Good point. The SWPL demographic is pretty specific, and he so often talks about "the wrong kind of white people". That said, this whole argument slightly reminds me of One Million Moms and others who get upset when people make fun of Christianity. At some point people need to accept that when having the perceived…

Coming from the other direction, I'm sort of impressed/surprised by how much the politics and negotiations drive the story arc compared to the more free-form setting I was initially expecting, but I'm really enjoying this.

Thanks - interesting stuff. The biggest cruise ships these days really are floating hotels, and it's a wonder how they (generally) stay so safe, even when they look like overstuffed deli sandwiches.

Details? Some of those ships look absolutely awesome…except for when they kill you.

We seriously need some more Hound in this show.

One of the things that made the original ship impressive was that in 1912 there was nothing bigger. Why intentionally build a luxury liner that's dwarfed by every modern cruise ship?

Was it just me, or did the in cocktail hour-looking scene Qarth remind others of a scene from Star Trek: TNG? The makeup, bright colors, casual threats, somewhat mysterious people - all they were missing was Wesley Crusher unwittingly breaking some local law and then having to get Picard to clear it all up.

This show is turning out to be a whole lot of fun

Fuck.You

Also found it was a great way to cool down after some intense Game of Thrones.

Isn't Indonesia the country that crappy action movies play in so that the producers can say that the poor American reception was mitigated by global box office receipts?

Excuse me, that is offensive. I think you mean "who cares what some random lesbian 'finks'".

I don't think Christoph Waltz is wearing enough layers in that photo

Can't stand the guy and his pseudo-intellectual personality and his way of turning to his liberal guests to justify the cringe-worthy things he just said, but I really like watching this show. The production is sharp yet simple, the timing of the segments is good, and the show routinely gets quality guests who, thanks…

This is one of a couple things that gets confusing because of the necessity to condense various things. Similar to this is the Davos/Melisandre evening visit to (who we assume is) Renly. Unlike CoK, which makes it clear that they're breaking into Storm's End, an otherwise astute newbie I was watching with asked me…

Heh good call. I was thinking about just that as I was writing.

Considering how much more explicit the gay angle is in the series, I wonder if GRRM, HBO, and Co. decided that going all out and having the rainbow capes would have just been unecessary.

I was hoping he'd invoke shumai and invite the Khalasar for some Qartheen dim sum.

Always nice to see Ros, even if her scene does involve beating the crap out of another "worker". By the way, have we seen that other woman before in Littlefinger's salon? Though she looked familiar.

The part the writers gave him today seemed very Tyrion-esque in the way that they both have no qualms about chastising others in public.