They probably just gave him a girlfriend so he could do something horrible to her in a few episodes.

Stannis burning someone on the basis of not changing his religion and the Stannis who tells his soldiers that "Half my army is made up of unbelievers. There'll be no more burnings. Pray harder!" are quite different guys though. The "broad" strokes of Stannis may be the same but that's about it. All the nuance and…

Again, I'm talking about Book Stannis. I don't have the exact quote/page number on hand but in the same chapter that Stannis makes Davos Hand, he talks about the battle and the war; when Davos is surprised by this because he thinks it means another battle with the Lannisters (which he figures they'll lose), Mel comes…

Not exactly; He talks to Davos about fighting the "true enemy" (The White Walkers) before he gets the letter about the Wildlings attacking the wall. He becomes aware of the White Walker threat at some point between Books 2 and 3, when Mel shows him the hearth fires and "reads the flames" with him.

If anyone is the Walter White of Westeros, it's Tywin Lannister.

Not quite… He's the only one of the candidates for kingship that knows that the White Walkers are the true threat to the realm and could potentially wipe out life as know it. He learned this from Melisandre and the followers of the Red God are opposed to the White Walkers.. So really the Red God's adherents like Mel…

Book Stannis and TV Stannis are incredibly different creations.

Dean Norris and Aaron Paul though absolutely crushed every scene of that Breaking Bad season though. And that's going up against Cranston in just about every scene… just a superior body of work. Great as Dinklage is, those last 8 Breaking Bad episodes were TV perfection.

She does much better in scenes where she speaks fake languages than the ones in English though.

New Girl maybe isn't as good as the stretch of Happy Endings in the middle of the 2nd season which was just brilliant but overall they are on par. Happy Endings took a while to distance itself from the 'Friends' legacy in the first season and the last season was a times more fan-service than actually funny. Still a…

He's improved a lot in the second half of the season I thought. It took the writers some time to re-find Coach's niche in the cast and to work to Wayans' strengths and style. I thought he was a highlight of the episodes at the tail end of the season.

New Girl isn't pulling in huge numbers either but it's reasonably well-liked by critics and it's a popular DVR show. That and it does OK in the coveted 18-49 demographic. But really the main thing is that FOX that last few years has gotten a lot better about keeping shows on the air even when ratings are far from…

I still can't watch Yvonne Strahovski in anything without thinking of her as Miranda from Mass Effect 2-3. Boy did that game have a lot of unnecessary (or were they necessary?) shots of her ass.

Lena Headey is however I think the only adult actress on GoT that has a "no nudity" clause in her contract. So for once HBO might have to mitigate how it shows all its sex.

Edmure really is a nice guy and would be a pretty good peacetime lord. He's one of the few lords that legitimately cares about his people. Of course he is rather awful at that war thinking, which is probably why he's now a hostage and most of his family massacred… At least he got the marry the one attractive Frey…

Satisfying as that would be, Littlefinger would also be the prime candidate for the Tywin Lannister school of problem solving: " Heads. Spikes. Walls,"

He joins it partly to stay close to his sister in King's Landing but largely because as he tells Jaime (albeit not explicitly), after Renly's death he'll never love anyone anymore so it's a good a place as any for him. And he enjoys fighting people so it's a win-win.

I imagine that's why she was rather OK with the prospect of Regina killing her, if she knew that her death would still set in the warp since she knows that she'll go back to being alive in the past.

I thought it was more that Snow was beating up on herself than the other characters. Everyone else seemed to pretty much be in agreement that killing Cora was the best play… I mean, after a while even Regina gets that

I think Red is missing because she got cast as the co-lead on that one CSI procedural (I forget which, for obvious reasons). Though I agree, Jiminy and Dr. Whale have both been under-used this season.