Unlike the old Baron, one would imagine that having Tywin Lannister whispering advice in your ear would be extremely helpful for surviving in Westeros.

Reed was a midshipman, wasn't he? They were typically almost comically young, at least at the outset.

Oberyn "nicked" the Mountain? He had the Mountain flat on his back, bleeding heavily, without sword or shield to protect him. If he'd simply stood back and jabbed his spear at the Mountain's face a few dozen times that would've been it.

That last one was also a matter of experience. In that the Bloodrider had never fought an armored man before and tried to fight him in exactly the same way he would another Dothraki, so his killing blow bounced right the hell off. If he'd concentrated on the unarmored bits he would have had a much better shot.

Gerald Ford?! As a fascist dictator? Jesus pleezus.

I played Seiken Densetsu 3 and Final Fantasy V in the original Japanese long before I could read a lick of that language, which made for a pretty interesting experience.

Honestly, even Lancel could kick the shit out of Tommen. All training aside I think he's got four inches and forty pounds on His Royal Twerpness. It'd be like beating up your little brother.

It's funny, too, because nigh-unstoppable warrior though he might be the Mountain would probably be a lousy jouster. He's an enormous target and massively heavy compared to Loras who's small, light and quick.

I'll not hear Lovejoy blaggarded.

To be fair, she didn't get any of the fun stuff (flying, super strength) in the movies that might have balanced the equation.

That was truly a great little joke. Memorable, based on both characters, and Cyclops' resultant "…Okay" was the cherry on top.

Ha, just said exactly the same thing.

Not a brilliant line by any means, but I can see what Whedon meant by it being delivered wrong.

He just apologized for that, by the way.

You're right, never even heard of it. But that bears out the hypothesis. She gets cast in boring hero and love interest roles because she's so good-looking, and that's how casting usually works—just look at much of Ben Affleck's career, who for a long time was Exhibit A of "supporting actor in a leading man's body."

She's so absurdly beautiful that she's seldom permitted to act like a person while onscreen, is my guess. She gets roles as paragons of virtue and steely determination, which aren't really very interesting.

Well, he didn't do that first thing because he was legally prohibited from doing it by people standing in front of him telling him so. Not sure how many plaudits that deserves.

Well, "good". I did enjoy the fact that all vampires were apparently velvet-clad, floppy haired fops, while werewolves were shirtless sewer-dwelling homeless men.

It's vaguely funny to me that people seem to be upset that this assassin cult that Arya joined is behaving exactly as one would expect an assassin cult to behave.

I enjoy how that implies Ted Cruz rolls his CHA checks with a -3 modifier. It tracks.