Murder seems to be a devotional practice in the worship of the Faceless God. I'm not seeing a clean cut break here. But that's me.

Strikes me as sentimental twaddle. It is entirely unclear how Theon's redemption arc isn't just as effective (and more believable) than Clegane's. Nor for that matter is it clear how Jon Snow's dedication to fighting the Ice Zombies or, especially, Daenerys' wars of liberation, somehow count as moral degeneration. But…

I think The Faceless God gives his devotees magical powers like face stealing.

The montage was inadvertently truthful about the series as a whole. The books are repeatedly carried about, then shelved by Sam. But there are chains hanging all over the place to keep the books on the shelves. Something that looks cool but is totally stupid if you are conscious while watching.

I think we would have seen a visual confirmation if that were the case, if only a drop of meltwater inexplicably falling onto Bran's face, to mimic a tear.

A reason why trying to be all solemn and pompous is such a poor artistic choice, I think.

First, there is no real disputing Aemon knew. That's why Aemon voted him Lord Commander. (And likely he told old Mormont too.) As to how? It's speculative of course, but it's the kind of speculation that doesn't matter, because it's on screen Aemon knew. I think you have to deny the evidence in front of your eyes to…

He's not even needed for that. The show has no use for him, despite the best episode that didn't treat the audience to huge battles and mass slaughters, which is why he's off screen so much. But, the show still has the problem that there's no reason so far to care who Jon Snow's parent are.

We spent all that time with Arya's training in perpetual frustration, and saw how she finally gave religion to pursue a private career in murder. Now we see that off screen she learned magic perfectly and it is remarkably useful. I expect we will now spend many episodes in learning that off screen training has done…

Laid to Rest and Cinema Verite were after Heroes, so technically it's not countless, but three. Boston Public I'd heard of but I was shocked to discover it lasted more than a year. Hyperbole aside, Dekker played gay before, as you said. So I suppose he's not typecast.

I didn't know the hologram in Voyager was gay, nor did I know he played gay characters on Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Seventh Heaven (neither of which I've seen.) But I could have sworn the statement in the article says he played the character as a straight man in love with the cheerleader and refused to arbitrarily…

Dekker was believed to fear typecasting. It doesn't seem in retrospect to be all that far-fetched a fear. He's been stuck playing gay in Kaboom!, Lost in the White City and the short-lived series Backstrom. People really liked him in Heroes season one and supposedly everything about Sarah Connor Chronicles was great,…

If Always is the worst you've got, you're pretty good. Illustrates the phrase, "Praising with faint damns."

Because that's just like playing the game of thrones!

As I told my librarian, I figure one of is going to die before the series is finished. If the dude beats the odds, then I'll read the series.

Oh, I can take it "seriously" as a fantasy about a hero saving us. But I can't take the show as saying something serious about humanity or politics in between the gore and the tits. Aside from the powerful impression the show really thinks it's doing that, my hero fantasy is getting short shrift because the show is…

That must be stuff from the books. Off hand I'm not sure I can take seriously a political drama with a "real" magic hero. There can be more to the political story lines than the struggle for power, but things like what the Brotherhood Without Banners or the Sparrows really want and whether they have any hope of…

Surprises in episodes are still feasible. Surprises that come out of the blue are still feasible in continuing story lines. But yes, a continuing story line that centers its impact on surprise is a bad idea. Despite the commercial popularity of continuing story lines as a hook for audience return, there are intrinsic…

Davos is the one who sent the troops into the charge, so he would be the idiot who changed the plan. Jon is just the guy who lost it when someone he loved was murdered in front of his eyes…although I suppose by AVClub standards that is idiocy, on second thought. It's isn't a bit clear anything would be different if…

No, I haven't read the books.