I really loved the “They call me the Shadow King” line, there. Clever way of doing exposition and having a semi-origin for his name.

Why?! Because I rap about the astral plane? Like me and my wife trying to keep girls sane?

This was an easy A, and solidifies this season as being ridiculous smart at righting the mistakes of season 2, while also being a great story in itself.

Man, what happened to Daniel scared me more than any of the gorey wall-splosions throughout. That and Lenny’s ordeal in the last episode were just so thoroughly cruel, it reminded me of “Hard Time”, the Deep Space 9 episode where criminals are put in a time chamber jail to sit out their sentence in what is 30 years…

Definitely a ton of Peanuts references in all of the mindscape sequences (not just David’s - Farouk’s, too). Seems like David thinks of himself as Poor Ol’ Charlie Brown. 

What annoyed me in that analogy too is that Syd seemed to equalize David’s rape to her step-dad’s assumedly fairly normal sex in the shower. Like, I don’t know if the show ever needs to get into what Syd’s mother and step-dad’s relationship was like, but everything in the past implied that there was nothing not…

This was an interesting episode, because it was good while being completely impossible to have been written by Martin. Everyone’s in Winterfell fighting against the baddies, and all their arcs are neatly put together! Seems like the show is playing towards its own strengths (setting, actors, good dialogue) rather than…

You’re right in the female vs male voice-over issue, but as... pretty much all of the comments mentioned here, taking Attenborough as an example is a horrible idea. All the women in the article are contracted voice-overs, where Attenborough is not just the narrator - for almost all of his career, he was walking…

Richard Dormer is a fantastic actor who deserves to be in everything. Watch the great Good Vibrations if you haven’t yet.

It’s not nice to call Qyburn a dog.

I mean more in the sense of how the BBC adapts things - generally uninspired on every aspect except having a country seemingly full of good actors. The book’s great.

Same, and the casting’s been great, but man does that trailer make it look like standard BBC-twee-fare.

Seems this trailer was left in a car for a fortnight.

This has to be the weirdest post I’ve seen in a while

To be honest, I do want to see the show where all of this happens, too.

It’s kind of bizarre how EVERYONE seems to know about Section 31 here, when in DS9 they took years to find out what was up with them. Unless they’re going into some kind of storyline that forces them to be forever underground in the future, it’s a baffling choice.

God, this episode was melodramatic even for ST:D standards. Michelle Yeoh grabs an apple only to bite and then let it fall on the ground menacingly while the camera closes up on it. At times it felt like a parody.

FYI, Emile Ratelband is already one of the most hated people in the Netherlands, across all political beliefs, religions, and ethnicities.

“We don’t even like each other.”

Holy shit: Alston with a giant cigar! He’s turning into Bunk!