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Same with the credits! Such a nostalgic sounding song, lulling you into a false sense of security, before you remember what show you're watching.

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like the "I'm doing this for my family!" thing works a whole lot better here than it does in Breaking Bad; maybe it's because we always knew Walt was lying; Walt, and the show in some ways, was always itching to get to the next big science badass set piece. John really does seem invested

He looked like a deer in the headlights O_o

I like how the motion of Jesse falling to his knees to pray mirrors the image of his father falling to his knees to be executed; it's a cool way to show how his religious identity is tied so closely to his feelings of guilt about what happened.

Did she think she could just get out of things with her wiliness and her astounding expressively neutral eyebrows? She needed some kind of leverage over Cersei and the Sparrow, and with Tommen devoted to the Sparrow, she had neither.

I'm wondering if some of the concerns the review brings up about big moments that feel hasty or unearned has to do with its production schedule/budget/series timeline. I'm sure the producers would have loved to have laid much more groundwork than they have, but considering they're looking at around only 2 more

I'm sad to see her go, but her death felt in line with Ned, Robb, and other earned character deaths. Her flaw was in thinking she could save her family, Loras (she should have given him up like Sansa did Rickon), and that she could still somehow outmanuever everyone in King's Landing, despite being stuck between two

Pretty sure that's part of the point the show was making. Things may change, but they don't change that much or that quickly; people see a battle won and they assume the man in charge was responsible, regardless of what actually happened; power is where people see it. Jon's christening is also meant to be dramatically

*cough* Stannis *cough*

Also his whole childhood desire to have a dragon and finally be powerful stuff he mentioned in the dragon pit.

To be fair, journeys from point A to point B have taken entire seasons in the past.

:O

While technically not profanity, he sure as hell made it sound like it.

Target plays Swans over their speakers all the time :3

I have no idea who any of those artists are.

It has one of the most beautiful game worlds I've ever seen; the art design and the oh-so-relaxing score make it a place I want to live in, until I remember the dystopian overlords. Unfortunately the graphical glitches sometimes ruin the immersion (on console anyway). I was on a time trial, and the sky was switching

Justin Kruzel, the director, who also directed the quite good looking recent Macbeth with Michael Fassbender (actor/director synergy?) is not a fanboy like Jones was for Warcraft, which, judging from this review, might actually be a good thing since he's not slavishly devoted to adapting the lore into an unwieldy

Gah that name is gross and gag-inducing.

R.I.P. Rainbow Six: Patriots; I heard the game mechanics weren't working out, but I wonder if the real reason it was cancelled was because its story of a counter-domestic terrorism program was way too touchy a topic in this day and age. That game seems like it had a chance to tackle a subject that no-one wants to be

This is brilliant; I can't tell if they're going for Tim and Eric-style irony or if they're being totally sincere. Some of these beats seem straight up stolen from Tim and Eric, like the poorly photoshopped images or the awkward audience cutaways; or maybe T & E stole it from them??