I think that was afterward. She hated him at first because she was a live, beautiful girl in his bed but Robert was obsessed with Ned Stark's dead sister—but she really hated him after the baby died. Which I think is just too bad, as wasn't really his fault, and he did have to take the baby away from her eventually.

the first baby, the one who died, was Robert's. Cersei talked about him dying with Catelyn in one of the early episodes, when it still seemed like she and Robert had a chance of a normal(ish) marriage. After that, they were all Jaime's.

I think Joffrey despised his father, even though he was willing to use his father's reputation in battle to try to belittle his grandfather. The battle for the throne happened long before Joffrey's birth—the father he knew was a fat, drunk lech who obviously didn't love his mother. Although Joffrey was awful and rude…

Who else but me noticed the return of Eddie Izzard in an episode with a body covered in bees? "I'm covered in bees!"

I was yelling at the TV too. "Don't go in there! Never go in the basement! Oh, now *he's* home…oh crap!" I love Beverly, I didn't want her to end up as a meal. BTW, the mural guy was way too old to be veal, and I don't think Hannibal would have prepared his old stringy meat as such.

I used to work with Sufjan years ago at Penguin Books, I clearly remember a new guy seeing his name pop up on my phone and saying "Who the fuck is named Sufjan?" I liked Sufjan, and it doesn't surprise me at all that he's a bit obsessed with fonts. We did a lot of that sort of shit back then, and somehow it sticks…