"Serve, Obey, Protect".

I definitely think you're supposed to find Bennett more objectionable than Larry (even with the non-diegetic music that plays when he and Daya catch each others eyes that seems to be trying to scream "this is the most pure and beautiful romance ever!!!1!"). Larry's more of a benign, neutral odiousness, while Bennett's…

"but it seems like you might have an explanation for why sansa was
justified and not totally to blame for getting her dad's head chopped
off and starting a war that killed her brother and a couple thousand
other people so… by all means."

Perhaps something will draw Varys back.

Good wrap up to what's been probably my favourite season thus far. Little dissapointed there's no Stoneheart, but I'm guessing it makes sense to spread that material out in a future season for better WTF material, sort of like Balon's fall (meaning we might get to see Jaqen again).

Ser Davos is the goddamned man. None are better at combining Ned-like morality (don't harm the innocent, don't kill children) with game-player pragmatism.

Yeah there seems to be (and this isn't specifically a dig at this article) a kind of latent insistence in a lot of online discussion regarding the series that all the characters in Game of Thrones/ASOIAF are grey and relateable. It seems to have been motivated by a series of comments Martin made years ago about how he…

What's the farmer doing with the fox anyway? Fox is the farmer's natural enemy.

I'm skeptical about taking scientific analysis from someone who doesn't appear to know what decade it is.

Aww that's ok. You just got me excited about a meltdown in the Experts, and it was a little underwhelming.

This series really won me over the more it went on. I was kind of lukewarm on it at the premiere, but by the end I was looking forward to it as much as Mad Men and Games of Thrones.

The reviewer gave it that grade.

Err, most of the comments in the Experts seem pretty positive though…? The usual pedantry over the books is there witih some people, but it seems rather drowned out.

Him being against it doesn't mean he was being supportive of her, at least from her perspective.

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When Bran meets the Children of the Forest, they tell him lions used to live in the Westerlands, but have now gone extinct.

"Book purists are also going crazy about Littlefinger saying 'Your
sister' instead of the book's 'Only Cat' before pushing Lysa out the
window"

You need to read up on internal vs. external logic.

The show is based on the books.

Edit: replied to wrong person.

No, he was driving Lester's car at the end of the pilot when Gus pulled him over.