Uh-huh. But then the source book was pretty good. As was the first Outlander. Three or four books in, things change, not always for the better. In my opinion, anyway. Doesn't mean I don't keep reading, but I do enjoy it when a script writer makes a cohesive story out of what read to me as a narrative gone awry. And I…

"But it’s my belief that adaptations not only can but should improve upon their source material." As Game of Thrones seems to be doing. And that's all I'll say about that. :)

"It’s disappointing that dinner at Casa del Monrosalee doesn’t materialize," Isn't it, though. Is it just me (and apparently you) who gets frustrated every time the writers insert a promising dinner than nobody gets to eat? Hell, I'm still disappointed that Frodo and Sam didn't get to eat that brace of conies in…

I've been getting those about once a month on Netflix, and they sure tell you a lot about the English legal system, at least the way it was practiced at that time (and maybe still). I remember a judge explaining to Rumpole not once but several times that this isn't an American court. We do not get up and pace up and…

Watching Martha's face as he removed it was terrifying - and Alison Wright played it so fine, curiosity changing slowly to a kind of horror. The man she had married was actually an entirely different person, someone she had never met.

But they aren't doing the recount. That was the final outcome of the episode. She is simply stepping aside. So I guess we get more David Hyde Pierce. And this is Archie Panjabi's last season - what do you want to bet she gets there before Cary - and that Bishop kills her. So we get one more year of the Scooby Gang…

My only problem was with the bunkbeds. What kind of inhumans with superpowers are going to put up with bunkbeds in a dormitory?

Thanks. Got it bookmarked for tomorrow. Fun day today. I always like it when someone responds in such a way that demands that I refine and define my ideas in a little more depth. Good times.

You're right in that he's not telling the story in the usual manner. But I think a case can be made that Don, as the main protagonist, is a POV character, and therefore much of what is shot in Don scenes is important in how he reacts to it, what his facial expression is, whether he likes or dislikes something. And…

And this has been a very fun conversation with lots of thoughtful people. So glad you all replied and added ideas.

I can't remember if you're right or wrong about the "ghost" episodes, so we'll go with "probably spot on or close enough." :) Someone with more time and ambition and ability than I have for this sort of thing should go through the episodes with an eye to what Don sees - specifically, what Don decides to notice, what…

Probably in all of his interactions - the others get filled out when they have scenes of their own in which he is not involved. I do love the idea of Don as unreliable narrator - I mean, I'm a writer, and I hadn't thought to go there specifically. But it fits. He is so often written as the grown-up in the room that we…

I'm not one of the people who hates her. There are certain characteristics of hers with which I identify - being surrounded by people who don't share her passion for what she does, for example, and letting that impact her own belief in herself. She's a weak character, in many respects, because she's a character who…

I suspect that Diana is a "dream" in the same way that his other
mother-substitutes have been "dreams" - that is, they are never
actually real to him as other, real people. He makes them up in his own head,
and when they don't turn out to be that person, they lose their reality, their
primal significance, for him. Diana…

Yes - and then there's all the exercise you get from hefting those big books around (mine are hardback). :) This has been the year of the great re-read. I've been reading them since they first came out - found AGOT in paperback, loved it, forgot about it, and then after plural years here came ACOK. And then it would…

I got to AFFC and ADWD shortly before this season began, and found a site (http://boiledleather.com/po… that, as stated, combines the reading order. I'm up to Bran II in ADWD. Very intrigued to find out where in "the west" Petyr is taking Sansa. By the end of AFFC, "Alayne" is still in the Vale, and the chapter that's…

He didn't turn away from an execution. He turned away from an exercise in pointless cruelty and remedied it.

Yes, of course. But I still think it was a death mask - because those things are made up ahead of time and not on the spur of the moment.

Cyanide.

And Cole has, or should have, if he thought of it, a perfect answer to Ramse's accusation that he just wants to save Cassie. I'm sure he does, but if he ever did, it would be completely altruistic - her and 7 billion others. Because if he had been successful, they would have no future together. He was only a child. If…