I don't think it's that uncharacteristic for Tyrion to be slightly outmatched by Jaime and, more importantly, Randyll Tarly when it comes to military matters. Tyrion would make a great peacetime Hand, but there's nothing to suggest he's a top tier military strategist. His brother, meanwhile, is one of the most…

The fact that there are no realistic marriage options for her other than Jon Snow, king of the most remote and most sparsely populated (if largest) of the Seven Kingdoms is a sign of how badly the show has fallen down on a lot of what makes the book series great.

Assuming the ability to mass produce siege weapons is not a strong assumption. Mass production is mostly a modern phenomenon because modern machine tools allow the task to be broken down and standardized parts fabricated separately before being assembled. There are a few historical examples of this happening in the…

Littlefinger actually only wants Sansa, because she's Catelyn Tully's daughter and supposedly a close lookalike. He hates Starks, and has ever since a Stark (Brandon, Ned's brother) beat and humiliated him when Littlefinger challenged him for Catelyn's hand. He hated Ned, too, for having married Catelyn and for…

I'm not sure I would describe the Scythians as militarily unsuccessful, but I'm not super versed in their history. My impression was that they kind of faded away as they assimilated/fractured into discrete cultural groups across Central Asia, turning into Huns and Alans and Ossetians and whatnot. Point taken though…

Are there any examples of swords in GoT cutting through other swords, other than the White Walkers' magic ice swords? I'd be surprised if there were, because I feel like that would stretch my suspension of disbelief beyond the breaking point. That's just not how metal works.

He did spend a ton of time with Stannis.

Amen.

Though, to be sure, having Drogon is huge. The Dothraki were 100% going to win that battle in a rout with zero help, and with Drogon torching the shieldwall, should have won with virtually zero casualties. Those Lannister men-at-arms have to have some of the highest morale of any soldiers, ever, to have attempted to…

You'd be surprised. The Mongols assembled the largest contiguous empire of all time with a military relying heavily on mounted archers. In the late middle ages Mongol rule stretched from eastern Poland in the west to the Korean peninsula, down to the northern border of Vietnam and including much of the middle east. …

The Dothraki, in spite of the staging in this episode, are primarily horse archers, not heavy cavalry. They should have been circling the Lannisters pelting them with arrows rather than charging in with a handful popping off potshots. That's how the historical military they were based on would have fought. Once the…

Yeah, but a defining feature of the source material is subverting those expectations by having people who rely on DESTINY ARMOR getting eaten by dragons or decapitated at their uncle's wedding or betrayed by their wife's slimy little childhood friend or injured in a pointless macho duel and then getting brain damaged…

Dude legit dropped 60 IQ after the show ran out of book material.

Did you learn nothing from the Mooch's tenure in office? Good people front stab others. Front stab!

Better they be battered and sliced open with swords, spears, arrows and shield butts and then mostly die in agony of infections later on? This show has repeatedly made the point that medieval warfare was not gallantry and flashy sword fights where the loser yields bloodlessly to the victor: it was brutal, crushing,…

One thing that's going to be sad after marijuana is finally completely legal is that a lot of the edge is going to go out of the Mexican standoffs that happen between customers and employees at all night food places during orders deep in the a.m. where each stares at the other and wonders if the other knows how high…

Hey you know how my grandfather or great grandfather couldn't get a decent cup of coffee in Italy during World War II? I want that and I'm willing to pay a premium for it. For the full experience, please fuck up my name and order as if I were a GI trying to bridge the language barrier with you, a shell shocked…

I mean, they were working the night shift at a Dunkin Donuts. You probably seemed like you had your shit together by comparison.

I don't believe there's overlap between local donuts and Dunkin Donuts, at least not in New York. They're totally different things. If I want cheap, fast coffee and like 1 times out of 20 an old fashioned donut, Dunkin' it is. If I want a half pound complicated yeast toroid, I'll go to Dough or Dougnut Plant or…

There's actually a ton of overlap. Both are now mostly frequented by poor and lower-middle class people. You go to Starbucks for ridiculously sugary drinks of unreasonable size, and you go to Dunkin' Donuts for regular ass coffee and a breakfast sandwich and maybe donuts sometimes, though mostly when you buy a dozen…