Right? Princess and bear

*Spoiler*
The Rollo who founded Normandy in France was a different man than the one on the show. He was born in 842, decades after the attack on Lindisfarne in 793. I've not found anything to suggest Ragnar had a brother at all, but I wonder if show Rollo will seek his fortune in Russia.

Fine recap of a great ep, thank you.
I've always kinda been pulling for Raylan and Winona to get it together. Theirs may not be healthy love, but they fit, they suit each other. Ava and Boyd fit too; I have a feeling they'll gone down together, those two. I can see them killing each other and then dying in each…

I realize this is a minority opinion, but I've always kind of felt that Justified is at it weakest when it leans heavily on the Boyd/Ava storylines. Much as I enjoy Boyd, still it often feels like too much of a good thing. Ava just bores me.

Didn't even see Tara this ep, and didn't miss her
Why was Rick the only one to get an A stamp? Hmmmm
Why hide the guns in the same place where someone took the gun Rick hid there last week?
Michonne's violent past - I don't recall, wasn't she a lawyer before the ZA?
Re: Aaron and Eric being writen like it's 1987. Yes!

Amazons by Adrienne Mayor. Well researched, comprehensive history of women warriors in the ancient world written for a general audience. Fascinating stuff.

Didn't expect it, but Lord Grantham figured out Edith's secret all on his own.

Hm. I like Satyricon the movie for the same reason as book - *because* it is fragmentary. Whether trying to piece the story together or simply enjoying it as is, it is one of the very few movies that truly conveys what to my modern eyes is the remote strangeness of the Roman world.

While I love the show on its own merits, this particular change from the novels seems seriously off base. It also turns Cersei into a victim, which she most certainly is not. This is the only serious distortion from novel to show, imo. Too bad it's a big one — it makes me wonder whether the showrunners actually…