I would have preferred just sad to angry.  Anger makes sense for the character, but in that scene in the car it comes if a bit comical.

I would add the first two seasons of Dexter to that list—maybe not sublime, but certainly head and shoulders above the source material.

I can think of a couple reasons to not show Abigail's death.  One, if Will saw the body, his magic empathy powers would probably make it certain to him that he didn't kill her, and Hannibal is still trying to convince him otherwise at this point—unfortunately, pinning the other 3 copycat murders on Will overplays that…

Isn't there some likelihood that Lounds is conspiring with Hannibal to manipulate Abigail? I seem to remember an early episode scene that kind of cut away when they were talking to each other.

@Nudeviking:disqus :  There are a lot of connections to the main story of Song of Ice and Fire, less to the show (since the show eschews most of the history), but the main one is that Egg is the brother of Aemon Targaryen (the maester at the Night's Watch), and the common great-grandfather of Rhaegar Targaryen and…

I refuse to acknowledge any iteration of Sinbad not starring Farelly bros movie darling Zen Gesner.

That conversation/sequence (with Team Science at the autopsy about the arm being severed) was very confusing to me.  I wasn't sure if Will meant the Ripper as in the actual Ripper or as in Gideon, believing himself to be the Ripper, was who was cutting off the arm to send Jack a message.  Gideon knew about the arm…

@peekay: If it helps make sense of it, Robb is never a POV character in the books—his story is seen mostly through Catelyn's eyes. Catelyn dies in utter despair in the books, witnessing the death of her last living son (as far as she knows—she also isn't sure Arya is alive). She actually dies because she takes the…

@ The Worlds First Analrapist: Exactly that. Overall they did right by the Red Wedding, but the Talisa murder crossed the bridge from brutal and shocking to kind of revolting, for all the reasons you cite. It also makes meRuss question what the producers think they gained when they changed her character's name and…

Yeah. I've sat through multiple patients' MRI's (I'm an EMT at a transport service) and radiation therapy sessions, and they do indeed use face cages for both at times, but it seems less often during MRIs—usually when the patient just can't lie still. And they appear to be incredibly claustrophobia-inducing.

If nothing else this episode was worthy of Todd's scorn simply because Jeff's graduation should be one of the most important moments of the series but it was a completely wasted opportunity. The paintball-darkest timeline stuff was almost completely worthless. Also, this season has almost ruined Annie and Troy and…

This was my favorite episode so far. I liked the show a lot before, but this one elevated what came before by giving us a glimpse of humanity in the form of Lecter's loneliness and desire to be known (I believe him when he tells Alana that he hopes Will catches the Ripper—he thinks Will might actually understand and…

I said this above, but I think the references are more of a long running commentary or conversation with Silence and Manhunter/Red Dragon than a simple homage.  I think that given how well known the source material is at this point, Fuller has to acknowledge at least the good versions of what came before, and his…

Is it just me, or did he do a perfect imitation of Heald's Chilton with his voice and pretentiousness?

At this point the allusions to the Harris movies don't bother me because it feels like this show is having a conversation with Manhunter/Red Dragon and Silence.  The references have shown up in the opening murder of the series, in the angel-corpse elevated in the scaffolding mirroring Lecter's display of the prison…

He learns to read along side Shireen and Robert's acknowledged bastard Edric Storm.  Maester Pylos teaches him.  It seems that reading that letter from the Night's Watch may end up being Davos' ticket out of jail in the show.

The Reek/Ramsay story in Clash was very confusing on first read, but I really like it that way, because the reader's confusion gel's with Theon's.  I know some people find Martin's use of multiple limited POV's to be annoying, but I rather like that it requires the reader to work to put together the overarching…

Regarding Sam, I'm guessing you're right about how it might go down, but it begs the question: If a White Walker falls at the hands of a fat guy in the woods, and no other Night Watch is around to witness it, who the hell calls him Sam the Slayer?

I think what's going on in Slaver's Bay is logical, she needs time to learn how to rule her people and her dragons, and she doesn't want to simply conquer, pillage and move on, leaving the former slaves to fend for themselves after using them to justify her invasion, but I also think that Martin let the story control…

I'll be interested to see if the show pulls the rug out from under Varys by having Olenna be working with Littlefinger the whole time (as the book suggests) or whether she's simply working every angle.  Of course, that presumes that Vary's and the Finger aren't super-secret allies already…