If he seriously changes his books based on the hysterical reaction of his most vocal fans to the one plot point the show got to first he's a coward.

The difference is that all the fascist nerds really wanted Stannis to survive.

Man some people really wanted to see their totalitarian hypocritical self-insertion character get gruesomely beheaded, huh?

This meme has never made sense given that this show is based on "Shock Value: the Fantasy Series".

What a massive difference how could D&D profane the source material and deprive us of the wonderful, necessary character Qarl the Maid and another description of seed dripping down a woman's leg.

In that he holds out a little bit longer before inevitably giving himself, his family, and his chances to win the throne to a fanatical and delusional cultist? "Vastly" seems like an overstatement.

Please tell me you're using "Mannis" ironically. Dude fucking sucks and always has, the show just got there faster.

It was the best writing of that book but not even the best of ASOIAF.

Jokes aside he somehow became a much better actor last year (I say "much better" because he set the bar so low in the previous seasons). Still waiting for Emilia Clarke to make that jump.

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT MINOR DISAGREEMENT

Sure but if he gets a Jimmy/Mike level showcase and backstory exploration it would be stupid.

You're reminding me of how anmoying BB fans got toward the end of that show's run. I don't care how much of a fan favorite a character is, they need to have a justification to exist, and given how much lower the stakes are in this show bringing in the most prominent example of Breaking Bad's darkness and heightened…

All we got in the first seasons were a couple hints about what Grey Matter was, we didn't realize exactly how much money he lost out on and were only given the barest hints why, and we didn't know how much his opinion of his dying father's weakness colored his need to be respected.

Here let me try:

The Gentleman's F for prestige dramas.

Remember that we barely knew anything about Walter White's past until the final couple of seasons of BB, and even then it required filling in a lot of blanks. This is just how Vince Gilligan shows work, getting you very invested in characters you don't really know a whole lot about. It's refreshing, honestly.

Ugh. If Gus never shows up in this I will be a happy man.

Couldn't disagree more. We already have the show about how Mike became Mike and Saul became Saul, let's leave at least one ambiguous backstory untouched. Demystifying too much would turn this into the Expanded Universe for the Breaking Bad world and revealing too much about Gus in particular would take away from the…

I get what you are saying and less deft shows definitely do run the risk of becoming something like an after school special when they try to address queerness but getting asked about sexuality is a common experience for out people and when it is handled well (and read the article dude, the whole point of it is the…

What are you doing to put that moral compass to use? I'm not being facetious, I genuinely share many of your criticisms of Kissinger and wonder what you think is a reasonable course of action short of bloody revolution to prevent someone like him from getting near that level of power again.