Right. And early on, he was still kind of an amusing goofball kind of guy, who was really buying into the pirate theme—if you recall, Episode 1 involved the teams buying their supplies in the pirate village, and Rupert, of the opinion that pirates are amoral and they plunder, straight-up stole the other team's…

I might have, too. Every time Brick's font obsession comes up, I can FEEL the looks coming from my wife's direction.

Well, who knows. TVbythenumbers shows it as a likely renewal at this point (12/20/16), and has for awhile now.

It's getting to be a thing that some writers' rooms lean on pretty hard. Hawaii Five-0 does it a lot, too. In fact, if (eh, who am I kidding: WHEN) the episode starts with an action scene, the game at our house is to pause the TV and guess how many hours the show is going to jump us back.

This is the detail (heh) that got to me. Why is this agent all over the place?

Well, in Colton's case the guy DID die, so.

It did cross my mind that the Ford who got shot was a host (Fauxd?); that would explain the host being constructed in the room where Theresa died.

I thought it was Bears, Beets…Battlestar Galactica.

Fonseca's character would make for a good non-baseball friend for Ginny, but I thought the Nike party was a long drive from San Diego. Wasn't it in Los Angeles? That's about 100 miles away.

You're probably right. And thanks for not saying "Tayfiggs".

I'm going with the "bad edit" angle. It also struck me as weird that we never heard anyone making the "power couples are bad" argument during this episode, even though it had been mentioned a couple of times in earlier weeks.

It's probably close to the All-Star break, given the other pitchers' records and some of the information in the occasional headline crawl visible at the bottom of the sports shows' screens.

I'm going to grant in advance that this is a nitpick, but I listen to two different GOT podcasts, plus this forum and one other, all of which are dedicated to picking the different elements of the show into a million pieces, and nowhere is it mentioned that in the shot where Thommen commits suicide, the burning sept…

It was either this, or Phil was going with more of a "just do this as a favor to me because she's just going to get more difficult" thing. Somehow I'd forgotten that he'd confessed to his wife, so when she had that lucid moment, I was actually a little horrified for all of them.

This much is clear. They were doing some cut-rate stuff with the Masters' Fleet. "Ooh, cartoon boats!"

I have the Kindle edition, so In Your Face.

Two. Nymeria and Ghost.

It was hateful, and honest, and realistic, and it's exactly the sort of thing that would come back to haunt her when something like this happens, especially since—as she notes—she hasn't taken the opportunity to really unload on him. She might actually be thinking she somehow jinxed him; never mind that she said it…

He was just flaying that first apple.

That's the word; they were hoping that a cliffhanger ending would be an extra incentive to keep the show running.