Original pilot? There's a different version of GoT's first episode that included stuff like this? Must have missed that tidbit of info.

"our attempt to argue that Betty staying to work late is somehow more realistic than two women being attacked on the street is a good example of your nonsense. BOTH happen. Both are equally as realistic because those circumstances both happen in real life."

Uh, no. A plot point that happens naturally, organically is, by definition, not contrived (look it up). Does that also mean I like plot points that are not contrived more than ones that are? Well, yeah. So you got it backwards. It's not: plot point I like = naturalistic; plot point I don't = contrived; it's:…

I also didn't say it was "bad" writing. Does "contrived" automatically mean "bad?" It just means…contrived. Which it was. Scenes like that are why the word exists. Now if they had chosen the moment before they were attacked to have Liz tell Paige "And remember, honey, I've never killed anyone, you remember that,…

Like a way to mass produce dragon glass and/or valyrian steel? I like the way you think, Dunk!

Yes, and I would say he needs to start sharing that info with everyone he comes into contact with ASAP, but then they go and have his brother laugh at the mention of White Walkers, "there's no such thing!" I forgot there's only a small portion of characters on this show that either know/have seen or believe White…

There HAS TO be a big reason to not just keep Sam around, but give him what felt like a 15-minute-straight scene. That's a longer chunk of connected minutes than most of the bigger characters have gotten this season.

Finally, the Blackfish returns! Well, not on-screen yet, but it's coming! So Petyr wasn't lying about that, thankfully. Was he truly trying to help Sansa by informing her or does he have an ulterior motive (or seven)?

Where did I say I don't believe crime happens at all in DC? Every response has mentioned something along those lines, but no where did I say "crime NEVER happens so THAT'S why this is contrived!" Of course random crimes happen. But to happen at this particular time, to these two particular characters, at this…

Well, no, sometimes (actually most times, almost ALL times, on this show) the writers want things to happen, then they write it in such a way that makes it seem perfectly reasonable, natural, organic. It's not like I'm throwing up my hands and going "c'mon, contrived!" every time suspicious timing events occur, like,…

I really do. It's not any single detail that makes it contrived, but all the details put together. I just said in another reply: the fact that two thugs attack, at this particular moment, when Liz is feeling down and out and off her game, and she's with her daughter, who she's promised multiple times she has never…

OK, let's say the killing WAS totally unavoidable. Even so, the fact that two thugs attack, at this particular moment, when Liz is feeling down and out and off her game, and she's with her daughter, who she's promised multiple times she has never killed anyone…. Yeah I'm gonna say the "contrived" stands. As I just…

No, I totally got the point, I see what the writers were going for. I get it that she's feeling "off" at the moment. And at that moment, hey how about that, two thugs attack, and she accidentally (but not really) kills one of them! That's, almost literally, the definition of "contrived". Now I'm not that a-hole that…

Speaking of contrived: that ending. Two thugs really try to rob/rape Paige and Liz? Really? And Liz couldn't just punch or beat the guy a little and maybe hand his ass to him, like she did certain FBI agents, she HAD TO STAB HIM? IN THE NECK? Really? I think Liz is more than able to temper her violent reactions to…

Sludge Vohau…. now that's what we need a reboot/remake of, SPACE QUEST. Or just Space Quest 7.

Wasn't it "are you crying because Osama Bin Laden said you were a good guy?" or something like that? All the responses were great, even if I don't remember the exact wording.

"The last sketch was the worst"

I would love if Mike does disappear, only to show up seasons later (last episode even?) and be all "Turns out it WAS just a cold!!!"

ABOMINABLE.

I wasn't sure if my memory was failing me, or if they really just did NOT have many scenes together last season. I usually re-watch every season, but I didn't this time out and I wish I had. But nothing major seemed to occur between Jon and Davos. If anything, Davos should be more interested in getting Stannis…