I can't see how they could possibly turn The Farm into a mainstream movie. It somehow works as a comic, but try slaughtering dozens of cute animals on the big screen… the audience will go ballistic.

Not a bad idea. Hey, is Josh Holloway busy?

Lindsay Bluth-Funke (Note: not a Bluth or a Funke)

"it shouldn't have been a complete shock"

I'm talking about Lady.

@Scrawler2:disqus But what if he is the god of dragons?

@avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus thanks for the spoiler warning. People have given you a lot of shit. I don't support that, even though I think you did cross the line at times. Anyway, you deserve kudos for playing nice. I hope this doesn't come across as condescending. Just tryin' to be nice, too.

@avclub-7b784737120d35ae001c0a9adf7c24e6:disqus I'm in the middle of reading that book, so… you're creeping me out.

It doesn't, but I believe it would have if it had been given more time.

Isn't that a mite condescending? I understand how fiction works. I found this episode so brutal, I wondered if I could stomach continuing, and did think about quitting. It's not about allegiance to characters or a storyline or something like that. Sometimes art can be off-putting for certain reasons that don't apply…

Dollhouse, Caprica, and even Sarah Connor had their moments. (And Fringe is my favorite show.)

I think there's depth to the story. It has things to say about honor, family, politics, war, love, loyalty, fanaticism, and much more. It's also just a good story. That can be enough.

This is a pretty nihilistic show. I guess it always was, but it's really driven the point home now. Nihilism and TV tend not to go together. But nihilism and novels do… and surely we all know this is not some hangout show, but a novelistic drama.

I felt for Cat. I really, really did. But she deserves much of the blame. She did a lot of foolish things. And just this episode, she knew Robb's plan was too risky, and she distrusted Frey, but she did nothing to stop any of it! Cat is just so frustrating sometimes. (And Michelle Fairley is so great.)

@avclub-1f93a5d50953fac07d7e6f54827ce9bc:disqus  I'm starting to think the show will end with Littlefinger ruling over a kingdom of ashes (and his enslaved bride Sansa), as a huge army of White Walkers slowly draws near…

They did that in the first season.

T.H. White wrote a subversive fantasy too, The Once and Future King. It doesn't have the same brutality, but it has the tragedy and the unglamorous depiction of war (and the whole notion of "chivalry" in fact). It's also a very funny book. It's dark and funny. Like Catch 22.

This makes sense. It explains why I've been slowly drifting to the Stannis side… and the Tyrells… possibly the showrunners understood that they would need to fill a "POV family" vacuum in the war of kings story and so tilted viewer sympathies to the other factions. There's something to keep us invested (good thing,…

@avclub-a43012a332fc066e7ecf57a9b678fb51:disqus you make some good points, and add to that the fact that Robb is a teenager from our point of view (though an adult in his world). But it is also clear that his string of successes on the battlefield made Robb reckless. The Casterly Rock plan was far too risky. Catelyn…

It's just such a sickeningly brutal scene. Ned's death was huge, but we've seen fictional executions before. This… was a horrific bloodbath on the scale of that scene from Breaking Bad, only we actually know these characters and… well, maybe not love them, but they're family. Our TV family. And it's traumatizing to…