There's far too much material in the books for the show to ever conceivably adapt, but I think they really wasted a golden opportunity with Euron. His book description is just so lurid and twisted, you would think they'd be all over it. Even if all they did was have him stroll up to the Kingsmoot at least partially…

Thank you for your counsel, kind ser. =)

There's a really great video on YouTube that lays out why the Starks are continually being betrayed. The short answer is that they're kind of all morons, but the long answer is that when they act, they look at their adversaries and plan from the perspective of "How would I react to this if I was…

I presume it was the lead ship in the armada? If so, it didn't look anything like the way it's described. It just looked like most of the other ships in the fleet, with a couple of extra sails. No blood-as-wood-stain, no weird motley crew of people from all over the world. Certainly no one with their tongue ripped…

Mine was definitely "Did your Red God tell you that? 'Ohhh Thoros, it's snowing. Gonna be a cold one tonight.'"

Would've made a great maester.

They might've thought it was a little odd, but I doubt they thought, "It's probably a 14-year-old wearing Lord Frey's face and trying to poison us all." House Frey aren't exactly the quickest of cats in the best of times.

I was worried Essos would stick around in the credits, but we might finally be free. Goodbye, Essos!

This may have been addressed already, but I thought Jim Broadbent was supposed to be playing Marwyn the Mage? The "Archmaester" on the show seemed awful skeptical of everything Sam said, and he damn sure wasn't trying to light an obsidian candle.

Most of the regular Lannister foot-soldiers have been alright guys, or at least not outright wicked. Polliver and the other members of the ol' Torture-Rape-Kill-Rat-in-a-Bucket Posse at Harrenhal in S2 were loyal to the Lannisters, but they were all the Mountain's men.

Show Euron is a ridiculous, pale-by-comparison imitation of Book Euron. Book Euron is made to seem like the devil incarnate. I didn't think it was possible for Show Euron to look dumber than he did wearing that stupid driftwood crown. Boy, was I wrong: "Hey guys, y'know what this show's missing? Medieval bros. We need…

I think this is an interesting idea, but 1) who would ever believe it, given what the commoners in King's Landing already think about the Lannisters, and 2) since when did "burden of proof" ever stop anyone from killing someone on this show??

I actually think food is one of the few things that overcomes American xenophobia. Hasan Minhaj from "The Daily Show" had a great line in his special about working in the same neighborhood as the Fox News anchors and watching them spend all day on TV railing about Islam and terrorists… and then standing in line at the…

I originally read this story three weeks before heading to Chicago and holy sh*t, were you guys right. The Slurping Turtle is 100% legit, delicious and the karaage is tremendous, along with everything else I ordered.

My garden is doing so-so this year. My San Marzano tomatoes are starting to get a couple flowers, but overall they're behind schedule in terms of height and stalk thickness. Same with the peppers that I have planted in the ground — the potted ones are doing better.

Like most of the arm up to the elbow…?

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That would make sense. I do like the notion, however, that it's totally possible to bring down a dragon as long as you can keep from being roasted alive. I don't think I'd be as interested in the remainder of the GoT story if all of the dragons were Smaug-style, one-scale-missing-but-basically-unkillable murder…

100% agree. I fully admit that I am not nearly as immersed in hip-hop today as I was in my late teens and 20s, but it's rare that I hear a rapper today saying much that interests me. Thank God for Run the Jewels.

Judging by the trailer, I'd say no. =)