Yeah, man, the Dark Phoenix saga fucking sucks, am I right? I've really enjoyed all the Claremont era X-Men space adventures that I've read (I've just gotten through the Brood Saga). In fact, Claremont's barely done anything with the supposed "core theme of the X-Men" in the first 80 or so issues of his…

Except that next episode he's in Castle Black making nice with Jon and Sansa.

One: Bronn needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time
machine. Two: whenever Bronn's not on screen, all the other characters
should be asking "Where's Bronn?"

No. Euron sailed into Lordsport the day after Balon's death, murdered Lord Botley, and took over Pyke. Aeron called the Kingsmoot, backing Victarion, to try to outmaneuver both Euron and anyone who might be inclined to support either of Balon's children.

Did Robb make a will on the show?

I can certainly believe it was shitty, but I think the concept of the "Mary Sue" was, at the very least, a gendered one from the very start, and problematic in that sense. Is the problem with bad fan fiction the existence of author self-inserts, or the fact that it is, you know, badly written garbage all around?

Firstly, 18,000 is clearly smaller than the Tyrell army (which has also barely been scathed). Secondly, there was not even a hint of the Vale being considered as relevant in that Small Council discussion. The only other army mentioned in that context was Kevan's. And that's what Cersei was referring to.

Um, no. It's fiction. Have you ever actually read history books? They are not much like ASOIAF. A World of Ice and Fire is fictional history, though more in the sense of Holinshed's Chronicles than modern academic or popular history writing. ASOIAF is written like a novel.

I don't know whether she'll end up as queen, but I'm pretty damned sure she and her dragons are going to play a key role in defeating the Others.

You root for things to happen a particular way just because that's how it happened in the books? Why is it better for a faceless man to do it than for Euron to do it himself?

I'm not sure anymore - I'd need to check it out again. I thought they were threatening Littlefinger? Like there was about to be a fight. But I suppose your version makes more sense given Royce's response.

And I think everyone wildly exaggerates the extent to which Martin breaks with traditional tropes of stories like this.

We'll see. I think you're over-emphasizing a dispassionate analysis of the facts, which is not how fiction works.

The one moment I liked in that scene was when Ramsay seemed impressed when she asked if he ate his victims.

No, the implication was pretty clearly "Kevan has the largest army; then the Tyrells." Kevan is to stand aside and let the Tyrells rescue Margaery and Loras.

Yeah, I'd say so.

I thought the guys behind Royce *were* his soldiers.

I mean, if you want to willfully ignore the entire thrust of the book's story, feel free to continue to do so.

Mildly.

People use "Mary Sue" for a character, usually, though not always, female, who the viewer believes that they are supposed to like, but who they don't like. The original definition, which was some what useful but was itself at least somewhat sexist (it was typically a way of denigrating female fan fiction writers), has…