the blame for why these cases went unsolved (at best) for so long is laid entirely at their feet

No, it really isn’t. His new podcast with Paul Holes is really interesting and it comes across that they are fundamentally bothered by the shocking number of unsolved murders and unidentified victims, and the injustice of it all.  

Or, people might prefer answers that are satisfying in the context of the narrative they’ve invested in, and don’t care for tossed-off nonsense that makes the audience feel duped for caring.  

Dude, you’re currently commenting on an AV Club article. Let’s not pretend either of us are George Clooney sitting on our yacht on the Riviera at the moment.

Or, it may be a fun diversion to dive into a very richly layered fantasy world.  

If there’s not an episode about Sid Eudy and Arn Anderson stabbing each other with a pair of scissors, I don’t know what they’re thinking.  

Let’s not say things we both know aren’t true.  

Don’t you understand? We’re obligated to admire the moral courage the Bushes and Flakes and McCains of the world show us all by gently wagging a finger at the style with which Trump goes about doing all the things these people agree with on the most fundamental level. Heroes, all!

Well, that may have a little something to do with being forced to do so by the occupying forces who could grab folks by the back of the neck and push their noses in what they’d done.

Thank goodness the sophisticated reporter ventures out into the sticks to marvel at how the lumpen is so like the civilized yet so...unlike phase of the election cycle has begun.  These articles are always such a treat and not at all self-indulgent wankery.  

We do?  How will it end?

The Sansa storyline was infuriating for any number of reasons for me, not least of which the fact that they made her rape and torture primarily a vehicle for Theon’s partial redemption, which was gross and clumsy and stupid.

I question why people are so captured by it. Why this and not others?

I pretty much agree with the Dorne stuff, I think they wasted some really charismatic actors and Poochied them.  

To be clear, I’m not saying those elements were unnecessary to the story—I think they were very extremely interesting & necessary elements that got us to where we are (moreso the Tyrells than the Dorne stuff, of course), but they obviously aren’t necessary to the conclusion of the story as a whole, so they were taken…

Ah, I didn’t realize it was an either/or situation.  Carry on!  

Well, to be clear, my problem is trying to figure out what it is you’re trying to say, which I have not been able to really piece together as yet.

Yeah, it’s crazy that a lot of people would really like a compelling story told by a gifted writer (faults and all) turned into a series with high production values and charismatic actors, with the bonus of getting to see some quality T&A thrown in.  Weird?  

You find me someone who thinks there is even the slightest chance he will finish them and I’ll show you someone who has participated in at least three MLM businesses and owns no less than four weeks at a timeshare in Myrtle Beach.

So her sexual depravity is the narrative reason she isn’t dead, and the reason she’ll have to die.  Seems to be an ironclad thesis.