Yeah, I appreciate that he often pushes his liberal-leaning guests, most of whom he sympathizes with, to really clarify their language, and he pushes back against lazy arguments on all sides.

I listened to that Pesca interview as well. I also remember her peddling the line that we don't really know that it was Russian-backed separatists who shot down that passenger plane and repeating Kremlin talking points about Ukraine being overrun with fascists.

I agree that Shae's murder was morally problematic, and I think it's something that readers and viewers who love Tyrion (myself included) gloss over too easily. But in what moral universe is Tywin's murder something that I'm supposed to have any qualms about or that should count as a black mark on Tyrion's character?…

"I liked that Tyrion was the only one to be shocked by the brutality of Dothraki."

I feel like your characterization definitely applies to the Dany of the first few seasons, but I do feel that the writers have done a good job the last couple of season showing her coming to the realization that she needed to win people over to her side through her good governance, not simply by going on about her…

I can sort of get the people who say they had it coming, but how in any way are they "worse" than Cersei? Myrcella's death was unconscionable, but it was at least relatively quick and painless. Cersei tortures people for amusement. Plus she has committed other atrocities that have not been enumerated here, including…

"I got the impression Asha and Theon only took a small compliment"

They must be saving up for him do something meaningful at some point in the future, otherwise they might as well have killed him off in the battle.

"Pretty sure their Russian is perfect."

I remember her appearing on Colbert a few years ago and he kind of prodded her into saying a few simple Russian words and it was pretty embarrassingly bad. To be fair, since the storyline up to that point hadn't required her character to speak much Russian, she probably just hadn't put much work into it.

What an absurd comparison. The Germans operating the gas chambers at Auschwitz DID NOT HAVE the excuse that they would have been the next body in the pit. They might have tried to make that argument at their trials, but the reason it didn't fly is that there are practically no records of Nazis being executed for…

"16-year old is no child"

Thank you for actually pointing out her age. Her situation reminds me of conscripted child soldiers in Africa, for whom their has (justifiably) been an outpouring of empathy and efforts to rehabilitate them, and where the outrage has been directed at the adults who forced them to do horrible things.

"Why is it more moral to kill in defense of yourself than in defense of others?"

'"protecting one's family" or "saving one's own skin" - are these ever excuses for collaborating with Nazis?'

According to what definition does that make her a "war criminal?" Hardly anybody seems to be mentioning her age as a mitigating circumstance. Am I right in remembering that she claimed to be 16 at the time? She could of course be lying, but if she was telling the truth, her situation seems analogous to the child…

Can you give examples of people whom the Israelis went after who fit her description? The high profile ones that I can think of tended to be commandos or guards whose particular brutality was attested to by many eyewitnesses, and they were all certainly adults at the times of their crimes.

Seriously…I was SO hoping that Nora would make a smart-ass comment to her, seeing her just sit there with that smirk on her face.

On the one hand, I'm with you. On the other, as happy as I was that this got renewed, I'm scared it seems to be heading for a rather depressing finale. At least the final scene last season was somewhat upbeat.

It was devastating. Come to think of it, the "It was an ABORTION, Michael!" scene from Godfather II was in a hotel room, too, wasn't it?