Well, I think your response (and Dictatortot's!) is pretty damned reasoned, which I appreciate. I will say, though, that emotions were definitely running high during that scene; it would be difficult, at best, to argue that Tyrion wasn't at least conflicted while choking Shae to death. He seemed heartbroken, enraged,…

I probably should've read this before replying myself, but here we are!

… but that's what happened, more or less. They showed up during the aftermath of the massive battle, when everyone was licking their respective wounds. Sure, there were more battles to come, but 'the nick of time' would be them saving roughly fifty percent of the Night's Watch, since over half of them died during the…

This is ten days late, but there are new episodes to prattle on about, so here we are!

Yeah. I love the idea of the chessmaster who, even in a show/world as brutally cynical as Game of Thrones', uses his influence to quietly make things right instead of simply furthering his own career.

In fairness, there was definitely some ambiguity in that scene. Fans don't need to be children about it just because they love, love, love Tyrion and hate, hate, hate Shae. There's no sense in pretending that Tyrion was simply being a rational and pragmatic dude by strangling his ex-girlfriend to death, when we know…

So, this post is super-duper late, and buried underneath a modest 2678 replies, but I feel like we need so sing the praises of Varys, who isn't only a quiet, unsung hero - but one of the series' few agents of true karma and/or justice. This episode has made that very clear and should, once and for all, put to rest any…

TheGhostOfDBoonsGhost: "How is it that for most viewers that just flew right over their heads?"

Stannis has always valued honour and duty above all else, the way Nedd Stark did. As I see it, in seasons three and four, he just… lost his way a bit. He became isolated and weird, a bit like Bart in that episode of The Simpsons where he breaks his leg.

Ah! That's it! That's what bugged me! (Sorry; I finally just realized it.)

I think that's what bugged me the most: Not only do we avoid dealing with the consequences of Louie attempting to force a sexual encounter (beyond, like, a subtle, subtextual callback or two), but the episode was built around this idea that Pamela was awful for being withholding and flippant and indecisive, which…

He was trying to have sex with her against her will, so I don't think it's that much of a stretch.

That's fair. I mean, Azula was a cartoon character in what was ostensibly a children's program (but, of course, it was far more sophisticated than your average cartoon), and Cersei is… well, definitely not. So there's that.

Wow, the comments here are equal parts vapid and equal parts troubling. The AV Club is typically one of the few places where reading discussion threads is both entertaining and fascinating, and that's doubly true for Louie comment sections. But not today, apparently, because the insightful folk (y'know, the ones who…

I'm just going to arbitrarily reply to this thread here, mostly because I love your handle.

All their money was on that ship.

Shae's entire arc was weird, right up until the end where she's in bed with Tywin (?) and then Tyrion strangles her to death (?!). It's not that I don't understand how the show got to that point, but still, like you say, something feels… off. For example, either Shae was far more evil and vindictive than she had…

You raise an interesting point, but I'm not sure that the conclusion—that they're "trying to cut at the knees of giants specifically because they're giants"—really follows from what you have said. (Maybe it ultimately boils down to whether or not a person agrees with some or most of the analyses of said thinkpieces.…

… whoa.

Man, I thought the giant using what was essentially a dragonslayer bow ("Now watch, and see how Gough hunts dragons!") was Dark Souls enough, but giant skeletons?