He almost looked to the camera (just a few degrees off) and you could see him screaming silently and dying on the inside.

Valyria is Melniboné AKA the Dragon Isle. It is known.

I'm kind of in favor of this change, since I care about Genry and I completely forgot anything about Edric Storm other than his plot significance. No traits, no lines, nothing.

One thing I took away from this episode of Game of Thrones: you know that thing where a woman mocks a man by lowering her voice, adding a bit of gravel, and making a lot of dumb sounding durrr sounds? And how men laugh it off because nobody sounds like that? Well, Ygritte proved that Jon Snow really does sound like…

Also, way too evocative of the film Tyrannosaur.

@avclub-79097abf807eb2122bee5f4cabcef7ab:disqus Yeah, but maybe the surgical procedure wasn't survivable until Stark could harness the super-regeneration granted by the Extremis technology.

Put him against a Chinese hero. Boom. PC.

Simple - the suit they were charging was the one that they used in dummy-mode or whatever, so they needed to charge it the hard way because Tony would not be inside of it part of the time.

"The true foundation of international terrorism? It's white Americans all the way down."

My favorite part of the twist was that it completely subverted the corporate financer villain gets screwed over by the colorful costumed villain he inexplicably works with" trope that happens in every other superhero film.

@avclub-f5e9fe6d78bf73228dd1b263395189c4:disqus Still, I feel like Rhaegar was always depicted as a pretty cool guy, even in the first book, by anyone who wasn't Robert and his inner circle. Nearly everything bad we hear about Rhaegar comes from Robert. Even Ned just falls into awkward, polite silence when Robert…

While we're not totally sure, the dude was OBSESSED with the prophecy of the Prince Who Was Promised, first believing himself to be the PWWP and then his son Aegon, so that might have something to do with it.

I think the Baratheons are a mix of the Plantagenets and some aspects of the Yorks.

Not quite sure what his endgame is, but at this point it seems to be installing Sansa as the Lady of the Vale and seeing how the North pans out (the Boltons and Freys are probably going to fall and fall hard in the Winds of Winter - I mean, all you have to do is kill two people and the Bolton line is extinguished for…

This would have been a good time to introduce House Manderly, too. Their subplot is so closely tied to the Red Wedding that we should have seen Wyman or one of the other Wy-dudes about now…

It's Qyburn.

Those jars do kind of create a plot hole, don't they? Though I guess embalming could have rendered them useless.

Marrying Sansa to Tywin creates a titular problem as that branch of the Lannisters - those of Casterly Rock - would have to move their seat to Winterfell. Cersei and her kids are the Lannisters-Baratheons of King's Landing. Marying Sansa off to Tyrion allows him to create another cadet branch of the house, the…

"Renly is not right!" cried Lord Glover. "But…Uh, I kinda blew out my knee during Robert's Rebellion, so I'm going to sit this one out."

Can you elaborate on that Targaryen point? Just interested to hear your take, because while I was reading I began thinking of them as fucked up with some cool members, and by the end I thought of them as very, very fucked up with some really, really cool members. The wildfire storeroom reveal just made me think, "of…