He finally listens to Will, and it's used against him! The irony!

Would a show really kill both female regulars in the same year?

Oh how I'll miss Chilton being alive…

It's all about the Sochi dogs now.

In typical complex MCU rights BS, SWORD is Fox's, because it was introduced in X-Men…

I could see this arc ending with Hand somehow alive, Ward being HER double, and his murdery-ness making him too far gone to redeem for the hero team. Thus he and Hand go off and start HAMMER, the "do anything" group.

Arrow looks better than this on the reg, and CW budgets are hilariously small.

I think the narrative freedom / ability to function in a realm where they have control of some mythology is the thing that will really help the show.

Many of the surprises of WS were blown for me before I saw it. But yes, the movie is ABSOLUTELY still worth seeing. It's great.

Only Emilie deRavin was on this sort of contract, and only in season one. That's why she wasn't listed in the credits when she wasn't in the episo. It's called a "holding contract," and it's halfway between a regular and a guest.

Well, there's a whole thread on the newbie board about Arya's ice cold death blow, so that's all I've got in terms of the outside view. The other stuff is just reflective of how I perceived it, and I was glad Arya's "parroting" beat was there either way.

Look at that, I learned something!

I did too at first, but I figured it was "pillar" because that seemed like a clearer gay slur.

But show viewers remember the visual of that neck puncture. It was probably the most visceral image from that subplot. I can't even remember what the Tickler looked like, I mostly remember the rat bucket thing.

Time is a flat Hodor.

Well, they've already acknowledged the "do we kill her with a house or a bucket of water" thing on the show, which means I guess it won't be so simple.

He was also a known pillar-biter.

But have they said it more effectively in the time allotted? If the point is Arya's journey, and the waypoints of character development she's meant to hit and moments she's meant to have, does the 3rd tier character in question really matter? GRRM is on the writer's staff of the show, and he evidently doesn't seem to…

I…might actually completely disagree with that on the fundamental level. If you appreciate songwriting, a good song will always be a good song, because of the craft of it.

Art is far more satisfying with that ability, so I'm sorry for your loss.