I'm serious, though.  Both of those guys (bastards though they are) put their necks on the line for him, and brought him thousands of soldiers, and he couldn't be bothered to keep his word because he wanted in some chick's pants.  It's a complete middle finger to all the people who've already died under his command,…

The objection given wasn't to their being fantastical, but that they're not very interesting.

He could have made some move to get her into his possession.  She's a valuable asset/backup (even if she doesn't look like her mom, so obviously of less interest to Littlefinger).

Jorah was there.  Jorah just didn't recognize him, because he'd only seen Selmy once previously ten years earlier (how many people you met once ten years ago do you have a crystal-clear mental image of?).

It's not really clear at what point her mother got involved with Tywin.

In the books, his storyline was about a guy who had a moment of weakness that was completely understandable in the context, and then had to choose between two dishonourable choices.  In the show, he just decided he doesn't have to keep his word, quite deliberately, over a long period.

I don't agree with that.  Jorah's from Bear Island.  Per the books, he's seen Selmy like once, ten years earlier, and we don't know from how close.  This is a pre-photographic age.  There'd be no real reason for him to recognize a guy who happens to be famous but who he doesn't really know at all.

I don't think it would really have made sense to try and do the book reveal with Barristan.  People in the know would recognize it's the same actor, and more casual viewers would just be confused and probably have only vague memories of him from the first season.

I wasn't sure if he was actually referencing that, or if he was just baiting Sansa to come with him.  If he actually recognized her, you would think he'd have done something about it

@avclub-606b258c6ad7936df83152886586b232:disqus , I don't think being self-interested is antithetical to being nice. Ken plays the business game and tries to keep things professional (unlike everybody else, who seem totally unable to keep their personal and professional lives separate, which is the source of a good…

When I rewatched the series last summer, Ken from the first few episodes is hard to reconcile with the Ken from the rest of the series.

This version put the lyrics to "Nature Boy" to the Mad Men theme music:

I thought that was a very good use of Dawn (whose intro overall was another demonstration of the show's ability to completely mess with people's expectations; after all the discussion about what getting a black secretary would mean for the show, it, mostly, meant that the office now had a black secretary, and life…

The runner-up for "experimental bent", The Jet Set, is such a gloriously weird episode.

Ken is pretty decent, I think (that's kind of his thing, now that Harry's embraced his inner douchebag).

I think that Breaking Bad and Mad Men are very different shows, on a moral level.  Mad Men depicts virtually everyone as being some different shade of grey (though even the worst characters on it don't come close to being some of people you see on BB).  Breaking Bad is, in a sense, a refutation of grey morality,…

I'm still wondering whether this will be the year where Bert Cooper finally dies, or if he's going to continue on hanging around and being irrelevant for the rest of the show as a narrative point — he's a textbook example of a guy who should have retired by now, but has nothing to retire to (almost all the younger…

The late 60s to the early 90s are the nadir of men's fashion in the modern era.  There's not one significant trend from that period that doesn't look silly in retrospect.

The shows likes playing audience expectations on racial progressiveness.  They also had rapist Dr. Greg comment strongly on racial equality (whereas Joan is one of the more bigoted characters on the show).

Oh, don't compare the writing on Glee to other shows; that's just cruel.