Simple explanation: the meter on the AVC's appreciation of BS&ESt.B, CC Division, has swung from "ironic" back to "sincere." Give it a month or so.

For not hearing his name the first time, Shagga son of Dolf will cut off your manhood and feed it to the goats.

Unreliable punctuator

The cover of "Hard Sun" was pretty great.

Oh baby baby it's a wild world.

Still, I think it bears a certain stark beauty (no pun intended).

The new sheriff is a Luhhhhh …

If you weren't inhaling by 17, you were just wasting your allowance, son.

I'm with you, Rowan; the first Covenant trilogy rocks, the second not so much.

Game, set, match to Mayor McCheese

Pretty much she was the one who got the fabled "blood of the dragon," not her ponce of a brother.

Well played, good ser.

^is a smooth-skinned pleasure boy in Littlefinger's brothel

I think it's supposed to be "maintenance."

^retroactive SPOILER alert (sorry, just realized): that last bit refers to Ep. 7.

Ned is implacable, a virtual justice machine. It's been his and the Starks' defining trait and has served him well as Warden of the North, but down South, where the fruit of corruption is always ripe to bursting, it's a definitive weakness. One gets the sense in both the books and the series (or at least I did) that…

Seriously, read the books. I've never seen 700-1000 pages (per book) go by so fast.

She IS the kwisatz haderach!

Natch.

^doesn't realize that he doesn't have to sign his posts, since his name's at the top.