Jon was sooooo excited.

Gravedigger is one of my favorite fan theories, and there's some decent evidence that it's true. I'm with ya for that alone.

Sir Stonesavior

And Bran got recast as John Oliver.

Is this the protocol for Newswire items? I'm sincerely asking, as I've alluded to some spoilery things myself and I'll stop if that's verboten.

I always thought GRRM would get around to Jon warging into dragons (R+L=J would seemingly make that a possibility), the song of ice and fire personified. Maybe that's too on the nose.

I remember that. And I agree with you it'd probably come off way differently if D&D and/or Harington pulled something similar. I'm just wondering if it's something they've done before, because a lot of people seem pretty convinced he can't be dead, but D&D and Harington seem to be pretty adamant that he is.

I'm not really concerned with whether it'd be a lie versus disinformation intended to, say, give that scene a certain oomph (or whatever). Again, I'm asking if there's been any precedent for them putting disinformation out there—for whatever reason.

I know, and he says they told him he's definitely dead. That's why I'm asking if there's any precedent for D&D—or another actor—giving out disinformation to throw people off the scent, not spoil a surprise, create a surprise, etc. If not—and I can't recall any such case—then that would be that.

In the books doesn't Jon look like Arya and Arya look like *cough* L *cough*, ergo Jon looks like *cough* L? I always thought Show-Jon and Show-Arya could use a nod along those lines.

I liked Madden a lot, and I thought Harington started to shine the past couple of seasons.

It would actually still jibe with what D&D told him ("You're done"). If Jon is the Prince That Was Promised as some (maybe including Mel?) believe, then maybe he comes back in a different form.

D'oh! I meant Frankie. It was late when I wrote that and I couldn't think of Brewster's character's name, so I googled "Paget Brewster" and "Community" and the first thing that came up was a Community Wiki entry for Debra Chambers, the IT consultant Brewster played in season 6 (the one that Annie and Hickey have to…

This made me think of Patton Oswalt's bit about how the first thing he'd do if he had a time machine would be to go back and stop George Lucas from making the Star Wars prequels. Then that made me wonder when Lucas started writing them. I looked it up and apparently it was in October of 1994. I was so close to having…

People are stealing my bit? Someone owes me ten grand.

Last night's equivalent was all about good pop culture from 1995. The comments had even better choices than what the writers had selected, and I was actually surprised how much I'd stand on ceremony with still today. I thought a combination of drug use then and nostalgia now had led me to overestimate how good things…

I'll have to ask Shirley from Community. I stole that line from her.

I haven't seen any talk of comic books yet, so I'll go there. I got out of collecting and regularly reading comics around 1993, but I kept my hand in with regards to what happened in the Marvel universe, especially, and I could do without knowing that the Clone Saga took place in the Spidey books. It started in late…

I actually hadn't heard about that. Ugh.

Yeah it's the two things combined—being anti-vax on the one hand and promoting vaping as healthy on the other—that irked me with regards to the latter. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have noticed.