I think she looks stunning. I've always found her attractive, of course, but there's a pic accompanying the headline on HuffPo right now of her next to Franken and she has her back kind of to the crowd but she's twisting around and still facing them, and with her hair up like that and in that dress, she looks like a…

That's okay. They just wanted to work "penultimate" into a headline somehow. I for one applaud the effort. Hopefully the next Q&A installment will be "What's your favorite antepenultimate episode of a series?"

I think I actually like U2's "mid-career crisis" period the best. Achtung Baby is probably my favorite album of theirs, beating out even The Joshua Tree, and while Zooropa is a little uneven at times, it's pretty great if you approach it with an open mind (and I'd add the "underwhelming" Pop to round out that period;…

Sibel Kikelli, who played Shae, was spotted on set during shooting wearing Meereenese clothes and walking with Varys. Any bets on how Shae will reappear? As part of a fever dream by a starving and/or sick Tyrion? As a glamour put on by one of the red priestesses? As an extra that pops up wearing the same blue outfit…

I didn't say that Jaqen and the Waif never interact. They've interacted multiple times. I said Jaqen and Arya are the only ones who have been shown to interact with the Waif.

I'm guessing that the idea is that the Waif is to Arya what Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) is to the unnamed narrator (Ed Norton) in Fight Club. The Waif is like a persona, part of Arya's psyche that embraces the Faceless Men's program and must kill her past self, Arya, in order for her to become No One.

I think I missed that. I'll look for it when I inevitably binge-watch the entire season again. It seems like I'm in the minority here, but I've loved this season for the most part. I feel like they've righted the ship after an uneven season 5. I'm even willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on most of the…

"…I'll eat some crow."

Someone predicted "Hold the door" years ago and was probably told the same thing.

A man read a theory earlier today that the Waif isn't real, but is part of Arya's psyche, a la Fight Club, or is part of the Faceless Men's magic used for training. Only Arya and Jaqen have ever been seen interacting with her, and there was the scene earlier this season in which a long shot reveals Arya swinging…

I can't help it. She's like a pint-sized Queen of Thorns. I want those two to meet and for Lady Olenna to take Lady Lyanna under her wing.

I loved her. She's already one of my favorite characters.

If "Who Invited You?" by the Donnas isn't featured prominently on the soundtrack, it's a missed opportunity.

We just don't want to get her all glittered up for the bachelor party.

On HBO Now this episode is immediately preceded by an advert for a new HBO series called Vice Principals in which Murray plays a departing principal, so he's working for the network already. Maybe he could get recast as Aerys, too. At the end of Kingpin his character Ernie McCracken becomes pretty much just as…

They did shoot a scene with the Mad King back then that never aired, obviously, but it was with a different actor playing Aerys.

Yeah, when I was growing up Shaggy was the scrawny, wimpy coward-type, in contrast with brawny, brave Fred. The idea that he could make anyone insecure is kind of eyebrow-raising. Usually I'm on board with fighting unrealistic portrayals of body image (e.g. Barbie and Calvin Klein catalog models who obviously…

She and the rest of the staff also seem pretty enamored of the word tableau today, and distaff has popped up in no fewer than three articles in the past week. It reminds me of stories of writers at other publications making bets about how often they can work a particular word into a piece. I wonder if the AVC staff…

Or Cat Power.

I think that the point that they were going for is that cartoons can have a similar effect on children's self-esteem as the dolls in the experiment that Kenneth and Mamie Clark conducted—and Thurgood Marshall used in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education—to demonstrate the harmful effects of segregation on African…