The mother/lover dichotomy was a commentary on Don's relationship with the prostitute in that same episode.  I don't think it was intended as an in-joke to another show.

Voyager's shining moment was a two parter that essentially fulfilled the basic premise of being lost out in hostile
space, far from home with limited supplies. Naturally, they hit the
'Reset' button at the end and it was all undone.

I think Crusher's underrated.  The show never did a huge amount with her, but she actually had some stuff that none of the other doctors were really shown with, like being a credible military officer/commander when the situation called for it (apart from The Doctor's later "command mode" stuff).

loved that their solution to her incompetence was promoting her as far as possible

The companion guide to TNG remarked about Pulaski that the attempt to have her interact with Data like Spock/McCoy didn't work because Data has no ego.

Doctor:
1.  The Doctor
2.  Crusher (underrated, in my opinion)
3.  Bashir
4.  McCoy
5.  Phlox

Quite apart from the airport issue, the Home Alone movies are a perfect example of plots that would be completely absurd with modern communications technology.

And then having Japan and Italy switch sides for no reason.  That's a total perversion of their characters in the first movie.

After the Don/Betty reunion, when they cut back to the scene with Megan and her coworker, I was like "and then they kiss"…and then they did.

@avclub-b7ee6f5f9aa5cd17ca1aea43ce848496:disqus :

The timeline on his show is pretty impossible if you look at the events closely.  Jaime claims to have been a prisoner for a year at one point, but there's no space for that to have happened.

Sansa's wedding in the book was very small, because it was a hastily thrown-together affair.  There were only about 50 people there, and no Tyrells, etc. (they showed up at the reception).  And it wasn't held in the Great Sept in the books, it was in the Red Keep's sept.

@avclub-8c5ea3779e8c822c58b8a91b0ec10b4d:disqus , why shouldn't she humiliate Tyrion?  He's marrying her against her will.  He's a fascinating character in his own right, but he's completely wronging her in that scenario.

Balon will probably die in the finale. We know that Yara is going to appear this season, so I imagine we'll see her getting the news.

Martin's writing episode 2, actually, not 4.

Robert was travelling with a giant royal procession.  That wouldn't move much faster than a crawl, compared to a couple of people on horses, or a boat.

Now that it's over, I can say pretty certainly that they completely chickened out on the Sansa/Tyrion marriage story.  Every single change was done to remove all rough edges, i.e., the drama, for the purpose of keeping Tyrion a hero, and thus keeping Sansa a hero because she couldn't act like she did in the books…

@avclub-ee2e9e1447fcb49c96e19af584ca11b4:disqus , for an example of that, look at last episode; Shae clearly knows that Loras is gay, but doesn't tell her this (I'm not even clear that she knows what homosexuality is).

It's been a while since I read it (I find Faulkner in general fascinating but often unnecessarily byzantine in his writing), but is the story of As I Lay Dying really all that interesting when you divorce it from the POV structure of the novel, which you'd never be able to translate to the screen?

She's already made it clear to Margaery that she hates the Lannisters, so there's no reason to keep silent about it now.