Between all that, Ramsay lining up for a beatdown, Sansa coming into her own and Team Bran's potential finally paying off, this has been a blast of a season. They're really liberated this year.

Yul Brynner-ass motherfucker

I seriously half-expected him to trot out in his own dirty nightgown.

Sadly, the otherwise-lovely Indira Varma was credited as a regular cast member in ep 1 so I fear they will return.

Oh, that's sick. But awesome.

No, I think poor sweet Tommen is full-on Marco Rubio. "Don't think that Brynden the Blackfish doesn't know what he's doing! He knows exactly what he's doing!" [repeat x12, swig full tankard of water]

Is Brandon the only one who didn't realize Margaery was faking?

Nice to see the commentariat once again rebelling aganst Kayla's reviews.

Holy shit.

I thought he was oddly anxious but attributed it to being into Paige. I could buy that for a dollar, though. Danny Flaherty's grown up.

IIRC, Morrison quit, he wasn't fired. But yes, it was supposedly acrimonious. I'd give a lot to have him back.

As mentioned, Chris Claremont's last three issues, X-Men #1-3 with Jim Lee.

I actually like the team line-up of the kids with Evan and Idie, but yeah, the creative teams are mostly profoundly uninspiring. (I know Rick Remender exited at the last minute, leaving them in the lurch, but still.) I haven't bothered much with the books since AVX, which I thought was mostly executed well.

I actually love Series 6 of Who. I think it's Moffat's best work on DW as a showrunner, next to Series 8.

They were and are.

No, I hated X-Treme (though I guess some here like it). I'm talking about his much maligned (and mostly rightly so) runs on Uncanny and the main book in 2000 - with the "Revolution" event, pre-Morrison - and then maybe around 2005 or 2006 on Uncanny with Alan Davis.

I think that story was ultimately pointless. Where is Hope today? She's extraneous like a million other characters in the last 20 years, especially with Teen Jean around.

To each their own. I've found Jubilee to be mostly an obnoxious cliche since about 1990, and I have preferred virtually every other iteration of the Kitty Pryde stand-in before and after her, including Kitty herself. I do agree Singer has no idea what makes them work, and these two recent films are him piggybacking…

Fuck the Phalanx.

I think Claremont had a few good bits with her on his wretched 2000s runs, but those runs were mostly a huge mess. And don't get me started on Exiles, or fucking Sage. The point is, Claremont was the only one who understood her for years and no one could take his modern work seriously anymore, for good reason. Her…