She finds herself slowly dismayed by the Senators around her, but also facing new foes, like a mysterious political rival named Ransolm Casterfo, who disagrees with her at every turn and has a habit of collecting relics related to Emperor Palpatine.

A shiny new donkey to whomever brings me that pilot!

As Ted Cruz’s college roommate, Craig Mazin knows a steaming pile of absolute shit when he sees it.

Yes, as indicated this is called FORESHADOWING, not spoilers.

Jennifer Ehle is an incredible actress and probably would have been superior to Michelle Fairley. If you don’t remember who she is, she played Elizabeth Bennett in the 90s BBC version of Pride & Prejudice.

If not for the reshoots I wouldn’t have my claim to fame. You can see me when Robb Stark bows to King Robert :) I also appear to be on the other side of the carriage at the same time, so I am also a continuity error :/

There was a Wheel of Time pilot?

I would say that most of the time you won’t hear stories like this because people are too weak to admit that they made a mistake the first time and took someone else’s advice to make it better.

I know people who’ve seen the pilot and they generally agree with the assessment above. However, the article does leave the impression that the recastings were down to poor performances. Jennifer Ehle, at least, was going to come back but had availability issues (she lives in NYC and had just had a baby) so chose not…

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

I'm not trying to be overly mean

Listen. Strange women with dragons, kids with giant dogs and twins with daddy issues are no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from the masses, not from some farcical clash of animist-bound egos. Now where's that dwarf. He knows all the cool spots in this godforsaken hamlet.

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

NOW WE SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM!

if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

"I didn't vote for him!"

"Oh, king eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society!"