I thought that, but that's far too kind to Pete

Yeah, you and I are just gonna have to disagree over rape as a device for character development. I seriously do not see how "I'm empowering myself because I get to insist on face-to-face rape instead of doggy-style rape!" is necessarily better than the book subplot that at least subverted the trope of Ravaging Brown…

I don't even know what to say to this.

It's entirely possible, it's just one more example of something that wasn't made explicit but was ramped up in the show. Theon's torture was not descriptive by any means—nearly all of it was implied; book readers had to struggle to figure how out what exactly Ramsay had done to him. And yes, I already addressed the…

Off the top of my head, sexual violence that either wasn't flat-out or made explicit in the books: Dany and Khal Drogo's initial relationship, Sansa's near-rape in season 2, Ros and the sex worker in season 2, Ros' death in season 3, the brutal rendering of Cersei/Jaime sex in season 4. Caster's women and the Night's…

Jon Snow would so be the Don Draper to Pete's….something. "I'm just going to randomly enter myself in the election for Lord Commander, they'll love that, right?" "THEY PROBABLY WILL."

Didn't the actor for Ramsay say in an interview that he had to do something absolutely horrible this season, so awful that he actually felt kind of sick pretending to do so? Considering D&D's hard-on for sexual violence that wasn't in the books, I wouldn't rule it out. Quite the opposite.

The song is a lot better if you watch it in the context of the movie, or even in the context of the scene, which is pretty beautifully done.

Caroline, that may have been a wise choice. I was a complete Potterhead, and when I went to see the first movie, I nearly cried afterwards. All the other kids seemed to enjoy it, but I thought it was completely awful. I've made my peace with the movie adaptations since, and think that some of them are quite good, but…

well, we'll just agree to disagree.

Agreed. I mean, he could have died in a much nobler fashion, similar to the semi-heroic way Will Gardner went down in A Good Wife despite similar short notice. Dying in a car crash when his car racing has caused the showrunners so much trouble, if true, is kind of on the nose. But he and Meredith are star-crossed…

Considered that too, but feel like a lot of the people who left have had well-established dickish reputations or have gotten into hot water before for inappropriate behavior, eg Washington, Heigl, a bit of Dempsey as well. Anyways, a few years back it sounded like there were always tons of tension among the Grey's…

Meh. I thought it was a legitimate point to bring up.

Dang, I love the wallpaper! It's so ornate and gives the house a kind of lush, lived-in feel. It feels a lot more homely, especially in contrast to all the dark wood.

Nobody has to agree, except that I first commented saying that it was unfair to put Kate Hudson and BDH in the "bad" category, and you offered a rebuttal.

I don't see the rationale for that—I've never been knocked over by anything she's been in, sure, just like I've never been knocked over by anything Colin Hanks or Domnhall Gleeson have been in. I feel like the guys are much higher approval ratings here than the women, despite similar or even lower-profile levels of…

to be fair, Grey's invented the cliche, so it's kind of fitting that they would send off one of their signature characters with it.

I admittedly am not super familiar with Joss Whedon's oeuvre, but doesn't he do mostly supernatural/sci fi stuff? I feel like there's a naturally higher threshold for soapy melodrama in that genre. I recall a lot of my frustration with the crap going on for Grey's is that it was just capable of doing so much better,…

I could have really used this article like, 8 years ago. I loved Grey's Anatomy back then—I still stand by the belief that its first two seasons have aged well and remain to this day incredibly fine exemplars of dramatic television. Beautifully constructed episodes, fantastic acting, explosive chemistry and…

I'm fully on board with this.