Book Cersei is a delicious, thoroughly evil villain, and her punishment (indeed, her entire storyline) is one that maintains the quality of the first three books all throughout the end of book five.
A reader/show watcher may feel sorry for Cersei, but the High Sparrow does not read ASoIaF, or watch Game of Thrones.

The change is not ridiculous because they don't know what we know about the Boltons. But it appears hopeless, and writing Sansa out of the mess she's in and maintaining credibility will be an enormous feat. Not impossible, though. I look forward to seeing what's in store. Hope it works out.

Anytime a female character has a weakness or character defect, you can tell the show just STRAINS to lessen their impact, often to the detriment of the story and character. But this season, it's moved beyond injecting RW feminism into Westeros. Apparently Samwell Tarly is totally brave now. Benioff, Weiss…if all…

"What's a 'block'? Oh, that thing his head is on when they chop it off."
Piece of cake, and Jon doesn't need his damn sword "fetched".

Sorry, I'm a Targaryen loyalist. Our houses are at war, sir. Or ma'am.

Equally obvious in the books and show, I think.

That happened at the end of A Storm of Swords. So I guess one of the only good parts of Feast happened in another book. Poor Feast!

Another dumb adaptation choice. Whatever the other faults of the highborn of Westeros, cowardice isn't one of them. I guess if the point is to remove the character trait that makes him most memorable, mission accomplished.

Isn't this the problem with the entire series? Everything happens immediately. I wish I could experience the show on its own terms to find out why anyone cares what happens to anyone. Ned and Catelyn and Robb and Jeyne Westerling are the only screen characters that I can imagine impacting me in any way.
Otherwise,…

Why it should be more obvious to Show Brienne that Renly is gay escapes me entirely, nor the reason why knowing at all should affect her feelings toward him.

"Guys, there's going to be 22 minutes of screen time with no boobs here. Someone go to the Boobery. What's that? Oh, a brunette, I suppose."

I think part of EVERY stand-up's schtick is a bit of persecution complex. That's the personality of a comedian, they can't help it. These are generally people that have felt like outsiders their whole lives.
At any rate, I'm so driven by ideology that it's a wonder anyone can stand me, but when it comes to comedy,…

You read something like this and wonder if the Soviets really lost

Given the culture of stand-up comedy and pop culture in general, I'd say "subversive" is exactly the right word. It ain't 1990 anymore.

They have a plan for everything, but not their children finding out the truth.

It is self-evident that they are awful, villainous, and evil. All of us, you, me, everyone, we judge people by what they do, not what they feel. Certainly their emotions, circumstance, background, if known, can give us sympathic/empathic feelings, but we don't excuse their actions because of them.

I hope so hard that Fields and Weisberg are going to rub the audiences' faces in their sympathy for Philip and especially Elizabeth, the same way David Chase did with our equally-idiotic sympathy for Tony Soprano. I cannot believe how many people think poor Paige is the problem.

Paige, still a child, and conceived as part of a cover story, placed in Elizabeth's womb by a loveless pair in the same manner in which they stocked their wigs. But SHE'S the problem with this family, apparently.

I thought the same thing about Perfect From Now On, until several listen-throughs. And then at some point it clicked. I'm not saying Untethered Moon will be like that, I'm just saying oh please oh please oh please be like that.

It would be neat if the Jennings were fed fake news from the motherland—"Prices on exports rising, chocolate rations quadrupled for everyone!"