"a poo" ???? He's trolling, guys.

Excuse me; it was called "The Suicide Play Kid."

After watching Tyson (the documentary) I kind of believe him when he says he never raped anyone. At least, I believe that he believes he never raped anyone.

And I bet those slum dwellers in Jakarta look like they're living the high life to Holocaust victims! Yup, everything is relative. What's the point of anything? I keep forgetting.

You tell the guy he's not entitled to other people's "riches" and then when he says he's not asking for money he's just expressing disgust with wastefulness—you come back with "everything is relative" :)

I remember showing that picture to my mom and she didn't believe that it was Weird Al. Handsome man!

Okay, so if Shae was just a prostitute trying to climb the social ladder, Tyrion's offer of a nice home and money for the rest of her life would seem pretty ideal. It doesn't seem to make sense that a social climber would reject such a cushy deal.

For kind of the same reasons you stated. I think a woman would fantasize rape sex because it's a way of completely surrendering control. Cersei is obsessed with controlling everything all the time, and perhaps her intimate relationship with Jaime would be the perfect time to completely surrender control. It might be a…

Those RedLetterMedia reviews are too big a part of the conversation to be ignored. They need to be required viewing for anyone who wants to talk about what happened with the Star Wars prequels. Heck, they are basically a primer on the artistic failures of many big budget sci-fi and fantasy movies of the 21st century.

Since this all rests on whether Cersei gave her consent, and since the root of consent gets into some very abstract, even metaphysical concepts, how are we judging her withholding of consent? By the fact that she said no and the fact that she was struggling. Those are observable things. I get that. We can't go into…

I didn't say that it was Jaime acting out a rape fantasy, only that Cersei is exactly the kind of character that would be turned on by rape fantasies. She protested and denied consent at first, Jaime gleefully raped her, and she appeared to be into by the time that scene ended. Were people upset that men might see…

Being selfless is also the perfect way to ruin your cause, so I was amazed that by sacrificing themselves they were actually able to stop that giant. Surely, I thought, the giant will just murder them all and then start raping children. Glad to be proven wrong.

I missed a lot of the rape talk when it happened, but can someone explain why people felt that scene was so disturbing? Whether or not she was raped? I mean she was having sex on the corpse of her lovingly killed son, with the father of her son: her twin brother? I kind of had the impression that Cersei is into some…

The only thing that might sentence him to death is that he started to become pretty likeable by the end, there. Maybe if he goes back to being a soulless maniac—then his life will be secure for years to come.

I got that impression too, except I didn't understand why she would have done that. Was her life not at risk after all? How did the betrayal even work? She was jealous of Sansa and reported to Tywin and said, "Hi, I'm a prostitute that Tyrion is in love with. I'd like to frame him for murder…?"

I might be the only person in the AV Club that felt sorry for Shae. She was a prostitute whose only options were testify or die, apparently. Yes Tyrion tried to put her on a boat and get her out of there, but wasn't she spotted by one of Cersei's handmaidens? Her life was forfeit at that point. I guess the honorable…

Martin's favorite things ever:
1. "Broke their fast."
2. "He was not wrong."
3. Shrugging.

I was with you until that whole thing about "above and beyond any other Fantasy novels."

Check out Rod McKuen at Carnegie Hall. I only know who this guy is from this album, which I found quite by accident and kept mostly as a curiosity. I find it fascinating.

Trashing the Beatles is like trashing Stanley Kubrick or something. But I don't really know if there's any kind of critical consensus on Jim Croce. And Hey Jude will still get listened to forever and ever. I encounter far fewer Jim Croce fans in my day-to-day life. So I guess what I'm saying is that when he brought up…