I’m as big of a fan of Tyrion as anyone, but he should have been pin cushioned in the last scene of last week’s episode. He got to have a big acting moment with his speech to Cersei, and it made no story sense that Cersei would spare his life.

I want a “real physics” re-cut of the scene on the ocean where they shoot the crossbow volleys. The bolts are big and heavy, and the crossbow is wound with so little tension that it can be reset in a matter of seconds with the arm strength of 1 or 2 soldiers. Plus you have ocean winds, and these chunky sticks aren’t…

Poppycock. 

For those wondering (like I was) about Kyle MacLachlan being in a bad movie (how could it be bad, it has Kyle MacLachlan in it?) that movie is Showgirls. Which is also directed by Paul Verhoeven, who equally isn’t known for outputting clunkers.

With TV and film productions that have so many creative voices pulling things in different directions, it’s hard for an outside observer to really know how much any one person—particularly a producer—is to blame, or to credit, for what we like or don’t like about the production.

Did you say, NBC’s: THE CAPE?

Did you say, NBC’s: THE CAPE?

It’s not “whataboutism” at all. There isn’t anything I’m trying to defend as okay because it isn’t as bad as someone else. Let’s go back to the beginning here: Game of Thrones is headed in a direction right now that sidelines its female characters and paints incompetent white guys as the “less emotional” saviors. My…

I totally agree the Sansa line was troubling and unnecessary. But the notion that our suffering makes us stronger is not specifically a “look on the bright side of rape” message. It’s kind of a central tenet of Catholicism. It’s a world view that all bad things happen for a reason. I think it’s a problematic sentiment…

Fair enough, I cited TV shows when GRRM wrote books. But all the authors you cited (save for Leo Tolstoy, who I never knew to have a reputation for three-dimensional female characters) are women. The problems that Hollywood has are symptomatic of Hollywood being run by old white guys. When old white guys write books,…

Yeah, I think this was a lack of imagination on the part of the director - or just not realizing how attached fans are to Ghost, and the wasted opportunity for something more emotional. You could have a static prop Ghost noggin to show the back of in a reverse shot facing Jon snow, while he at least gives a little…

In that screen cap above I’m pretty sure he was in front of miniature props, which were meant to make him look bigger (and that this is also why he was alone in the frame). The show alternates between a real dog and a CGI model depending on what they can get away with. When he’s CGI he tends to be a giant, as…

And Arya’s direwolf (Nymeria) isn’t dead. She just ran off.

Bran is still hanging out with his dead dire wolf. He was playing fetch with him during the battle last episode.

That is definitely an interesting possibility.

In this episode they had the populace crowd into the red keep to serve as human shields.

I think it would be very interesting to have Cersei kill Jaime in episode 5, and then have him resurface in episode 6, and for Cersei to think she’s lost her mind.

“reckoning”. Read the whole sentence. And pay attention to the context. Female empowerment is obviously not a new concept, but if you don’t think there’s been a recent trend towards female empowerment in mainstream TV and movies, or that it’s not in stark contrast to decades of women being predominantly relegated to…

I don’t have the inside story of the Venezuelan military, but if you’re suggesting that everyone got in line behind Stalin, look up the “Great Purge”.