I'd argue the dictionary for teenage boys has multiple entries for all those. (The one for teenage girls, too.)

He could describe them as both. The only thing he can't describe them as is "my girlfriend."

DEP asked out 12.5% of the girls at his school? He may have been turned down but at least he's putting himself out there.

Definitely. The purpose behind everything Melisandre does is to defeat the White Walkers. She'll say something vague to that effect every so often on the show but the point gets muddled. As much nuance is being lost there.

Sure, maybe it'll still happen. I promise I'll complain about it just as much if it's handled as shoddily as it was on the show.

"I could draw a bit of Shireen's blood, or mine, with a couple of leeches, say 'Roose' and 'Ramsay' and there's a 66% chance they'll die. I could do that, or I could burn my daughter alive and then hope it in some way contributes to winning this minor victory. Gotta tell you, I'm leaning towards Option B. Your…

Because I've read the sample chapter from Winds where Stannis gives someone the explicit instruction to fight for Shireen's claim if he should die in the upcoming battle. Because I read Stannis tell his people in ADWD they aren't going to burn someone just because they're stuck in the snow. Because he is stuck in the…

It's a minute of screen time or a line of dialogue. Too much to ask for, I guess.

It would've made TV Stannis a much more nuanced character if he had any reason to believe killing his daughter would accomplish anything at all. Maybe it gets tiresome when people complain about Balon still being alive but this is why it's galling: Balon was named and he's still around. That's proof that king's blood…

This isn't a joke: I expect him to show up next episode and reveal the stabbing was a trick .. so that right before she was assassinated .. Daenerys would .. think he was dead .. because … look, I don't know, but I think it's going to happen.

Accepting this as his motivation, what does capturing Winterfell (or the North) accomplish that he could feel it's worth his daughter's life?

My guess is Brienne will slip in while he's fighting the Boltons (why they'd fight him at all when he has no food and no siege equipment is a separate question) and get vengeance for Renly. It's being set up as a moment for audience members to cheer.

1983: David Benioff’s 7th Grade English teacher Mr. Stanley makes fun of his grammar in front of the class.

I think if rephrased that could be an extension of the logic of trans acceptance. If you respect the gender someone identifies with regardless of the body that person was born into then it makes no sense to, if you're sexually attracted to that gender, say "I'd never have sex with anyone who'd transitioned." You could…

They do. There were two 8 or 9-year-old girls in front of me with their parents at a Fury Road screening I went to. I didn't see a problem with it. I would've watched a movie like it when I was their age and look at me now. I don't want to brag but I have gotten a few thousand upvotes on Internet message boards so I'd…

Right. He's a "gardener," not an "architect." He enjoys his garden so much he keeps putting off bulldozing it. The threat of the White Walkers is an existential one. All plots will be flattened out once they make their move (if it's as big a move as the build-up promises). The fewer pages spent on that in the last two…

Incest babies, at that.

As with any anti-immigration movement the nuance is in how far back they're anti-. Do the White Walkers want to return to a time before the damned Andals or are there ones further out to the extreme who think everything was great before the First Men showed up?

Can't it be "because it's R and theaters card these days?" The solution to which isn't "make it PG-13." It's "relax your carding and/or rating policy." If I had a 13-year-old son or daughter I'd much rather they watch Fury Road (solo) than boilerplate trash like San Andreas.

"The Love and Sex World Tour." Little on the nose, isn't it? "Fantasies of Companionship and Intimacy, coming to YOUR AMPHITHEATER this summer!"