My interpretation is that Jeor doesn't really care about what goes on north of the wall until it becomes his problem at the wall - or until it looks like it's about to. His job is to defend Westeros, not to purge everything north of the wall. They're only heading north of the wall now en masse because the dead have…

The mixing on this album seems especially echoey to me. This does good things for the synths - it helps give them a full, rich sound - but the drums and vocals have lost a lot of their punch as a result. The moments of intricate drumming blur together with static noise, and the singing isn't as striking as it was on…

I'm okay with that. I'm not sure it's the worst of this season, but I didn't think it was great.

"I find it a little difficult to believe that he wouldn’t understand what Gilly was going for with that whole, 'And if the baby’s a boy…' thing."
I didn't get the impression that Jon didn't understand, only that he was pressing the question so as to make her cowardice and uncertainty more evident, to show her that…

@The Otter White Meat: It was the rabbits he was talking about in the commentary. He had to kill them all himself.

Ever heard the expression "as the crow flies"? A bird can travel directly from Castle Black to King's Landing. Thorne, by contrast, (clarification from the books incoming) was headed for Eastwatch-by-the-sea, a castle manned by the Night's Watch on the eastern coast of Westeros, where he would then take a boat to…

Really? In which scene? Could you be more specific? I was watching/listening for her to be named, but I didn't hear it myself. I just watched the two scenes featuring her in episode 1 and didn't hear the name…

We still haven't had Melisandre named on the show yet, for whatever that's worth.

Yep, that was my thought as well. I think they're going to use SPOILER SPOILER the death of Joffrey as an excuse to send Cersei plunging into the deep-end, and keep her lounging in the shallow end of awful for now.

That's… half true. The Dragonstone scene -happens-, but it's never portrayed directly in the books.

In the DVD commentary for the pilot episode they discussed how some of Mark Addy's dialogue (when meeting the Stark children at Winterfell) was, in fact, ad-libbed.

The show isn't always the same as the books. I think I like the idea of Joffrey giving the order better - though perhaps Cersei acts as her son's mouthpiece in this regard? I don't think the details are overly important here, really.

@Sam L: It's a gag from Community.

Does "Dungeon World" - the system used to create/play Lenore - even have levels? Lenore wasn't a D&D character.

I think the writing throughout the series is overrated. It's good, but it's not amazing. The ending isn't really that much of a departure from the norm.

So pick the "destruction" option, because that's pretty much what it is.

Well-executed advertising campaign? I laughed out loud at the trailer for this film in the theatre.

@avclub-b030afbb3a8af8fb0759241c97466ee4:disqus  Even if the President of the US has no direct control over issues like abortion, I fear that the endorsement of a pro-life candidate will be construed as endorsement of a pro-life agenda by US citizens at large. Lawmakers and politicians in other levels of government…

If you're not pro-life than how can you be pro-liberty? Vampirism, maybe?

Note: I'm not referring to "foreign policy"; I'm referring to the making of policies in other countries. I'm not American.