The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms. God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgement and punishment. Other sentiments towards them were secondary. The human organism always worships. First, it was the…

It strained plausibility that people would follow Cersei’s orders after she blew up the sept, but it makes sense that a pig wouldn’t think to question her orders.

I can’t remember anything good about BSG’s last season, but it has been a while.

Wait for what?

Benioff & Weiss have both directed episodes of this before.

It’s is kind of a Hollywood cliche that women’s careers peak early, while men can keep ascending as they age. Dunham is different in that she also created the show and had directed a feature before that. I think she got compared to Louis C.K. back then, whose star has faded for other reasons.

I misinterpreted your comment to mean that you were 10 when the show began.

This episode doesn’t show up on Lino Facioli’s IMDB, but I guess they wanted to keep things under wraps so fans didn’t find out before the episode aired.

And independence is a change to the status quo.

They didn’t get into whether unanimity or a simple majority/plurality was required.

The show did omit the part where a warg skinchanging into something while it’s mating is supposed to be forbidden.

Huh, now I wonder how she wound up with that name.

Which one?

Since that image isn’t loading automatically for me, I’ll let readers know that it’s the cover of Spinal Tap’s “Shark Sandwich”. If you’ve seen the film, you know what that means. If you haven’t, GO WATCH IT.

I guess the upside about Bran’s surveillance powers is that he cares about so little. I guess there’s the dragon, but that seems to be about it. He didn’t even use any of his surveillance knowledge during the battle at Winterfell!

making incest just a tiny bit more palatable

I don’t think the six kingdoms are giving up hereditary rule internally either.

Do any of them even know how to farm? I guess farmland is good for raiding though, and the farmers themselves are quite juicy if you don’t overcook them.

How many people actually watched Girls? People whose job wasn’t to write takes on the internet?

I made the same complaint, but acting to fit in with swordwielding jerks rather than giving her honest opinion is actually in character.