It's still in Brienne's back pocket.

Shouldn't Gilly's infant be about 16 years old by now?

I'll get the pitchforks.

Remember when every Lost review would prompt a 30,000 word comment on how the show's gratuitous use of ambiguous dialogue to weasel out of piss poor writing was actually a televised realization of the aesthetic experience of the sublime?

I would say the entire discourse about cultural appropriation and why it's "bad" is an expression of the same anxiety, though one that has become self-aware and is engaging in a futile effort to negate itself. There's more than a hint of the ole' noble savage trope about it as well as a heaping spoonful of the…

In some ways, they've made the plot too personal, so we don't actually have any broader context telling us what Dorne is all about. Right now, it's a dude in a wheel chair looking down on a garden, and some angry ladies giving speeches in a tent. There's no sense of scope and that amplifies the LARP-iness of it.

I have to say I've been a little disappointed with this season. There have been some good parts (House of Black & White, Stannis at the Wall, Jonah/Tyrion buddy cops), but almost everything else feels very rushed and haphazard. The Sand Snakes scenes stand out as especially awful. These scenes have all played out like…

Yeah, any semblance of acknowledging and giving more than a millisecond of thought to the feelings/opinions of other people just seems fundamentally un-Jokery to me.

Does the Joker think he's violently insane? I'm no Batman expert, but I always saw the Joker as a guy who just doesn't give a shit but is otherwise completely lucid and aware of what he's doing. The idea that he'd self-identify as "damaged" in some self-pitying emo way seems out of character to me.

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This is why the good lord gave us the Good Wife and a tint dial.

Middle America doesn't want to be spanked by a prophet they actually know. That would be weird.

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She's a 50 year-old midwestern housewife's idea of sexiness.

Based on my encounters with psycho conspiracy parents, they're usually stay at home spouses who are too affluent to have real problems, so their minds invent things to freak out about.

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Yeah, I think that's what it's going to be and it falls in nicely with the "Humans are horrible people" theme that runs through the books. It's known that the Children created the Wall and it's not like they're big on Rh'llor. It makes sense that, after the Andals invaded, they would establish a pact where they get…

Nah, ADWD strongly hints that Bran is the champion of the Great Other/Old Gods and that Coldhands was, in fact, the Night's King.

I saw this in theaters. It was the cinematic equivalent of watching a director pick his nose and eat it.

As someone who grew up on the Burton movies (saw Returns in theaters three times… yeah), Begins is easily my favorite Batman film. Tightly plotted, Batman is an actual character, there's a clear sense of mystery and purpose driving the supposed protagonist's actions as opposed to the interminable "reluctant hero"…