Wow, that actually hadn't occurred to me— wouldn't that be kind of a reckless thing for Cutler to do? I mean, if the WSJ guy had seen that Harry was full of shit, and had run a story, that wouldn't just embarrass Harry— it would reflect badly on the firm.

Well, more specifically it put Cutler in an embarrassing position with the Wall Street Journal reporter because he hadn't realized Harry was lying.

Don is addicted to grand gestures. Accepting the partners' unacceptable terms is another one— like if he can do that, it'll prove he's worthy.

Yes, there have been many complaints, but that doesn't prove that the vast majority of people hate it; it proves that the people who hate it are motivated to comment about it. I never bothered to comment about it because it's a format I've seen before and I think it's fine. Complaining that these pieces are too long…

Was the music actually from that movie? It was jarring to me because it sounded exactly like a theme from a Chaplin movie, I forget which one - though Chaplin recycled themes from various sources, so maybe they were both referencing something earlier.

Yeah, of course there are— I'm just saying that it shouldn't really be that surprising/confusing that Jaime's principles(?) in regard to other people aren't consistent with how he treats Cersei. I agree that that could be a stumbling block for a lot of viewers, though; the history of their relationship and its bizarre…

What makes you think that (or anything else) is "the consensus"? If you're just talking about commenters here, you can easily see plenty of people on this page saying that, and plenty of other people arguing with those people.

"so far all his atrocities had an element of conflicted loyality/self-defense to them - Jaime has mainly been doing wrong to people in an attempt at doing right by others. And that's missing with the rape of Cersei"

"Cersei is mad at Jaime for completely different reasons"

Are you watching in HD? I think the texture of the makeup doesn't look fleshy at all, it's like they were carved out of wood which then froze. I like it.

Sure, Martin showed a less fiendish and more mundanely self-interested side to those guys in the book 3 prologue. But by this point they've been there for weeks, stuck in a cabin where they don't dare go anywhere and they're probably all doomed. Anyone who had half a brain, or a conscience, would have either left by…

Locke needs to stay under the radar enough to not tip everyone off that he's hunting for two kids— Bolton wants the Stark heirs dead before anyone else finds out they're still alive. No one who's not in the Night's Watch has a plausible excuse to show up at the Wall with a bunch of soldiers.

I don't think Margaery is really being portrayed as super-schemey. She wasn't involved in the murder plot, and the only other political moves she's made were to go along with an arranged marriage that her family set up, and then to accept Petyr's offer of an alliance with the Lannisters. She's certainly smart when it…

They've all grown up thinking that this is a super important thing for them to do, so that the gods don't come and kill them all. For all they know, the ritual doesn't work unless you all say the chant. Why take the chance?

I dunno, but the special effect they use for the eyes is different: the wights a.k.a. former dead humans just have bright blue irises, but the Others a.k.a. white walkers have crazy all-blue sparkly eyeballs. This looked more like the latter to me. Plus, if they made a wight out of a baby then they'd just have a small…

Why and how would Karl do any long-term planning? He's a thug who used to have a steady thug job in the city, then he went (presumably) to jail, then to the Wall, then to a wasteland where he saw most of his company eaten by zombies. He'll be killed if he goes back to the Wall, and the woods are full of monsters. The…

I can't speak for the rest of the viewing audience, but I can see a few non-ridiculous reasons to react differently to those two scenes. One is that we already know LF is a super creep and not to be trusted in any way (and Sansa clearly doesn't trust him or like him) whereas Margaery, though she's an opportunist,…

Maybe not the best choice of words, but I was thinking of Cersei's statement (to Ned, I think) that she and Jaime are such soulmates that they're really one person, combined with the way both of them consider their combined couple-self to be pretty far above the rest of the human race. It's a very teenage feeling, and…

Yeah, I don't think the scene between them this week was a statement of anything more specific than "This is over, it's beyond repair." These are two people who had an exaggerated super-romance full of secrecy and mutual narcissism; they never learned how to treat each other as people. They're not capable of directly…

Not a whole lot larger, though. The enormous ones on Game of Thrones are mythical.