"Why didn't Sonia Saraiya write an article objecting to that?"

The word "seems" is doing an awful lot of work in that sentence…

"the show doesn't condone rape!"

Do they even film in NYC? I thought it was Toronto or Vancouver or something.

I think that's kind of GRRM's point (not sure the show has grasped it as well, though); the fantasy notions of chivalry and honor create a pretty fucked up incentive structure.

"just confirmed what we already knew"

Man, if the show/fanbase has really been considering all of those things okay, I've been watching it wrong all along.

It's not filmed in Chicago, and they don't try particularly hard to hide that fact.

I mean, Michael J. Fox hardly needs the work. He's admirably steered into the skid on his condition, including making it the butt of a few pretty good jokes on his sitcom.

"Do you think it would have been ok to show passionate consensual sex between a brother and sister instead?"

I think that would be a productive avenue to explore, so long as you add in what happens to Cersei as well (her subsequent actions could pretty easily be shaded as a reaction to this event). But we'll have to see where the show goes with it.

Let's be clear: we don't know where the show is going with this yet. I'm not optimistic (if only because it would represent a major deviation from the books), but the event could trigger a pretty intense re-ordering of the Lannister clan. In which case, I'd consider it more than just shock value.

This is a nonsensical line of argument. Criticism isn't an all-or-nothing endeavor. You don't have to condemn everything at once to condemn one thing.

Brubaker entirely was, and that's fine. Millar's analysis that "Steve Rogers was a soldier, so OF COURSE he'd be a neocon!" kinda left out the part where Steve Rogers grew up in the New Deal and literally had the federal government step in to grant him his life's goal…

I'm sure the dance move explanation is right, but I always linked "rag top" up to 1) Convertables (bringing in the line from Andre's verse) and 2) a demeaning reference to turbans (which brings in the chorus, except not really, only in a Know-Nothing sense).

Well, I didn't invent a Head Cannon, either, so I just can't win.

I've seen the term/concept on a lot of websites, so don't shower me with riches for coming up with it.

I did the same thing, although I still consider the ending to be the ending in my head cannon.

She was fine, and it's really fucking hard to stand out on a screen with Downey, Jackson, Ruffalo and Hiddleston (and Evans and Hemsworth, to some extent), but…she didn't really stand out.

I've always felt that ScarJo has better instincts than talent; she really zeroes in on good parts- or at least good movies- but is rarely more than functional in them. I still like her, though.