you did. It provided a moment of fake-out levity among the people I was watching with, which is pretty much what the purpose of Robb's flirtiness was anyway, so double good on them for making it work towards the episode's impact.

Catelyn's not 100% in her right mind at that point, and Roose also steps out shortly before the massacre. It's conceivable that it's some other character wearing Bolton colors, but even then, it's unlikely that there's much story lost by streamlining that into being Roose.

okay, that I get, because I've had the same experience as @avclub-767108ece09e429a9276387de4cb95a0:disqus  about Maester Luwin

HODOR

as long as we still get the scene where he verbally takes down everyone else in the Kingsguard, I'm happy.

it's technically not specified in the book, but it's generally assumed to be Roose (in large part because of the callback to Jaime's earlier line to Roose.) I'm guessing that they figured they could drop it in the show because television inherently has less room for that kind of ambiguity

@avclub-6f097e848d3e349ddf8763d4aaa943df:disqus to be fair, RTD had his share of haters too, and like the Moffat haters, some had good points and some were just looking for something to hate on (and I say that as someone who grew to loathe Davies's work as melodramatic, manipulative, fridge-stuffing bullshit.)

" (For a time, I thought the show might avoid the terrible end of this
chapter—where she has her throat slit—by having her play dead and
survive to fight another day, since Michelle Fairley’s been such a
valuable part of this ensemble. But no!)"

so that you can come in and shit it up? no thanks.

my god, is there any thread you can't make about yourself?

@avclub-6d8e5be200a835beb77d899f00b890a5:disqus maybe that explains the spelling as well: it's like in A Sound of Thunder where the two things that are different in the drastically altered future are the results of one election and also no one can spell.

yes, and I hated myself a little for immediately noticing.

On paper New Spock taking a minute out to call Old Spock and talk about Khan sounds stupid, but I thought they executed it well. Nimoy's little pause before he says "At great cost," sells the whole scene.

Spock identifying her as Carol Marcus also basically functions as an early reveal that they're doing Wrath of Khan, if you are like me and have terribly useless information like Kirk's babymama's full name knocking around in your head.

because all brown people are terrorists amirite

look, that's only a problem if you also have no heroes who aren't white. the solution is not to whitewash villainous roles that could've been played by nonwhite actors, it's to cast more poc in roles across the board.

ah, okay. I forgot about that.

Yeah, I always found Jon's chapters to be the ones that seemed to drag on for me, and the review nailed one of the big reasons why: his arc just hews way too close to the traditional fantasy hero's journey, and it doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the tone or feel of the story. It gets a little better after he…

there is a high septon (though he's not generally presumed to have a direct line to the gods), and the implied political power/corruption aspects mirror the role the Church played in medieval politics.

spelled "R'hollor" in the subtitle, weirdly enough.