I'm pretty sure that's just prelude to Theon growing a pair. At least, I hope he does. He's been a chump since word go.

I haven't read the books, but I recall reading that Martin does the same thing in them, and that the forthcoming "Winds of Winter" has at least one chapter preceding the novel's "current" events. Theon's chapter, maybe?

Flying up Sixth Avenue past the Limelight - what a terrific, incidental detail. I saw Doc Hammer's band play there a few times in the mid-90s, IIRC.

That's astute. There was that bit from the newspaper - "Stocks fall in late trading." It's like Chekhov wrote, you don't put a newspaper in the first act unless you plan to use it in the second.

I'm not current with comics at all; I knew a lot of the creators' names, but very few titles. Clearly, I've been missing out. Thanks for this excellent resource.

Ha, by the Crossfit, then?

I say go all-in on midichlorians; the entire history of "Star Wars" would be revealed to be nothing more than the infection of a universe by roughly two species of symbiotic microbe, and all of our beloved, force-sensitive characters were merely their vectors. That's why the characters are so poorly realized - they're…

I liked that sly dig at BuzzFeed:

To be honest, I've been enjoying the ride so much this season for the songs and clever media stuff that I didn't watch this episode very critically; it is kind of disingenuous to use Jimmy's character as a proxy for the writers and have them basically win. I'd have considered that poor, lazy writing on another show.

Jimmy's meeting with the shadowy organization is a clear reference to 1974's "The Parallax View," right down to Bill Hader's weirdly over-compressed voice. Of the myriad cinematic references in this episode ("Terminator," "Blade Runner," etc), I found it the most compelling.

I swear you'd spelled (or spelt?) "just deserts" right the first time I read this recap, Mr. Caffrey.

Bran wargs up three dragons at once, wrecks shop, becomes god-emperor of Dune.