He's a really smart commentator who has explained why he uses them (it's not a gimmick), and he takes a lot of shit for it—needlessly, in my opinion.

I think it was his way of acknowledging that he hadn't been writing this feature for the past couple of years because he had left the AV Club to write for The Dissolve.

This is probably common knowledge around here, but the original plan was for Myers to stay dead after Halloween II (Carpenter didn't even want to do that one—it was a trade-off, I believe, to get funding for something else—and he wrote and produced it with Hill but didn't direct). Carpenter and Hill instead were…

It hasn't been just Lady Stoneheart. I was using that as an example. They get asked these types of questions all of the time and I can't think of when they haven't been forthcoming about their thinking. This could be different since this will be taking them into uncharted territory vis-a-vis the books. Or maybe they…

Guess we'll see.

I'm trying to come up with a John Belushi/Jon Snow-Jim Belushi/Jim Snow joke.

Except when they were asked about Lady Stoneheart they could have played coy and didn't. Same for any number of other questions that they've been asked. I'm not saying that you're wrong—they just strike me as having been pretty straight shooters so far.

Just got a YouTube notification that the guy behind the Alt+Shift+X explanatory vids just posted one about Robert Strong. Towards the end he brings up Clegane Bowl (he did it for his Gravedigger, too). While he thinks it's only a remote possibility in the books, he thinks D&D would be more inclined to do it, and he…

Thanks for your condescension.

Special dice are above my pay grade. Where's the Archmage of the Aether when I need him?

Until Harington's comments in the interview and Weiss's "Dead is dead" comment I would have agreed 100%. (I'm actually baffled pretty much every week at the level of outrage—especially from those who have read the books—about things that typically have been telegraphed within the episode, over multiple episodes, over…

Very true. She would be a great character for a potential redemption arc, as well, following the recent… unpleasantness. They could at least try.

Oh, no worries. I was just following the general trend that I was seeing with regards to spoilers but I thought maybe it was multiple people being discourteous. :)

Yeah I mean the showrunners and actors for GoT, in particular. That's a good example of why D&D (and Harington, potentially) would do it, though.

I love Concepcion's contributions when he's on Watch the Thrones, too. The whole crew is pretty good, actually, but I like that he and Rubin are both there to reign in the idle speculation and sometimes-misplaced grouching that comes up.

Yeah I thought about Headey's Instagram or whatever it was with the stones. I wasn't sure if it really went as far as what would be the case if Jon isn't dead-dead ("he's only moooooostly dead"). But that's a good example of an actor keeping book readers, especially, on their toes.

I want to parse it this way, too. His "I'm dead" and D&D telling him "You're done" (and Weiss saying "Dead is dead") make me pessimistic, though. Maybe they figure that by season 7 the statements will have served their purpose and/or nobody will remember.

Well he is probably half Targaryen… the gods flip a coin.

Mel seemed really bewildered by Beric's resurrection. She says to Thoros something like "You shouldn't be able to do this." There's also the scenes where she says most of her "magic" is smoke and mirrors, and she apparently was way off about Stannis. I know she's definitely a shadow-binder, but I'm wondering if the…

No Jons Society point to Jon Connington, who is introduced on the show solely for this homage to The Simpsons.