@Kumagoro:disqus There is definitely not another Baratheon brother and while Martin does expand the narrative world considerably in later books, he doesn't do it with random mystery siblings conveniently left unmentioned by major characters.

@avclub-71ded0a5c5ea6f613e50d7d1a413eb5d:disqus The area we're actually seeing action in is really only comparable to France with a chunk of northern Italy. The North makes up the bulk of Westeros and that's basically sparsely populated tundra and subarctic forests (with regular mini ice ages serving as population…

"A Lot Less Exciting Than You Think" is actually House Greyjoy's motto.

True (and LOL), but the Drowned God is not a kraken but, basically, the original Ironborn (who, presumably, drowned and was resurrected from the sea as a deity). The kraken is just the heraldic animal of the dominant noble family of the Iron Islands and, based on what little info is available, evidently has no…

The Drowned God is more like Odin if Valhalla was a boat. Not a benevolent deity by any means but better than a squid-monster preparing to eat humanity for breakfast.

Never assume an "Experts" anything about a series of fantasy novels is anything remotely like a "cool table."

Furthest south in Westeros.

The Reach (the Tyrell territory) is the agricultural core of Westeros, making it both the most heavily populated and, arguably, the most strategically important (since all that food is nice to have around when you have winters stretching on for years).

I am. Fuck those crazy sports fans.

Precious; Based on the Song Xanadu by Rush

I'll take a shot at it:

MF DOOM finally came home that Thanksgiving,
and we never spoke of Madvillainy 2 again.

Also, the Baby Cannibal presumably wouldn't have allowed the Boy to go back alone to see his father one last time. He also wouldn't have declined to take the pistol from him. The Baby Cannibal would have just taken him out. Those two gestures were, I think, intended as clear, unambiguous signals from McCarthy that the…

I don't think the man at the end could have been the baby cannibal. For one, he was well-armed and apparently well fed, whereas the cannibals from the baby scene were desperate, starved, and terrified of the Man to the point that they left their cooked child to him rather than confront him.

so basically, it's Flight of the Conchords
but the main characters aren't as pretty.

from this point on, all AVClub A- and A reviews
should include the phrase "better than Sgt. Pepper."

The Atari Batman games
were kinda fun.

"Wayans' attempts to become a low-budget superhero using junk and homemade garbage"
I like how this doubles as a description of the main character *and* the filmmaker.

What you need to know to truly appreciate afro-pop: Shit's crazy in Africa.

Nigeria 70 was just reissued. Great, great comp.