With the Spicer/Priebus purge happening alongside the collapse of GOP efforts to destroy, or 'fix', healthcare with the associated increase in attacks on GOP Senators…. the White House has ended up with no establishment Republicans left staffing it and is increasingly at odds with the party more generally. Of course,…

"Give me your productive, your rich, your select few yearning to assimilate."

It's hard to get interested in a prequel to a show that begins with the entire 'human' species (aside from those on a small handful of ships), its culture and 7-planet-spanning civilization being completely annihilated.

It would have been alright had they brought her back with a real purpose, and had some sort of meaningful explanation - the way she died certainly left that possibility open. However, you were right, despite the haunting, almost supernatural cause of her death it is clear that they had intended to kill her off…

I'm curious, was BSG one of the first shows to begin breaking down its seasons into two halves, each with its own arc?

Aww, then you missed the whole 'Starbuck is an Angel-like entity with no explanation' closure that Moore invented to make people who were mad about her death happy again!

The final half of the last season, and the finale in particular, were so awful they almost ruined the entire series for me. Indeed, I believe the show would have been better over all if the mid-season finale - where they find the nuclear-fallout tinged 'earth' - should have been the end. It was so clear that Moore had…

If only they spent some time and developing answers for the mythology and mysteries they were developing so they didn't have to rush to answer everything in obviously, and awfully, ad hoc ways in the second half of the final season, almost ruining the previous 3.5 seasons…

Surprisingly, I've enjoyed his performance. He's right on the border between realistic and comic villain, channeling Johnny Depp's performance in the first Pirates of the Caribbean
movie tempered by The Vikings' Floki. At such a late stage in the game, a new villain needs to be a bit over-the-top to make a strong…

I don't think it is too hard to believe; the formal administration of the Maesters has always come off as conservative and corrupt.

Indira Varma's eyes need to be nominated for an Emmy for her scene with Cersei, the Mountain and Tyene. She stole the scene by conveying more emotion and humanity than she had ever displayed on GoT when speaking.

The show has demonstrated its long-memory several times this season - and Melisandre's foreshadowing conversation with Varys is a subtle reminder that the showrunners have chosen the number of episodes that they needed to bring this to a close and had the broad story fully sketched out for awhile now. Given the faster…

I think it's meant to illustrate that Bran's somewhat lost in 'time and space' as the last Three Eyed Raven worried he could become if he spent too much time in it/didn't receive proper guidance. He sounds crazy and disjointed, but his 'subtle' demonstration of power by saying how pretty Sansa looked certainly was…

Yeah; given how long it takes for anything to happen in the books I don't see how GRRM can bring all the stories he's set up - far more than there are on the show - to an end in only two or three more books without dramatically changing the way he writes them. I just don't think he will ever finish the story through…

Good news is the penultimate episode and finale will be the two longest episodes in the show's history.

He has a deep hate of magic; and therefore a deep distrust and dislike of Melisandre who - given his sometimes seeming-omniscience and spying on Stannis during his time in King's Landing - he appears to know she is a particularly powerful Red Priestess.

While I disagree with your negative characterization - I loved last season and am enjoying this one - I do agree that it is moving at a faster pace that does reduce the time to bring any real characterization/backstory to new characters. I believe it more the result of the choice to bring the show to an end next…

So… the next episode is, I believe, the shortest episode of GoT ever at only 50 minutes; it's also the half-way point for the season. In my mind, by the close of the finale the show needs to (a) bring the major Westerosi political stories to a close and (b) see the Army of the Dead get passed the Wall and the Seven…

The temporality problem is admittedly more obvious in this episode than the average, but that's been a problem for several seasons now. Indeed, it is likely necessary at this point in order to bring everything together. It wasn't enough to take away from this episode for me, however.

He originally was interested in marrying Dany; if/when he sees the dragons I feel he'll turn on Cersei pretty quickly.