Every Coen Brothers film is a bit mannered.

>> can't think of another filmmaker who casts
>> his her films as perfectly as the Coens do

And I should say, I don't give TNG the time of day, or the movies except for Khan.

My mom read Harlan Ellison's "A Boy and His Dog", more or less at my recommendation. Poor lady.

He was right about the reboot containing something to offend everyone.

Methuselah is rarely mentioned because it sucks so bad.
:-)

I started to consider this, and instantly my mind got overwhelmed with gifs of Tyrion slapping Joffrey on the show. It's too satisfying. :-) I will have to try this later.

No, I do agree that she's growing a spine. It's just happening very slowly. Or "organically", if you prefer.

Well, two things.

Well, Bran didn't fall, he was pushed, so it's not like he paralyzed himself by his recklessness. Sansa was years older than Bran; and Cersei & Joffrey had already killed Lady & the butcher's boy.

In one reply to me, you are claiming that Sansa is/was a 13yo girl who should not be held responsible for her youthful mistakes. She was too young to get the full picture. And then in this reply you are saying she is a master strategist. Um, which is it?

Except that they're operating in a world where magic & dragons et al have real and tangible operation. The scientists are not using education to combat ignorance (and religion?); they are, I dunno, poisoning dragons and killing sorcerers (or something) to suppress magic, get it out of the world.

Tyion and Jon Snow are probably my favorites.

Honestly, what is there to like about Sansa? She is sweet and she is pretty: in real life I'd like her. But book Sansa? Show Sansa?

People dislike Sansa because she has been irredeemably stupid, and because her betrayal (of her own family!) helped get Ned Stark killed.

Sansa doing pretty well for herself? Seriously?

The cool thing for me about the insertion of Oldtown as a setting in the books, was the introduction of this major behind-the-scenes conflict: the maesters trying to rid the world of magic. The maesters killed the old dragons.

Arabian Night was written by Sir Richard Burton, so far as anyone in the West knows.

Aegon 6.

The additional problem with the Mance Rhaegar theory, and to me the more obvious one, is that Robert killed Rhaegar in single combat. That's a pretty intimate setting; close enough to chat, and read facial expressions. And Robert had met Rhaegar before. (Right? At least at the big Tourney?) It'snot like Robert…