I liked the fight choreography as well. Using two swords is hard. Making it look good is harder still.

Well into this, but I am wondering if anyone else is worried about Rickon. I mean I know that Ramsay is a psycho and just itching to do the kinds of things to Rickon he did to Theon. And that thought fills me with all kinds of dread.

Here's an example of what I mean:

Well, not quite. In English the apostrophe s indicates possessives, or if we're gonna get all liguist-nerd about it, a genitive (kind of) like in Latin (the -orum, -arum you see sometimes, or the use of "de" In French and Spanish). So in Latin you would have "gladius flamingwombatorum" for "flamingwombat's sword" or…

Also @avclub-74f7a71ee2b66500bff752ae84ce358d:disqus — yes that is exactly true. Ask any physician and they will tell you Tylenol overdose is a horrific, painful, awful way to go.

It actually would make more sense in the translation you describe.

I was waiting for the reveal that Hodor got a head injury from the practice-fighting.

Wow, 884 comments already…

Calling Ramanujan obscure is a bit of a stretch, though your point about academic circles is I guess well taken, but there are some real world applications of Ramanujan's work that show up in physics. There's a Quora answer to that here:

Speaking of eye scenes…

Ah, hadn't caught any of that to be honest, but my Iron Fist reading was never that close. (I remember the old Power Man and Iron Fist books, but wasn't following them that faithfully).

Yes, the Belgian Congo was another example of the United States deciding that democracy was simply an unacceptable outcome. Generally when the opportunity to support a brutal tyrant has arisen, the US has chosen the tyrant every single time. Unless it's a tyrant we don't like, in which case we have moved to replace…

Predicting the future location of the system isn't that hard if the number of years is small — say, 50 or so — since the system isn't going to move all that much relative to everything else. Even Barnard's Star which is zooming along wouldn't go so far, so I think you could at least get the solar system you want right.

Ha. I am in fact a journalist, but I read a lot about how the coup in (for example) Chile happened, and that was exactly it. Pinochet was able to get close to the levers of power because his predecessor (Carlos Prats) resigned after some pressure from other branches of the armed forces. Pinochet was thought to be…

I hadn't caught that, I thought the character was supposed to be from China or Chinatown? (I am not entirely sure what you are referring to— was there some fictional "Asian" place she is supposed to be from?). In any case it's not hard to say "This woman's backstory is…" and go from there.

The point is in part, I think, to show men who wouldn't do that but often stand by and let it happen what's going on in a visceral way.

If I understand correctly the guards were in on the coup; this is not without precedent as if the people of Dorne generally are feeling like the prince needs a no-confidence vote, it wouldn't take a political genius to quietly place people who felt the same way in the guard around him over, say, several months.…

That's right! From everyone else's reference frame he'd be a blur running around the world for years at a time. Maybe if he put together a space suit? Run fast enough and you hit escape velocity of course. Aim yourself roughly towards, I dunno, Alpha C and then use a local planet to stop yourself, and run back. (I…

Yeah I wasn't sure on the speed limits for speedsters they'd established. But if you can run fast enough to see mages of yourself from other time periods you're going relativistic by definition.

By the way, because I am a science nerd, I was always wondering why Thawne, when he found he was stuck in the past, didn't just run at relativistic speeds?