Those decisions are made by the producers.

Those decisions are made by the producers. I’m not privy to those decisions. All I do know is I’m very grateful to the Kings for making the decision to cast me.

This is 100% true. My mother attended a nursing program at this campus. They were forced to allow fellow students to perform pelvic exams on them, even the male nursing students got to examine their female classmates. It was allegedly voluntary, but it was clear that if you refused it would affect your grades.

I can’t tell you how refreshing this recap was after slugging it out all day with folks arguing about the closing scene. This though:

I love Melisandre and that would literally be perfection.

This is going to be so mean of me, but it was a just bunch of teen girls acting cool and I was very glad when Bronn got his shot in about how one fought well for a little girl and made her all ragey. I was hoping that Oberyn raised a bunch of fiercely independent women but these gals disappoint.

Outside of the Sansa nightmare can we talk about how REALLY BAD the sand snake “fight” was?? I know nothing compares to what your imagination can create but yeeeugh it felt sad and embarrassing. The Sand Snakes are something I loved so much about the book and this idea of a motley crew of badass sisters was so…

I thought that rape scene was gross and completely unnecessary and I’ve been arguing about it all day on FB and the other Jez article about last night’s episode.

So MEH with the Sand Snakes. They’re just three little girls with identical clothes and identical mean expressions. They’re Oberyn’s daughters, you’d think one of them would have put her foot down on that boneheaded mission. I wanted the diversity of book Sand Snakes- big brawny Obara, refined Nymeria that takes after…

The Sand Snakes are a trainwreck. Terrible writing, bad acting, their whole arc is a disaster. I really hate the contrivance of the coincidental arrival of J&B with the attack on the kids by the Snakes. The whole thing is preposterous.

wahhhh the sand snakes were so good in the books!

Eh. If you ask me, the Sand Snakes fight felt anticlimactic before it was broken up by the guards. It felt like everyone was still at the first rehearsal or something. "Oh, I'm supposed to step there, then cut, then step back out of the way of the whip? Let's go through that one more time, slowly."

I found the clip on YouTube and because I’ve heard about it ALL DAY LONG...

Question: why didn’t Loras just raise an eyebrow and say, “of course he’s seen my birthmark. He’s my squire. He helps me suit up, you morons”?

Yeah. I liked Tommen, and now I just want him to go away. He is literally completely useless.

Sand Snakes are so poor.

Yo.

Did we go to elementary school together? Or was it camp?

This is why I’m a dog person.