I feel like the big moral of the whole ASOIAF story is that when people say "don't put your dick in that!" you should listen to them.

I was under the impression that he was such a skilled fighter because he spent years traveling and learning from the best. I see Arya ending up like Oberyn eventually (probably up to and including the brutal death bit)

I appreciate where you're coming from, and it's a totally valid opinion. I just don't believe a character who's always been passionate could survive so many fights and wars while allowing that passion to overrun his tactical skills.

I think of my friends who think their dogs are their children - all of those dogs are spoiled little shits

Yeah, she's a bit of a tyrant when it really comes down to it. A tyrant with some good ideas, but damn you do not fuck with the Khaleesi.

We saw Sansa change in the tiny courtroom, but she was still playing Scared Little Sansa. That shot was the first time we got to see her fully take up the mantle of Scheming Smart Sansa, I think the music was right for her.

I call bullshit on Oberyn's total lack of pragmatism, though - there's no way a fighter lives that long in Westeros while being that cocky and dimwitted. Martin can write it that way because he was trying to extract a confession, but that behavior was just plain dumb.

It's funny (to me), I have the same attitude towards ASOIAF- that Martin has completely lost control of his own story and I quit after hearing Book 4 was "lets throw in a ton of new characters and see if they take me anywhere good"

He came to SXSW and did an 8 hour show. 8 HOURS. I don't like his music but damn you have to respect him

Not to derail this on a single scene, but the "getting one up on the smarty-pants liberal woman" scene was actually a loss for him. It may have seemed to Walt (or some viewers) like he was somehow winning, but it was a pretty major loss. He got himself into the whole mess by refusing their help at the beginning. Now,…

I feel like "your husband is a spy" is the CIA equivalent of "are you having women troubels?"

It's the bending over backwards that kind of weirds me out, though. It's like they're telling the audience "we all know who we're talking about here, YOU fill in the blanks." It's like Louis CK's N-Word bit, they make you think it but don't own up to it themselves.

Meanwhile, Torture Guy mopes by the shrimp cocktail. He knows he should be getting to know the people around him, but all he wants to do is go home to his tabby persian, Donald. Being around other people only makes him feel lonelier.

My point was not that there aren't while Muslims. My point was that, regardless of how pale they made their terrorists, they're still Islamists and the show still picked radical Islam as its Big Bad.

So they've created The Whitest Muslim Terrorists You Know - does that somehow make the show less racist/islamophobic/whateveryouwanttocallit? Or does it just make it less believable?

Or he could have just followed directions until he ordered them to shoot each other down. Didn't that general say they had air-to-air missiles?

The Audrey/Jack scene seemed more creepy than devastating to me.

The Americans are going to be totally screwed if that ARPAnet idea ever takes off

I think it's on E! but I never remember what time, I always miss it. I think Giuliana Rancic hosts it

Those forced perspective gates distracted me through the entire scene. The ironwork was great.