The target audience of Chuck E. Cheese consists of two key demographic groups: paycheck-wielding dregs who long ago cultivated an immunity to all filth-associated disease and resentful suburban moms who would let their kids eat drywall if it would shut them up for five minutes.

I like how CEC employees speak of the rat suit as if it were some dreaded medieval torture device.

I like how CEC employees speak of the rat suit as if it were some dreaded medieval torture device.

I think the concern is that the average viewer might forget about what Robb and Dany are doing, but by padding out the story, all they do is remind everyone that they're doing nothing.

I think the concern is that the average viewer might forget about what Robb and Dany are doing, but by padding out the story, all they do is remind everyone that they're doing nothing.

In Dany's defense, she is only vindictive and cruel towards people who actually tried to kill her* (or her family) and doesn't enjoy it as sport in the way Joffrey does.

In Dany's defense, she is only vindictive and cruel towards people who actually tried to kill her* (or her family) and doesn't enjoy it as sport in the way Joffrey does.

I just assumed that he's not THAT much of a badass and that carrying out assassinations against high profile targets in a kingdom's capital is more difficult than killing random guys in the ruined remains of a giant castle.

I just assumed that he's not THAT much of a badass and that carrying out assassinations against high profile targets in a kingdom's capital is more difficult than killing random guys in the ruined remains of a giant castle.

Indeed, there are two distinct zombie traditions.

Indeed, there are two distinct zombie traditions.

I didn't see it as the same growth. The growth in CoK is as you say. DwD is more about learning to manage competing interests and witnessing the effects of her naive attempts to reshape social institutions according to her own ideals.

I didn't see it as the same growth. The growth in CoK is as you say. DwD is more about learning to manage competing interests and witnessing the effects of her naive attempts to reshape social institutions according to her own ideals.

Definitely, especially since the entire season had weirdly avoided reminding us just how much Dany had gone through at the end of last season.

Definitely, especially since the entire season had weirdly avoided reminding us just how much Dany had gone through at the end of last season.

I enjoyed the confirmation that the warlocks were really just one guy in an empty tower. Like Xaro's vault, the idea that there was a whole group of them chugging purple drank in a magic palace was just an illusion used to cast the appearance of power.

I enjoyed the confirmation that the warlocks were really just one guy in an empty tower. Like Xaro's vault, the idea that there was a whole group of them chugging purple drank in a magic palace was just an illusion used to cast the appearance of power.

Melmoth the Wanderer (Chapter IX) describes this exact situation in all of its horrifying psychological and physical aspects. It immediately came to mind when I saw the vault close and just the memory of it made me queasy all over again… as much of a jerk as Xaro was, it was a tad harsh of Dany to subject him to one…

Melmoth the Wanderer (Chapter IX) describes this exact situation in all of its horrifying psychological and physical aspects. It immediately came to mind when I saw the vault close and just the memory of it made me queasy all over again… as much of a jerk as Xaro was, it was a tad harsh of Dany to subject him to one…

I don't know, GRRM leaves the sense of scale purposefully ambiguous in the books. At fan conventions, he gives the die hards concrete distances to sate their need for a sense of canon, but in the books, everything is blurred.