Well, Robb did name Jon as his heir, so if anyone is still alive to remember that, it could be a factor.

The confederate flag isn't something anyone should just put up with. It is, quite literally, a red flag.

That was my impression. She'll probably end up getting dragged back to the Vale, where she's likely supposed to be anyway, per the books. Are we about to meet Harry the Heir?

It's certainly an archaic usage - I don't know of any other place where "deserts" is used in that sense. I'll give the AV Club a bit more credit, though. They're professional writers, and that's something that comes up often enough that they should have run across it previously. But there is that "grizzly" mistake (or…

That analogy doesn't help as much as you might think it does.

I don't know, six named characters? That's quite a slaughter. In Blackwater we lost, like, two, and neither of them were particularly major. Davos's son, and that guy Pod killed.

That's the correct spelling/usage of just deserts.

I've got to wonder about that Karstark guy. His family is as closely related to the Starks as any and would have the best claim to Winterfell. Also, he has tons of troops. Why does he put up with Ramsey, a bastard he witnessed murder his own father? Just take him out, seize Winterfell, and tell the other northern…

What a grizzly desert demise might look like: http://vignette2.wikia.noco…

Just deserts is correct. Grizzly demises isn't, unless they're going to kill another bear. Not ruling it out.

Do they have to kill a major character? Who died at the Battle of the Blackwater? What about Hardhome, was it some Wildling woman we'd never met before? They can do a big battle without major casualties. Doesn't mean they will, though.

It is known.

I'm trying to figure out how Ned Stark ever put up with that. Even if he didn't remove Roose when he had the chance, shouldn't he have at least told his kids to never, ever trust those people with the flayed man as their house sigil?

I think Rickon's job is just to survive and eventually carry on the Stark name while all of his siblings pursue other, more dramatic destinies. Also, he has to marry Lyanna Mormont, because the Internet demands it now.

Except that in this case, it isn't just some song that happened to predate Stairway - Led Zeppelin can't really pretend that they weren't aware of the original, as they toured with Spirit.

The tiny cell phone gag hasn't aged very well.

Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.

He's fixing the cable?

O&R was basically Taxi Driver with slightly less pedophilia.

Some artists suspiciously absent from this list: Blondie, The Breeders, Jackson Browne, Kate Bush, Brandi Carlile. But you've got the 90's white boy indie rockers covered.