yeah I mean how dare she be happy to get revenge on the dude that raped and mutilated her and then killed her brother and tried to kill her other brother and tried to have her gang-raped by dogs

Well maybe I'm just a despicable, morally repugnant human being, but I'm not such a pearl-clutching moralizer as to pretend my feelings toward an imaginary character's imaginary death has any impact on my humanity whatsoever. It's like saying "I can't BELIEVE some troubled degenerates ENJOY watching Sub-Zero rip off a…

"You wanna solve this one on one?"

I would watch another 8 seasons of a poop skeleton monster as an antagonist.

WHY DO THE GOOD ALWAYS DIE SO YOUNG

Just so ya'll know, Slate did a roundtable and it's really Slatey, even by Slate standards. Pretty much half of it was spent calling Jon a sexist pig for not taking military advice from a 17 year-old girl, and the other half was self-righteous gems like this:

I heard if you say it in front of a mirror the Sand Snakes appear and get into a poorly choreographed fight scene in your bathroom.

Theon's like "No…if I met Ramsay Bolton today, I'd look him in the eye and say 'I forgive you. I understand you.' And then we'd hug like the brothers we are."

And the discussion of Themes isn't nearly as profound or insightful as the author thinks it is, either. At best, it's just noticing a pattern and saying "Look, a pattern!"

"I didn't do it."

"One day there will be cell phones and I will constantly be reaching into my pocket to check it whenevee you're talking."

"But next season is an odd number! A central character has to die!"

semicolon Dexter learns yet another goddamned Valuable Lesson About Friendship.

This was a fantastic review that nailed most of my thoughts, but this MIGHT be a typo:

Best sentence in the English language.

RAMSAY: Don't forget that time I licked a famous painting and used my painted tongue to scare children on a field trip.

MORE LIKE NONE NONE

First, thank you for giving a sincere, thoughtful reply. I really do appreciate it. Second, brew some coffee, eat some breakfast, or pop some Adderrall because I've got an equally thoughtful response. And third, I will never stop making jokes about thematically rich pastoral elegies, and this is coming from a guy who…

A well-told story still needs to balance catharsis with chaos. Horace wasn't entirely off-base with his critique of "decorum" when he argued that, sometimes, you just have to give the audience what it wants, and constantly denying them this is as ugly as adhering strictly to cliches.

I don't deny drone strikes carry an enormous moral cost, and do my best to not lose sight of this. It's simultaneously a practical issue and a moral issue. But I have zero patience for kneejerk "liberals" who think all U.S. military action consists of Snidely Whiplash recreationally killing babies.