've been reading a lot on history and listening to podcasts. Game of Thrones has seemed very tame. At least they have magic to defeat who they want to defeat or bring back the dead. Reading about entire cities (100,000 plus) executed by hand is grim.

That's Craster level incest! And maybe Frey (I forgot if he fondled his own daughters; I think he did.)

C3PO-armor. The inexplicable, talkative side character with a Forrest Gump-like journey who will never die no matter how horrible the circumstance is. (Note: C3PO does not make any scene 10 times better….)

Snow builds up at sides sometimes like that depending on the wind and it could be a place where people push all the excess snow to so they can clear a lane.

In retrospect, it appears the backlash was severe for Sansa's wedding rape not because rape is horrible, but because they liked Sansa and rape should only happen to people they don't love. There has been a ton of rape on the show — the Dorthraki rape their way through villages, after all — and book readers were upset

That is how physics works — the snow slows their descent and prevents what would have been a harder, and quicker, landing.

The show really jumped the shark by using a real ad …

I'd also like to add on the simple fact that McCann Erickson is a real advertising company that came up with the iconic Coke ad in early 1971 via an initial idea from one of their creative directors:
http://www.coca-colacompany…

Soundtracks for the Blind is not a great place to start with them because it's a mostly experimental double album with diverging styles.

*ahem*

With this hurried adjuration, he cocked his blunderbuss, and stood on the offensive.

"I say a horse at a gallop, Tom," returned the guard, leaving his hold of the door, and mounting nimbly to his place. "Gentlemen! In the king's name, all of you!"

"I say a horse at a canter coming up, Joe."

They both listened.

"What do you say, Tom?"