What article? The Entertainment Weekly article or the AVC article? Because neither reaches the same conclusion that you have. Both emphasize William’s/Arya’s agency. Your hang-ups there are your own.

Short, sweet, and to the point. She tagged Williams in it too, making the trolling all the better. No word yet on what Williams thinks, but they like to rag on each other, so odds are she’s raising her own glass to the bit.

It wasn’t a sex scene. The camera cuts away before they have sex. Gendry was half naked when Arya starts to disrobe. Williams chose how much nudity there would be--it’s her agency as well as Arya’s in that scene. Plus Gendry still having his pants on gives us the set-up for one of the greatest one-liners from a queen…

Yep! And going back to Arya’s defiant statement to Ned in season 1 (“I’m not going to be a lady”), there’s the fact that she chooses to have sex before marriage despite this world’s insistence that ladies do not if they hope to wed well (and be wed to someone of their parent’s choosing), reflected most grotesquely in R…

I’d highly recommend that Entertainment Weekly interview to any fan of the show, but especially anyone who had an issue (for whatever reason) with the Arya/Gendry scene. Williams talks about how, yes, it was her on screen, no she didn’t feel pressured to do it (Benioff and Weiss told her that the scene would have only…

It’s Williams, as she confirms in this interview:

Yeah he could be a stand-up guy—I have no idea, really. Like I said I was in a feedback loop of spite, and that impression has probably lingered a lot longer than it otherwise would have since I haven’t heard much about him since (give or take a Punked! clip in which he’s shaking down a kid because he thought the kid…

I know, and I wasn’t complaining about the claim exactly. I just have an irrational visceral reaction to how it all went down. I was working at my uni’s radio station at the time, and when we got a promo copy of the soundtrack, one of the other DJs took one look at the track listing and said, “This looks like one of…

The latter. It’s French onomatopoeia for the sound of the rustling of fabric (like silk), like when someone is walking in a dress.

The duo disbanded in 2003, enjoying a bit of a resurgence in the years after as their music became an early-2000s soundtrack staple (Garden State will do that to a band)...

I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Morlocks show up in a future movie, to be sure. As for their own show, who knows? MODOK is getting a show, after all.

Feige gave an interview awhile back in which his enthusiasm for getting back the characters—“all of the characters” he stresses—was palpable, and he points out that those characters are “not just the marquee names,” as there “are hundreds of names on those... agreements” (skip to about the 3:00 mark):

I still wonder if there’s something he’s not telling everyone else at Winterfell. In that scene with him and Cersei from last season’s finale—after Cersei walks away from the truce talks and Tyrion goes to try to reason with her—the two of them are bickering like usual. Then when Myrcella and Tommen come up Tyrion…

Speaking of comic book adaptations, Marsai Martin would be a great Moon Girl.

O’Neal and a bunch of other AVC alumni were having fun with the GMG sale the other day, as was The Onion:

Still one of my favorite things ever:

Wight Ser Pounce is coming back to claw some eyes out and take an ice cold dump on that silly little throne.

Have you met Therm Scissorpunch?

I thought she could play a grown up Enfys Nest, the leader of the raiders from Solo.

I wonder if she knows about that Black Widow/Hulk GIF.