I thought the same thing; I was genuinely surprised he didn't dispute the "rightful king" nonsense, or at least almost imperceptibly raise an eyebrow (for Stannis, the equivalent of anyone else doing a neck-roll and finger snap).

I thought her blinding in the books was punishment for killing the deserter Night's Watchman (in remembrance of Jon) instead of some random dude (same basic idea as here, just with someone we know in-show instead of that NW bard guy). Am I remembering that wrong?

Yeah, but who'd want Stannis? No one's going to bargain for his rescue, and I doubt anyone would even lobby that hard to get to be the one to kill him.

I could see Stannis as the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, but I think he's dead.

I agree that Sansa has survival skills that get overlooked in rushing to judge her "lack of agency," but Sansa's problem is she doesn't appear to have any long-term plan beyond day-to-day survival. Maybe she's just playing it close to the vest, but I doubt it. That's why Varys is GoT's MVP strategist — he reads people…

I swear to God if he gets elected, I wash my hands of this country. I mean, I'll keep living here, of course (I don't like leaving my house, much less a whole country), but I'll stop caring about it, damnit.

:) I actually thought of that, but I decided to give Sansa the optimist's part. Poor girl deserves to laugh.

But the at the end of the article it says he cut his hair after the interview. I can't believe I'm talking about haircuts on the Internet.

Cersei deserved comeuppance, but two problems are 1) she was being punished for the least of her crimes (slut-shaming as opposed to murderess-shaming), and 2) no one deserves public shaming and humiliation like that, and even if someone does, the vileness it brings out in people just makes everything worse, not…

But I think the issue with that was that they didn't know what was under/in the snow they were diving into — fire hydrants, cars, etc. Presumably the only thing under the Winterfell snow is more snow.

Sansa: No, we'll jump.
Theon: Like hell we will.
Sansa: No, it'll be okay.If the snow is deep enough and we don't get squished to death, they'll never follow us.
Theon: How do you know?
Sansa: Would you make a jump like that and you didn't have to?
Theon: I have to and I'm not gonna.
Sansa: Well, we got to, otherwise we're…

It was so on the nose, and yet so pretty. This show in a nutshell, really.

I didn't know any of that, and I appreciate you telling me. My aunt died of AIDS, and I assure you I meant no insult to sufferers of the disease or to gay people.

Thanks! I genuinely couldn't remember.

"[A]nyone with half a brain knows the difference between violence for the sake of story and tone, and just when its [sic] gratuitous" is not an argument! Explain to me how the show's added scenes have been gratuitous, to the detriment of story and tone! I don't agree with you (obviously), so you have to work harder to…

I've already said I think the changes made by the showrunners have varying degrees of effectiveness. I don't consider everything about the show wonderful. I also don't consider everything about the books wonderful. My problem lies with your "argument," which boils down to the fact that you think "over the top, stupid,…

But the larger point still remains that Stannis burned his brother-in-law and no one blinked. Now everyone's "rabble rabble rabble" because he burned another family member — only this time a really cute one we'd gotten to know and love. I'm not saying we shouldn't be more upset over Shireen than what's-his-face, nor…

I feel sympathy for Stannis and hatred. It can be two things, as they say. I can understand why he did it, but I can't understand how he could bring himself to do it.

Good assessment of Hannibal, though I don't necessarily agree that Game of Thrones ignores the psychological consequences of human suffering (disregarding that one scene, the aftermath of which was not surprisingly ignored in-show because they didn't actually intend for it to show what it showed).

I can understand not liking the scene (I was genuinely too upset to follow the rest of the episode), but I don't understand this argument that it didn't advance the story or accomplish anything beyond shock value. I'd say it gave us some pretty crucial characterization of Stannis and Selyse (sic), it will literally…