I don't know that the changes to the show are really as major as Myles is saying. After all, Rorge and Biter had to go, and since Brienne's quest now starts well before the 'death' of the the Hound, rather than a considerable amount of time afterwards, there's just no room in the show's timeline for them to start…

You're right about the potential for a turn, but I don't think it's likely because leaving Sandor to suffer is a key element of Arya's journey. This episode he's complimenting her on coming along nicely in her murder training, and she's coolly dispatching villains. Wrapping things up with her showing her potential for…

I still maintain that The Hound isn't dead, and that at some point in a later book he - now a monk of some sort, will get his duel with Sir Robert Strong.

Wait, didn't they just renew the Mentalist? Where did that go? Midseason?

Most people, is the sad thing.

Has Larry Wilmore finally taken a job that will overshadow his until-now career defining role of 'Black Revolutionary' in the first episode of Sledge Hammer?

It's weird - in the first two books there are a bunch of huge hints as to who murdered Jon Arryn, but they left those entirely out of the show, so there's a mystery with nothing pointing to the solution.

I'm just hoping that at some point in the future we're all going to be pleasantly shocked when we meet a character who surprisingly turns out to be Jaquen after a couple of episodes..

On the other hand, Hannibal on many occasions actually has had corpses placed all throughout his house, despite all his cleverness and planning. For how many years was Miriam locked up in his basement?

It's debatable - Walder Frey and Roose Bolton cut a better deal - they might have just slaughtered everyone when Robb stopped by to marry the Frey granddaughter he was originally supposed to wed.

So, just to be clear, out of 'respect' for someone, they made it so a character isn't named after them any more? Did they worry that Doris Grau would no longer want to be associated with the tragic mess the Simpsons has become?

Watching this episode, I think I've found the secret to understanding Bryan Fuller's oeuvre - if it were commercially viable, he would only ever work in the medium of Opera. Every one of his projects, wonderful as they are, can be best understood as the compromised version of his original vision, in which everything…

Given that they've already cast/shot stuff from halfway through Dance with Dragons, I can't imagine it's going to take more than this season and next to get through the end of 3 and almost all of 4 and 5. Huge swathes of the books are the politics of viking clans, which almost certainly won't be on the show, which…

I don't know what kind of mood the party is supposed to have, but wouldn't that film's huge amount of nudity* possibly sour it?

I've always thought this episode had one of the weirdest act breaks in the show's early history - why didn't they cut after 'That's no reason to block the TV'? Shouldn't you cut right after the joke? What's gained by adding a beat of Marge being worried?

On many of the commentary tracks the writers and producers bemoan the long hours spent writing and rewriting scripts, pulling all-nighters before every deadline to make sure that every single bit of the script was polished to perfection. I don't think anyone's putting that much effort into the Simpsons any more, and I…

Fifth collaboration? You realize McQuarrie wrote and directed Jack Reacher, don't you?

On the commentary they announce that he was a last-minute replacement after the original 'big-name' guest star dropped out. I've always wondered who it was supposed to be.

Niall is from way back in the line - he said that his son was the ancestor of theirs who signed the deal with Warlow.

You're obviously reading the wrong comics.