So … was anyone else worried we were going to get a visual confirmation of dickless Theon during that bath scene? I was bracing to be horrified, thinking fingerless Davos was some kind of weird foreshadowing.

For fuck's sake, how does nobody understand this? Raping Cersei is not WORSE than murdering his cousin. Nobody ever said that.

What are you taking about? Why would this have anything to do with money or power? The Jaime character is interesting because of his moral ambiguity. He does evil, despicable things, but because in his mind they have to be done. And he doesn't understand why others judge him so harshly for them. But the character has…

See, this is the other bit of nonsensical logic. "Jamie killed his cousin and pushed Bran out the window, so why is raping his sister any different?" BECAUSE THOSE AREN'T THE SAME THING!

It's true that the timeline was screwed up in the books too, but this is looking like Dany's story is going to be WAY ahead of the others if it keeps going like this.

Yeah, the timeline is starting to get pretty messed up for lining up stories, and it's only going to get worse.

Personally, I thought Viper vs. Mountain would be a little earlier in the season. I didn't think Tyrion would spend so much time in jail this season.

I just looked up the episode titles for the rest of the season today, and for the first time I saw that all of them have been revealed. Episode 8 is "The Mountain and the Viper," Episode 9 is "The Watchers of the Wall" and Episode 10 is "The Children." So we're going to get Viper vs. Mountain, Battle for Castle Black…

I literally just quoted you. That's word for word what you said. If you meant something else, please explain what "'No' will not fail to eventually turn into a 'Yes take me'" means to you.

That's exactly what you said: "I think the idea that a "No" will not fail to eventually turn into a "Yes take me" if you ignore it and keep on pushing things" were your exact words. When nowhere in that scene would it ever imply that a No "will not fail to eventually" become a Yes.

Yeah, that was where it all went wrong. At the basic planning stages. Pretty much everything wrong with the show can be traced back to that initial bad decision.

I'm mostly disappointed in The Newsroom because I think it could have been really, really good. But it's just okay, and it's largely because of the way Sorkin chose to construct the show.

Except that she never "gave in" on the show. She's saying "No" and resisting all the way through the scene. It's a rape, it was never consensual, and the arguments that A) Jaime is a bad person, so we shouldn't be surprised that he raped someone, and B) Cersei is a bad person, so deserves to be raped … are both…

We're not talking about its pervasiveness in all media, that's a different discussion. Here we're talking about these two characters and what this event means for their relationship and how it's a reflection of who they are as people.

Wait, what? You think that scene would become a reflection of all sexual encounters and imply that all No's will eventually become Yes's? Because that's ridiculous. The nature and personalities of two fictional characters is not making any implication about all sexual encounters for everyone.

So basically your viewpoint is "because Jaime has done other bad things, we shouldn't be surprised that he raped someone." When he has defended a woman he barely knows from rape and expressed a distaste for all sexual violence. You don't see the disconnect there? Yes, Jaime is a bad guy. But he's more nuanced than…

Pretty clearly not. Littlefinger revealed this week that the poison was in Sansa's necklace, and last week you could see Olenna take a jewel off the necklace.

I agree and I think that's why she's a very well-written and interesting character. But saying people who don't agree are stupid or blind is ridiculous. She's a very divisive character; some people think her original errors are beyond redemption. I totally disagree with that, but I don't disregard those opinions as…

This is how I read the Jamie-Cersei scene on the page: Cersei doesn't find herself attracted to New Jaime, because she thinks his missing hand makes him weaker and more vulnerable. And as we know, she hates weakness and vulnerability, both in herself and others.

Or they just have a different opinion than you. I really like the Sansa character, but I can also understand why some people are annoyed by her.