Nah, Viserys was played by Harry Lloyd and Rhaegar was played by some guy named Wilf Scolding. That’s a cool name.

People above (or below?) theorize that it was because Littlefinger might have had people listening in. Personally, I don’t think she was really threatening Sansa, she was just showing off.

I think Sansa took Arya’s advice and got some better guards.

The Mountain didn’t really die, he just came very close. Note how Qyburn was fascinated by the twitching hand; he couldn’t do anything like that.

Oh, we can’t swear now? I’m sure I said “cunt” earlier.

I keep thinking of a joke I heard when I played You Don’t Know Jack 20 years ago, about the sensation that ants are crawling on you. “Of course, we’re talking about the insect. If you have relatives crawling on you, that’s a whole different thing.”

The Targaryen line is full of incestuous couples though.

I learned that you can’t film a solar eclipse with an ordinary camera.

Hoss is great in Barbara and absolutely amazing in Phoenix. As far as I know, the last time the Oscars nominated someone from a foreign language film for an acting award was Roberto Begnini in Life Is Beautiful, and Nina Hoss was a whole lot better than him. I guess you have to make your Holocaust movies fun if you…

There wasn’t really anything to see if you didn’t have glasses, unless it was totally obscured. It was just slightly dimmer light. Yeah, that’s right, I took a quick peek.

The season/series is only 8 episodes long, and the first episode is presumably 150% as long as the rest of them, so he better hurry up and establish. Apparently there are still some main characters who didn’t show up in the pilot though.

Especially if you push the cotton swabs too far into your ear canal.

I’m gonna go with Moonlight even though I don’t fully understand it. At least the Blu-ray came with a commentary track so I’m not as lost as the first time I saw it. For instance, I thought it was a shame that Juan was absent after the first part and it didn’t occur to me that the other two parts were about his…

It was awkward to go directly from a recreation of an event to commentary on the event itself, repeating some of the same points. They do that sometimes on the main show but there are usually a few sketches in between.

It’s strange, there’s so much more incest on TV than in reality, at least per capita. Then again, that’s also true of other dramatic things, but I don’t see how it enhances a story.

It was a spectacular achievement visually, and yet all I can think about is how bad the writing was.

That’s quite an ass!

I’m slow to get into new things so I’ve still been listening to the At The Drive-In album that was released in May. It seems this is an unpopular opinion - it got a pretty bad review here - but I love this album, or at least the second side. Albums don’t tend to have obviously delimited sides anymore but on this album…

I was hoping this would say who the actors are in the text so I wouldn’t have to watch the video, because I don’t want to watch a video. I guess I’ll have to either look it up myself or continue assuming these are slightly warped versions of John Teti, James Carville, and Melissa Fumero.

Is this because Jared Leto was upset that so many of his scenes got cut in the last one?