And The Girl actually uses the same song from that Mulholland Drive scene. In-joke, maybe.

I think when a director is best known for making serious films (even if genre ones), people are sometimes not ready if they go back to their more comedic roots, especially if they're at all subtle about it. And of course comedy can be fragile; if it takes you a while to get that they're trying to be funny you might…

In late on this, but I'd nominate 39 Steps for his best ending (although it is very abrupt). As the guy we've only just met dies, we see the hands of the leads, with the handcuffs finally cut, reach out and hold each other.

"Open the gate!" / "What is it?" / "It's the door we use to pass through the wall, but that's not important right now."

Yes! That or maybe the dead all run into the water, or perhaps suddenly rise up out of it. What happened was still impressive but probably the least unpleasant alternative.

Smash! Beetles! Hunk, hunk hunk!

She really Cerseid that whole situation.

Straw Dogs is a better example than mine. It shows things a lot of people are going to be angry about, but in the process explores important ideas that require those things.

I think the whole plot of them getting married is gratuitous. It's just Sansa getting jerked from altar to altar in the exact same way we've seen three times before, except that in this case instead of being threatened with rape she actually experiences it. Not an improvement.

Yeah, the rape in the film _The Accused_ is certainly uncalled for within the world of the film, but it's not gratuitous because it's a necessary element of the story. In this ep of GoT however…well can't say for certain yet but something about juxtaposing it against a silly adventure fight in Dorn saps my confidence…

It just about was, except half of it unintentional. (And the other half Bronn, who is never not funny.)

The Dorne stuff was pretty silly. Some good execution but very silly in concept. The only reason for it all I can see is the contrast of these two little bands of heroes running into each other and messing up each others' plan when there's a damsel in distress who gets no heroes at all on the other end of the…

I think the Harry Potter without Harry Potter thing is interesting (and JK herself has said she shouldn't have let the dead hero character have a name so much like Harry), but watching the show it seemed even more like what happens if a scrappy group of dancing kids DON'T come together to save the Rec Center. Answer:…

You win this round.

And attempted rapist of don't-know-how-young-she-was-supposed-to-be girl in front of her brother.

I don't see it as any more a mistake than how a certain popular Wire character went out. Everyone has a back, and it has to be turned somewhere.

And possibly get Fat Walda killed if it weakens Ramsay in the process. True Littlefingerage.

And this was the first episode where, rather than seeing Sansa and thinking she's turning into Melissandre, I had the reverse reaction seeing Mel.

Way back in early Season One Robert mentioned that he got the scar on his face from Randyl Tarly, and how strange it was to be King, and "even Tarly bends the knee", but they never explicitly mentioned this and Sam in the same scene, so I imagine it got lost in the flood of faces.

Hey, take that book stuff to the I, Claudius newbies review!