2. FWIW, the Twin Cities comprise the 15th largest metropolitan area in the US.

Because The King's Speech is good but overpraised, as opposed to terrible?

Yes. The upcoming "A Fox, a Rabbit, and a Cabbage" refers to a puzzle has a solution, though.

Not to mention that the only lake that wouldn't be frozen over would be Superior, and that a waterspout forming there would have to travel the opposite direction that most tornadoes go in order to go back to MN.

Yes, it was the "hearse," but I'm sure he didn't actually call anyone.

Clearly the macabre and supernatural denizens of all nations are being drawn to London — I suspect a Hellmouth. :-)

She wasn't just any nun, she was a straight up Mother Theresa clone. Presenting her as the virtuous contrast was about as lazy as one could get. It would have be better to have a figure that Huey would have strong ties of admiration and respect for. Perhaps they didn't trust the audience to recognize anyone Huey would…

I'll say it again. Robert was shallow, hot tempered, and egotistical before, but he wasn't an idiot. Now he has never even heard of a 401k? I miss the old Robert, but he was sacrificed on the altar of this season's poverty arc.

The London GG was was started in the 1920s. The one in Paris carried on until 1962 (!). I think the London one closed before that.

Given the supernatural tone of the show, I suspect the monster will be able to survive such minor physical insults as a bullet to the head. Wouldn't want to make things too easy for the "good guys".

He was also the first to come into power.

I was a little confused by the Grand Guignol being in London instead of Paris. But I suppose if Victor can reside in London and speak without a trace of accent, that institution can be transplanted as well.

There are hints of this in the novel, that the monster is at least far hardier than a human. For example, the monster is unaffected by the arctic cold.

I felt the disappointment too. The Frankenstein story is familiar, and this seemed to go over the major points of it in a very straightforward and conventional way, something they've avoided with the other sources.

Sounds like WWI is reduced to the Uncle Ben to WWII's Spiderman? The protagonists' tragic motivation?

I stand corrected.

Like I said, people can attach different levels of importance to things like this. And I am a fan, I'm not trying to slam GRRM here. The long and unpredictable winters are a powerful metaphor, and they add an inescapable weight to "Winter is coming".

Sure. But we don't see the infrastructure or social institutions needed to carry out a huge project like that. You'd probably need something like the Night's Watch (but with fewer crooks) in every population center just to guard and maintain the warehouses, and control the release of food during the winter.

Yes. There's the red comet, which is probably not really a comet, so maybe that could be it, but it doesn't seem so to me.

in universe, I don't think wildfire or the Wall are viewed as magical. Valyrian Steel is magical in universe to the extent it depends on dragonfire to produce it (one theory, don't know if that's stated in the books). Dragonglass is probably not simple obsidian in universe either, but I don't know if that's been…