Does incest count as perverted in Westeros? (note the importance of the last two words of that sentence…)

#3, you mean. Surely they're both topped by the implications of Mad Cow's disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy):
1. BCE is spread primarily through the mixing of infected brain material into meat;
2. Human sufferers of BCE end up in a 'zombified' state for a long period between the onset of encelopathy and the…

If you ever need to ask that in a tv series, keep in mind that they will have shot that scene about 5 times, that every time the camera switches from one character to another that's actually a new shot requiring most of the crew to set back up again (which takes freaken ages), and they've got far less money and time…

Re: Brainspore -
"That team consists of straight arrow Agent Grant Ward…"

One thing that the 'mocking the audience for liking Homer' critique ignores is the way in which the episode harks back to the vocal opposition to the show in its first few years from numerous moral crusaders - most notably Barbara Bush (wife of George Bush Snr, for the younguns) and a particular encounter that Groenig…

Yeah, but the most hilarious dialogue in the episode does a great job of subverting that - I'm normally a 'Simpsons went downhill after the first 3 seasons' guy, but the casual dropping into conversation that Lenny and Carl (and by implication, all of the other oafs at the power plant) have nuclear physics PhDs was…

Maybe I'm being over-cynical, but I can't help think of how in non-cable tv shows, character deaths among the main cast tend to be the result of the show writing around an actor's decision to move on to a better gig, rather than the character leaving due to organic plot developments (yes, there are exceptions, but…

Yeah, but this is Baylish we're talking about. If taking Sansa with him was part of his plan, do we really think he's not going to be plotting some other way of getting Sansa to come with him?

Also keep in mind that as much as Joffrey's a sociopath with a god complex, he's always been 'just' grounded enough to know that he's can't mess with whoever has control of the Lannister army (i.e. Tywin). When Tyrion was King's Hand - but much more importantly, acting as Tywin's appointed agent - he could get away…

Or she might have something more nefarious in mind for Gendry. Remember her reason for leaving Dragonstone (and that she told Stannis she'd be back)? You know, that scene where Stannis asks her to magically kill Joffrey the same way she did Renly, and she tells him that she'll need a king's blood for that, and that…

Yeah, I never really got the 10th doctor's 'you can't fight SONTARANS!!!' declaration. If UNIT could go head to head in a gunfight against a roughly equal number of Cybermen and come out on top (the battle scene in the 2nd doctor serial 'The Invasion'), and use explosive rounds to take out a batallion of Autons…

I have to say, I'm actually rather liking the use of Moriaty so far on this show - and I'm guessing that part of the reason is also part of why the reviewer DIDN'T like this episode.

It's more in keeping with the books than the films. In the books (not future spoilers, restricting myself to events that the tv series has already gone past), they do a better job of showing what the last episode tried to convey - that it's the Hound's brother (the Mountain) who's the raping, murdering monster, yet…

Less recently than most think. A guy in the UK realised that it still hadn't been formally removed in the mid 1900s, and demanded trial by battle in response to a charge of assault. Fortunately, everyone realised that letting him beat the poor victim up a second time wasn't a very good deterrent for assaults, and they…

Ironically, he had a soft spot for Arya (not knowing that she's Ned's daughter, but very clearly knowing that she's a northern noble pretending to be a peasant). He's a prick to his own kids, but you could definitely see a grandfatherly affection towards Arya as the kind of daughter he wished he had.

Well they've already shown the Tullys this season. I got the feeling that the idea is to show yet another example of Robb being a terrific general, but a terrible politician - he's kept his most trustworthy allies close to him, when they're the ones that could be entrusted to stay on task without him there, while…

Just speculation, but seeing as the show's writers have confirmed that Martin has already given them the major plot points for the future books, including who will end up on the Iron Throne (in case he doesn't finish the books in time for the tv series), I'm guessing that Varys' comments about Littlefinger being the…

The Lord of Light is CURRENTLY the only one (actually there's two if you count the fact that THERE'S AN ARMY OF UNDEAD) that actually works, and it's heavily suggested that's because it's a religious that comes from far away from Westeros at the outer edges of the known world, where magic didn't completely die out…

Just off the top of my head I can think of a bunch of classic Doctor Who serials that are more complex and adult than the current series:
- Mawdryn Undead (I mean the time-wimey aspect of it, not the 'undead' part)
- literally everything in Pertwee's first season, especially Ambassadors of Death and Inferno;
- The War…

I'd hate to see a story showing the actual Time War - it's the kind of thing that would only be made less interesting when shown. But you could have a great cross-over story if the Doctor was to encounter himself and the other Time Lords (including his old companions/friends like Romana and Borusa) in the early days…