Yeah, for my money, Walt is Richard III.  The massive pride, the sense that the world should have been his on merit, building his success on lies and persuasion only to have his powers of lying and persuasion fail him after he commits unforgivable acts and so on.  A lot of this is built into every Shakespearean…

Are we sure it wasn't "Okie dead-eyed motherfucker"?

I hate you because I am now left with infinite existential doubt as to whether this episode would have been even better with R. Lee Ermey as the vacuum cleaner repairman.

@avclub-85bd06050f1868adf468605465df26f8:disqus Tecumseh is probably referring to how the Swiss continued to do business with the Nazis, including holding deposits of Nazi gold stolen from victims of the holocaust.

Way to let your creep flag fly Mr Tea.

To be fair, they're called white walkers pretty frequently in the books too.  I was bothered by it in the show until I started re-reading the books, and I have been pleasantly surprised how many things I thought were departures from the plot were actually faithful to the plot, but departures from how I remembered it.

@avclub-5fdffef6b19aea41a1411580d7de4422:disqus I know it's unlikely you'll read this, but you are just laughably wrong.  To take just one example, you wrote "Stannis' relationship with his brothers is essentially a thing of the past and wasn't what drove his actions this episode" of an episode where Stannis literally…

Because no lamb has ever seen the knife blah blah blah.  It would have been weird or contradictory or whatever for her to go through that big metaphor last episode and then show up with a bunch of guys and strap him down and tear his shirt off to expose skin and so on.

Are you No One and did you say this Never because I'm pretty sure that's who usually advocates for more time wasted on the Iron Islands and the deeply boring cast of characters associated with them.

The books are almost explicit about magic returning to the world after a long absence.  Although magic never completely disappeared, it was basically gone in the Seven Kingdoms.  I think the most popular theory is that magic began to return to the world when the dragons were born (and had begun to fade after the last…

The added leverage was "You now need to guess whether Roose Bolton is going to be angry about whatever decision you make, if you're wrong, he's going to do terrible, terrible things."

I think this show really underestimates the power of off-screen action.  I know no one wants to watch "A Tale of People in Costumes Sitting Around Talking," but I think this show could do with a good bit more of it.

AV Club: "cool things with a Hitler theme"

I don't think her heart is in the whole Evil Queen bit, she's just doing it because it's the most practical way to control Joffrey.  The Tyrells, in the show especially, are really the ultimate pragmatists.  They pick the least bad option, smile and pretend that they couldn't want anything better in the world and all…

I see what you did there.

I've read at least one review that suggested that everything after Stephen's speech to Django is a fantasy, and that Django actually wound up dying in the De Quincy mines.  There are some problems with that reading, but it does explain some of the more cartoonish aspects of the last twenty minutes or whatever it is.

I think that's where this scene came from, then.  I agree with what appears to be the majority who think that, however well performed, the monologue is problematic for Catelyn's character and not a particularly good use of screen time.  It's a shame they lost that scene, but this was really not a good fix.

This might be more of the show's aversion to the book's complicated reveals.  Having Theon show up physically unrecognizable and going by a new name and then revealing that it's Theon might just be a risk they're not willing to take.

Regarding the whole dreamcatcher scene: does anyone remember if they did the bit from book one where Catelyn admits to Jon that she prayed for Bran to stay behind, and thinks that's why he fell?  And then tells Jon that it should have been him?  Because this seemed like a weak-tea version of that.