Woodrow Wilson was 9 years old when the Civil War ended, and as such, was not a member of the Democratic Party at any point when slavery was legal. Thus, whereas Grover Cleveland would have been eaten alive if he'd made any moves to roll back the reforms of Reconstruction, Wilson wasn't automatically viewed with such…

Some of these are complete crap. "When it rains, it pours" was just an adaptation of the earlier saying "it never rains but it pours." That's the expression, even if some people have started using the Morton's phrasing.

For a moment I thought this was an adaptation of "How I Learned to Drive." I was willing to buy Ben Kingsley as a creepy molesting alcoholic uncle, but didn't think that Patricia Clarkson could convincingly play a teenager…

Boy… I find Chuck to be a major misfire, I can't stand anything about him. Combine that with the molasses-like pacing of this episode, and I'd call a B- generous.

The south side of the castle was deliberately left unfortified so that the Night's Watch would never have a secure stronghold to launch any sort of attack/rebellion against the 7 Kingdoms. The "better safe than sorry" thing isn't to protect the Crows, it's to protect everyone else from any Lord Commander who might…

Come ON, seriously, does Obama have to try to put his stamp on everything? Just let it happen, it doesn't involve you.

Didn't the TV show predate the books? Or am I confused about the massively f-ed up chronology of H2G2 productions?

You're aware he's not a mute, right? It's just a bit he does for the show.