Forget Maggie.

Damn right! The British Navy's daily "rum ration" for sailors was only abolished in (IIRC) 1970.

The key sexy differences between book and TV:

Musical cameo from Lily Allen.

I seem to remember whateverhisnamewas having a very creepy boob touching scene with naked Danaerys too.

Epic, epic nostalgia.

By God, I've been in some states over the years, but I've never managed to drink myself into shitting myself.

"Give you a hint, when you're shitting and vomiting there is a correct end to put on the toilet, and an alarming number of people get it wrong."

"I wish I was around in the seventies when waiters could get away with being pricks"

Yes. I've worked in a few pubs/bars so I have huge sympathy for bartenders, until they commit the cardinal sin of serving whoever's closest to them/leaning forward the most/being loudest rather than whoever came to the bar first. Then they can die in a ditch.

He was 100% directly involved. It was the reason I bought it.

I actually liked AvP for exactly the opposite reason I didn't like Prometheus: AvP never took itself too seriously, Prometheus seemed to aim for oh so clever, when it was just a big dumb movie. There's nothing more tedious to me than dumb attempts at intelligence and meaning.

I freakin hate spiders.

The allegedly Bieber guy looks like he has Down's Syndrome. Seriously.

Gonna need some pretty big wheels to send her away in it though ;)

I'm genuinely sorry to be the spelling police and will doubtless make an error in this post due to Sod's Law, but it's "manner" you want there not "manor".

I don't have much issue with a lot of your assessments I'm just trying to add a little weight to the "just because a couple of asshats called her a bitch, doesn't make all criticism inherently misogynist" camp.

Just based on the TV (as far as I can do that), if there was coercion, then the actress played this wrong (or was directed to for the sake of setting up the end speech).

The level of "forgiveability" (to possibly invent a word) is all relative to the individuals' prior relationships with Tyrion:

I love this scene.