The way Stannis' storyline ended proved to me that the showrunners just never found out how to use him effectively. He was a book character who just didn't fit with the version of this story that the show was trying to tell.

That is a fundamental weakness of the show: all the human intrigue and drama that we have been watching is set against a supernatural backdrop that will eventually make all that other human stuff irrelevant, even though that's what we as viewers are primarily interested in (how many people really care that much about…

Nickelodeon Shyamalaned that series badly enough that it will probably be a while before anybody tries to adapt it for the screen again. My hope is that once the Millennials who grew up with the books start getting into executive positions in media, they can try to kickstart some sort of revival.

Given yours and others' critiques of current trends in literary fiction, I wonder if you've read A Reader's Manifesto, by B. R. Myers? His targets are slightly dated now, but his major points about the state of fashionable literary prose remain pretty compelling, I think: http://www.theatlantic.com/…

>YA books are wonderful hangover medicine

Sansa's new cloak do look fly on him tho

I just want to say: I appreciated this nerd battle. Good show on the part of all involved.

Was he this ridiculous in the books? Haven't read them even though I know all the major plot points by now which is why I'm in this comment section. I really wonder if GRRM wrote the character to be both this over-the-top psychotic and also to have this much plot armor or whether Benioff and Weiss thought this was a…

>MelBivDavos

There was a guy wearing the Manderly sigil at the Red Wedding in the show, IIRC.

I'm inclined to agree, though I'm reserving final judgment until I see how the showrunners handle the fallout from these first two episodes going forward. If we don't get at least one major rebellion out of three blatant acts of regicide, that is just too much. I refuse to believe that the people of the North, and the…

#blackfishlivesmatter

At this point, Ramsey's arc comes off as bad, grimdark fanfiction written by somebody who thought that Joffrey was the most compelling character in the show. It's beyond ridiculous.

It's like the writers thought that Joffrey never went far enough and decided to see just how far they could push the audience with a fresh, new, T-1000 psychopath.

I think we're reaching the point where the writers have to play fast and loose with basic storytelling conventions in order to wrap up certain plotlines in time for the show's denouement, which is unfortunate to say the least.

The funny thing is that Thoros of Myr was able to resurrect Beric Dondarrion in Season 3 in relatively mundane fashion as well, without even the foreign incantations and solemn rites. I guess the Lord of Light is a flexible deity.

So am I.

I got down to Synchronicity I while getting ready for work after reading this article, as a matter of fact. The way Copeland's drum fills and the chanted chorus resolve into that synthesizer riff at the end is a real adrenaline rush. Would have loved to see them perform that in concert when they were in their prime.

I'm positive that Andy Summers put Mother on that record just to piss Sting off.

Flask? You're just asking for the hairy eyeball from one of the librarians, my friend. Sports bottles are the way to go.