Just know that the world is missing out by discouraging me, a 33-year-old white woman with no Broadway experience or ability to rap, from auditioning for Lafayette. You shall all rue this day. RUE!

Curse work.

Same, more or less. Like, I get the argument and I’m not saying it’s completely baseless. On the other hand I’m absolutely doing this...

Legally speaking: would it have made a difference if the casting call had said “non-white actors strongly encouraged” or something to that degree? Just out of curiosity.

I wouldn’t know, but from A Wiki of Ice and Fire...

I hear you, but I think the term does diminish what’s going on, because “political theater” is too easily brushed off as mere stupidity and this transcends that. I feel like we need a new term for something like this: the people doing it are doing it in a performative way, but it will harm other people. Political…

It would be if it didn’t have real life consequences for the trans people in the audience...

Yep! And the day we discovered (right here on the Interwebz!) that we knew each other IRL was an awesome, awesome day.

Seriously one of the sweetest and most genuine people I met in college. (Also very funny and a tremendously talented musician, I might add.)

WE SURE DID! We did a play together (he was in drag)! I was the nerdy side-kick to his mean girl queen bee! Sweetest person in the world. So happy to see her kicking ass here!

I also think Lady Stoneheart. At first I was really surprised that she wasn’t included in the show. Then I thought “OK so she didn’t show up in this season, but she will certainly show up in the next season just so they have some drama to infuse into it.” Then that didn't happen and I was annoyed. But now it makes…

They are SO much fun and, at this point, very different. I like the show a lot, but the books have a depth and richness the show can’t duplicate given time constraints. Don’t forget “The World of Ice and Fire,” the history of Westeros, too.

FOR REAL, RIGHT??!

Sure! So for starters it’s not rape. It’s also Jaime and Cersei’s reunion after no communication and little information for a year or so. They’re so hungry for one another that they willingly break every taboo to have sex. It’s incest it’s in a church it’s at their son’s grave they make a point to say she’s on her…

For all we know those dragons are female! You can't really tell with dragons, unless you SEE them laying eggs

Disagree Sansa, but agree everything else. The scene (NOT rape) in the book between Jaime and Cersei was so much more powerful and important to character development and the show fucked it up hard.

I am so impressed by Wally Lamb’s ability to write from a woman’s perspective in a very heartfelt, real way.

Enjoy!

I don’t think so, but then I didn’t think she was particularly dickish on the Daily Show either, so maybe my dickometer is off?

Perhaps in characterperhaps in character is the wrong turn a phrase, but certainly she's an exaggerated version of herself.