I'm not saying change the character. I'm saying give me a little bit of a window into his soul. Ned Stark is cold too, and Martin did a fantastic job of making him real. But he dropped the ball on Robert and Stannis. The show took Robert, who was a one-note drunken bore in the book and turned him into this…

The real question is how well Dillane grits his teeth and scowls, since that's what Martin has Stannis doing in like every single scene he's in. He's a character that could gain a lot from being flesh and blood, and they did such a fantastic job humanizing Robert, I'm rooting for them to do the same with Stannis.

6 Seasons?!?
It's not that long a book… Although that last third feels like it.

Yeah, I'd imagine it takes the whole caravan a lot longer time, as they can only go as fast as their slowest member, plus they must take forever to unpack and pack up every day.

You're adorable! Hudson Hawk next!

Not only that, but apparently the actress is a righty who wanted to learn sword fighting as a lefty because Arya in the book is left handed. Awesome.

Makes me sick, motherfucker…
how far we done fell.

Re: Leaving the kids in the car
That's the only part of the episode I actually bought. There was a fantastic article in the New Yorker or somewhere a year ago about parents that accidentally leave their kids in the car on a hot day, and the kid roasts to death. They're not crazy or negligent. They just have a…

I'd like to see The Navidson Record from House of Leaves
Even reading about the documentary completely creeped me out. It's really the only book that's ever made me genuinely uncomfortable. The faux documentary at the center of it sounds absolutely terrifying and I'd love to have a bootleg VHS copy of it.

I'm guessing that it's possible that people are old enough to have seen both shows, and simply preferred AD. Which one was influential or what have you isn't really relevant to which you liked better. I caught and loved Seinfeld first run, missed AD while it was on the air and discovered it on DVD. I love them…

The Movie
I also noticed how many callouts to the movie were in this episode — really more than in any episode since the pilot.

I thought Inigo was Kevin Kline too until I was 15 or so. Then I realized he wasn't.

I knew that elf had a following, but I completely didn't make the Brett connection.

In his defense, the Weinsteins are notorious for screwing filmmakers out of their money.

It's not the injury itself that's funny. It's the fact that he's hitting someone in the face with a pipewrench, regardless of whether they're molesting kids or just cutting in line at the movies. It's a very pure zero tolerance policy, and there's something brilliant about that.

sexually aggressive is soft-pedaling it. She's a full-on psychopath. But so adorable!

Stealth tensies.

The best pipe-wrench violence i've ever seen
If that's not worth ten bucks, I don't know what to believe in anymore.

"I have nothing but praise."
Pretty much sums up the interview. He was great in what could have been a pretty stock role in Let Me In though.

There were two epidemics when I went to camp: Head lice, and the plague - THE BUBONIC PLAGUE!