It helps if you read the books—it’s clear that Melisandre sees visions in the flames and is having a hard time understanding them.. She keeps seeing Snow, but thinks it means Winter for Stannis because she’s fixated on Stannis being Azor Ahai. Prophecies being misinterpreted are kind of a theme in the books. Around…

Yep, that’s what I’m thinking—they’ll merge Benjen and Coldhands in the show. It would be useful for Bran to know that there are nice, sentient living dead.

Stannis wasn’t favored—it was all a mistake on Melisandre’s part. So false prophecy, though one the prophet believed.

I’m guessing that in the books, Jon will have warged into Ghost though Melisandre will bring his body back, partially.

Yep, which is a completely GRRM thing to have done. Not sure why Rob thought there was no hint of it in the books—there’s Hodor’s fear at being taken over by Bran when he first wargs into him and the sense that warging into a human is wrong. Also, Hodor learns to accept it, but there’s always a sense that Hodor feels…

Nudity is better for climbing on rocks in the equatorial sun? So says someone who’s never done it. The equatorial sun is what burns you through sunblock and a tee shirt if you’re one of those pale people whose skin shade evolved at a more northern latitude.

I think she kept the series running longer than she wanted to and just sort of ran out of energy. I’m one of the few people who was fine with the ending—it was clear to me from the get-go that Sam was her happily-ever-after, but I’m not big on vampire-romance, so I’m not a typical reader that way. With Sam she was…

Also fuel consumption and our crappy driving. Crappy driving can be taken care of—self-driving flying cars—but fuel consumption has a way to go.

No, I had the same reaction. I think the confusion was deliberate because, let’s face it, each was completely capable of killing the other—just a question of who got there first.

I figure that Ramsay has shafted so many people at this point that it’s simply a question of who gets to him first.

Just a quick thank you for letting me out of the greys. I’m not your typical geek and you made me feel welcome here even if I’m way more interested in Octavia Butler and literary SF than in the latest rendition of the Marvel Universe. Loved the combination of SF and hard science and the wonderfully thoughtful…

This. I actually read WD for the first time last year and I immediately recognized it as a war story—there was no way it wasn’t written by a veteran. Looked it up, and, yep, WWII veteran. It’s a war story the way Lord of the Rings is a war story—the real horror of war gives both fantasies their emotional heft.

Shoot. I love CharlieJane—she let me out of the greys. I loved Annalee, too. They made such a great little nook of the Internet here—nice, intelligent, interesting. All the books I never would have read without CharlieJane’s book coverage . . .

Fess up, you were celebrating 4/20 while watching this.

Thanks, that is helpful. I’ll still need help identifying individual jumps, but now I can separate it into toe-pick jumps, backwards edge jumps and the axel—the only jump with a forward take-off.

Ah, thanks. I know it’s about the edges and the toe pick and the direction, but I suppose I should just drill myself as to which is which. Interesting about *why* a lutz is harder than a flip—hadn’t thought about it, but it makes total sense. I do know that a flutz is basically a last-minute edge change to make the…

I’m sure there are more of us somewhere, but this article was a joke buried on Deadspin and here we are buried in the greys.

Hated the Theon torture stuff—and they added it—you don’t see Theon being tortured, you see the ruined Theon recollecting/not recollecting it.

I’ve read the books, but haven’t watched the fifth season of GOT, partly because I really hate watching sexual violence. But now that the show’s moving ahead of the books, I’m…

Yep, yep, yep. You know at some point she liked to skate—you just don’t get that good without some love of the sport somewhere. Also, when she’s on—as she was in the free at Nationals—she’s damn good—just a great athlete. But I think she is under tremendous pressure, not just to win, but to be the savior of U.S.…

Yeah, I had a bad feeling about Gracie after Anna P. skated that great program and Evgenia broke the record—for a girl who gets rattled, that was a bad situation. I think Gold would have done better if she hadn’t been in first after the short program.