And they ALWAYS overfill the glass. What gives??

Yup! And if she actually wins, she can't go after him in her capacity as State's Attorney without very seriously implicating herself. It binds her to silence completely.

And specifically vampire Bill! Which means he would know about Sookie???

Ukraine is a particularly large country, though. Easier said than done.

I damn near stood on my chair to applaud this comment.

Yeah, me too. I'm not entirely sure what the people who don't like it would have preferred. Too much realism in the animation could be confusing, too round and it would sadly be closely associated with Seth MacFarlane's cartoons.

I think I would buy this level of transition more easily if Tony didn't already have a bulge in his pants. From my personal experience with trans people, the hormone-related transitions are usually pretty far along before they get surgery. It's not just the hair and facial hair for me—it's that they didn't use any CG…

It seems unlikely that Tony would have had the, errhhmmm, downstairs surgery if he was *that* early on in his transition.

God, she is just the fucking WORST.

I remember looking at the time on my phone and was utterly shocked that forty minutes had passed since the episode started. I was prepared to be underwhelmed by this episode but was pleasantly surprised by how technically gorgeous it was to watch.

I think there's a bit of both at play here. There are certain choices that the showrunners made that helped Stannis' characterization (like the example you gave) and others that really diminished him (like burning his followers at the stake for not believing in the Lord of Light).

You know—that's a really good point. I never thought about it that way.

The grade in the newbie review seems a little incongruous with the actual review. That reviewer seemed pretty disappointed too.

My guess is that they just didn't want to cast her for such a small and unimportant role this season when they won't even really need her until next season. I don't think her presence at the Purple Wedding is all that important anyway.

It's weird but I'm almost dreading the Wall episode for this very reason.

I don't disagree with you, though I just want to point out that the extent of Aerys' madness has been hidden from Dany.

I tend to think there was more of Margaery and Cersei in Sansa's power play than Littlefinger, but yeah, he had a hand in developing her manipulative behaviors.

Ahhh ok, then we're on the same page here.

I don't think that's the case, because the way Petyr asks why she did it afterward in her bedchamber implies that he was surprised by the way she chose to address Vale nobility tribunal (if we can even call it that).

There are only a few weeks (approximately 2 months, I think) between the last episode of season 6 and the first episode of season 7, so I don't think she's been marinating in her rage for all that long at all. The disappointment and anger is still very fresh.