I'm betting Melisandre brings back Jon Snow by transferring her mojo to him with the necklace. Can't say if I think it will happen in tonight's episode, but I bet it happens somewhere down the line.

Spent all day Friday bouncing around breweries in Vermont and Western MA with a couple of friends and then Saturday in Boston with my family for my sister's birthday, so I haven't gotten much pop culture time. I did watch Blade Runner: The Final Cut last night, which I found to be superior to the theatrical cut I…

This is exactly like the token non sequitur pop culture conversations that every script pretty much had to have in the screenwriting class I took junior year of college.

I . . . was not aware that you could continue KOTOR II after losing to Darth Scion. I had missed the part where you make Atton a Jedi the first time and ended up swinging back by Nar Shaddaa towards the end of that part of the game after reading that it could be done, and as a result he was grossly underpowered when I…

All right, show, how about a compromise? I will stop complaining about the other Sand Snakes if you kill off Keisha Castle-Hughes.

I got massive Macbeth vibes from Stannis's arc during my pre-premiere rewatch as well.

Didn't the guy who plays Thoros of Myr turn up on a cast list for season 6? Stoneheart or no, it sounds like the Brotherhood may be coming back.

Also, from A Wiki of Ice and Fire:

Except the whole point of the scene seemed to be that she's actually ancient and has been an active player for way longer than we previously thought. If it turns out that she's only all old and haggard in this episode because she transferred her essence into the necklace some time between season 4 and now, we totally…

So I should give the showrunners the benefit of the doubt and have faith that something magic probably happened offscreen to justify their glaring inconsistency just because magic exists in this universe? "A wizard did it" is lazy, shitty writing even in a fantasy setting, and "well, there are wizards in the story" is…

I don't buy that, and even if I did I'd think it was a lame trick. They absolutely either forgot to give her the necklace for the bathtub scene or hadn't yet decided that the necklace was important.

Except we've totally seen her without the necklace before. Sloppy show making.

I need a venue to talk about how that thing that happened at the end of GoT was totally wrong and contrary to previous episodes, but I'm not sure I'm allowed to get any more specific than that here.

Prince music, Game of Thrones binging, and The Revenant.

I'm about to start that episode in my own re-watch so I guess I'll be revising my opinion in an hour or so, but I seem to remember that the issue with Ramsay and Sansa was that the only narrative purpose it served was to motivate Theon. They took a female character that had had a really dynamic arc, took away her…

For a long time I planned on not watching GoT this season, because season 5 left me with very little faith in Benioff's and Weis's judgement, and I was (and still am) wary about getting the plot points of The Winds of Winter from them; however distorted the TV version is, it will almost certainly have the same basic…

I'm already unable to keep a straight face just reading the title for "Juan Likes Rice and Chicken".

Not going to go into any kind of detail on this because it's fucking late.

I thought the plan was always eight. One for each book, two for A Storm of Swords.

How the hell have I gone my entire life without seeing that Buddy Holly sketch? Jesus Christ that was amazing. "I wrote Peggy Sue!"