Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!!

Research may have started before Reagan, but no-one took it seriously before Reagan announced SDI two years after these episodes are taking place (especially after the ABM Treaty in the 1970s largely outlawed missile defense). The writers would've done much better reading about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…,…

My take on the Cersei/Littlefinger scene is that it was a way for the writers/producers to dramatize Varys' riddle to Tyrion in the brothel (sellsword has to choose who to slay, a king, a priest, a rich man). All three have power, but of different sorts, and the answer to the riddle is supposed to enlighten Tyrion as…

"Shut up, shut up, shut up!"

"Ya used me Skinner!!"

"Ugh! Look, do you want a happy God or a vengeful God?"
"Happy God."