Agreed, that's a great movie. And DiCaprio may have struggled with the language a bit, but Claire Danes is simply magical in that movie. Her delivery style somehow makes it sound like some of Shakespeare's most famous speeches just happened to pop into her head a moment ago. The only part of the movie that doesn't…

Yes, and everyone would rave about how clever it's concept was. It does make  you wonder if some of these schlocky movies are in for a reappraisal in the future though.

Season five wasn't a total disaster but it was pretty mediocre and a huge step down. There weren't really many standout moments, an enormous amount of filler, and the cast was mostly wasted: Olivia was moved to the background and Walter was saddled with what pretty much boiled down to a greatest hits version of his…

It's a seriously fucking lazy technique and he deserves all the flack he gets for it. His obsession with them is bordering on insanity. There is no possible aesthetic or artistic explanation I can think of for adding digital lens flares into virtually every frame of the Star Trek movies, yet there they are. I really…

More like American Horror Story…

It was weird to me how they only mentioned the episode in passing, and just dropped in a C grade when they'd hardly criticized either episode at all. I'd actually switch the grades for the two episodes (though I'd bump Indian Takers up to a C+). I think I'm a little harsher on the grades than I would be normally…

Yeah that would be kind of horrifying if he was like "Hey, this is pretty good. Maybe I'll make season 5 more like this". Somehow I don't see that happening though…

Ah okay, I get it now. I completely missed the whole deal with the song. I'm guessing Tywin's involvement will be explained more next week.

Roose's character path is kind of convoluted and hard to follow, but I don't see any reason to believe Tywin orchestrated the Red Wedding or was in contact with Roose: just a few episodes ago it appeared that that was definitely not the case. I think he was more angry at Robb for how they treated Jaime and indirectly…

It just played out like something from a Grand Guignol horror movie to me, and I'm a little surprised that everyone is so shocked by the violence here, which is definitely pretty brutal but also fairly run of the mill. I think Jaime's hand getting cut off was more gruesome to me. That said I guess I watch a fair…

Didn't killing off Robb and Cate basically eliminate a major storyline?

Wait, what? How exactly did Tywin orchestrate the Red Wedding? If anyone other than Frey could be blamed for it, it would be Stannis and Melisandre.

I think you may have stumbled on part of my problem with the show @Scrawler2:disqus : if it is indeed about Jon and Dany, that's pretty much the least interesting direction the whole thing could possibly go in. The political machinations between the Lannisters/Baratheons and the various other houses are what drew me…

See I thought that placing this event in the 9th episode of the season, the episode where shit always goes down in this show, completely gave away that something big was going to happen. They should have moved it to a more off kilter point in the season.

Yeah that was pretty damn rushed wasn't it? I thought Daenaerys's storyline might get better this year from the first few episodes, but though Emilia Clarke's acting has improved greatly, it was still boring as hell. Everything is coming so easily to her this season that there's no tension or drama, and all the people…

What exactly would be the fucking point of Theon being tortured for an entire season, only to end up being killed at the end of it all? That would just dumb, and poor storytelling.

I was just thinking, wouldn't it be funny if in the last book everyone died in pointless and stupid ways, except for Joffrey and Sansa, who have to end up getting married again for some reason. And we'd be pretty much right back where we started.

Not really, Hannibal is scary and disturbing. This was just brutal.

Yeah this was kind of how I felt. It seemed like they made the deaths so brutal and hard to watch because they knew that no one actually cared about those characters. And none of what Todd is describing about what made the sequence effective in the book was conveyed by the show at all: it came in exactly the expected…

It was definitely an entertaining episode but I'm slightly underwhelmed after all the buildup. I'm just desensitized by the show at this point. Sims says we're leaving season 3 on a down note, but there is no up note in this show. Bad shit happens, then some people die, over and over again. Also I just don't really…