Care to explain what is so awful about that opening line?

I think his reminder of how the audience was introduced to Stannis is a far worse indictment of the tsk-tsk'ing members of the viewership than the hand wringing about Shireen's fate is of the quality of the show.

You are both correct, actually.

Why doesn't the A.V. Club just simply re-direct their traffic to a random Gawker site and be done with it?

The problem with this line of thought is that not everyone has the option to simply take their business elsewhere. One of the reasons that libertarianism is intellectually bankrupt is the massive assumptions that it makes regarding the populace as a whole that are completely off-base if not impossible. See also:…

I'd like to thank BedroomPastrami for stopping by to promote their new book, "I Just Don't Get It: Suggesting A Comment Is Melodramatic After I Initially Made A Comment In All-Caps."

I would like to thank my guest, Annie Lennox's mother, for joining me on the show today.

In other words: