Yep! Woodes Rogers. Now I'm going to be waiting for him to pull out two swords for the entirety of Black Sails season 4 (although I guess most of the actual swordy action was some masked stuntman).

Three locations: Winterfell, Castle Black, and the wilderness in between. Only one Stark in each location at a time, and they just rotate in an endless loop, never catching up with each other.

If next week gives us some kind of scene a la "Jon rides south; meanwhile, unseen just behind some trees across the way, Sansa rides north", or "Sansa and co hide from an approaching horseman under a bridge that turns out to be Jon, who goes over the top of it", I may scream at my television.

Man, I'd watch that film, especially as directed by Taika Waititi. Throw in Rhys Darby and Flight of the Concords in bit parts somewhere and get Lorde to do the soundtrack and we can fill up our bingo card. Martin Henderson will be desperate for a role, but he won't make the cut.

Ben Kingsley is not exactly a white guy but yeah, might have been nice to have perhaps international fiction's most prominent Maori character actually played by a Maori (Temuera Morrison would have been great in that part, I reckon.)

Blast ye sir, as pirates they don't give a damn for the fancy English terms* of yer whoremongerin' Queen**!

We're in a golden age of title sequences, no doubt.

There's a lot of "but fire doesn't kill zombies / the lake was too small!" talk here, but I'm a bit baffled by that, since my take when watching the episode was that the fire might have got a few zombies but was mostly a good distraction to give our heroes some space for easier manual zombie murder, which was then…

Some fair points here, but I must say I totally didn't notice the affecting scene in question was restaged, due to the fact I was being *extremely affected by it.* Now that's it been pointed out that it had some similarity to another scene though of course - wait, no, still affected.

Never tell Shia LaBoeuf the odds!

I have a vague memory that a couple of fighters are described as ploughing into the shield in the novelisation.

…ha, this is a magnificently nerdy conversation.

Not shields on Death Star 1. The line in Star Wars is "We're passing through their magnetic field", which Wookieepedia is (as always) on hand to explain to us:

Fair enough. I have never seen that deployed as an metaphor (in fact I had to Google "Melba toast" to confirm to myself I even knew what it was – not a lot of Melba toast getting consumed full stop in my neck of the woods), so I assumed that the more common "toast" term with a similar contextual meaning was what you…

"Melba toast"? Uh, as in what, thin and served with pate?

Yeah, if we're filling some kind of quotient for historical dramas with bursts of violence let's bring back Black Sails, I say.

John Quadrant Vincent 16 made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe.

" Jason Clarke in Aussie mode"

That you, Immortan Joe?

I was wondering how many people missed it entirely. I was kind of surprised not to see it mentioned in the review.