They also use it in the famous “single shot” sequence during the raid on the refugee camp.  IIRC it’s actually like three shots and they used some CGI to disguise where they stitched it together.

Robb is IIRC 15 or maybe 16 when the war starts in the book.

I think they actually did well by Sansa for a while at least. In the book Sansa is incredibly uninteresting because she’s so passive. Literally all she does is get shunted from one person to another who uses her as a political pawn. In the show at least they gave her a little bit of spine in the Vale.

Stannis is one of the prime examples of how the showrunners often don’t understand that seemingly small changes can have big impacts on the story.  Like the seemed genuinely surprised that anyone would be upset at Sansa getting raped by Ramsay instead of Jeyne Poole.

I’m upset they didn’t bring her back for Lady Stoneheart.

In the books she kills Jinglebell, a mentally impaired grandson of Lord Walder who serves as a court jester. 

There was a tweet I saw from someone after Rains of Castemere aired which said “Remember that nerdy guy you know who was real sad 10 years ago?  This is why.”

I remember zoning out in that chapter because it seemed like another interminable set of descriptions of feasts by Martin and then it was like “Wait, what, everyone’s getting killed?”

No mention of the classic scene from The Wire where the entire dialogue consists of the word “fuck” and it’s variants?

Frak is the only substitute/made up swear word which actually works as profanity.

This is a reminded that these events are about more than fatalities.  In discussions of gun violence we always talk about the people killed, but there’s a lot more people who are wounded, either physically or, as in this case, psychologically.  Sometimes these people will have lifelong health consequences as a result…

I respectfully disagree on pretty much every level. You’re right that we should have a broad national coalition. But without the consent of the people that’s meaningless. If one random farmer and one random Wall Street exec got together and chose the president that provides some geographical balance but that’s not…

From the trailer it looks like Manson is a smaller part of this than it previously seemed. Which is good. Tarantino has such a loving relationship with cinematic violence that it was worrisome that he was going to be tackling such a gruesome real life murder case.

It worked as it’s supposed to, but it didn’t work as the popular vote would have.  Donald Trump got 44% of the vote in Maine but only got one out of four electoral votes.  In 2012, Mitt Romney got 40% of the vote and zero electors.  In Nebraska, which uses the same system, Hillary Clinton got a third of the vote and…

Exactly.  States don’t vote in a monolith.  The reason we think of them doing so is because the electoral college erases the vote of the political minority in a state.  State by state geography would start to matter less, strategically, without the electoral college. 

Which becomes a self fullfilling prophecy.  People don’t come out and vote and so they exacerbate the existing power differential. 

You can’t get rid of the electoral college without a constitutional amendment.  But you can render it moot.  States can choose how to allocate their electors.  The National Popular Vote Compact is a law, passed by 12 states so far.  Once passed by a group of states representing a majority of the electoral college…

The popular vote would probably also juice turnout in states across the board.  Right now there’s a lot of people who don’t bother to vote because they know that their vote doesn’t make a difference.  If you’re a Democrat in Idaho you know that your vote isn’t going to matter in a presidential race so why bother? …

The Iowa caucus has nothing to do with the electoral college. That’s in the primaries and it’s first because of tradition and Iowa’s insistence on always jumping ahead. The Iowa caucus should probably be done away with though because Iowa is terribly unrepresentative of the US. It’s also pretty bad at picking the…

Ranked choice isn’t a panacea.  In Maine for example it resulted in the Congressional candidate who got fewer votes ending up as the winner.