Even the Children seemed to be pretty tired of putting up with him.

I give it 45% odds he's gonna try and sell the story rights at some point in the future, and it winds up becoming one of those umpteen-billion coming-of-age twink romances that seem to occupy 80% of LGBT cinema these days.

The mind reels at the surfeit of femmeslashfic opportunities that's surely floating around.

I was under the impression the whole point of a Dothraki cavalry attack was that even the swiftest scouts would have difficulty substantively outpacing them enough for the Lannisters to mount much more than even a token defense.

Chaos is a hot tub, filled with Arbor wine, in use by a team of Volantine bikini priestesses.

What, no points for Sansa Stark as Jean Grey?

For such a clear, unambiguous symbol of Targaryen might, the show has been remarkably sparing in depicting them in action. On a cinematic level, it helps maintain the shock and awe of their power for the audience. But it also helps the narrative of Dany's compassion blending with her strategic acumen.

With Dickon Tarly kvetching about the smell of dead bodies, one wonders how he was doing with all the smells of burnt hair, barbecued Lannister, and possibly some bacon.

Oh, mostly that we know he's doubting his allegiance and trust in Cersei.

I prefer not to think of it as a cliffhanger. Even if presented with the possibility, I don't think Benioff and Weiss think so poorly of their audience to not recognize metatextual symbolism at work with the final images of Jaime sinking.

On other shows, maybe I'd be using the same 'Fanservice' tag.

I'd probably place it square at this being the battle with the greatest anticipation - essentially six seasons of leading up to Dany's forces engaging the Lannisters. There's clear, unambiguous catharsis watching Dany ride into battle astride one of her children with the extensive mythologizing of the Targaryen legacy.

I'm not saying it's perfectly dichotomous; engineers still need intellectual curiosity and there are creative solutions to addressing questions in science. But I'd argue the central identities that distinguish engineering from scientific disciplines revolve around making questions central, or solutions moreso.

Social sciences are certainly on the continuum. But they're also not the same as deploying those tools to create in the way engineers do.

That's not my claim - they're thinkers, and scientists also use mechanistics routinely.

The AV Club

It's a little like when climate change deniers point to the 2% of dissenting opinions among climate scientists as "controversy".

Let's also clarify - Engineers are not Scientists. A great deal of the training is shared to be sure, and they have academic tracks that are not dissimilar. But at a fundamental level, the very premises are quite different. Burden-of-proof thresholds for engineering disciplines are far lower than what most science…

I'm still somehow surprised, more than six months in - that no one's taken the opportunity to just straight up flip him the bird in the Oval.

But then - how else are they to learn our economy-shattering secrets of clean coal?