I’m not sure what Littlefinger’s ultimate purpose to the story was. I expected him to have some part to play, since he was still alive. All season I was thinking “They can’t kill Littlefinger yet, he hasn’t DONE anything.” But I guess his actual role in the story ended ages ago and he’s just been waiting around to die.

I didn’t like Rhaegar’s look either, but on reflection I think the intention was that Viserys was desperately trying to look exactly like Rhaegar. Still, I think everyone pictured Rhaegar as some sort of glorious golden god, and this particular actor was not that.

It was a long, boring trip. Tyrion was just headed to hang out with Jon and Dany, maybe play a drinking game, and he finds them unexpectly having sex without even telling him they were into each other. It’s awkward.

There wasn’t even any decision on Bran’s part or any prying from Sam, he just elected to greet Sam by casually bringing up the most important news in Westeros.

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Yeah, camping gets more important as the game goes on. Otherwise, there's not really much of a solution other than persistence. Once you get to the point where you have at least four level 6 heroes fully upgraded, things get slightly easier. Throw on as much poison damage and bleeding damage as you possibly can to…

The problem with the South permanently breaking away is it would have legitimized the idea that you can violently quit the country if you don't like the president. A democracy can't survive if it's legal to start shooting when you lose an election.

Eh, we don't want to poison the perfectly innocent word "trump" by association. Let's just call him a cowardly incompetent white supremacist misogynist with the mental capacity of a 2nd grade bully.

Publicly, sure, but Traveler's private memoirs are pretty damning.

One of the many things that infuriates me about this is there will probably be 10,000 books about Trump and how this happened every year for the rest of time. History loves to remember lunatic assholes.

I usually try not to say anything unless it's particularly insightful or witty, but just holy shit.

For my own ability to get through day-to-day life, I've had to just put my hands in my ears and tell myself, "By this point I'm sure my parents no longer support him." I'm sure that's not true and they're hanging on his every word, but I can simply no longer function knowing the people who raised me fell for this.

We're sort of like Colorado in that regard. I grew up in western Maryland and could never even comprehend that we were a democratic state. I don't think I met another liberal until I went to college (in southern Maryland, of all places, which outside my tiny campus was even worse.)

I've always thought that movie was fantastic—the music and animation are absolutely beautiful and it doesn't shy away from the human tragedy of what is usually told as a "Yay God!" story. I think the burning bush scene is the closest a Bible movie has ever come to portraying the way an encounter with God would have…

This is nitpicking for a fantasy show about vampires based on a NES game, but it irritates me to no end that they've started using the historical Drac's nickname "tepes" like it's Dracula's last name. I have no problem with him calling himself that, but for his wife to take the name "Lisa the Impaler" is pushing…

I would've liked a little more explanation of what Dracula was in general. I know they were going for the tragic backstory thing, but it seems like he was a mass-murdering demon-god who took a twenty year break and then went right back to the murdering.

I was surprised the movie didn't incorporate the ultimate punchline of WW1—that it directly set the stage for an even more horrific war. I understand wanting to end on an uplifting note, but it seems like what actually ended up happening in world history was exactly what Ares would have wanted to come out of WW1. I…

To give him the benefit of the doubt, he could have been inadvertently signed out of his AV Club account and forced to post under a little used Disqus account instead.

Can we bring back the plural you? I'm tired of giving grudging recognition to y'all or you'uns.

Phenomenal as it is, I still think Revolver is their masterpiece. When you listen to them back to back, Pepper feels like it's on the same plateau they reached with the previous album, but the exponential progress has stopped.