Arya's weird obliviousness to the impending attack…

I'm assuming people have already speculated many times further down this massive thread that Arya has likely staged (at least some of) her injuries with props from the Mummers.

Ahh… that explains it. I didn't think they ever showed him well enough in previous episodes to recognize him as Dullea (and I never paid attention to the credits), so I thought the actor had gone unnoticed in the final reveal. I feel better now :) He is the Space-Baby Reborn!

Apparently no one here noticed that Dr. Steven Meyer is portrayed by Keir Dullea, best known for his role as Astronaut Dave Bowman in "2001: A Space Odyssey", in which…

Leaked ep.

True, although both the $6M budget and the 4 months or so we had to experiment with effects were pretty unusual at the time for a TV movie. But I agree that it's a pity that they didn't use less stock footage.

You're welcome… and thanks for the commiserations ;) In all honesty though, I didn't discover the Emmy win until years later because I had moved permanently to Europe the following year (and got out of the film/FX business). It's even possible that members of the team tried to track me down after Emmy nominations;…

More "fun" facts -

Google "Haversack Ruse".

And something like that could be their "real" plan, which was set in motion with the Haversack Ruse (i.e. letting fake plans fall into the hands of the enemy).

Not only that, but the (Meinertzhagen) Haversack Ruse was not really what Jared mentioned; it was a deception created by letting one's own false plans fall into the hands of the enemy. The way the episode ended was exactly what one would do to imitate the Haversack Ruse.

Because that just ain't how Internet A-holes operate.

"Im saying that it would be difficult for someone who has experienced that kind of success throughout their life to authentically depict someone failing/struggling. It always comes off as someone writing about things they don't know about."

Well, you call it extraordinary, but it depends on what you think "ordinary" is. I know many people with much more extraordinary upbringings than her, most of whom haven't achieved anything close to the success that she has, which I would credit mostly to her intelligence and talent, and only slightly to her…

How weird. I can't imagine why or how the Times would publish this. Maybe a staff writer that was friends with one of Dunham's parents?

Well, I specifically used 'urban middle-class' to imply 'upper middle-class' outside of the city, but fine, I suppose they are 'urban upper middle-class' (I don't know exactly where the boundaries are these days). But still, extremely unlikely the New York Times would be covering her high school dinner party.

"…a particular subset of people who grew up in extraordinary circumstances in New York (like having the New York Times cover your highschool dinner party)."

Ever since I saw Dunham's "Tiny Furniture", I recognized her as a young artist with a keen eye for detail and self-deprecating sense of humor.

Many of us viewers believe these things have been demonstrated and earned. Just because you don't perceive it doesn't mean it's not there.

Very likely, but I still suspect they're earning more than the complete unknowns in Blue Ruin.