@avclub-1d392d6cd50709b355aa35602cb1b7cc:disqus But the point wasn't just to keep her away from Littlefinger. I mean, they may want to do that because he's just obviously skeevy, but if they're considering her value as "key to the North" then the whole point would be to get that key. If Loras married Sansa then the…

I'm surprised anyone would think that was supposed to be burn makeup. Maybe from a distance, but not in the closeups. You don't get gray alligatory skin from a burn.

@avclub-9c33ea7188cb0fc5d524f4ad1e8d8fc5:disqus It's also possible that the director didn't want to show her naked because, despite the training she's done for the show and her impressive ability to scrunch up her neck to look more like an awkward hulk, she's not really super-brawny, and the point of the scene isn't…

@Cliffy Not to mention that Karstark immediately taunted Robb about it in front of everyone and basically said "I know you won't kill me, because you're such a wuss"— and previously admitted that he'd already given up on the war. Seems unlikely that Robb would've gotten much use out of K's troops at that point anyway.

The moment before that, when Bolton told Locke to throw away Jaime's yucky hand, I was almost disappointed because he had slightly raised his voice. Don't lose your cool, Lord B! Then he pulled that "joke" totally deadpan, without even a "ha I gotcha" look at the end, and the world was right again.

I couldn't disagree more with your first paragraph. A writer who "sees hunting as little more than recreational butchery" couldn't have written the scenes between Hobbs and his daughter. When he's talking about respecting the deer and so on, even though we know there's a terrible subtext, he plays it straight and he's…

I think it'd be more problematic if it weren't that there's clearly something off about Graham too, and the other characters have already gotten used to working around that. There's an early scene where Lecter does some really offensive pseudo-psychoanalyzing of Graham right in front of Crawford. After Graham…

Just because Lecter is
respected in academia for his research doesn't mean he's particularly good at therapy. Some psychiatrists don't have a private practice at all; others are very specialized, and their reputation in a narrow field will get them patients even if their personality sucks. When we saw Lecter with a…

I'm not sure the scientific validity of profiling is really relevant here. The FBI is still heavily into it, so it makes sense that the characters on the show take it seriously. Besides, the show has made the point several times that whatever Graham is doing that works so well, it's not really profiling as they…

Sherlock isn't a psychologist or a scientist, he's a self-taught crank; I can easily believe he'd make up a cool-sounding yet incorrect term for his own personality disorder.

Something I would never have imagined in a million years, but that once I saw it (in its original stage production!) I realized it couldn't not exist: the drag queen version of The Silence of the Lambs.

OK, dammit, I did not need another show to watch, but I finally started it and so far it is definitely my kind of thing.

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus The idea presses itself. I mean, as someone who's been told all her life that she's doing femaleness wrong, that not just her attitude and interests are inappropriate but even her body, how could she not have some strong and mixed-up feelings on the subject?

@avclub-92561f21446e017dd6b68b94b23ad5b7:disqus So then just cast Perlman as someone who doesn't speak the Common Tongue or has some other kind of made-up accent. Easier than trying to make him blend in with the Brits.

And that's the same as the books. Arya just assumed he had a bunch of scars from injuries he had survived, until he got what was clearly a mortal wound in the trial and then came back. That's when they explain the whole deal. They've already sort of hinted at it— there was a line like "You'd have converted to the Lord…

@avclub-92561f21446e017dd6b68b94b23ad5b7:disqus Shit, that really is sad. It never occurred to me that in a happier timeline Bran would've eventually been introduced to the Reeds and… yeah. And I have a giant crush on Meera. Damn you.

Yeah, ironically the Lannisters might be better off if they were not in power right now—since if some other family had the throne and owed all that money, the Iron Bank might be interested in giving financial support to the Lannisters.

If I were one of those guys, even if I decided to pursue other interests, I'd probably stick with the army for a while just for the sake of safety in numbers. Anywhere they go around here, they'll be easily identified as one of those ex-Unsullied who killed their former masters. That can't be reassuring no matter how…

@avclub-1343022fc4003e2cf16f0368302d86e8:disqus Oh man, Brothers… forgot about that book… picked it up randomly a long time ago and was totally bewildered to realize that it was related to Marathon Man & was by the same guy; that was really, really not the direction I would've imagined him going with it. I couldn't…

I love Leonard but I don't think the comparison makes sense in this case. Leonard writes mostly about small-timers, and/or people who are a big deal within one community. The main characters in American Tabloid are constantly posturing, and the style matches them, but they're also doing things that have major…