I'm still dumbstruck by my realization that the recent promos for it were actually advertising a second season. I watch FX for The Americans but I'd had no idea there was a first.

I'm eager to see if people will turn next to savaging Roadies which is definitely another It's About the Muuuusssicccc Mannnnnn show.

Better or worse than, let's say, Aquarius? I am a Manson case obsessive and that was so tacky and boring I couldn't last three episodes.

This show was incredibly expensive, overhyped and a massive embarrassment when they realized no one was interested in another show about the '70s and music. On this one I'm giving them a break.

The robots will try to rule Meereen first.*

People actually watch this show?

All of those things, same as you. But I don't delude myself into thinking that this is not a show about a violent world where death comes quickly and at any moment for the people who fail to win the game, as the reviewer apparently does. It can be anti-war while still portraying the horrors of war and the game of…

I'm glad. I dug Shaw.

I don't think Theon cares at this point. I'm sure if it was up to him and possibly Jon, Sansa would be Lady/Queen of the North. But for the sake of winning over Westeros it may be the politically expedient move to anoint a male.

If he'd been legitimized I don't think he'd have been called a bastard this whole time since.

I don't think Robb ever did. Stannis offered and Jon refused because he was Night's Watch.

Now I remember why I don't actually read the reviews. What does he watch the show for?

Here's a question: Can Sansa legitimize Jon as their father's heir as Roose did Ramsay? (We know Jon may not be Ned's, but just go with it plot-wise.) Or could that only have been done by Ned himself?

Neither Sansa nor Arya are psychopaths. That was the point of Arya's storyline (finally) ending in Braavos. But I have no idea where someone got the idea that Sansa deliberately sacrificed Rickon to keep the North for herself.

They might've had a chance if the Vale had ambushed Ramsay or something. Problem with that is there's likely no way the Vale's forces could've moved through the North or to the battlefield without being noticed and that, again, would've put Ramsay back in Winterfell under guard, which is game over.

When?

If there's one thing I wish I could burn off the face of this site it's the countless undergraduate portfolio essays about Themes that are forced into 90% of reviews of any show.

I love that the Experts are so salty this year

I think they're completely off-base. I preferred the way it was done - quiet, simple, understated. The images say it all, not some massive orchestral fanfare.

Rough day at Woodstock '99