Every day is either a fast day or a feast day (for some Saint or another).  The issue was more if it was a really important (locally or Church-wide) feast day.

Tormund Giantsbane?  Yeah, it wasn't a wonderful episode for that beautiful redhead - he lost all of those wildlings trying to climb the wall.

You think the world of 1984 is feasible?  How many centuries do you think it would take to create that sort of society?  Maybe, just maybe, it would be possible to create that sort of society more quickly if you simply took everyone's children and indoctrinated them from youth, but I don't see anything realistic about…

I was thinking more like Generic Mecha Anime: The Movie.

Introducing concepts does not mean it was well written, just that it had good ideas.  My main problem with it, though, is that as a work of dystopia, it's completely laughable - there's no sense of realism in it, not technologically but sociologically.  People simply don't act the way they do in that book.  The…

"He still has his hands and mouth!"  And he still has a prostate!

I'm also depressed at the lack of Mormonts.  I want my tough, bad-ass Northern She-Bears!

Isn't "The Smiling Knight" from the Kingswood Brotherhood the Westerosi proto-Joker?

The last two episodes of Season 1 "The Trial of the Monarch" and "Return to Spider Skull Island" are brilliant and great places to start watching.  You won't be THAT in the dark with the show's mythology and both are brilliant.

But "Dinner Party" is so great.

@avclub-0257ef47ca24afa78ea6150826388f08:disqus  Penny is simply one of many things that made Tyrion's chapters unbearable.  His constant, bragging about crossbows and constant obsession with where whores go were also huge contributors.  Generally, he just sort of acted like an asshole, and not the smooth asshole who…

If that's "more-or-less by design," than that's the sign of bad design.

With medieval values, people (even women and children) were not considered property, especially in comparison to slavery (either chattel or more personal) and the power of the head of a household in Republican Rome.  Even serfs had rights and some measure of legal recourse against their lords.

I have to admit that it was the Jon, Daenerys, Quentyn, and Tyrion chapters that nearly killed me in ADWD.

Well, she is playing to his sexuality… it just so happens that Joffrey finds murder, torture, and dead bodies sexually arousing (you know, like we all do).

To be fair to Balon, @avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus , all they needed to do was keep winning naval battles and since the navy of the Iron Islands was as big as the combined navies of the rest of the Seven Kingdoms, it wasn't completely foolhardy.

Margaery Margaering Rodriguez, @avclub-e56ced79d1049a08025835434a572e01:disqus

Why Music for Airports and not Here Come the Warm Jets?  "Blank Frank" seems like a great song to here while giving birth.

I don't think that's it.  I knew lots of dudes in high school who watched it of their own free will,were not nerdy, and loved it.

Two years ago your friend was killed by Patton Oswalt?  Or two years ago your friend was stabbed and then shot by a constable after having tortured said constable?