This is a solid write up of a perplexing episode. I love BiP because of its self-aware dumbness, and last night’s episode had to step away from that and become self-aware in a way that I was hoping would maybe embrace a real conversation on the issues of race and media propaganda. Unfortunately, all the big issues…

But now that everyone in Westeros can travel at the speed of light, hasn’t word spread to Dragonstone that Arya is back at Winterfell? I mean, not that it would make sense for Jon to just lead off with that in conversation, but still, maybe Gendry could’ve heard it in passing? (...I know that’s a stretch)

Jon’s dad and Gendry’s dad really were BFFs. Sure, Gendry’s dad sort of accidentally set Jon’s dad on the path to ruin by asking him to be his Hand, but that’s indirect killing at best. What really gets me about Jon and Gendry forging this deep bond over dads is that Gendry never knew who his dad was until Melisandre…

So I’m thrilled Gendry is back, but... I was more than a little annoyed that he did not mention Arya at all when he was talking with Jon. Like, he and Arya were super tight, on their trip up the King’s Road/imprisonment at Harrenhal/kidnapping by the Brotherhood. They knew and protected each other for SEASONS and…

A hundred years from now (congrats! the world doesn’t end!), which 2010s genre show or movie do you think will be looked back on as most representative of the era?

As a high school teacher (and faculty chaperone of my school’s Feminist Club), I want to proudly state that many of my students have started going bra-less to spite the dress code (which was, absurdly, written by our male Walking-Staten-Island-Stereotype of a gym teacher).

As a teacher who is currently wrapping up Macbeth in my classroom, I felt cheesy spurts of joy when I realized that the Doctor fake-out so clearly paralleled Macbeth’s IV.iii.

“Süsse Mäuse, for instance—soft, marshamallowy, pink and white mice, one of whom says “Hmm...softig” about his own kin on the packaging— are very good, but I’ve never been able to find them outside of an Amazon order that takes weeks to arrive.”

I completely agree that Scorpius is the saving grace character of the story. He is fleshed out and consistent in a way most other characters lack (although his running “crush on Rose” comments seemed fairly forced/tacked on for my taste, though maybe those work better in performance).