Yeah right? That's some grade-A ideological craziness. And the whole country went along with it. It would be cool if they had kept that up and there was just this Spanish-German-Amerindian-Black mix of people indigenous to Paraguay.

Your ancestors didn't declare the war and they didn't choose to fight to the bitter end, the leaders of Paraguay just had so little respect for their people's lives they never sued for peace. Feel worse about the millions of slaves, not a war in which you were invaded by a bunch of fanatics and kicked their asses.

After being shot in the fucking chest, the man decides to give his speech anyway, starting with the line, "It takes more than that to kill a bull moose!" Can you imagine having such a badass as president? He wasn't great on policy, but I'd vote for him!

It's a crazy, relatively harmless idea from the past to make people get along better.

No one will be back for season 2. Google the viewing numbers. No way in hell this comes back, and if it does it will be with the same or reduced budget.

I really, really wanted this show to be better. It had so many good elements, and just disappointed constantly. Stephen Root should have been in every episode of the show, I do not know what they were thinking getting a talent like that and squandering him with a late season cameo.

Best fact about Paraguay, there is no public, official history of the first couple of centuries of Paraguay. The two biggest parties there have different versions of the history of their country, because Brazil to this day keeps the Paraguay National Archives in Rio de Janeiro and won't return them.

I just love how they tried to create one national race and culture. Very modern, even if the methods they used to create that society were fucked. Banning marriage between people of the same color, for instance.

Candido Rondon was a famous explorer of the Amazon basin at the time. He was the leader of the telegraph service, and he built thousands of miles of wire through the roughest terrain in the world, full of violent, isolated tribes. He had a rule to not kill anyone, ever, even if they were shooting at his expedition,…

It's an old story, and it has little to do with internal politics. A dictator with wild ideas and a popular groundswell of support pisses off other world leaders and ends up on the losing side of war. He shouldn't have invaded Brazil.

I actually googled Paraguay once to find out why it was a thing, and was blown away by how crazy their history is. Banning same-race marriages to create a blended unified race? Some weird stuff going on down there back then.

Neither review mentioned what in my opinion was the single worst part of this episode. The battle was fantastic, the plot was relatively decent, and the cliffhanger isn't something you can really dock the show for as much as be annoyed.

Him walking up slow with the meat cleaver was BADASS

Agreed, any weakness was with the season not the episode itself, which was badass. I disagree about Slynt though. You don't get that many chances to show Jon Snow leading in that battle. Him sacrificing himself for the good of the men I thought was a good choice, in order to show growth.

Shae, Tysha, all the talk of whores. It's all wrapped up together. And it's been well established that Tyrion loved a whore. It's pretty easy to remember Dinklage lines.

Yeah, but it just seems, I dunno, not self-aware to complain about it for those reasons?

I have high hopes because none of those scenes is particularly long. Cold open on Tyrion in his cell, Jaime appears at the open door, they start walking through winding corridors, boom Tywin, 10 minutes tops. Jon Snow and Mance bandy words, they wrap up negotiations and Mance isn't backing down, boom Stannis' knights…

I would say he stepped in to the role of second in command again, and I don't think that isn't shown. Some prep would have been nice. But my impression of the battle, which Thorne capture I thought, was Donal Noye standing on the stairs bellowing commands in a voice that could be heard across the entire battlefield.…

Am I the only book reader who didn't nit pick that episode to fucking death? I watched it with a couple of friends, really enjoyed it, was a little let down by the cliffhanger. And then I get this call ranting about how terrible an episode that was from my brother. I don't know what more you expect from a battle in a…

I agree but you're not giving the science enough credit. PC's and smartphones were coming. There were already several products in development, most of the heavy lifting had been done by other companies, IBM for PC and Nokia for smartphones. Apple's strength is in design, branding, and quality control. Nothing here…