I think the retort was partially because it's the same stories you've been reading all over the web. Whether it's valid or even worth commenting on after five season, it's not deserving of a more clever retort when it's the hundredth time someone's said it today. (Or so the other commentor may have felt, I'm not…

That may be the first time I've ever seen The Wire described as "hopeful." If you ever get to tell David Simon you see a lot of levity and hope in his work, please video his reaction.

Unbelievable to you. I didn't see Stannis do anything inconsistent with his character. He has a very limited window to win the crown now that winter is here, has failed every time he didn't listen to the Red Woman, and you can't take a castle if your forces are weak and starving. You're free to disagree, but this is…

I'm amazed more people didn't get this reference. Makes me kind of sad.

I love the world-weary tone of this article. "It's Monday, someone is upset about Game of Thrones again. Wouldn't it be nice if people cared this much about real problems in the world. Spoiler Alert, everyone dies alone."

Expedient writing isn't bad writing. Not the way people who watch this show complain about its pacing, especially. Leaving aside the issue of pacing and expediency, this has been coming for several seasons. Stannis has burned people at the stake for the Lord of Light since Melisandre first started whispering in his…

Little bit of a difference between being safe behind walls in the south, presumably during summer, and being behind enemy lines in the snow at the start of an apocalyptic winter. Surviving a siege isn't the same as winning a war.

Wasn't this something Stephanie Meyer planned to do(but probably changed her mind on because even she got sick of the series)? I remember reading a while back that she was going to do a book revisiting the series from Edward's POV.

I tried getting into it, but it just didn't move quickly enough to keep me interested. I was planning a more patient rewatch soon. About how many episodes would you say it takes before it gets going? Or is the pacing nothing like modern serial dramas?

When an article is part 4 of 4, there's usually some link to the other parts buried somewhere in the page. Am I just missing them, or does AV Club not do that?

Given the amount of sex those characters had, I just assumed they were sexy. I'm more partial to younger chubby Itallian-Americans, personally.

I stop watching a show after one episode if I'm not enjoying it. Unless it's Glee. I'll save you the trouble of going back to Game of Thrones. If you didn't enjoy the first four episodes, there's no point in sticking around. No one randomly starts singing.

I had that same thought watching the Sopranos. Freaky coincidence.

I tried to avoid Game of Thrones out of spite because everyone thought it was awesome, and that usually turns out disappointing for me. (See also: many shows like Mad Men that I started watching, seemed to like, then subsequently forgot why I liked them in the first place in between seasons) I only watched the first…

No film is unassailable. The idea that there's an objective, scientific scale for the excellence of films is just silly. Some films are quality art and/or entertainment, others are steaming piles of effortless excrement, but there's no science or objectivity to it. The gulf between critical acclaim and audience…

And I thought it was obvious that most of Going After Cacciato was an Ambrose Bierce-style fantasy before death, but that doesn't mean it was meant to be obvious(and most of the Lit class seemed kind of annoyed with me for saying it was obvious). My point, without having seen this movie, is that it sounds like magical…

Or playing it straight in a movie even the review calls "a fable" is intended as magical realism. I didn't see all of Birdman, but wasn't that the deal with all of his strange psychic powers? Magic realism/film-as-unreliable-narrator?

I'll admit my reaction was somewhat colored by being in a really dark place emotionally, and I probably wouldn't have been so harsh otherwise, but I have never seen such a mean-spirited take on a beloved group of characters before, at least not in a standard entertainment news piece. I know not everyone loves the…

To the author of this article: fuck you. Seriously, fuck you. Mock whatever the hell you want, but if you want to mock the muppets as a concept and be this dismissive in reporting a thing, fuck you.

I liked the first two episodes well enough, and I get why it's an important show, but something keeps me from choosing it over repeats of The Wire or other more mainstream fare. I don't know why it's not more engaging to me. Maybe it relates to those themes of shame and how little representation there is for gay men…