I had a discussion like this before, commenting that some folk here were doing no better by lumping people who criticise Sarkeesian right into the "MRA/misogynistic" category. To be honest the only time I see gamergate on the web nowadays is in threads like these; I'd been led to believe it was an actual movement but…

Really loved the look of that one, but I wish they'd done more with the psychic vampire. The episode just sort of petered out. 'Hellbound' from the same season was very entertaining and spooky until they crammed a whole reincarnation plot in there for no reason.

I just saw an article on this movie from a right-wing outlet and the headline went: "Three stunning indictments of Obama and Hillary in Benghazi movie" and the byline went: "13 Hours: Great film with surprsingly subtle political commentary."

According to fansite Watchers on the Wall (very reliable!) Aeron has been cast alongside Euron, but they have no idea who the actor is. I figure it'll be a very small role, possibly for the Kingsmoot and not much else.

Whenever someone trots out the "The books are smart the TV is dumb and you're a lunatic to think otherwise"… just disengage. There's always an intimation of anger and superiority in their posts and it's best not to be a punching bag for them.

There are plenty of howlers in the books, "Myrish swamp" and "fat pink mast" coming immediately to mind, since fans haven't stopped laughing and groaning about them for years (not to mention that AFFC's Dorne arc was, frankly, rubbish and needlessly convoluted and filled with bad characters and lines - "I am Darkstar!…

"Frozen water is known as ice."

Scotland has some of the top ranked universities in Europe and Scots also account for the most educated populace in the EU, according to the ONS (Office for National Statistics). Tuition here is free. If people want a system to work without charging extortionate rates, they can make it work.

They certainly have less rape in the show than they do in the books, though people seem to think otherwise. The show omits all the grisly details of the mass rapes that follow a successful Ironborn raid, for example, and the mobrape of Lollys Stokeworth (and all the subsequent jokes at her expense) was cut completely.…

Yeah true, though I would not characterise the GoT team as lazy; they work practically 365 days a year, every year, since 2011. Some things will slip through the cracks and not everything will satisfy. As for the rest of the show's production I think we're positively spoiled. I heard they actually finished season 5…

My point was, she's had so little material in the last two books that the showrunners had a choice: either use her to help set up the Northern plot for season 6 by merging her with Jeyne Poole (who is, essentially, Sansa-lite or 2.0, if we go by her characterisation in the books), or they do a Bran and cut her out…

I'll concede that much of the audience after season 2 contrived tortures for Theon that would make Ramsay go pale, so their sympathy for him is already hobbled. Their thirst for revenge was either slaked by the torture or they were bored. It seems either/or. I just wish we treated the characters and their experiences…

What I'm saying is, no senators threw in the towel, there were no (or next to no) thinkpieces dedicated to it, websites didn't host roundtables to discuss it, it didn't open a debate about torture, it's barely even referred to backhandedly unless we're talking about how much it bored people. That's all I hear about…

I think I recall what you mean, but there was no sexual violence in that scene (from the finale); in fact, the only violence is meted out against the would-be rapist (it's arguable he's a rapist, he's only shown as a sadist). As for Cersei being paraded through the city naked, that happens to an older man in episode 3.

I'm trying to think of the sexual violence from season 5… I can only bring to mind the off-screen but much derided Sansa scene from the end of episode 6. What else was there?

Dick Laurent is dead… :(

I saw that too and I think he grabbed the kid by the scruff and said something along the lines of, "You don't know who you're messing with" or something, and there's a rumour he hit the kid. But I couldn't verify that and footage from the episode isn't online from what I can see.

I remember a story about Braff I heard on the Scrubs seasn 1 or 2 DVD commentary (I was massively into the show, kay!) where a crew member shared that he had played a joke on Braff that had him running to another floor of the set — Braff had a massage appointment at the time and missed it, causing him to yell at said…

> "the show is one long exploration of how a white man with power is able to destroy the lives of others with no repercussions … It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the rich white guy suffers the least"

He jumped in to review an episode of Daredevil and it. was. awful.