Hound and Brienne bonding over Arya not only surviving, but being in Winterfell a total badass with a sword warmed my heart.

It was a big, obvious, ham-fisted narrative decision that was completely lacking in subtlety and, most likely, proper dragon science. 

The whole shebang was worth it to hear Tormund and the Hound talk about dick and later the Hound talk to Brienne about Arya and actually smile.

Heathers is one of my all-time favorite films. It is what I watch on Netflix or Blu-ray or whatever for comfort. I not only quote it often, I even recently bought a fucking t-shirt referencing the film. Having said all that I will say what I said when this was first announced for TV Land (and also what I said when the…

Wait...they’re trying to DIVERSIFY the Heathers?

No paragraph for the Unknown White Walker?

They went through the effort to save Tormund in the previous episode. They can’t kill him. We need Giant Babies from him and Brienne.
The last episode of Game of Thrones is going to be like the multi-endings of LotR. The last scene should be Tormund and Brienne teaching a hoard of red-bearded toddlers how to sword…

This redesign of AV Club was illogical, dumb, and not fun whatsoever.

In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy’s skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is a magic xylophone, or something?

100% agree with O’Neal’s analysis. I haven’t read the books, and while the show has made them more of an intriguing prospect, I never will if the series isn’t completed. As such, I don’t have GRRM’s many words to taint my view of the show. And, I’ve actually enjoyed the past two or three seasons more than the first…

Ugh, I hate that. As James once so eloquently put it, “WHY??!”

You have to go here for that list:

I loved the Dark Crystal too, but it definitely scared me as a kid.

Seems that way.

I wouldn’t have minded him coming back one or two episodes earlier, it would give us more time for us to adjust to Dale trying to solve this huge mess of a mystery, instead of rushing it. But this was a perfect episode, and the scene where he wakes up was so satisfying any complaints I had about too much Dougie…

I cheered too. The only disappointment was he didn’t give a thumbs up.

*Alien Jesus and Beema scream and dive for cover as the A.V. Club disintegrates, dragging MANIMAL to his death*

‘“Hurts so good” might be a useful descriptor, did it not immediately conjure up unsavory and way-too-adult intimations of romantic ecstasy that I probably don’t want to associate with anthropomorphic cartoon rodents’ - Gooble Gobble Gooble Gobble, One Of Us... owo

No one that has an opinion about Taylor Swift, good or bad, can be described as an adult.