I think (although I can't be positive) that my memory of "Nuke the Whales" predates the Simpsons. I remember an old Doonesbury cartoon about the Jerry Brown presidential campaign of 1976, when apparently Jerry was notoriously late for campaign appearances. The cartoon had an aide coming in to tell Governor Brown that…

I don't suppose you got your name from an old Doonesbury cartoon, did you?

All I can say is that, as I fast forwarded past the first commercial, I turned to the housebuddy and said, "You know how when we watch Grimm, and it's over, we say to each other, "It's over already?" And on Arrow, I'm thinking, what? Only 17 minutes in?

At least we didn't follow Fish all season only to see her get eaten by a dragon, so there's that.

Waiting for the clock to strike 5! :)

@Kumagoro:disqus - you've just reminded me of why I'm happy Penny Dreadful is back. I begin to think it may be for the delight of your apres' show breakdown. The housebuddy and I were, indeed, imploring Caliban to at least put on a hat.

I was hoping against hope that the series would do something for me that the last two books haven't done - weave together a narrative that makes dramatic sense - but these last two episodes haven't done that for me. I'm up to AFFC and ADWD in the Great Reread, and they're actually beginning to make more sense in…

Jorah and Bronn - they look so familiar. Oh, that's right. I've been watching Season 1 of Ripper Street on Netflix, and Jerome Flynn is a regular on that series - the one I watched this afternoon featured Iain Glen as the episode's bad guy.

The housebuddy and I were actually asking each other, who are the League of Assassins in the first place? How would Ra’s al Ghul finish this sentence? "The League of Assassins was formed because …………………………………." And I think hashish should be involved somewhere. We have also been laughing at the flashbacks, as in,…

I would watch a series called Kalinda Sharma, Private Investigator, corny as that sounds. She'd have to change her name, though. I'm just glad we don't see her bullet-riddled body found on the streets of New York.

I love Peggy Olson. I'm 72 years old and worked in public relations in Chicago when I was a young'un. I think my first boss was Peggy Olson, a woman who had sacrificed everything for her career. She was older, by then, than the Peggy that we know. She wanted to "adopt" me and teach me the PR biz, but I was an…

Stannis is a good one to talk trash about stubbornness and honour, him with his "only true and rightful king" talk.

My foreknowledge wouldn't help me in any case, since this is all new material, no matter where they are. And is it just me or is everybody not getting the entire conversation here? I'm getting my original comment followed by the one response that is reported to my e-mail. There have been lots of individual responses,…

Oh. (wish we had the option for the tiny font to portray the tiny voice in which I say that :). Once I saw them looking down on Moat Cailin, my tiny brain didn't see anything else.

And someone else says the Wiki for the series thinks so too. Snargle, pffft, and phooey. That's not how I would have shot it. I would have had a bigger deal made of Sansa's homecoming. Maybe that's why I'm not running the show. :)

Well, almost everybody, including Erik and Alan Sepinwall, disagrees with us. My son-in-law, however, agrees. I can't help but think that the show runners would miss a dramatic opportunity if they didn't make a bit of an occasion of Sansa returning home. Winterfell is still going to be something of a mess, and she is…

Anything north of The Neck is The North, and therefore home to Sansa. I still think there would have been more made of Sansa's entry into Winterfell than there was.

Well, you have a better memory for set and setting than I do. I saw them looking down at Moat Cailin. And wouldn't there have been more of a scene of Sansa entering Winterfell and looking around her in horror at the destruction? There's nothing of that. I guess we'll see next week, eh?

Thanks. I received notices of lots and lots of replies to this (most of whom agreed with each other that it is Winterfell) but I don't see them here. ??? And thinking further (I know, I know, big mistake :) it seems that an entrance by Sansa into Winterfell would have occasioned a bit more of an - occasion, if you…

Well, I'm not basing anything on the books. I know as little as you do at this point. I'm basing it on what I thought I saw last night. I did find somebody else who agrees with me. But I don't see their comment here.