I have not decried idealism; rather I acknowledge that it cannot stand on its own, no matter how much we wish it were so. Tyrion doesn't believe her rule is going well. He believes her position is vulnerable in a couple key areas. The pure idealists of the world, great as they were, as important as their contributions…

Fair enough

We live in an imperfect world. This is an irreducible truth. The only way to make it better is to temper your idealism with pragmatism. At some point, a ruler will be stuck between two bad options and the only way out will be to make the terrible decision she can live with the most easily.

I mean, I like her a lot, and the looks don't hurt, but she's far too idealistic.

My opinion is probably unpopular, but from a purely critical standpoint, I think season 1 hasn't been topped.

"Dragonsteel," the old books in Castle Black's library called it, but Sam was skeptical that Valyrian steel was the same thing, if I recall correctly, which I probably don't.

I was pretty annoyed by that speech to be honest. Seems like she's already broken the wheel in Slaver's Bay, and how's that working out?

GODDAMN that was fucking awesome. Tight thematic focus, great acting and writing, beautiful cinematography, rousing unpredictable action (that FUCKING BATTLE). Best episode since late season 1. I think the thing that sticks here is how actually intimidating the White Walkers and their army were. I was legitimately…

At least the camera showed Sophie Turner some goddamn respect and looked away. I'm so tired of this show's bad interpretation of ASOIAF's female characters.

I tend to feel that he wanted to be famous and hated himself for wanting to be famous. In the abstract, it seems like by '94 he felt he had become the monster he had personally sworn to hate, and was ashamed in coming to terms with the reality that he had always actually secretly loved it.

Agreed. This is probably the most consistently surprised I've been by this show since the first season, before I read the books.

I remember reading something a few months ago where Sophie Turner implies that she really enjoys the challenge of acting out scenes where creepy sexual shit happens to her character, which made me extremely uncomfortable.

Like everyone else in the world I just kind of dropped everything to read The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu. It starts off slow and feels like it's going to be shallow for about 30 to 50 pages before becoming a black hole of an epic that consumes you completely. Absolute masterpiece, probably one of the greatest fantasy…

That sounds once-in-a-lifetime.

I prefer to think Bashir discovered some strange alternate high-fantasy dimension, traded in his Starfleet commission for a life there as the Prince of Dorne, and now, having grown old, must deal with the implications and consequences of his hot-headed alt-brother's untimely death.

Let me clarify: You're a fucking idiot because you take everything at face value. "Fact finding mission," my ballsack.

The truth resists simplicity

Hopefully done by the Production IG guys who did the anime sequence in Kill Bill.

Anyway, she can die in a fire.

What can I say? I am but a primate at heart.