KFC did post a Hound meme on their website. Several people have held their ipods up to me in glee over the picture. Don't know any links, but it seems rampantly popular enough to just google.

I'm talking about episode direction, not the books. The TV show that is being reviewed here.

I'm afraid Alana is right. You have to be careful around people who know what's going to happen in the next few episodes. *draws sword* Admittedly though, we didn't see Oona Chaplin's death coming. Not in the books.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. They got the level of violence perfectly right. Loved it. Far and away the standout scene of the episode.

Just occurred to me - a crappier show, or if GoT lost its strength, would have shown Arya being excessive and ostentatious with her Needle jabs. It's not often shows underplay this sort of revenge scene, where Arya's changing character is reigned in by sword stabs shown to the audience as almost subtle incisions.

The "Clumsy exposition alert:" section of the review - I thought the point of this scene was to prompt viewers (esp. non-book readers) that he was a Targaryen? My sister, who hasn't read the books, exclaimed excitedly, "Oh, yeah, I remember! He's a Targaryen! Awesome." It was also followed after the episode by, "So…

PS I always wondered: are the subways in New York deliberately kept un-air conditioned so the homeless won't sleep there (i.e. because of the extreme heat)? And what's with the complete absence of electronic signs letting you know when and where trains are departing, like with other train stations? The metro map is a…

VERY good point - I also noticed that they were artsy yuppy types (I'll use your words, best way to describe that 'flashback' scene and what it conveyed). So I thought, "Well, she was wealthy once." And when I think about the wealthy people I know, a LOT of them don't just do weed but usually speed, ecstasy or coke if…

My mother is a teacher and all her high school students watch it. So it's happening in Australia, too. They keep discussing which one will die next. She also uses Game of Thrones themes to keep them interested in maths ("You need to kill 20 Lannisters. You can either choose: a dragon and 10 Unsullied; 100 Unsullied…

The Community Anti-Drugs Coalitions of America are trolling again.

I think you could be right about Eugene being the key.

Being Australian, we are taught American history pretty early at school, and all our TV shows that aren't stupid reality shows (My Kitchen Rules! Yay! Urgh…) are American ones, occasionally UK shows (Doctor Who, The Inbetweeners etc.) So while I loved Chapelle's Show and currently love Key and Peele, for example, I…

Regardless of who took her, she still has to be alive. They kind of can't just leave it at that.

Yes.

Yeah, I don't think they were high on life.

Actually, it sounded entirely feasible to me. If I was living in a ZA, with absolutely nothing to do but "just survive", if someone had weed (or alcohol) and offered it to me I'd at least consider taking it, particularly if I'd been living under the guise of security for a serious period of time (albeit false…

Stupidest name for an episode yet, unless I missed something major. Which is entirely possible.

Huh? You think Zack's gonna attack you in your sleep?

Interesting. There may be a few people hiding within the compound that the Terminus folk have failed to notice. If so, they better not be the ones to conveniently help Rick and his crew "escape".

PS Also I've been rewatching a bit of GoT lately in preparation for the new series, and in one rare case where I wasn't fast-forwarding through the Jon Snow scenes I saw The Night's Watch talking about starvation, and how cooking up Sam (the "fat" character) was a good option. Also, the books make it very clear that…