I didn't bring it up. I would prefer not to discuss it and pretend it didn't happen, except people who apparently don't understand what rape is keep bringing it up.

The Hound never really died in the episode. We pretty much see the corpse of everyone who dies, therefore I think his chances of survival are at least 50/50.

The whole point of denial is you really know the truth, you just don't care to admit it to yourself most of the time.

Arya would have stabbed Brienne in her sleep for being annoying. It's really best they stay separate.

Parents are often in serious denial about their kids. Especially when the kids are, in their eyes, perfect.

I'm hoping he has an identical twin brother we all just haven't met yet.

It was a scene that was intended to be problematic on matters of consent (as read in the books) that, on the screen, was straight up rape. In the book she consents both verbally and nonverbally, even though it started out as coerced. On the screen she did not appear to consent in any way.

Keep in mind, this is federal prison. They try to keep the crimes in line with things that are chargeable as federal offences- so drugs, robbery, human trafficking, illegal protesters, money laundering, etc. Your run of the mill child abuser isn't usually going to end up in the federal system.

Sarcasm aint your forte, eh?

I finished!!! You can't say I didn't accomplish anything thing weekend. The last several episodes were very good. The first half of the season felt like the writers were spinning their wheels.

The plane tickets also specified Toronto, and the suburb Allison lives in is Scarborough, which is a legit Toronto suburb. But it is very subtle.

The showrunners have essentially said it's set in a generic canadiamerican place. There's small suggestions that it's Toronto (license plates, etc) but they try to keep is fairly vague.

She was risking her life by remaining in King's landing. Her motivation for testifying hasn't been fleshed out yet.

Shae has always been autonomous. All along she's been making her own decisions. I'm not pretending equal rights exist in GoT, it's clearly a misogynistic society, the rules of which Shae has not respected from the beginning.

Throughout this show male characters risk their lives when taking off for *anywhere else* would be more advisable. Shae knew the risks. The men thought they should be able to make the choice for her, which offended her, and rightfully so.

People have taken risks with her, though, and gotten burned. Frankly, outside of the occasional guest appearance on a TV show or the just out of film school indie, I'm not sure she can find work in acting.

I didn't mind it, as a pilot (it is something I'd watch). However, as an episode of Supernatural, it was pretty horrible. It is as if they wrote the pilot as a straight pilot, and then threw in a few edits to make it a backdoor pilot. Essentially it felt as if Sam and Dean were crashing a completely different show,…

Rape culture is the idea that our culture subtly reinforces the concept of rape through various widely held beliefs, such as "look a how she's dressed, she's just asking for it", "no means yes", and "it's not rape if she didn't fight".

I haven't read the books. I will say, though, that this was sort of my thought reading the excerpts above. It's more problematic, in some ways, to write in a way that makes either encounter "grey". At the very least, they made it clear that tonights episode was rape (although, apparently, not everyone gets that).

Yes, criticism=censorship. In fact, by writing this reply, I am depriving you of your freedom of speech. You should sue.