In an ideal world, sure. Here in the Darkest Timeline, only salacious horseshit has any power.

God damn it, not Bryan Cranston too.

Here’s the thing though: that guy IS a piece of shit with no hope. Sexual assault isn’t about “sex addiction,” it’s about sadism. It’s about getting off on abusing another person. What “help” is he gonna get that’s going to cure the cancer that he has in lieu of a soul?

Assuming he is an addict, so what? It’s not an excuse, it doesn’t absolve him of any of the blame, it doesn’t change what he did, so... why even bring it up?

Man, I’m loving this. The lights are on, and the cockroaches are scattering!

I’ve spent a lot of time this week blasting Odd Fellows Rest by Crowbar and getting real sad / drunk.

Wasn’t that the plan all along? Unless I’ve just been getting GoT confused with Westworld.

Not yet. Last episode I finished was “Ruthie.”

“...occasionally soul-crushing and/or uplifting at some point in the future.”

Uplifting? Are you talking about the silly animal jokes that make the soul-crushing depression go down a little easier, or have there been some genuinely hopeful moments in this show that I’m just not remembering?

Harry Potter. I’ve sounded off in the AV Club comments before about how I just couldn’t get into the franchise, that I found Rowling’s prose dry and boring, that no amount of magic can make me give a shit about the adventures of a bunch of British schoolchildren. But because my girlfriend is a lifelong Potterhead, I…

I’m ruthless about skipping intros. My girlfriend has much more patience for them than I do. I just don’t see the point. It’s like... yes, I already know I’m watching Parks & Rec. I’m the one that clicked on it. I just watched an episode of it. I don’t need a jaunty little musical number and a slideshow of the cast to…

The Uptown Funk giveth to ya, and the Uptown Funk taketh away.

Nazis are basically orcs from Lord of the Rings, with less grace and intelligence. You’re not gonna hug them into being nice tolerant people, and if you try to snuggle up with one, there’s at least like a 60% chance that they’ll try to stab you.

If by “special and unique” you mean “grating and unwatchable,” yes.

I tried to like Twin Peaks, y’all. I really did. And if it was all murder mysteries, misleading owls, and interdimensional demons with hilariously mundane names, I’d be happy.

It’s the soap opera shit that I can’t stand. I get that it was originally the “weird and creepy” version of a primetime soap, but I’ve never…

Yeah, I’ve never even heard of The Greasy Strangler, but “bullshit artist” is a common phrase.

Prediction: if Jaime does end up being the one to kill Cersei (as the basic rules of storytelling all but demand), given the showrunners’ newfound fondness for callbacks and poetic justice... he’s gonna do it by pushing her out of a window. He may even say “the things I do for love” before he does it.

It all depends on how hot the people committing the incest are. Oh sure, when the Lannisters do it it’s gross and horrifying, but as soon as Emilia Clarke gets in on it, suddenly everyone’s happy.

Siege Mentality (I have no idea how to reply directly to you because Kinja is dogshit):

I’m not confused about how someone could die in childbirth, I’m saying that nobody knows she had a child in the first place, so... how does everyone else think she died?

Here’s something that’s been bothering me:

We the viewers know that the story of Rhaegar kidnapping and raping Lyanna Stark is a lie. We know that Lyanna Stark died giving birth to Aejon Snowgaryen. And we know that this birth was kept secret, because if Robert found out he’d have the baby killed.

So what the hell does…