I cringe every time I recall "Rape of Thrones". What a headline for an ostensibly nuanced discussion of the portrayal sexual assault.

I agree with this. I don't have a problem with the sexual abuse, but the repetitive nature of the storyline is quite tedious at this point.

But she wasn't being dull or a twit in Winterfell. She was being abused, but she did the best of her situation and tried to escape and seek support.

I'm pretty sure if they'd shown Sansa during the rape, people would accuse the show of being titillating/exploitative. It wasn't about Theon's pain, it was about conveying the horror while giving Sansa some dignity, I feel.

Yeah. I mean, it seemed to make sense to me in context, though it's hard to be unbiased I suppose. Though, wasn't this played out quite differently in the book? I recall the message going out before the arrival of the Donnager

Wonderful news! I appreciate the older, harder rocking sound of her early albums, but Let England Shake was a gorgeous ethereal masterpiece to me. Partly because I'm a sucker for First World War imagery. If she's continuing in that vein, I'm very excited.

Nah, it was pretty goddamn bad!

I agree that conflict between two understandable and pickable sides is more uninteresting. But it's unrealistic to have every single conflict that happens play out that way. Sometimes people are unsympathetic or wrong. Times of crisis allow violent and power hungry men like Zarek to gain power. Roslin and Adama…

Jesus. That's even worse than I thought!

Very nice.

I agree, these two are step down from the first 4 episodes for me, they don't have the same momentum, and the subplot with Adama's new CAG feels like wheel-spinning. Still very good overall though.

I agree to an extent, because it did flatten his character somewhat, but at the same time I like that there was at least one major human character you could point to as being villainous. It makes it more balanced given that like, half the Cylon models are villainous.

They;re kind of like the PLO as I see it. Unrecognised government (defacto in some places) with a paramilitary/terrorist wing.

I read 5 million an episode somewhere

This. Which means the Donnager might have been there to rescue them rather than kill them. But the message might make Mars WANT to torture and kill them.

I agree about the UN stuff. She needs a real plot line, so far she's all exposition and reaction.

As soon as I learnt that they'd turned Stormgren from a UN official to a Missouri farm boy, I knew it wouldn't be worth my time.

Martians are supposed to have a weird sort of drawl accent. I agree the actor isn't great though, hopefully he'll grow into the role.

This seems to be happening more and more lately. Same thing happened with Game of Thrones this season.

I don't know if these are power suits or not, they look more like regular armour. But it still looks great.