I thought she was legitimately good in A Perfect Getaway, so there's that, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Lost

[Coati Tuesday squints at photo] 

Brootherrrrrr.....yes.....

For meta points, you should have included a sixth series finale at the end of the list, but made a really messy half-assed job of it.

Cersei sipping wine after the explosion is a big mood.

One of the grave mistakes of the show is having Dany be pretty boring. Cersi is evil but she’s great at being evil, and with the show’s expectation of the “good guys” being dumb and honorable, and the “bad guys” being interesting and winning, you pretty much want her to “win”.

Timely Nirvana reference.

Yeah, I’m going to make my call, and say that this is where the post-book section of the show came into its own, for better and for worse. Better, because in isolation, it’s a masterfully-edited and choreographed scene with a shockingly brutal payoff even by this show’s standards.

Frances Lannister will have her revenge on King’s Landing?

“Really, this is just rude! Just because we’re going to snub Headey again doesn’t mean she can just skip tonight’s Emmy ceremony!”

Something both book and show convey very well is the sense of history in objects — people are constantly getting killed off, but some things remain. They’re vulnerable too, of course, and entire cultures (Old Valyria) have been wiped off the map, but that just makes what lasts even more impressive. And the show has…

When the music stopped, when the camera stopped moving, when Tommen left the frame was the most emotionally intense moment. Lots of people personally despise suicides as much as they despise the mentally ill. And of course the show despised Tommen as much as every other non-macho male. Nonetheless, it was the…

An amazing sequence that still makes me sad because it killed the character most worthy of actually sitting on the Iron Throne — Margaery. Just the idea that she was the only one there who could see what was happening, trapped by the idiocy of everyone around her. She combined concern for other people with political…

I keep feeling that Martin is deeply-influenced by the best of genre fiction and epics in literature. There are touches and shades of Beowulf and The Iliad in ASOIAF, to the point that Martin has had to specifically deny that Iphigenia was an influence on the fate of Stannis and Shireen. But in the books, you also see…

I think Roose thought that’s what he was doing--that the birth of a legitimate son would be a check on Ramsay, because he’d be more worried about pleasing his father. But he vastly overrated the strength of Ramsay’s filial loyalty. Sociopaths do not react well to threats!

Littlefinger hopes to rule through Sansa, yes.

Their mutual mishandling of the battle should have excused Jon & Sansa from ever being put in a position of responsibility in the future. But instead the former is named King in the North by a bunch of idiots who forgot how badly he bungled things.

Everything to do with the Northern story beginning in Season 5 is a plot, character and thematic mess, and Ramsay’s downfall is no exception.