I am so happy that they made that a Lannister leitmotif going back to last season. It worked perfectly.

If he were in the real world, it would be Lannister Sachs.

Oh man, I'm so sorry :(

I know that book/show comparisons are frowned upon here, but both did a good job foreshadowing the Red Wedding. You just don't realize it at the time because you're acculturated to fictional tropes and don't expect them to be violated.

Humans are worse than the monsters.

@avclub-3db41011acc2d229176bf6a92202728d:disqus A dessert is a lovely piece of a tasting menu!

seriously.

a dozen years ago me feels you.

He'll win the Iron Throne in a game of murderball.

Give the man a break. He just saw the same thing as you did, unspoiled. When I got to the Red Wedding in the book, I threw it across a room. He needed some time to get cogent again.

An armed group of wildlings that're killing everyone they find is more than a "random element." Bran and company were already hiding by the time Jon showed up.

Or, y'know, there's 40+ angry wildlings who want to kill you and you need to get on a horse and don't have time to say "oh, my half-brothers who I haven't seen for 2 years must be around!"

Even Jaime and Tyrion?

Fun part for us book-readers: they showed the traditional guest offering of bread and salt. Once you eat that shit, you're supposed to be safe.

I know. Poor Talisa, that puts the kibosh on a ton of Expert theories.

Oh man, yes. I've been waiting for this for like 5-6 years. My father was sending me very angry texts for the last 8 minutes of this episode.

She was brilliant in Antony and Cleopatra a couple years back with John Douglas Thompson (who's probably one of the 5 best Shakespearean actors working today). She's got chops, but as noted above she can do some serious scenery chewing.

I never watched Enterprise enough to rate them with any confidence.

Fifty bucks says that the AVClub review of Random Access Memories cites Discovery as a landmark work of art. At least they were hardly the only ones to completely miss on one of the best and most influential albums of the last 20 years.

Dean becomes a complete idiot and asshole, but it's not like Jess isn't 100% twerp for the first three years he's on the show. God I hate that kid, he's exactly the type who would read Howl and think that it made him deep.