once you acknowledge that it is something done to her and not something she is participating in, you acknowledge that it is rape

or everyone heard both Arya and Tyrion speak about how weeks have passed between the last two episodes and figured that's how LF got to King's Landing in one episode, by travelling for weeks.

well, I pretty much stopped reading at about 2000 comments, but in those first 2000, I don't think anyone said it wasn't rape. The debate centered on whether it was good storytelling vs. why do that to the poor girl vs. what did you expect would happen, of course she was going to get raped.

it makes sense up to the point where Littlefinger is proving his loyalty to Cercei by putting Sansa's head on a spike. At that point, he is either betraying Sansa, betraying Cercei, or keeping her alive in secret until a later reveal.

well, hopefully with him being in the land of origin for the poison, there is an antivenom that the Prince is willing to administer

Well, assuming he was planning all along to pick up the pieces after a Stannis Roose blow-out, I imagine he would have left Winterfel anyway in order to raise his army from the Vale and offer to put down the winner for a reward from the queen mother.

Aside from Cercei ordering him to come to her directly and immediately?

I guess I'm looking a bit at the medieval definition of rape, not our modern one. Marital rape is probably not recognized, and the rape you get convicted of is probably due to raping a woman with enough family connection to get you in trouble as opposed to any actual concern with the woman in question and the effect…

it's been weeks. Arya said as much after the montage of corpse washing.

It is way too early for Sansa to be able to pull any uprising shit. Other than one old woman who remembers and a candle signal, no plot work has been done for Sansa to take out the Boltons.

Regarding the end scene, I remain hopeful that the parallel between Sansa's wedding night consummation and Danny's will also result in a parallel ascendance in power broking and capability. I think rape is a horrific act, but I'm not sure that the context of this universe makes it that big of a deal. It is a trope for…

using your words doesn't sell $1billion in tickets as much as blasting and smashing

I admit my sampling of Gotham is likely not sufficient to give it a fair judgment. I watched the premiere, one other, and the one where they may have introduced the Joker as the red head from the US Shameless. I don't have much memory or the first two, but the joker intro had Gordan using a snake as a blood hound, an…

maybe I didn't watch enough Gotham to compare, and I didn't bother with Carter, but I watched Constantine and what I saw there was loads better than the 2 or 3 of Gotham I saw.

In retrospect, certainly not. But both he and Cat were…hopeful? that he was on their side. That is the thing about playing this game. You have to trust to a certain extent, but should also prepare for betrayal or cover your ass against it.

Ned thought he had littlefinger and the city watch at his back and that that would be enough. It wasn't the Lanister's treachery that did him in, it was Littlefinger's

It does. Just re watched it on showtime or HBO a few weeks ago

especially in other countries where our reruns may be new to them… or just more reruns

and her hair looked more red in this sunday's episode, so who knows what the hell is up with all of this

Just hope that you weren't number 35