My favourite part of the episode: They found the video file that's been hacked onto the computer because it was in PAL format. I guess after blowing all the things up, they didn't have enough cash for digital cameras.

I'm wondering to what extent the seemingly muddled characterisation is a product of their place in the story. Jaime and Cersei are in unaccustomed roles for people who always had many levers to push and strings to pull. Cersei, for instance, has really always behaved the way she's behaving; she just seems more…

I also feel the show is going to have significant work on its hands to clarify and articulate the morality of the Lannisters as they move forward.

"I have no words, Eli. You can keep talking, but I have no words."

Fairly sure the owner is dead. The Russians don't want him talking to Carrie at all. The speculation is that he knows something that ties Allison to the Russians.

to get this information out to the public as a gigantic asshole

I have no idea what you thought that reference was to, but I'd like to find out because I'm sure it's hilarious.

Yup, I can definitely see the difference between "Super-Girl" and "Supergirl." It's possible that the fact that "girl' is long (compared to, say, the -a in "Barbara") is influencing my perception.

It's part of the difficulty of trying to apply quantitative feet to English accentual stress, I suppose. I hear a secondary stress on the last syllable, in contrast to more dactyl-y dactyls ("comforting," "enema").

It sounds more like a cretic than a dactyl to me.

This made a lot of sense … until the last word.

The formal expression of the subversion of traditional wuxia is simply how most of the fights happen either off-screen or far away. This also happens to the "counsellors-in-court" scene near the end, traditionally very much a set-piece, but here, the camera wanders off as if it had lost interest. The way ambient sound…

Frank is weak, and, to be honest, despicable. He has done nothing except feel sorry for himself and taking it out on other people. He walks out of Liam's lumbar puncture in the next episode, too.

He's just resting.

He really needs to stop swooning over Beautiful-and-Utterly-Sublime-Poetry and quoting from the showrunners' Anthology of Poems the Audience Might Know.

Missing a couple of pops there?