Silicon Valley becomes more like Game of Thrones with each passing season.

I think they're without a Lord Commander until a new one can be elected.

He doesn't want power for the people, he wants power for the gods, or at least his interpretation of them and their will.

Even then, the combined economic resources of The Lannisters and the Tyrells means they can maintain a protracted conflict whereas the sparrows cannot.

Technically speaking, Jon Snow is no longer Lord Commander. He's not even a man of the Night's Watch. His pledge to the brotherhood ended the moment he died. He's a free agent now. He might even consider taking Melisandre to Winterfell a la her visions.

The sparrows are doomed. Cersei made a serious error in arming them, but without the continued material support of the monarchy or other lords, they can only get weaker, while their enemies still have almost inexhaustible access to resources.

Pretty sure Ramsay's going to concoct a story about how Walda was killed by their mutual enemies, as he did with his father's death. Never let a crisis go to waste.

Sansa Stark gets an assist in Roose Bolton's assassination. She was the one who planted the daggers in Ramsey's mind that full-blooded sons always have the inside track over naturalized ones. Not that he needed any more daggers, but she clearly did that to maneuver the Boltons against each other, just as Littlefinger…

Hey, guess what, Jon Snow? You've fulfilled your oath to the Night's Watch. Now you can go retake Winterfell and find yourself a nice girl to settle down with.

Awesome fan theory.

And the Fucked-from-the-Very-Start-Award goes to the unborn son of Roose and Walda Bolton.

Turns out they've been overcharged for horsemeat for years.

I hope Vaes Dothrak turns out to be a gated community for retirees complete with a bingo hall and shitty golf course.

Yeah, that didn't make a lot of sense to me, either. If he was heading to King's Landing, why would the Sand Snakes be going with him? And how were they going to explain themselves once they got there? I just assumed I was getting cheetos during some explanatory scene.

1. How fortuitous was it that Ellaria and daughter just happened to be there when Prince Doran received the news of Myrcella's death? Did the message interrupt an assassination attempt already underway, or had she just been refusing to leave his side until the right moment? "Really, Ellaria. It's been days, you can go…

Wait… this was the season finale? It had almost no resolution whatsoever. I loved the Saw reference and Red Death, but we have to wait for next season to for any movement on the storylines of the Blue Morpho, Dean's freshman year of college, Hank's romance, or the assortment of random superheroes that were thrown into…

I think "overconfidence" has been the theme of this season. Rick and Carol and company have gotten so used to winning that they've seem to forgotten that everyone they meet has survived the same crucible of violence (except maybe the townies of Alexandria, who appear to have lucked their way through the apocalypse).…

I think this might be my favorite episode of the season. For one thing, placing these record execs in LA and Vegas seems to underscore how bloated and decadent the music industry (and the music scene itself) had become in the mid-70's. It was also the first episode that really explored the core personality traits that…

I read Yevgeny Zamyatin's We in high school and loved it. It's a rare dystopian novel about the future working out too well. About how there is such a thing as society becoming too enlightened and efficient and how our individual humanity resides in the world's little absurdities and inefficiencies. And it is for that…

I sincerely hope there's a sister article about hip-hop diss tracks.