Yes why would he insert himself into a conversation about a series of links posted on the internet on a website he works at in the comments section for an article he wrote.

It's not coming as a revelatory idea. I mentioned it in my original post. And I hear what you're saying, I'm just asking as a hypothetical scenario, what would be the way forward for a white/non-black author? If it helps, I'm not just asking this for TV where there's generally a team of writers, but maybe for a lone…

Just caught sight of this… Actually I think that's the wrong way round. In Hinduism and Buddhism, the swastika can go both ways (although each religion has a preferred way of facing it) but the Nazi one only goes one-way. So if they'd done it the wrong way round it would lack the association with Nazism. In addition…

Exactly right, and it seems ridiculous that he would a) assume Bayley would want to go back and b) that this nervous, untrained kid was perfectly capable of the job.

I was defending Caputo a bit last season, but I've been souring on him all season and this episode clinched it. I thought his relationship with Taystee might push him to do the right thing. While I get the impulse of not wanting to make Bayley the ultimate scapegoat, he basically did so in a way that laid the blame at…

Okay. So, are you saying that white writers shouldn't write for black characters at all? Or just do so in a way that doesn't involve racial issues?

So look, as I white person I realise I have little stake in things here. But I'm having a hard time understanding what the ideal representation is for the writers of these articles. What I mean is that I understand their perspectives, and while I disagree with quite a few of their perspectives - fair enough, the…

In response to your first two paragraphs: Agreed with what you're saying but I think you're underestimating the importance of this distinction when it's given to the kind of people who would vote Leave or even just aren't familiar with racial politics. I've seen instances where your caveat that black people can be…

No problem, I'm happy to get a response like yours. And I realise I'm a bit late to reply (my schedule doesn't really gel with this website's) but I hope you'll reply again if you feel inclined.

Actually you're probably right… 'hatred' is too specific. But hopefully you get the gist of my meaning.

That might be true and it might not. I'm sure that at the very least it doesn't apply to all his followers. But the point is there's only one way you'll persuade them otherwise. But my point is that you will never ever convince anyone you're right when you attack or punish them for not already believing in your cause.…

Our politicians do exactly that. In fact some of them even declared a vote to leave the EU as a vote 'against political correctness.'

This.

Re: The Dorne plot. Another point is that Ellaria basically told King Doran 'the people don't love you' and it's implied that the Dornish people are in support of overthrowing him. Call it a handwave, but that's good enough for me. Besides… Last season people were calling out for far less Dorne, you can't fault the…

At the time of writing no-one's mentioned it, at least, and the master threads are all about other issues.

Something no-one's mentioned on here as yet.
L+R = J Confirmed!

Actually what bothered me about that was him crawling over to the candles and then just staring at them instead of trying to snuff them out. He truly was useless to the end.

My only prediction for this series, whether it's this season or next: It's going to turn out the Mad King wasn't so mad, and that his 'burn them all' catchphrase was referring to the White Walkers, perhaps through some Bran-and-Hodor-esque timey wimey stuff. I never thought this before, but after Bran's vision of him…

But he DID espouse Beijing-style Mandarin as the ideal language which the whole country should learn, despite not being able to speak it properly himself. So there's some overlap there!

Then we can get Arya doing her best Karl-Tanner-at-Craster's-keep impersonation.