You should check out Basia Bulat's new one, Good Advice. I think I like it better than Tall Tall Shadow.

The Liberty Bell is a replica?

And Littlefinger did most of the heavy lifting there.

I feel like that siege of Riverrun probably cost a bit of money. Well spent, that was.

Isn't that exactly what GRRM did in books four and five? Didn't he focus on about half the cast in one of them, and the remaining half in the other (with a few characters showing up in both)?

It was a good performance. If only it had been in service of a better story.

But that's the point, isn't it? He wanted a glorious last stand, and he got an irrelevant off-screen dispatching. If I was him, I would have pointed out to Edmure and the rest of the guys that, hey, things are afoot in the North. Let's see if the Starks can retake Winterfell, and then reassess our situation before we…

But that's just the sort of thing GRRM would do. Legendary warriors turning out to be overrated is quite consistent with the books.

This is an easy episode to criticize. The payoff on Arya's storyline was pretty weak after two seasons of build up. Remember when Season 4 ended with Arya at the bow of that ship, looking hopefully forward to the future? Look where that went.

You're just trying to get a shout-out from Polite Fight, aren't you?

Does someone have to sit the Iron Throne? What if they just dump the thing in the Blackwater? It'd be pretty funny if it wasn't there when Dany showed up. That, and winter never coming, would be the show's greatest ironies.

Polite Fight has been nice.

Honestly, I wish the Queen of Thorns had gone back to High Garden a couple seasons ago. She had some good material based on her part in the books, but now it's clear they're just shoehorning her in because she's a hit with fans. Everything that's happened with her since Joffrey's death has undermined her reputation as…

Brienne has made the point that "Sapphire Island" is just a nickname, as it possesses no notable mineral wealth. It's got a good harbor and some marble quarries, it seems. What does Bronn expect, anyway? And Brienne would certainly keep him on his toes.

In this case, I literally meant that she is the heir to a vast estate - Tarth is a good sized island. But, yeah, she's not putting up with Bronn. I'd still like a shot where Jaime is riding along with Bronn on one side and Brienne on the other. Bronn brings up Jaime's debt to him, and Jaime glances at both of them and…

I can appreciate a film that dares greatly and fails. Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain, for example. Dares greatly, fails hard. Still interesting to watch. I don't see the innovative quality in the prequels. They try to expand the Star Wars world a bit, but they still focus on the origins of the most iconic character…

I thought GRRM or D&D might take inspiration from the death of Charles VIII of France, who hit his head on a door frame on his way to a tennis match. But they already used that on The Borgias, so maybe not.

I think Brienne's the beauty with the vast estate that Bronn's been promised.

The opening scene of Big Ass Spider. Go watch it on Youtube. Seriously, don't watch the rest of that movie. Once Greg Grunberg starts talking, everything is ruined.

That shot of Lee standing there all alone after Starbuck vanishes (spoilers!) sticks with me more than anything else about the finale. Or the last season. He just looked so darn wistful.