How beatific of him.

It's funny how fans of the show think so many of these characters are good and keep trying to justify their recurring evil choices. I don't love this show because of its classical heroes, but because everyone is so flawed. Stannis is, and has always been, a monster in — as Hannibal Lecter calls it — a person suit.

It shows how deranged he is with needing to be king that he both loves his daughter that much, yet is willing to sacrifice her. In his mind, her sacrifice is probably the best thing she could have done with her life. Sigh.

While I don't entirely agree with that, I do think the showrunners are making sure to make both Stannis and the Boultons equally awful — religious extremism/ambition vs. sadism — to make Littlefinger seem like the best bad choice.

But he also loves power — justified by "destiny" — and that meant everything is expendable.

Yet, the large mass body run by Svengalis is also communism in a paranoid 1950s nutshell. And there are the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse on the mountaintop. I think Martin doesn't discriminate in what he borrows from: so not straight allegory of one thing over another.

Good point. I have a bunch of Vertigo comics right in front of me and missed it entirely.

I have to figure the Major reveal and retcon was a tease to whet the audiences appetite for him knowing about Liv, only to have Babineaux be the next one to know. This would be dramatically satisfying because it will mean Major is truly the last one to know her secret. And that will hurt him, but maybe also show how…

iZombie reminds me a bit of Fringe in the cases of the week slowly starting to have to do more with the mythology (and hence the show getting stronger). I wonder if the network likes to keep the first few episodes as easy to jump in as ever, but gives a bit more slack around episode 4 or 5 to keep viewers hooked with…

Major has had both the love of his life and the career he was passionate about ripped away from him. Add to that the crazy rumors of zombie-ism and the man he shot just vanishing. It is enough to make anyone unhinged and him jumping in the car trunk demonstrates the lengths he will go to understand what has happened…

I'm not sure the Vertigo reference is about Peyton as much as a stand-in for how Major is like James Stewart's Scottie becoming obsessed with zombie-ism. I take his need to figure out the zombie situation is stemming from a realization deep down that Liv changed and this hell bent quest is ultimately destructive. Liv…

The Major Twist - Major is already a zombie. It doesn't make sense and that's why it has to be the twist.

I wonder if we'll get more flashbacks to pre-zombie Liv. Although Liv seems to think she needs to be human again, she appears to be finally more carefree and open to new things. The joke of the show, I think, is that Liv needed to die to "Liv." Cheesy, but it works on a show with this tone.

The tone of this show is a perfect blend of Wonderfalls, Veronica Mars, and Buffy. I wish the CW would market it as the hip, culturally hip show and lean less on the zombie part. While a lot of people still want zombie this and that, I think the average viewer might get roped in by the wit and humor that has a little…

She needs to explain it in a way of this not being "zombies" as much as people suffering from a disease that have either gone "good" or "evil." Liv and Major have the same goals and a spark; I hope the show doesn't drag down their energy by pitting them as semi-enemies in season 2.

Just because the show follows, and even ostensibly champions, the 1% doesn't make this a conservative show. Martin seems far too condescending towards the majority of these figures and their hypocrisies to be supportive of the wealthy. Instead, he wants us to get to know them as people before slowly pulling out the…

It's hilarious how I almost felt bad for Cersei as she was thrown in the cell. Yet, she deserves everything she gets.

I believe the actor playing Conde just isn't very strong. He comes across wooden and the show would have done well to find a more reliable character actor, perhaps a few years older (even if that meant fudging history a bit) who could come across as potentially more intimidating/confident than the young Francis.…

Although, with the Kenna plotline Renaud was telling her the whole time it was up to the woman in an exchange with him to declare her intentions. While this could be read as sexist, it also has a certain degree of entitlement/agency for Kenna. So I don't think I would blame Renaud for doing anything other than…

That would involve her driving the kid. That's effort. Better to be neglectful and get child services to deal with it. Saves on gas too.