I'll be really interested to see how this does, because I really have a hard time seeing all the people who bought the book to ready by themselves going into a movie theatre with a bunch of others — and that's assuming they can somehow make this movie with a rating that will allow most theatres to show it (though it…

On what basis did it mean that?  Arya was still with her dancing master when the Lannister guards arrived; they weren't waiting on Sansa or anything.  For Sansa to have been responsible for that you would have to assume that Cersei wouldn't have ordered the rest of Ned's household secured when the coup was initiated.

None of that happened on the show.

That didn't happen in the show.  It did happen in the books, but it's affect on the outcome was pretty minimal, since Ned and Littlefinger had already given Cersei everything she needed to know (the latter, in particular, since he'd bought the Goldcloaks).

Theoretically, but there's nothing for Stannis to do until he shows up, and they aren't going to leave him offscreen for the first seven or eight episodes.  If they were planning to leave the assault on the Wall until the end, they would presumably have delayed Stannis' departure until some point next year.

There's no way the Battle of the Wall can be dragged out that long, if Stannis is already leaving.

She played a part in Ned getting executed by, what, trying to save him?

It's a long way to get there, but I'd say it's more sensible from an escape point of view.  While you might get there quicker by land, if she succeeds in breaking Theon out of the Dreadfort, she'll have to flee back across the continent with Ramsay and his men in hot pursuit, over terrain that the Northerners are much…

I like how they managed to make the massacre of Sansa's family all about Tyrion, who got two scenes about it, while Sansa gets two seconds.

There's no way that Joffrey's wedding is going to be left that late in the season.

I think the main reason Kay reuses his worlds isn't so much for the purpose of sequels but because once you've gone to the trouble of constructing one roman a clef version of an historical setting, why bother trying to invent another one that's still clearly that setting but different from the other one you used? …

The grittiest Care Bears villain.

@avclub-94d231f11cdc1fae024849f33f7a7156:disqus, Sansa said quite clearly that she's 14 last episode.

Tyrion is a loyal footsoldier to House Lannister, however much he might grouse or feel bad about things they do.

Rob has never been portrayed to be a great military mind or have great
knowledge of proper mental tactics that help define a great leader. When
he was a victorious rebel king of the north, it was due to his sheer
number of men that he was winning battles.

The Maquis identity is not so distinct as to be akin to the Israeli/Palestinian divide, since most of the Maquis were ex-Starfleet.  A bunch of Union and Confederate soldiers might be a stronger comparison.

As far as "peace" goes, none of those incidents cost more than a handful of American lives.  That's about as peaceable a time in American (or world) history as any.

My favourite bit related to Beltran is that he basically dared the producers to put Chakotay and Seven of Nine together at the end of the show, despite it making no sense, and they did.

The Stargazer stuff is one of my favourite bits of Trek character backstory.  It's neat that he has such affection and fondness for what was, by his own admission, objectively far inferior to any of the ships he subsequently commanded.  That feels very true.  And the scene between him and Scotty talking about first…

@avclub-c239ddf0bc583f755f9e086d533f6f4e:disqus :  Archer is the Ugly American tourist who travels to a foreign country and then spends all his time complaining about how the electrical sockets are wrong for all his stuff.