She left only a couple of weeks after Ned and co. left, and arrived at basically the same time they did.  It’s implausible to sell it as a social visit -- particularly when the people they think sent the assassin would see through that.

Catelyn only arrested Tyrion after he’d spotted her and she had no option but to either take him hostage or let him go to King’s Landing and tell his family that Catelyn had been secretly visiting Ned in KL.

In the books it was Joffrey. The show cut that explanation.

The Ridiculous Six was a movie, not an ongoing TV series, so I don’t see the comparison.

Littlefinger isn’t meant to have a character arc.  He is who he is.  His role is as the antagonist/mentor in Sansa’s character arc, which ends with him being surpassed and exposed for all his crimes against the Starks.  The storyline was very poorly written in many ways, because the writers’ abilities are very limited…

Luke Perry’s remaining scenes are all going to have an elegiac feeling to them, but his appearance here was particularly so, as almost all of his lines have a resonance that obviously couldn’t have been anticipated when the scene was filmed.

A few hundred pages, as I recall.  It’s been a while.

The Unwomanly Face of War is a powerful read, but yeah, it’s astoundingly bleak most of the time.

I’m slowly making my way through Marlon James’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf. James’ writing is such a struggle for me, which annoys me because he’s so acclaimed and I like the concept behind the novel, but this is a consistent problem — I tried to read A Brief History of Seven Killings back when it won the Booker, had to…

with Captain America on the side of the rule of law

All the best to Luke Perry as he’s recovering from a stroke.

Get well soon, Luke.

GRRM has said many times that he cannot write anywhere except in his home office.  Any time he travels he doesn’t do any work on ASOIAF or any other of his projects.

That’s a good example of one of the things I didn’t like about this movie.  Captain America isn’t a new character at this point -- he has three movies under his belt, one of which Whedon himself wrote -- he’s never before and never since been obsessed with telling people not to curse; and that doesn’t even make sense…

Civil War is certainly the better film, but Deadpool is a much more interesting one to talk about, as far as its place in the development of the superhero genre on film.

Infinity War has plenty of quips, which is standard for an action film, but the Russos don’t obsessively undercut any serious moment with jokes. There’s real weight to the big moments; and Thanos, especially, isn’t constantly cracking wise.

I don’t think that really changes much of anything.  You need to magically create kids when MCU!Wanda isn’t a magician, you then need to artificially age them into teenagers in order to participate in the narrative, and so on.

It’s not the plausibility in-universe that concerns me, simply that the result is not at all threatening or interesting, despite excellent voice work by Spader.

I don’t think so.  The ending aims for some sort of deeper pathos.

People have obviously been talking about the MCU doing Young Avengers for some time, especially since Cassie Lang is already introduced, but I legitimately don’t know how you would ever get Wiccan and Speed into the MCU.  Their backstory is incredibly convoluted, doesn’t even really hold up, timeline-wise, in the…