@avclub-98ee3569ee1cc83f32587edbfb0b857a:disqus , he's not the only one, but he earned the descriptor richly after the moment in Series Three when his wife asked him to consider the feelings of her family, and he snarled "You're very free with your 'must's."

I am EXTREMELY worried that they're going to try to push a Tom/Mary relationship. Get your mitts off the daughters of the house, Branson. Trip on your own self-satisfaction and die, you sexist, bullying, hypocritical, entitled creep.

Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber and other stories".

Ugh, yes. Ideally after having solved the mystery of his disappearance and showing up wherever Sherlock's burrowed away. The Moff will never allow series 2 John that, but Gatiss said that he never bought the "John Watson sees Holmes; faints dead away" thing.

Did anyone catch Danny Boyle's 'Frankenstein', with Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller alternating the roles of Frankenstein and Creature? Tremendous fun and nicely Gothic.

I'm actually a big fan of the scene in the books- it's super kinetic and has some fun dialogue- but I also blinked at how much love it has.

Hmm. I see your point, but there's a case to be made that it's not the stance of the books themselves, but more that Dany, Mormont and Selmy see Westeros that way because they are themselves Westerosi. It's possible that there are people in Essos turning their noses up at the Westerosi barbarians. I'm not hopeful,…

(blinks) I wasn't saying it was unusual for the show. I was merely remarking that another show might be tempted to depict the sack of King's Landing and Jaime lounging on the Iron Throne in flashback. I liked that the show preferred the monologue.

Anything Lannister on this show is (ahem) solid gold. The Lannister flock at the end? Marvellous. just marvellous. It's a tremendous thing when the lovable, much-maligned dwarf is not the only sympathetic person in a room with a cold-blooded patriarchal tyrant and a scheming bully.

Hmmm, interesting. I like "the Namesake" more (Tabu and Irrfan Khan, man), although I agree that "Wedding" has more juice to it in terms of narrative structure and format.

Ho. Lee. Shit.

Phew. Well.
The business with the chairs was utterly, utterly priceless.
Tobias Menzies is awfully good as an ineffectual twerp, isn't he?
Awwww, Hot Pie.
"Just- close your eyes and pretend they're Renly"?! Really, Jaime?! JUST for that, you deserve to lose the- nah, I still thought it was horrible. I loathed Jaime in…

Yeah, I actually like Robb on the show a lot more than in the books (partly because I think the actor's rather good, partly because Robb in the books was to me rather a nonentity), but after his marriage have given up on him because he now carries the albatross Talisa. The RW struck me as horrible because of Cat's…

Yep. And then there was "Two quick deaths?" in the finale of last series. I mean, I loved it, but it's a different character.

I am frankly embarrassed at how pleasurably I giggle through Jaime and Brienne's scenes. Apparently I'm a 'shipper after all. Oh dear.
That said, how do people feel about the toughening of Brienne in the show? Brienne in the books struck me as heartbreakingly vulnerable, with all of Sansa's sincere belief in chivalry…

Ah yes? I remember being really put off by the trailer, and then watching the film and laughing till I cried.

Yes. That was my point. The UK trailer at least made it look like nitwitted reheated Guy Ritchie.

vishnu, possibly? unless you're referring to brahma's daughter/lover saraswati, the goddess of learning, this film being about schools and all.

Truly. Gut them and the ones who perpetrated the "In Bruges" trailer.

I know what you mean. That said, I was worried enough about the dynamic between John and Sherlock in Series Two that my overall feeling is: Any episode of Series One > Any episode of Series Two. It's curious, because I like The Reichenbach Fall very, very much, but….