There's that whole night for months on end thing as well and various ice shelves that making winter-time shipping pretty much a no-go. I think sticking to Patagonia will probably be the better option.

Yep, Cersei and Brienne have better chances of having POV chapters in Book 7 than Arya, Sansa and Tyrion? I think not.

Lord Riccardd of the Vale.

True, Westeros really does have a Creator and he's not random—slow, but not random.

True, but they have a serious supply-line problem being at the opposite end of the Earth.

This would have been around the time of the Falklands War—Argentina was having a colonial moment. The Antarctic War—Argentina v. New Zealand. I can see it now—as soon as someone figures out a way to get to whatever petroleum is under there.

So *you're* the reason they keep remaking it.

I was an anthro major who had an ancient professor who'd studied under Franz Boas as well as having a grandmother who was in Alaska nearly 100 years ago (wow, that's weird to think about.) But, anyway, remarkable group of people treated badly by just about everybody else. My grandmother had a lot of respect for…

The blatant behavior is just way out of keeping with what we know of the mores of the time period. It wouldn't have occurred to her to behave that way publicly. I can deal with the stretching that gets done because to me Vikings is kind a televised saga—it's as much about legends as it is about history—but Cwen's…

Yes, she was, but given the state of literacy and civilization at the time, I suspect there's almost no info about her. (looks up Wikipedia) Cwenthryth
Okay, 9th century Mercian princess, brother might have died because of her treachery. She also ended up as an abbess and fought with Archbishop of Canterbury over…

Have been Netflixing through Sherlock and just watched the first of Season 3 last night—definite drop-off in the quality of the writing. Sorry to hear that that isn't a one-off.

Yep, I didn't expect to like Vikings as much as I did. It seems to take some facts and legends and then tries to form a coherent whole. My only major moment of suspension of disbelief failures was the English princess last season who wanted to openly sex it up with everyone—not buying it. The rest, though, I can go…

I made it through and it was reasonably interesting, but I kept thinking, but in 40 years, it all goes "poof" and it felt kind of sad and pointless.

Walking Dead—loved the first season, then things went downhill—gave up on the DVR after not watching half the third season. Last season of Smallville (you sort of feel like you ought to finish up after all that time.) Last season and a half of Fringe (I still mean to get back to that and see how it turned out). …

I got halfway through Season 3, but I had to deal with serious DVR pile-up. After that, I gave up. I just don't enjoy it enough to put up with little girls getting killed off. That and the stupid factor—I don't actually buy that people would act they do in those circumstances. It doesn't hold up for me.

I suspect, with the typical British aristo arrogance of the time, Oswald and Diana Moseley didn't think they should have to play second fiddle to Hitler or any other foreigner.

Deborah remained very fond of Diana. In her memoirs, Unity comes off as mostly pathetic, initially eclipsed by the more beautiful and…

Exactly. And people will continue to give up more and more personal information because it's convenient or gets them a small discount. When you consider how short a time smart phones have been around, it's astonishing just dependent people are upon them.

When I was an impressionable adolescent, the two big dystopian…

I was thinking you could just leave it at home, but then I remembered I remember life without cell phones, so being off the grid doesn't bother me in the way it does younger people.

Huge in that it dwarfs everything next on the list. But, yes, some more graphs would be welcome.

Yep and the Duke of Windsor was no better. There was some sense, even at the time, that Britain might have dodged a bullet when he abdicated. Wallis was an interesting character—grew up in a boarding house, kept marrying up and, possibly, survived as a card sharp in China. Zero depth, not a beauty, but apparently…