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@avclub-9d66a6ebf0e17da71a6441374275370a:disqus I don't think it's made clear one way or the other, since we don't actually know at what point the plot was a done deal. If Roose wasn't at least strongly considering switching sides by this point, some of his actions are hard to explain: taking it upon himself to

Qyburn's "prominence" in book 2 consists of: 1. doing some secretarial work for Roose, and 2. someone mentioning in an offhand way (as part of a long list of Mummers and why they are bad) that he's rumored to practice black magic. And, except for the part about him being found in a pile of bodies, I don't see any

@avclub-0840875a9da6f24c4e0fc883b399d93a:disqus Stephen King is writing the next episode, isn't he?

The dragons are entirely animated; the direwolves are real wolves filmed elsewhere and composited into the scene at a larger size (starting in season 2 that is; in season 1 they were just dogs, with no visual effects at all). So the dragon scenes obviously require a lot of technical effort and planning, but the wolf

@avclub-9157f95e30001c641c8c4d1adf84f6d1:disqus Not hard to please, just forgetful— that's why I said "I'm not sure."

"Completely dropped" seems like an exaggeration, since at this point in the books we'd seen barely any evidence of either one; Arya had had maybe one wolf dream, and I'm not sure Jon had had any.

"I also thought the idea of the stranded time traveller was great, and quite original"— as with most interesting ideas in science fiction, it depends on how you define "original." The premise of this episode is very close to the (great) short story "The Man Who Walked Home" by James Tiptree Jr. That story takes the

But Miriam didn't have a suspect in mind, did she? I thought she was just following up on one of the victims, and was talking to Lecter because Lecter had treated the guy in the ER after a hunting accident; it sounded like she thought maybe the killer had something to do with that accident, not that she suspected

Well, yes those lines are largely from the novels, but they mostly weren't delivered as dialogue in the novels. The one about Lecter being like a monstrous baby was (though the tone was a little different; it was more of a dismissive remark, as in "who cares what the right psychiatric term for him is, he's just an

I thought there was a simpler reason for the image to show up again: Will had figured out the same thing as Miriam, that the pattern of wounds on the workshop victim's body had been inspired by the Wound Man illustration. He just didn't bother explaining it to the class.

The last time I saw it was as the second half of a double bill, where the first half was a slightly abridged stage play version of the movie done as a super silly drag parody— insanely well done, and pretty merciless in zeroing in on the cheesiest, least respectful possible interpretation of every moment in the movie.

Here's the show's food stylist discussing the design of the loin: "I call my nephew who is a sports medicine intern. 'Hey Jay, are there any muscles on a woman that are big enough to make into a roast?'"

@avclub-f7f8eb12e0f61a9321597157c0d61791:disqus In the books it's mentioned that some of Lecter's victims were his patients, and that he killed at least one of them during a therapy session. But presumably he couldn't do that kind of thing very often. The business-card Rolodex is original to the show and it's a nice

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus That should be easy— just hang out nearly anywhere on the Internet except this particular comment thread (and, I guess, O.S. Card fan sites). I don't mean you shouldn't hang out here too! Just that it seems to be one of those things where hating it is much more popular on the Internet than in

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus You're not at all a tiny minority. I mean, I like the book and I think your interpretation of it is way off, but this is just about the only discussion of it I've ever seen where your view wasn't overwhelmingly predominant.

@avclub-b31df16a88ce00fed951f24b46e08649:disqus The Cetians are basically humans anyway; they're just another offshoot of the Hainish, like us, even if they would look a little weird to us. I agree that that difference wouldn't translate into film, since the point of it isn't to make them seem alien, but to make us

@Roswulf:disqus That's how I've always read it. Very well put. I'm equally baffled by people interpreting it the opposite way.

Don't worry too much about it. It's the climactic event in the sense that, yes, the climactic event of a book about a war in space not surprisingly has some kind of big explosion in it, but out of context it doesn't really tell you anything.

@avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus Man, if I'd just gotten out of an engagement with a nightmare like Joffrey, anyone who was just nice to me and pleasant to be around would seem like the most awesomest person in the world. And Sansa's still not very emotionally mature and hasn't met any non-insane boys

How cowardly is Joffrey? So cowardly that he has her bound and helpless and then, using his fancy custom crossbow, he kills her from a safe distance.