Actually, I just read it again and noticed the number of times Barsanti uses "stuff," and I'm guessing that it's a play on Carlin's "your stuff vs. other people's shit" bit—like an homage. When I first read it that didn't come across.

I know that snark is the AVC writer's stock and trade, but this seems like an odd target for it.

It's a fun recap, and "once that stupid Three-Eyed Raven stops clockblocking Bran while he’s trying to get his warg on" was good for a solid laugh.

I was wondering the same thing.

It can't be any worse than the actual X-Men game for the original NES. That thing was godawful,

Who's scruffy looking?

A preemptive "fuck you" to anybody who asks if it's "masterful."

There's a pretty vocal anti-Oswalt crowd amongst the regular AVC commentariat. Wait for another review or article about him and they'll come out.

Aside from the fact that he and Merchant created it, produced it, and made it possible in the first place, sure.

I think they're going to bring in some unused stuff from elsewhere, as well. When I saw Mel's reflection in the mirror I actually wondered if it was going to turn out to be a glass candle, a la what Quaithe uses to talk to Dany in the books, and that got me thinking of Quaithe and the fan theory that she may actually…

Why not create separate forums for people who actually enjoy the show—even if it occasionally disappoints—and want to discuss it with others who enjoy it, and those who obviously hate-watch it? Because the latter are becoming increasingly tiresome as they insist on dominating the comments of every. single. review.

Yeah, Hinds is Mance for me now, though in my head I initially pictured Gabriel Byrne.

"Direwolf bar mitzvah/Spooky, scary/Boys becoming wargs/Wargs becoming wolves…"

Ooh, more musicians on GoT, like what Sigur Ros did briefly at the Purple Wedding. Stevie Nicks is a self-proclaimed obsessive fan, and I could see her flourishing in a small roll, maybe as yet another priestess for the Red God.

What actor would you like to see on Game Of Thrones?

In my experience it's rarely discussed because whenever someone who pretty clearly has a reasonable approximation of a progressive worldview speaks up about problematic behavior/speech on "our side" that person is increasingly shouted down and/or their progressive bona fides are questioned by the purity-or-purge…

Turner Classic Movies put out a brief explanatory video years back that has Sidney Pollack, Martin Scorsese, Curtis Hanson, and Michael Mann explaining the advantages of letterboxing over pan and scan that I use when I teach film studies courses:

Yep. The increasingly widespread use of widescreen formats like CinemaScope was a way for Hollywood to compete with television when the latter took off in the 1950s and ticket sales began to drop.

I've only gotten him to come for the sundae glass vase thing, never the stove.

That little shit has shown up over 50 times for me, but only for the earthenware pot, never the sunken fireplace, and he still hasn't left his memento.