This episode is like a best case scenario for the show taking the best stuff from the books and concentrating it into something more potent. Tyrion’s speech rallying the counterattack draws together bits from a more drawn out sequence of events and turns it into a triumphant moment for him that ties together his…

These movies aren’t for everybody

“Before he died, Lieutenant Dan told me that he wasn’t sad that he lost his legs no more. He was sad that he was never able to fly. I thought that sounded pretty nice, so I signed up for flight school.”

Even that presumably came verbally from G.R.R., no?

“So then, it’s a few years later, and Forrest has to move to get his AIDS kid closer to treatment at this clinic in the Rockies. He gets a job as a substitute teacher for the local school district, and guess what?

OK forget the idiocy of shoehorning him into OJ’s Bronco and stupid shit like that - someone actually thought having him sit in front of the Murrah federal building while it collapsed was anything other than hideously offensive??  Every detail in this writeup sounds misbegotten.

Yeah, it’s crazy that a lot of people would really like a compelling story told by a gifted writer (faults and all) turned into a series with high production values and charismatic actors, with the bonus of getting to see some quality T&A thrown in.  Weird?  

I read the book fans’ complaints about how the show has diverged and is cutting away plots with a chainsaw.

That's fine. Dorne is weak in both mediums.

“That suggests something of a reversal: Game Of Thrones isn’t just telling the rest of Martin’s story before he can finish it himself; the show is doing it better than he could.”

The Gibney documentary zooms in tight towards the end to focus on the sociocultural forces of Silicon Valley that seem to foster that fake-it-til-you-make-it mindset.

No, they did. The clip is very likely one of Woody’s memory of Andy. And through the power of rose-tinted glasses, he remembers him not as a horrible CGI monstrosity.  There’s a reason why that first movie only had like 3 human faces.

I listened to the ABC podcast on this loon (“The Dropout”). One of the quotes from the podcast, from one of the old white dudes on her board, was pretty telling

Just seeing her employees dance convinces me that she should be in prison.

This is exactly what we deserve. 

The toys aren’t in Andy’s room anymore. At the end of Toy Story 3 he sells them to a cam girl who uses them as sex props.

Nostalgia is the bane of progression.

Daenerys Targaryen is in Qarth amid a whole storyline that feels inconsequential now

I grew up in the 80's and every summer was just like that.  This show really speaks to me!

That would basically just be Freaks and Geeks, and I'd be down for that.