Well, so much for the “last season of GoT poisoned the well and nobody gives a fuck about this anymore” whinging.

Did I wake up in a parallel universe where the AV Club thinks Lena Dunham and her creepy inappropriate relationship movie are...good?

Too bad she molested her little sister, I guess at least she admitted it?

Have you ever fucking been to a wedding? Most of them are tedious as fuck. Many could do with a few massacres to liven things up.

Yeah, for those complaining about the speed of the plot, the show’s still got plenty left to go.

This point kind of can’t be overstated. You might criticize the show for having picked this particular episode in Westerosi history to tell, but honestly, no one comes out of these happenings the better for it.

The cast is fantastic. The costumes are great albeit lacking some color IMO. The CGI is AMAZING, to the point you cannot tell a fantastical set from a CGI creation, plus the exterior vistas, dragon aerials, and locations look stunning. The sound however is poor, and the cinematography is deadly dull. It’s royalty.…

The series’ all-around aversion to anything resembling a sense of humor doesn’t help.

I don’t know, folks, I’m not sure this show is receiving quite enough coverage. I think a “For Your Consideration: Does HotD’s Problematic History with LGBT+ Inclusion Mean There Aren’t Enough Burning Questions to Go Around?” might be necessary. Or has anyone asked Olivia Wilde or Ezra Miller what they think of HotD?…

As a gay man I don’t feel that affected by Joffrey’s death in the “bury your gays” trope, mostly because that it shows that their romance was enough to influence the upcoming civil war. I’d argue that HotD Joffrey is on par with Hottie Baratheon dying in that their being gay is secondary to the part that their deaths…

There is zero evidence Criston killing Joffrey has anything to do with homophobia. 

Yes, I was going to say that Season 1 is just the prologue. You couldn’t just start with them being adults and at war, but you couldn’t spend multiple seasons building up to, what will in essence, be the main story, either.

Book folks also state that incident led to bad blood between those two houses for years.

I don’t have a problem with criticism about representation. But I don’t like deciding whether or not a show is falling into problematic representational patterns based on what happens in a single episode early in the first season, especially if the ethical barometer is “did a character die.” This is just not the kind…

The world of ice and fire has a section on how Dorne stands out because the faith of the seven outlaws homosexual relationships. It also includes text that states that the faith of the seven believes that marriage is only between a man and a woman.

I think Queen Alicent is going to make it fall off...from over-use.

To be fair, the Knight of Kisses came across as an annoying ponce whose face I’d want to bash in within minutes of meeting him.

This article is 90% recap, 10% review.

It’s also kind of true that, as he says, once people know that he broke his vows and will continue to do so, things will only go badly. Them running away together is the only way they could be together that doesn’t end with something awful happening to him. 

To be fair, he’s been presented as a kind of honorable naif, a pure soul, so he’s the kind of guy who WOULD think Rhaenyra would go for that.  I do think there are people like him, who because they have no drive for power & scheming, really can’t understand those who do.