Just trying to understand why senators are getting on Twitter saying they're quitting the show over this - or why my roommate ran out of the room half in tears at the end of the episode, after a scene where I was mostly cracking jokes about Theon. There's been an undeniable reaction, which seems like it's worth…

I'm trying to understand why the internet exploded over this, on what I saw as a pretty par-for-the-course episode of Thrones … I figure Brienne has some idea what's going on in Winterfell, since all I've seen her interested in doing since she got there is stare at it from next door. Wouldn't she have known the…

I've had to think about the reaction to this scene too. Isn't this the show that Grantland joked was full of "incest, dragons, forced castration, and beheadings. On the negative side, the show’s numerous plotlines and characters can make things confusing"? People who loved it for that darkness are suddenly crying for…

I think you're getting at why a huge number of people hated the scene - there are so many layers to the horror of Reek's participation, and the camera just keeps zooming in on him, increasingly making his narrative the focus. It's the camera, dammit - being forced to identify with whatever it chooses. If the camera…

Show Brienne's reaction from the inn, though, or hell even the servants', or throw in Myranda's to complicate things, and I think the reaction changes. As long as the only reaction we get is from one of the worst men on the show (I mean Theon), I think a huge part of the viewership hears the chilling message that this…

Yes - the writers could have given her some subtle digs at the dinner table, if they really wanted us to believe she'd been learning from Baelish … instead she just sat there stunned

I think the connotations would have been hugely different if they'd just cut away to Brienne raging at that moment - impotently or taking action, but knowing what was happening, and that she was the only woman in Westeros who could protect Sansa and cared enough to do it - instead of making this whole thing about…

This, this. Straight dudes bathing naked together was what the Middle Ages was all about - I'm surprised they didn't laugh him out of the room

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Wait wait wait wait. What kind of parallel universe is this, where the whole AV Club is all suddenly acting like DDL "should" do comedy, as if he hasn't already? Room with a View - the funniest on-screen kiss in history, ever? And hasn't anybody ever seen Eversmile New Jersey, where he's obsessed with bringing dental…

This is just me (don't hate!), but HIMYM was one of a long list of shows that I actually find funnier reading the recaps for on the AV Club - less of a slog, all the best jokes boiled down, better commenters. Any time I actually went back to watch what sounded like a better episode, I was like whaaaaaaaa

The guy I did our high-school paper with decided Times New Roman regular looks as cheap as everyone says, but the italics are actually way underappreciated. That's been my secret take on it every since

I upload everything I design to whatthefont, then find out it's in Comic Sans

Or the U.S. Agency for International Development

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Dr. Robuttnik you are tearing up these comments today, and giving me even more reason to vent my grief by liking. So. Many. Comments. It feels so therapeutic

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