The combination of Captain America, Billy Elliot and The War Doctor should have been enough to take out a train. I blame the writers.

I believe I may have accidentally deleted an actual comment amongst the tidal wave of spam I just dealt with. If it was yours, I apologize, it was an accident, I'm not censoring anyone — you just happened to post at the wrong time and I need more coffee.

I really didn't mean to yada-yada-yada through the argument, it's just the old classroom technique of showing up to a point, then letting the students connect the dots and finish the argument for themselves.

Is it just me, or does the headline make a claim (the second half is more claustrophobic) and then Kaufman says close to nothing about the second half but instead focuses entirely on the shot composition of the first?

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FTR, I felt compelled to memorialize this.

I don't doubt that I wrote or said that — I'm the imperfect creation of a godless universe, after all — I'm just not sure where you fixed it for me.

Sort of. My discussion of that scene got cut for purposes of length, but what's interesting about it is the way that Oberyn isn't conventionally shot there, but must lean way over, stick his head next to the knife, and as you note, "snarl up" at the other lackey. It's a brilliant way of making him look dominant while…

If you click on the link to "well-established tradition" above, you'll see that I've written extensively about the camerawork jon the show. I also discuss it regularly on my Game of Thrones podcast.

the "decision" on how high up to place the camera is dictated by how high the dolly they happen to have is.

sometimes I think SEK could be "right" but the director and/or DP might have gotten there through a very different thought process.

If that happened, I'm not sure whether I'd die of shock before or after I had time to demand residuals.

I'll save you some "work," because I know how painful re-watching it can be, and say that some scenes certainly are, while others aren't. Bran's scenes, more than most, are restricted to information he possesses in the chapters they're based on. Steven Attewell and I discuss this pretty frequently in our Game of…

no disrespect meant to SEK but that was also my chief takeaway from this article.

The links aren't working in the article yet, but you'll be able to find many more GOT eye-laser images here and here once they do.

You mean LASER.

There are a lot of other scenes I could've looked at. The dynamic between Oberyn and the Lannister lackey's in the whorehouse, for example, in which the level of framing is still Tyrion-height, creating eyelines level with the seated lackeys. Oberyn invades that lower level when he stabs the one in the hand, and looks…

Not if I deconstruct yours first. I took three seminars with His Holiness, Derrida, and can match your deconstruct-fu pun-for-pun.

As to the larger point of the article, I wonder whether a character delivering deliberate lies in soliloquy would work onstage.

Brodie's narrating the crime scenes while he's videotaping them — offering a running commentary, as it were — and everyone keeps telling him to "shut up."