Littlefinger's plan wouldn't have succeeded had several key actors been imbued with common sense. Like If Jon Arryn had left behind a political rearmament which called for fostering his son with Stannis as he planned to do or had Robert named Stannis who basically co-ran the kingdom with Jon as Hand or had Stannis not…

Personally I miss the distinction between the king and queens men in the Stannis camp and the scheming Florents. I think cutting that has really hurt the Dragonstone arc

Yup that's a change from the books. In the books Tywin continues to collect on the crown debt to the Lannisters because he cares more about the family interest and distinguishes it from the crown interest . The Iron Bank debt is just a fraction of the overall crown debt in the books which Cersei doesn't pay because…

Stannis by the end of Book III though is no longer fighting mainly for his 'right'; I think duty rather than right becomes his motivation
as the books go on. As he tells Jon, "I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne." Except the show,…

judging by the episode titles, episode 8 will be the trial by combat and next episode (6) the trial proper. So I'm guessing the last scene of the 6th episode will be the judges about to render a guilty verdict and then Oberyn will volunteer to champion him. So we'll see Tyrion and Oberyn talk in episode 7, before he…

Obviously he wants the North as allies in the war against the Lannisters and also against the Others. For Stannis, the two conflicts are clearly linked by the end of the third book. And as we see in how he handled retaking Deepwood Motte from the Ironbrone and giving it back to the native northern house, Stannis is…

Speaking of Whale, can we have another trip to 1930s Universal studios land next season? We've still the Mummy and Dracula to drop by Storybrooke and I wanna see how Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff's descendants will fit into the world.

She really is just plain unlikable.: Oh my whole family is here?… Yeah let's ditch them… The woman my son thinks of as his mother is here? … Screw him… Everyone with whom I have an actual relationship with emotionally is here… Nah, gotta go back to NYC and track down people who don't make their court date on time

When talking to Jon in Book III, Stannis says that only a Stark could unify the North. He certainly isn't fighting for Northern independence - which was a dumb idea to begin with and which doomed Robb's campaign - but Stannis wants to restate the Starks as the Wardens of the North. If anything, the North and the…

Just curious whether any of those shows are on Netflix? Or how they would be available online?

Writing this article as a critique of JJ Abrams is a little rich considering that Abrams's best shows (Alias and Fringe) revolve around strong female characters.

It'll be Brooklyn 99.

I think the trip to Australia was paid for by Phil's mother. It was in her will and presumably the life insurance/savings she had went into it. It could have been what Phil got from her as his inheritance.

Mitchell really is the worst written character on the show. Cam's up there too. At least in the beginning it seemed like they wanted to subvert at least 1 or 2 "gay" stereotypes in how they wrote Cam but they gave up on that. The only times they've gotten Mitchell right as a character are in the episodes where they…

Jamie certainly enjoys it

Do the writers even like these characters anymore? Are we supposed to even like them anymore?

Ben and Kate was the harder loss to bear, I felt that show was getting better episode by episode. So much potential. Why did FOX cancel it and keep that turd by the name of Glee on life support? "Happy Endings" at least had three more or less full seasons and to be fair I thought the last season showed the…