I don't understand the appeal of reality TV, but I I don't care if others do. People have different interests/tastes. Really don't mean to be snarky in saying this, but why does it bother you so much? Like Yawantpancakes? said below, if you don't like it, don't watch it.

Basically how I felt. It was a fun hour of television, but it was made possible by characters acting dumb/not sharing important info. So a mix of the worst aspects of The Walking Dead and LOST.

Don't forget Daario and the Second Sons as aligned with Dany, and Jorah is technically off on his own searching for a cure.

Davos apparently assumed she perished in Stannis's battle with Ramsay. As frootloops noted, no one sans Melisandre who witnessed her burning survived to tell him.

Ramsay is a sadist who wants to rule the North, and Rickon, as a male Stark child, was a threat to that.

I would have liked Sansa's journey a lot more if there had been any nuance to it Seasons 2-5. As it stands, we just got her prolonged victimhood. But I do like what she's become, so better late than never.

My bad, should have stopped to think before posting. I edited with a warning.

But there's a difference between a slip-up and acting out of character. Everything we know about him points to him killing Rickon being the only possible outcome — Sansa even spelled it out to us.

If they wanted Ramsay to remain in character, he had to die.

Rickon was dying no matter what, but agreed on the other part.

Don't get me wrong, that was a fantastic hour of television, but geez, Sansa, how many lives could you have saved by telling Jon, "Oh, by the way, I made a deal with Littlefinger."?

AMC would never win, but it doesn't matter because they know the TSDF won't fight back due to how much it would cost in legal fees. They're bullies, trying as hard as they can to reap the ratings benefits from their stupid gimmicky cliffhanger.

Because AMC is too cheap to film some scenes in DC (or just go down the road from the filming sites to Atlanta, shoot some scenes there, and call it "DC").

Kirkman has said his original plan for the books was to have Negan force Rick to kill Glenn in order to save Carl's life. I'd almost wonder if a secondary character gets the bat in the opening episode, and then later on that scenario somehow plays out, but then I remember the writers of this show no longer have the…

Thing is, I'm pretty sure if you were to ask her, she'd tell you exactly what she would have done differently. But that's neither here nor there — plenty of people drink/get drunk and don't end up raped. Had this guy not been there, she probably doesn't get raped. In other words, she was in the wrong place at the…

If we were having a discussion in a vacuum about risky decisions, then yes, getting blackout drunk would certainly make the list. That isn't the discussion here, though. This is a discussion about someone who was raped. Preemptively telling someone, "Have a plan and don't do XYZ," is acceptable behavior. Explaining to…

Which I agree never should have happened since they didn't bother having the near-death experience change his character in any way.

How would we know? TWD TV show sticks to the overall plot structure of the comics fairly closely. When it does take detours, the results have been mixed at worst.

It's difficult for me to assess what ended up happening with the first half of Season 2 versus what maybe Darabont's vision might have been had they not slashed his budget and doubled his episode count. Personally, even though he likely would still be long gone by now, I imagine he'd have handled the whole Woodbury…

With over 10 million viewers on average, not including whoever tunes in later with DVR? I would say it's far more diverse than the AVClub echo chamber of hate watchers (and even there, not everyone is hate-watching). As much as its detractors can't stand this fact — similar to how I can't stand the popularity of…