I didn't mind about him not telling the girl she was special. I felt that he felt that she had to earn his respect.
Which imo is a far better approach to parenting than mindlessly telling each child they are a perfect little snowflake. Which might sound sympathetic but is really just emotional laziness: instead of…

So the right decision is to completely override and endanger the mother?
I very much doubt a BBC-writer would want to send that message. Anyhow, as mentioned already: abortion just isn't such a hot-button issue in europe.

For that matter: how can this thing violate the physics-law of 'conservation of mass' by making the moon heavier? A growing embryo doesn't make an egg heavier, on account of it living from the nutrients already in the egg.

The storyline with the egg felt too much like 'kill all the nameless henchmen without a second thought, but have a crisis of conscious at the thought of killing the evil emperor'. Not that the baby can help being born of course, but those bacteria can't help being bacteria either, yet nobody bothered protecting them.

Nah, i feel it's a word people use. But only to describe tv-characters and not actual people.

To each their own i suppose. I never much cared for autographs or for 'meeting the people behind your favorite show'. I feel it spoils the magic. (I also have this idea that 'good art can stand on its own', so it usually doesn't add anything to have any amount of background-info on writers and performers)

Far as i know lots of asians eat as much 'asian food' as americans eat 'traditional home-cooked meals'.
The french eat more pizza than traditional french food.
etc etc

I'm not even one of those neurotic food-fobic vegetarians (meat=no, sugar=yes), but there are limits to my Burgundian interests. This just looks gross, same way a 'bottomless cup' feels gross in its lack of discipline.

Might have also been financial reasons. iirc how actor-payments work than they'd have to pay her to appear in this episode, even if they'd only use 'old footage'.
Since she is missing from this entire season it would have been a huge hurdle to arrange for one scene that can just as easily be moved to next season.

It's not really mentioned in the show but the place is absolutely littered with tunnels and secret passageways (which Varys uses all the time of course).

While i like the show i really have my problem with making a show about a book-series that is not yet completed. It was inevitable from the start that they'd run out of books.
imo it would have been better to choose a finished book-series (but i suppose they wanted to hitch a ride on the whole bestselling thingie).

To be fair i don't think there is any way the thought of 'not shitting gold' could have been conveyed in a tv-show without looking ridiculous. You would need to have characters actually pointing out 'wow, this smells bad, guess he doesn't actually shit gold', which would ruin the whole momentum of it being the first…

I think Brienne got a bit carried away with the moment: she finally has found a Stark-girl and then the hound is in her way. So her immediate instinct is to solve the problem with the only thing she is remotely good at: violence.

I didn't like that Tyrions's arc does not mention his first wife. To me it came of as if the writers fell in the trap of believing viewers should only ever hear about characters depicted onscreen (as opposed to people still being influenced by events that occurred long ago). Feels like dumbing down a shown that is…

i'm not suprised that it is happening. just surprised someone would outright say 'we want good-looking white girls and bad-looking black girls, and a few stunners of any race so we can pretend to not be racist'

let's make sure to ignore the alternate explanation: people who are sick and lonely and unemployed watch more tv.
but hey, it's only science so what's the worst that could happen: it's not like doctors haven't been doing victim-blaming for centuries already.

the whole 'david hasselhoff is big in germany' is such a tired old meme.
all that really happened was a slight mismatch between his popularity in the usa and germany, years ago. which apparently created the illusion that this hasbeen totally had a viable career going on in germany (because non-americans are like 50…

reminds me of that tlc-show where they give away 4 actual princes.
i have only seen the commercials, but that already made me roll my eyes: does anyone really think these guys would be trolling reality-shows to pick up women if their title was any good? lots of smallish countries have rulers with like 30 wifes and 500…

don't forget all the 'and if they fail to be gold-digging whores we'll just cut this show so it seems like they are anyway' that i'm sure is going on behind the scenes.

In the first, an innocent Satrapi struggles to come to grips with a more restrictive new world order epitomized by a black mass of marchers chanting, “Down with the Shah.”