Good lord. Sometimes A.V. Club reminds me of Punday night at Callahan's Crosstime Saloon.

I hate to say this, but couldn't they have gotten those shots in BC and saved some money for Jojen and Meera?

I like Osha, and I admit I was a bit disappointed in the book when her and Bran parted ways, but I REALLY liked the Reeds.

Also, I pictured The Fist as more of a Weathertop sized stronghold…. not the summit of frakking Caradhras… : )

Hodor is obviously the main protagonist.

Like ten thousand spoooooooons when all you neeeeeeed is a knife.

Kudos for slipping that phrase in there. You know which one.

I agree.  The Office has done some flat out GREAT cold opens this season but I didn't think this was one of them.

There were some real laugh out loud moments (Nadia's list had me rolling), but the fight didn't really work for me.  For some reason I laughed HARD at Nick drinking from his watering can.

…and at once the childhood nightmares of a singing cloud of toxic sludge came pouring back.

Bingo.

Yes, I knew I'd seen similar methods in some famous piece of literature! I believe it was used to show Winston that Big Brother > Julia.

Hah, I love that he left for literally the ONLY role (for his body type) conceivably better than the one he vacated.

I used to think more, more, MORE with television, but I've come to love short series… If only for the fact that you can consume em in a weekend, and they never have a chance to get stale.  Better off Ted, Firefly, IT Crowd, Spaced, Black Books, etc.  You can do a lot with 30-50 episodes.

Maybe the best bit of the series so far.

@avclub-2a01cc2d75a1581c632e310ae0fe4048:disqus : GRRM once said something along the lines of, "I don't kill my characters, my characters kill my characters." Thought that was kinda funny.

Hahaha isn't that the truth. Best comment I've seen in days.

Bon Iver and Wye Oak are both fantastic.

Part of the reason history has been so easily rewritten is that Poehler, Fallon, Tina, and more recently, Rudolph all have very successful TV projects currently on air.

He's like Rafi in The League. Perfect in small doses. Maybe not quite as funny as Rafi.