Larry was boring, pretentious, and self-serving. Basically a perfect representation of the genteel, coddled, upper-middle-class white character with no real problems. He was also more or less superfluous, because Piper fulfills that role in a more comedic and immediate way by actually being an inmate.

I was referring to an earlier comment I read that attempted to justify the scenes with all the spilling fruits when she fell down the stairs— but as I said in my first post, that is definitely a liberal interpretation.

I enjoyed Name of the Wind a bit, but even then I could tell Kvothe was hopelessly Mary Sue-ish. It's a shame to hear the subsequent novels are even worse in this aspect.

I feel like the dialogue between Arya and Lady Crane— the time taken for Lady Crane to explain how good she is at taking care of injuries— was the writers' way of trying to explain away Arya's complete recuperation within one day. Unfortunately, it still stretches the imagination that Arya is capable of all those…

The Hound literally pissed on the theory. Def trolling.

I meant generic in the sense that there's nothing particularly "Resident Evil" about it from what I see in the trailer: any company could have made it and I would not be any the wiser.

I'll reserve judgment. The game certainly looks scary, but the trailer was kinda content-free as far as how close to the lore of RE it will be. For the moment it kinda just looks like a generic PT-style horror game.

You're a meme, ma'am.

I'm also partial to "human scaffolding" as another witty-not-vulgar tall joke.

The impression I get from the clip is that there are four 'permanent' writers who happen to be all women (probably the top four names you listed), and the other writers you listed probably just rotate in and out on a freelance basis for a few episodes here and there.

I have to say I agree. Veep is incredibly crude on all sorts of topics (does no one remember the abortion episode? The joke about the kid with AIDS?), so it's kind of an eyeroll to have off-the-cuff race jokes be the reason for a low grade. The worst I can say about the Asian driver joke is that it was kind of lazy.

I feel like I'd go crazy trying to watch TV with someone who's actively trying to guess the plot before it happens, even (especially) if they're accurate.

I was just going to say that. Those pursed lips look uncomfortable.

I'm pretty sure there will still be a CleganeBowl in some form, it just won't be in relation to the trial by combat that was supposed to happen.

The Waif's grudge has been indirectly justified this season, kinda sorta (although I agree they could have done a cleaner job of it). Basically, the Faceless Men are pretty much never nobles, but come from the poor and disenfranchised. I think this has been spelled out at least once by Jaqen.

I actually thought it was gonna be Jaqen walking in to see the Waif, congratulating her, and then getting stabbed in the abdomen because it was actually Arya wearing the Waif's face all along.

I think the show is taking more liberties on that point, because there are lots of arguments for it definitely not being "magical" in the sense of the other magic we've seen. For example, it's not innate like warging and they're not casting spells— it's just a set of skills that technically anyone can learn. They're…

IMO the problem with 'the dead coming back to life' as a plot point is that it kinda neuters the impact of major characters dying or even being majorly hurt in the story. Cat's death was absolutely a punch in the gut both in the books and in the show. Her becoming an undead revenge zombie is cool and maybe satisfying,…

Someone needs to clue me in as a non-book reader (who has read a lot of the book-based background of ASOIAF online)— what are the clues this season that we are expecting a Lady Stoneheart reveal? I feel like it would come completely out of left field, no?

Keep in mind the technique of the Faceless men is not magical- conservation of mass is definitely a thing (in the books, anyway). No way Jaqen could have been playing Arya.