He attended, yes. Whether he actually did the work and earned his way out or his father just bought his way through is a whole other matter.

I'm still surprised Whedon has made that one a hill he wants to die on. Same with the 'toad struck by lightning' line - he's so absolutely certain the writing has no problems (Weyland-Yutani bought out by fucking WAL-MART!) and it's all problems in the delivery.

To be fair, 'wasting a fairly interesting villain' is a surprisingly common crime in the MCU.

Allegedly they're saying there's not gonna be a spider in this version to boot.
Do with that what thou wilt.

It's a little ironic to have the show emphasize that particular point…given it only happened because of the way they opted to rework that scene.

A part of me would have loved if Jon sent Sansa in his place.

" the kid was a cretin from the get-go."
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Given how last season ended with her throwing Septa Unella to 'The Mountain Who Rapes', I have a feeling they're not even gonna touch that.

I'm sorry, I know a lot of fans want Arya to be the one to kill Cersei, but let's face it - that table setting has been sitting there with Jaime's reservation tag on it for ages now.
And since the showrunners already went to the trouble of keeping the prophecy in, if they fumble that for the sake of a fan-pleaser move,…

A better analog to highlight the double-standard over the character targeted might be the relative lack of outrage over several scenes involving the show-original character Ros (whose highlights included a scene where Joffrey forced her, at crossbow point, to viciously beat another whore, and the scene of her naked…

It wasn't exactly subtle in the scene.

"Bran, we're going to meet the Targaryen queen, please mind your manners."

Tyrion: "You Greyjoys are a contentious people."
Yara: "YOU JUST MADE AN ENEMY FOR LIFE!"

Tyrion's two-pot committed right now.
Even if Cersei accepts it was Olenna, she'll still look at him now and go "He IS, however, a traitor. So he still has to die."

I'll give Euron this much, I think I actually got sick of his plot armor faster than I did Ramsay's.

To be fair, Gregor did confirm what Oberyn said happened.
Hell, he basically used it to taunt him as he crushed his skull.

and weirdly, there were people who were happy for Cersei getting revenge there.

I was already half-hating the song for pretty shamelessly cribbing the piano riff from Werewolves of London (which is already kind of cheap, but the idea of cribbing a Warren Zevon song to mix with Sweet Home Alabama gets INCREDIBLY fucked up when you hear Zevon's 'Play It All Night Long')

I think the lines that just put it above 'Shoot me now' territory are still

"You're the real Lord of the Dance, Homer!" *gestures to security. Commence performance of In the Name of Love as Homer's viciously beaten on the jumbo vision*