Plus remember the book description of Jorah from her perspective - he's a big ugly lovable "bear" - that's the word she uses when thinking of him. She tries to love him at one point, but can't because she simply can't find him attractive. But she has an emotional affection for him as the person she instinctively turns…

More fitting in the books, where they set up the tragedy of her character. A lot of both book-readers and tv-watchers overlook that during her 1st two power-runs she was incompetent, but also the peace-maker until Ned, Margery, Kevan, High Sparrow etc either backed her into a corner or rejected her peace-offering with…

That also sounds a LOT like "that great sea that's been restricting the Whitewalkers' mobility [and, isn't it also what they rely on to extend the barrier at one end pf the wall?] is gonna freeze come winter" and "that huge mountain of a wall keeping them out is gonna crumble" (or alternatively….and need I say it,…

Theon didn't just face the threat - as a young boy he was raped several times per day for a 6 month voyage by ship to Winterfell, and told by Ned Stark's (hired) men that his father ordered it.

I agree with your general sentiment…..but in fairness, I've directly, both in immediate 1-to-1 and also in at least 1-to-crowd scenario, said that a murder victim was asking for it.

Book Cersei, perhaps. But in the show, it's really weird how everyone reflexively hates Cersei. Go through her history of vendettas - at EVERY stage, she's always been the one to swallow her pride and offer peace, gets humiliatingly rebuffed or placed in an impossible position, and retaliates in spectacular fashion.…

It's also history repeating the a 3rd cycle of bloodshed (slightly underplayed in that the show boosted the season 1 younger generation (now the older generation) by 2 years across the board. Ned and Robert were 14 at the start of the war against the Targaryans, Jamie and Cersei were 12, and every single one of them…

Seemed like a book deviation though - book Littlefinger quite clearly sees it as crossing off one of the major points ('get noble title') in his strategy, AND the most difficult (when Tyrion tests him by pretending to offer him a true lordship, Littlefinger completely drops his poker face with excitement; he even kept…

But isn't the NY Times ALSO competing for group B-2?

They've also JUST enough ambiguity in their 'lack of caring/emotion' to make it far more interesting than 'Daleks mk 2'.

It's due to brain-mind equivalence. If his body heals perfectly, then his brain heals, and hence his mind heals.

Delgado starts off as a non-murderer when it comes to other Time Lords, and even goes to great lengths to avoid killing humans for no reason. The former because he sees them as 'people', and hence you don't just randomly murder them. The latter because it's poor manners.

In fairness, he also SAVED the doctor a fair few regens:

Might want to bear in mind - most people are choosing which 0,01% of the remaining 5% of the movies that you're paid to review, they're going to see in their occasional 3 hours of leisure time.

Though if you were going to make a film that appeals to teenage girls with an interest in magic witches, would you design the character to be like Scarlet Witch? Think of the films and shows that have succeeded in that genre - The Craft, Charmed, heck even Sabrina….the subject matter and character design have nothing…

There's a lot of navel-gazing amongst critics whose primary disconnect from their readership isn't nearly as political as they often assume - rather it's a disconnect regarding the purpose of the criticism.

Either that, or it would make him sad and nostalgic for the time when Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart was capable of running UNIT as a small but ultra-elite crack military squad that was competent enough to routinely dispose of most hostile alien incursions without relying on the Doctor all the time. I mean, it's not…

I wasn't thinking that there will be some reveal next week - the talk of a monk trilogy s suggests otherwise. More that Moffat has a major plot thread hanging with Rassilon and that they'll likely reveal in the last few episodes that he set up the monks tech or similar.

Self-reply: I would have also thought that given the Great Intelligence is/was human, and also an A-leaguer in terms of power, plus nigh-indestructible, he'd have helped out at least occasionally against the various Dalek and other alien invasions, even if it's a Pinky and the Brain style 'saving the world to conquer…

Have to say, the lack of payoff with reintroducing the Great Intelligence was one of my biggest disappointments in nu-Who. After that terrific Victorian-era origin story, I went back and re-watched Web of Fear, where GI is going all-out - possessing people left and right, animating corpses, contolling armies of robots…