I think they're saving Balon's death for next season, and that it's going to happen onscreen.

Tommen and Margaery being cute at each other is absolutely worth that change.

I was really annoyed by the lack of that. When she was giving the bastard talk to Ramsay, I expected her to conclude "…so you need to take steps to secure your position," to turn him against his father.

Expensive special effects *can* be terrifying, but they have to be onscreen only briefly. e.g. https://vimeo.com/57714010 as opposed to the full film version of Mama.

The sinking of the world trade ships was an inside job. Wooden beams don't crack at that pressure!

Yeah, that's the thing - a lot of people were upset that Halo 2 did that, because they took Halo 1 as a war-on-terror allegory. (I wasn't upset about it, but I certainly took Halo 1 as in large part about religious extremism being dangerous).

The MOH reboot was good. The bit where your squad leader concludes that his group won't make it and tells the helicopters he's called in to cancel their airstrike since it won't save anyone was very emotionally affecting. (Would have been even more so if the helicopters had swooped in a minute later instead of ten…

" as those will surely be equally effective on bacteria from other planets"
Bio major nitpick: pencillin would likely be effective on bacteria from other planets. It could very well be *more* effective, since alien bacteria wouldn't have had any chance to build up resistance. There are reports from the 1930s of…