Stannis had Melisandre cast a spell to kill the other kings.  If you're going to blame Catelyn, Robb and Renly on him, you've got to also blame Balon and Joffrey on him as well.  (ok, he's dead to rights on Renly, what with the shadow baby and all, but I don't think Robb, Catelyn, Joffrey and Balon are on his hands).…

@avclub-001d507e80c4e4d2ce4ba0a5590f8313:disqus  - Ah.  Good point.  I had forgotten about that with Davos in Clash.  Maybe Martin just hadn't decided whether he wanted Davos to live yet?

I remember reading the chapters leading up to it knowing that something big was going to happen.  Martin was great at building this mounting dread as the wedding approached.

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I think we just need to take characters' disappearances with a grain of salt.  For example….

@avclub-4caf6aa0375b2499ebfe7e971b36eee3:disqus : Yeah, she got to it a while ago and didn't find it nearly as funny as I did.

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@avclub-a02b31e615fdb0ca3dbb5ca5408da418:disqus : How is it that Stannis could end up the ultimate bad guy?  Everything we've seen of him is that he's stern as all hell, but he's got a code that he adheres to, which is evident by the fact that both Davos and Jon Snow survived defying him.

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I was a gigantic nerd in high school, and so I liked that I could recite pi out to 12 digits or so.  Absolutely useless skill.  Anyhow, at some quiz bowl event (yep, quiz bowl) I got a question right by reciting pi to 7 digits.  My Dad, upon learning that I was interested in the concept, heard about this movie (how I…

coke blak was awesome.  I drank a ton of it while studying for finals and during finals themselves (enough caffeine to keep ya going but not so much liquid that it would make you need to use the restroom).

@avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus I hadn't thought about that (re: Littlefinger).  He'd have been able to perfectly handle himself and maybe even end up Hand of the King maybe 100 years ago.  He's done quite well for himself here, but his vision is (at least now) limited.  I get the sense that he wants…

Yeah, I don't understand this argument at all.  The good stuff is still good.  Just because there are more options doesn't mean that the options that you liked are worse.  This TV has too many channels!

@avclub-d6eadece4ff78746d933232818ee5e69:disqus It depends on the workout.  They're great for lifting, which otherwise is pretty boring.  I've been doing intervals lately and I have to listen to faster music for those.  I generally switch back to a podcast as soon as I get to the cool down though.

I never knew there was this much animosity toward the Lucha Libre episode.  Eh, I liked it a lot, to the point where if it came on TNT I'd probably watch the whole thing.  Can't say that about a lot of the episodes in the beginning of this season.

Can it at least be candy glass?