One of Steve’s defining qualities is acting on impulse. He smashes Jonathan’s camera without thinking about it, but he also doesn’t hesitate—or even miss a step—when the Demogorgon appeared. Similarly, when Dustin tells him to get the spiked bat, he just kind of accepts it. He doesn’t PLAN a strategy to act as bait;…

That’s why my theory was always that Arya was assuming LF was listening in on the confrontation with Sansa, and dropped that line about the pretty dresses hoping that LF would take it literally but that her sister would pick up on the subtext.

Oh, I know it’s reaching, and almost certainly not intended. It’s just the only way I could make dramatic sense of the progression from last ep to this one.

I think the sisters’ confrontation last week was the key here. Arya boasts about how easily she could “wear all those pretty dresses,” but she’s counting on Sansa to remember how much she loathes playing princess, and betting that LF is spying on them—so that Sansa will understand the subtext that LF is taking…

If I squint, I can almost see a logic in how this plot played out. Last week, the sisters’ confrontation was Arya’s ruse against Littlefinger, and the giveaway was Arya boasting how easily she could “wear all those pretty dresses.” However strange Sansa finds her sister, she knows that Arya would loathe playing…

Oddly enough, I found that first scene with Alexandra and the gramophone (in the screencap above)to be one of the most emotionally affecting of the whole series. Weaver acted the hell out of it, from the consternation when she notices the skip, to the intense scrutiny to find the cause, to the dismay that the record…

Strange as it seems, I actually found Sigourney Weaver's scene with the gramophone (featured in the screencap ) to be one of the best of the whole series for emotional impact. Her "consternation over the record skipping and attempt to find the cause before slumping into her chair" was finely wrought acting, and one of…

She helped everyone else from having to listen to the tortured screams. Healthcare reform we can all support.

Thematically, that's clear enough. I'm just wondering if there's some further narrative reason.

Worth noting that a majority of the Wight-hunting party have walked in death's shadow. Jon and Berric have been literally raised from the dead. Jorah's greyscale was constantly described as a death sentence and he as a dead man walking. Clegane was at death's door when Ray's congregation found him and nursed him back…

"Dear Die Hard, You Rock! Especially when that guy was on the roof. PS: Do you know Mad Max?"

…..

Hey guys, lets launch a kids action figure franchise, but the villains are horrible Lovecraftian chthonic entities!

McCloud!

Liar.
I've done the research. No one liked that movie.

Unless that's a vision of the future. The dead armies were marching over green grass, icing it over as they went.. The wights don't have Wun-Wun YET, but they will.

I read Arya as being undecided until almost the end of the scene. Her "joke" about killing the queen was a final test of whether they were Cersei's true believers (deserving death) or just some guys wearing the wrong armor (leave them be).

Justine's theft of the camera to frame Rhonda, but also giving the show an excuse to introduce Rhonda's version of the classic-G.L.O.W.-inspired theme song was about the creakiest plotting I've seen in some time.

But did they really need to cast an Asian actor as the wise, cryptic martial artist and a black actor as the temperamental, brutish bruiser?

Sometimes straying into kind of a "Nice Guy (TM)" in Misfits, but he's modeled on Ian Curtis, so… yeah.