A crossbow is most certainly for battle, but not for knights or other nobles.  It's the weapon of a mercenary, used for punching holes in advancing heavy infantry or mounted cavalry before closing to melee, as you'll never get a chance to reload it if you're on the field.  Firing from a defensible position is, again,…

Well, it makes some sense.  The sigil of House Stark is a dire wolf (a canine), a female canine is a bitch.  That Arya is the get of Ned is without question.  Thus, Ned sired a bitch (two of them, actually), and four whelps.

Hodor has never said anything other than Hodor.  Hence the "Hodor! Stop hodoring!" line.  It's the only word he can speak, the man's simple.

I believe show-Sansa is older than she is in the books, though a late-bloomer, but I could be wrong.  I get the feeling that she's 17+ at this point, though in the books she was 13 when the Starks arrived in King's Landing.  All of the kids seem to have gained 2 or 3 years of age from page to screen.  In Arya's case,…

Uh, also… it may be interpreted that he would have his mother and his father/uncle executed as well, possibly before starting a massive purge of "degenerates" throughout the city (possibly the kingdom), before hanging himself.

I think you're applying too much Judaeo-Christian history to a world that has never known such things.

Not first, only the latest to get the pox of CancerAIDS.

They probably got a hold of him when Theon, like a big dummy, didn't get the fuck out of Winterfell in time, like his fucking sister warned him about.

I pirate the shit out of this show and I give not one single fuck what you mob think about it.  Call me a thief, call me lazy, call me whatever.  I'm the Juggernaut, bitch, I don't give a damn.

Sorta, kinda, but… it's still good to be the King.

So… does this comment here, the one by dcp above me, with 165 likes (at the time of this posting) make a new AV Club record?  If so, dude/dudette should get a plaque or something… some kinda prize somewhere.

I've read that Ebert retort a few times and, truly, it is one of the Sickest of Sick Burns ever uttered in the history of Mankind.

At the end in certain cuts when they call in the air strike to level the place.  You hear the call-sign to launch the run as background-voice-over.

Or, as Lovecraft called it, The Book of Dead Names.

Nah.  For me, the overall quality of the ED movies is directly related to the year in which they came out, and the original Evil Dead sits on top of the pile.  I view 3 as a particularly cash-in comedy, with no real horror.

He's quoting a dude.

While I have read the books, none of the scenes involving any of the characters I mentioned happen in the way the show depicts them.  There's enough difference between the books and the show that, at this point, I only use what I know of the books as guide-posts to suggest what general direction the story is going to…

Jon's a 19 year old boy, not some Tiger-style kung fu master.  He's been trained with the sword, which is the weapon-of-choice of the fighting men and the nobles (of which he is one) of his era.  He is well-trained with a sword, compared to common men, because he was fortunate enough to have Ned Stark as his father,…

No one but Martin (maybe) knows.

Except that is exactly what they are, a distraction from the Game of Thrones.  The Game of Thrones is, likewise and at the same time, a distraction from the threat of the White Walkers.