"Careful! He's a Fourierist!"

You forgot the best line of the episode: "You are such a child of divorce!"

Yep.

But it all would have been much clearer to them if they had used the official formal title that no one actually uses in conversation? That's like saying no one would know what you meant if you said you were taking a trip to Washington D.C., but would have had instant recognition if you had said "I'm going to…

Yes but if Septimar doesn't know it, it must mean that everyone else's source of that knowledge is not of sufficiently "high quality."

So your gripe is that you assumed that no one would recognize it as a discrete political unit, despite the fact, that outside actual experts in Pakistani politics, EVERYONE would recognize it as a discrete political unit who had any knowledge of it at all, because that's how it's reported? That sounds like a You…

Yeah, it's only how every. single. news. report. about the region refers to it.

I like it! Let's write the rest of the song!

Not convinced anyone is dead until I see the bodies. Stannis and Marcella are still alive until I see otherwise. And Jon is definitively dead, but I don't honestly expect him to stay that way. Not with a Red Priestess in the house.

I'm fairly well convinced that Brienne's storyline is going to supplant the Mance Raider's Angels storyline from "Dance," and that works for me, though it does torpedo both the Mance and Lady Stoneheart Truther narratives. I do have hope that Lady Stoneheart makes *some* kind of appearance though, if for no other…

Yay, Natalie is Freezing is back! They're my favorite non-existent 90s era female-fronted alt rock band!

My baseline is this: If I didn't see you die on screen, there's at least even odds that you're still alive. I still haven't fully accepted that Syrio Forrell is dead either, and he's far more likely to be dead than the Hound.

Pheh! The Hound shits on your Maesters! He'll survive out of sheer bloody minded refusal to die.

The thing about the plausibility of Brienne's Shadow Demon justification for Renley's death is that, South of the Neck, nobody has every seen an Ice Zombie or Giant, and there are only three dragons in the world and they have only heard rumors of them in Westeros. Most folks who are acclimated to the world of King's…

I didn't see the Hound die.

One thing that's often neglected in the Spielberg vs. Kubrick interpretation of the ending is that, far from being sacherine and cloying, the ending is actually disturbingly Freudian, with David fulfilling the wholly oedipal desire to live with his mother, with no father in the picture. And it ends, quite clearly,…

It's hilarious that I saw BOTH the INXS/Go-gos pairing AND the Aztec Camera/Edie Brickell pairings mentioned here, though I actually did sign on for the headliners in both cases. Today, most folks don't know who either Aztec Camera or Edie Brickell were, but remain shocked that I had front row seats to an INXS show,…

I need Natalie is Freezing songs to become a running joke, particularly if they're accompanied by Britta hallucinating.

Sheesh dude. Lighten up. But yeah, I could live with out Richard "light pedophilia" Dawkins as well.

Yes. Sith obviously. Though isn't the phrase "only a Sith deals in absolutes!" an absolute statement? Obi Wan confuses me.