I never thought I'd see the day that I could see the same criticism applied to both Game of Thrones and Cars 2.

Benjen was never on-screen dead, though. He was missing-presumed-dead.

I can't help but get the feeling that the show runners and the writers room never intended that scene to be rape but that it somehow horribly ended up being directed that way

…in that sense that time-travel has any logic beyond whatever writers need to work into a story, amirite?

Hodor's death and simultaneous origin makes no logical sense but complete emotional sense. When you try and figure out what literally happened, it falls apart.

I forgot to mention that when we saw his show Wednesday night, he was wearing a suit & tie: very unusual. Every show I've seen before, either live or recorded, he was wearing jeans and a black shirt, and maybe hiking boots or something.

Does this mean Batman: The Brave and the Bold is coming back to Netflix?
Because that would be good.

I thought 3ER was dead by the time they got to the door.

In the show?

there'd be no need for Olenna to explain

In the books she seduces him by giving him a kitten.

On the show, Loras has never been inducted into the Kingsguard.

Loras doesn't count, he's too marginal both within the show and as a character to fuel the conflict.

I think Tommen's secret to Cersei is that the High Sparrow told him of the Tyrell's hand in Joffrey's murder.

a lot of critiques of TV Loras as representative of the show's view on queer characters ignore Oberyn

the only character that had the capacity to defeat the Mountain in single combat, despite giving the victory away at the end

The Sparrows are so pronouncedly homophobic that I assumed, first of all, that they had treated him worse than Cersei and Margaery.

…when her grandmother murders her husband on her wedding day without even giving her a heads up in advance.

She's definitely one of the few people whose acts are almost wholly decent. But unlike Brienne or poor Hodor, she's clearly got guile for days, which always leaves you guessing.

I still dislike the way she seduces Tommen in the creepiest, most unnecessary way possible…