There's also a North Bend. It's nowhere near Bend.

We probably don't know what the point is or the history of how Rickon got there until the next show, so it might be premature to be frustrated. For example, it's possible he's been with the Umbers for a while, and now that Roose is gone they can put their mutual plan into motion to get rid of Ramsay.

Doesn't Howland Reed know?

We need to see some kind of invincible Mountain II action at this point. We haven't seen him really do anything. I think Cersei's trial is an utter beatdown of someone else (I like Ser Loras) and Cleganebowl doesn't happen until later (Margaery's).

No, I'm pretty sympathetic to Olly. As you say, he didn't see his family killed by "wildlings in general" but specifically by Tormund's men and Ygritte, Jon's bestie and lover respectively. Seeing Jon as the ultimate traitor is pretty easy.

I think there is probably more to those events than you think.

Look, the show's been icky with the sexual violence by having the few women who are in it all raped. To balance things out, they're just going to have a bunch of guys get raped this season, which will make it okay.

I took it that the guards were part of his leverage, since he doesn't want her to think there's a way out (to try to play him to avoid a trial and then take off on her own).

I think Cersei's trial results in a brutal beatdown by The Mountain II of whoever is the Faith Militant's champion (Ser Loras being an intriguing possibility as mentioned abovethread). The Hound is then brought in for Margaery's trial (probably with some resistance from Cersei but proving ultimately unable to resist…

You know why right?

Let's not forget that Olly watched Jon side not just with "wildlings in general" or saw "some wildlings" kill his parents, but very specifically saw Tormund's men slaughter them and go on to be Jon's best wildling bud.

This is extremely short-sighted on Paramount's part, because allowing the free spread of Klingon only encourages the fandom at no cost to them (I can't believe they intend to monetize Klingon material or something).

"Devil in the Dark", come on.

There are people who don't? Because I don't like that version of the world.

Wow, I went to find a clip of Match Game '78 to show someone else, and wow, is this dead-on to what I was talking about:

It was a pretty specific time where society was in some sense more permissive (for example, a sex joke with an underlying implication of abuse or molestation was probably actually more permitted) and less open, which meant the balance of titillation and not-quite-outrage at the notion of being lusty or kinky hit a…

This goes along with the idea that the show is a product of its time. There's no such personality now, really. Which is good, because "acting gay" is something that needs to go, but it, and way innuendo worked in the '70s, has just changed.

I think you make a good point about assuming without watching.

Watership Down is age-appropriate for any kid with the reading skills to get through it.

That's interesting. I loved those books, and the potential for a modern big-movie franchise out of them is… seemingly obvious but actually kind of tricky, given their style.