People are also way taller than they should be.

I don't think the Jon Snow saga has been particularly well-handled all in all, but there's a great chance of redemption.

This is kind of true to real life, though… outside of the families that got fucked up by incest, the dynasties and nobility of Europe (and elsewhere) were typically significantly more attractive than the common people they ruled.  Part of it was that good looks is one of the ways you get to a leadership position…

Considering that the wildlings will still probably find the Fist, maybe the writing staff kept that one to get Jon out of that particular conundrum.

Yeah… Theon…

And just to clarify things: no, not like that.

The Lannisters are the greatest fictional family ever.  God how I love every one of them.

Just so you know, Todd's reviews are spoiler-free, except for the marked off area at the very bottom of each.  They're safe for a newbie to read (by design) as long as you remember to not read into "Spoilers follow" section after Stray Observations.

Bruce Dickinson's Tattooed Millionaire wasn't a particularly good album, but it pretty much signaled that he was going to leave Iron Maiden.  It didn't end the band, but it definitely briefly terminated their relevance.

The first cold open began with a frozen metal gate opening. I'm assuming they just couldn't pass up the opportunity.

I watched it.  Enjoyed it. As usual, found its denying-its-own-Canadianess hilarious.

Carice van Houten is really something else.

Hate to say it, but he might not have died if he had been playing in North America.  Any team with a half decent medical staff would've known the risk of a hemorrhage.

Name on the jersey is the same.

Hard to say exactly what happened.  I'm reading conflicting reports; the article you link says he was knocked unconscious and "immediately taken to hospital", but the video linked shows the player leaving the ice by himself.  From another report, he apparently felt sick the next morning, went to a hospital, and…

It's pretty fucking bad, but it wasn't at Malarchuk-level.

Actually, he did sort of apologize: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

Eh, I think this sort of shows what I was getting at.  Only a few of them truly work, and rarely beyond the surface level (though there must be a lot of potential for mixing Tyrion and Jeff lines).

I imagine he had some traumatic event in his childhood where he was spoiled about something close to his heart, became bitter and has sworn to do the same to all the citizens of Gotham.

In honour of the Game of Thrones premiere and my general listless boredom, I've ranked the 15 best "Arrested Westeros" mash-ups.  Unlike the veritable hordes of imitators it spawned, "Arrested Westeros" has been consistently hilarious because the two shows actually share character types and themes; meaning that the…