Yeah, this Hate Song was pretty terrible. Why did he think Thrift Shop, talking about getting tricked by a business and all that, is talking about decking yourself out and feeling proud of your thrift shop gear, is being ironic? I'm genuinely asking the question, I've seen the video a few times, that's not what I was…

Did we ever see any evidence that he did do anything to find Jaime?

When Varys told the story he explained his penis and testicles were removed, unless he has one testicle named "Root" and one named "Stem". Which reminds me of this joke from Mary Poppins:

People keep saying Robb ended Frey's attachment by not marrying his daughter. I think it had a lot more to do with Frey doing what was to his advantage. If Robb had already won, Frey wouldn't have hesitated to join in the cheering and collect his favors; as it was, and as he saw it, the Lannisters had won and he…

Being wrong only makes me more infuriated and committed!

She laid out exactly and clearly what she expected, which was fuck Mance Rayder and fuck the Watch, their loyalty was to each other. Betray Rayder and take her with him? Fine. Instead he left her. It's pretty shitty. I'm not exactly into shooting arrows into people but she was definitely wronged.

@avclub-2a6ac9e5324952e36b40237cf2fcdad8:disqus And this, to me, is really the only interesting aspect to Superman's character.

Tywin may assume that he or the heir of House Lannister will happily put the Rain/Stark beatdown on the Boltons if he resists.

"Natural son" is an old-fashioned term for an illegitimate child, which is the term Ramsay used.

Well, and the "fact" that Tyrion's not his. I think it's pretty clear, with the line "…raised you as if you were my son." that Tywin thinks Tyrion is not, in biological fact, his son. The impression I got was that this, more than anything else, was why he wanted to kill baby Tyrion.

This. If we decide add another layer to the story, and the idea is we're watching dialogue translated from Westerosi into English, then a good translator will also take some freedoms to capture the intent of the original, and translate idiomatic sayings and language references like this into something appropriate, as…

Maybe they hope almost all of Bolton's men went south with Robb and won't be back yet.

Watership Down

Oh, is this a thing a screenwriter has to do?

I don't necessarily mind it but if you like modern adaptations that are just modern, have you seen the BBC TV version of Othello with Eamonn Walker (who played Kareem Said on Oz)? So good.

All of these statements.

I think that not every piece of information about something is a spoiler (though given the cliché-busting intent behind the series, almost everything is, uniquely, for it). But I don't buy time limits. I think if you make a reasonable effort you should be able to avoid finding out the ending, or any specific twists or…

The problem I have with this is somehow the idea that because I haven't read all the books yet, I "don't read the books."

Most of the book readers I know (2) were super-cool about it. Although I make the point to not really discuss it with them.

One thing that sounds utterly cold and calculating is to plan for a divorce but have it be some time down the line. I know a couple (in fact, every week when I read this column I realize I know no happily married couples, among the couples I know enough about to tell) where they very much do not love each other, she's…