What you're saying is correct by what we've seen, but the whole thing is just an odd leap in logic that GRRM and the showrunners are having us make. Mance has one advantage on everybody: Huge numerical superiority. There's no reason for him to test the waters or stage an opening volley. Why let it turn into a…

This show is really beautiful in its weird, melancholy, occasionally fucked-up way.

To be fair, if I had read the books, I would be very curious as to how non-readers were responding to episodes and plot points.

Non-reader opinion here: It was awesome wheel spinning, but wheel spinning nonetheless. Had they kept the battle to the last ten to fifteen minutes of a normal episode, I would have been fine with it. Whereas if they had just put Blackwater at the tail end of an episode, viewers (readers and non-such alike) would…

I'm honestly confused by the battle's result. You have (supposedly) 100,000 wildlings vs 105 nobodies. If those numbers are accurate, this battle should have been over in a day. OK, the five guys bravely kill the one giant, which just leaves a bunch of other giants and mammoths and 100,000 crazy wildlings who decide…

The fish fetish humor went completely over my head at the time this episode aired (I was ten) and when I rewatched the episode as an adult I was floored by how many depraved references I had previously missed.

I was surprised by how poorly they did in the cliche category. Come on, kiddies, these are CLICHES. They aren't trying to trick you. If you haven't heard it before, then it's not the answer.

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Paxton would have been great a decade ago. Probably too old now. This movie has been going through pre-production hell for a long, long time.

The real problem with the TV version is that it had no tension whatsoever. It was just a bunch of things happening. Least dramatic rendering of the apocalypse ever.

2013 wasn't bad. 2014's been pretty threadbare, though I suppose we're only halfway through the year.

Classic King.

I'm going to wait until it comes out on DVD,. because it's a movie that, as of now, the cynic in me just rolls his eyes at. Not really a fault of the movie (though maybe it is), more (I think) a fault of the advertising blitz and the fact that multiple multiple people I know on social media are demanding all of…

I think they're definitely setting up some mummy mayhem. You had the Egyptian Book of the Dead stuff earlier in the series and now Sir Malcolm is planning on heading to Egypt? Would be sort of a tease if this was just a cute red herring.

I know Martin has no problem with killing off main characters, but I still find it hard to believe Tyrion's actually going to die.

I was rather mortified by Julia's late failures. It was good to see her escape. She's spent twenty days on my television and I am now emotionally invested in her success. She may not be the most charismatic Jeopardy! champ ever, but she has become something more: A friendly face in a world of doom. GO GO ESCARGOT!

"Don't See Us"- The Roots
"Danny Says"- The Ramones
"Incense at Abu Ghraib"- Tim Hecker
"Free Money"- Patti Smith
"Happy Jack"- The Who

Humanity is going to regret that fun week they had on Twitter when they pretended that they really liked 'Sharknado.' Your gift: A week of really crappy movies. I suppose Syfy doesn't have anything better to show…

I concur with your analysis. She's pleasant, she smiles a lot, she'll occasionally get super happy when she sees a random clue about something she likes—in this way, she is like all of us, I'm sure.

What an odd little record. I like it!