that's what I thought too, I'm guessing they actually got him high which was Floki's intent from the start in order to dull the pain. That makes the conversation with him over the bedside pretty superfluous though.

wikipedia? ok
it doesn't respond the question, does it? how does this mean it's the largest supporter of tyranny "by far"? how much more so than Russia or China for example

I just saw the trailer for Gotham, I didn't have a clue he was in it!

it advocates tokenism. hard. the test doesn't even measure anything but showing up on screen, the obvious solution is to put more women regardless of what they do on camera. Essentially gender bending half the cast would be the most innocuous way to resolve the issue.

well, now that you mention Pascal's Wager: I think most christians or believers in any religion really, will tell you that it's mostly a convenient argument piece, but it's really not a good reason to believe anything at all.

"Kant said that religion is opium for the masses"

but Arrow's grades are inflated because the show has/had very low expectations and it's a pretty good show instead. I guess this is similar in that nobody expected a drama airing in the History Channel of all things, to be any good, but it's great.

Tywin may think she's just making concessions and taking the hit in order to make sure Tyrion dies (which he also wants) and will also milk the situation since it suits him

Yes, but this way, you can pretend the show is "deep".

but all those things all happen as a reaction towards the original intrigue, in war it's expected that people will make use of desperate measures to prevail

Also, it means it wasn't a ploy by Jaime to stop people from spreading Joffrey's taboo parentage, yet more points toward the redemption arc

was Cersei even mistreated as a child? I honestly don't know, I'm guessing though that the show is simply stating it so the viewers believe it "because the middle ages were horrible" and all that

but Jaime is not a villain, he didn't rape Cersei and the show is pretty misogynist

"Ukraine? The U.S. won't fight Russia over Ukraine."
Russia won't fight for Serbia, the Austro-Hungarians said…

if it's empirical fact, you wouldn't mind showing some evidence, would you?

normal people would refer to evil stuff like that as "that thing" or "what I did to 'x'" or some oblique stuff like that

the clear implication is that people are animals but their complex minds make it difficult to warg into. Hodor is a "simpleton" so he's easy enough for a gifted warg like Bran to invade. He's still a person, he's not in full capacity to use his mind, not very complicated really

but sexual politics is clickbait

the way she is in the show, I think they're trying to give the impression she has legit mental health issues.

I'm more surprised nobody took the jab at american foreign policy on episode 3, with the catapulting of the shackles and the very clear "we're gonna free the shit out of you!" gun-ho attitude. It would have been more appropriate then. This… it just seems tacked on, it's not like Afghanistan doesn't have a puppet…