In addition to our collective stupidity, I blame Todd VanDerWerff's Archer review from two years ago:

On the last part, I believe in Westeros that distance by road would generally be much longer than as the crow flies. There's almost no flat land at all, and with their remarkably unadvanced technology, they are basically at the mercy of the terrain, which often looks downright brutal. So my guess is that Winterfell…

To round out the top 5, I'm a very big fan of And Now His Watch Has Ended.

I feel kinda bad for Sam that everyone is shitting on him now. For one thing, he's a thinker, not a doer. And right now he's too preoccupied with his own stuff to read this kid's mind. So I can forgive him for not feeling as ominous during that convo as the viewers.

I feel like Rickon is the type of annoying little shit who would actually make playing Monopoly against him fun.

Let me know when you're done sucking Sean Hannity's cock so that I can have some.

I posted something similar on the experts thread, because that came out first and I immediately wanted to talk about how awesome the music was. I think GoT has generally been fairly good with scores, certainly a cut above the cheesy action/suspense soundtracks one normally hears (if this season has been weaker than…

Yea and that guy she's screwing who's name I refuse to learn. Not that I blame her for having a dumb boy toy, she just needs smart people to tell that guy to fuck off on political matters.

Unfortunately #4 is not quite a strawman because the internet, but fair enough. Your other responses would seem to apply to any hypothetical rape scene. If we just want to get rid of rape on TV, I for one would be fine with that, if only to put this argument out of its misery.

That's correct. The narrator sees himself more as a vigilante than a hardened criminal, regardless of what the pundits might think.

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This is a very simplistic point to make. Yes, it is remarkably easy to write a story without any rape in it. Case in point:

This is what bugged me about a lot of the rape-episode complaints: the exact opposite of these complaints often seems to be equally valid.

I kinda do, at least in this case. But I've come to accept that everyone has their own concept of what lines shouldn't be crossed, and both sides were mostly well argued in this comment section (I'm often grateful for how well-written the comments are on this website, compared to everywhere else).

I really hope this is just the beginning of the Tyrion/Dany scenes. I came away from this episode with way more respect for Danerys. She seemed to have some difficultly thinking on her feet this season, but Tyrion's introduction made it clear to me that her problem was being surrounded by yes men. I even thought she…

People who want a light snack or appetizer? I usually like pedantic complaints about TV shows, but in this case I would defend moderate consumption of oysters.

The thing I was most impressed about by the last half was the production: especially the music and camera work. My favorite part was when the score broke down into that acid-rock square-wave loop when the undead kids surrounded Karsi.

As a foot fetishist, my first cartoon crush was the Muppet Babies lady.

"I'll give you 5 to 1 odds on the black guy."
"That's racist!"
"Okay 6 to 1."

The last three episodes have been legitimately good, before that not so much.