Why should Margaery, of any character in this show, be transparently scheme-y? Pleasant accommodation is kind of her thing.

100% this. The scene with Loras showed us in perfectly clear terms that she's got a plan. The idea (that both the reviewers seem to have bought into) that she has inexplicably and wholeheartedly converted is, I suggest, not well supported by what we've actually seen.

Right? It was way way too big.

Agreed, I'm finding that aspect of the plotline kind of disappointing. My expectation is that neither Jaqen or the Waif are real people - they're just servants of the Faceless God wearing the faces appropriate to their current roles vis a vis Arya. I guess that could still be the case, and part of the role of the Waif…

I think it must also be said that particularly in America weird brutal shit happens. Obviously the vast majority of internet death threats are completely toothless, but people who get them (particularly women connected to the gaming industry who get them all the goddamn time) have to at least consider the possibility…

In Canada this would be very unusual, especially at a private home with no particular worry about violent resistance and especially with children present (even more so with children visiting, if they'd realized that).

I think the secret about Trump is that as bad as he is, there's really nothing he stands for that the mainstream GOP doesn't (and a few issues where he might even be better, though who fucking knows). The additional danger he brings above and beyond the more conventional candidates isn't policy-based, it's the risk of…

Might be a good novelty choice. Hologram Himmler!

Yeah it felt that way to me too.

Particularly now that a totally different priestess of the red god has shown up in what looks like it'll be a relatively significant role? Maybe Fukushima will play an underling or something. Be a shame to cast but then not use her.

Lazy and totally unnecessary time travel nonsense? That raise metaphysical, moral and emotional questions orders of magnitude larger than the narrative conveniences they provide?

That's a valid concern except [handwavey time nonsense yadda yadda] so we're all good!

In my personal version of this mess of an episode, original Barry is the one that died and time remnant Barry is now the main character.

I love Jessica Jones from the bottom of my cranky feminist heart, but I probably prefer Agents of SHIELD as a watching experience.

I regret that the film didn't quite live up to its premise. But it actually looks like it did rather well financially, so hopefully there are more subversions (be they ever so mild) of the Disney canon to look forward to that might pan out better.

Maybe you've read a different one than what I'm recalling, but wasn't it just that he was a total pest, and that scene with Tommen was challenging enough without a cat screwing up the takes?

Yeah, they've been expressed as a breed apart from Wesen. Like Grimms. And maybe Royals.

I loved this episode but I agree on the countdown thing. It's like, why do it if you're not actually doing it? Why say 10 seconds if you mean 30? Why not say 30? Or why go to a time at all…?

Everyone's just on a big server. So their physical bodies will presumably all die (I guess ALIE could make them procreate but would she bother?) but their minds or whatever part of them ALIE uploads would be kept as data and apparently interact with each other through the City of Life interface. Presumably forever. Or…

Continuum filmed a lot in the same neighbourhood as most of the City of Light was shot in (downtown financial district, specifically Burrard between Pender and Water).