<Pours out bottle of Dornish wine on the curb...>

And that’s a complaint that resonates with me a bit — that a lot of these plots would have benefited from some more time to “ripen”, if the last two seasons were a full 10 episodes.

Get yourself a scriptblocker — it’ll take care of autoplays as well as a lot of sidebar and banner ad crap. I actually found the latter pretty horrible even under the old regime when using a machine that didn’t have a blocker.

Keep in mind that “trial” doesn’t have quite the same meaning in Westeros as it does in our world — they gave Littlefinger a chance to justify himself, just as Ned did to the deserter he executed, it’s just that Baelish couldn’t do it even as persuasively as the guy raving about White Walkers, and ultimately kind…

Agreed on all that, though he seems to be about the only guy (or gal) in Westeros who considers his word binding.

Which honestly makes more sense to me than what they were apparently originally intending.

Well, just killing him quietly, and without explanation, would invite gossip about the motives, as well as deny both sisters the satisfaction of watching Littlefinger grovel. This approach also gave Sansa a chance to display her resolve before the northern lords. And however much dirt they had on Littlefinger, he…

I think it really peaked in the ‘70s, though as a lifetime Pennsylvanian I was aware of it more from ‘70s television than personal experience.

I’ve got a better version — Jamie Lannister ends up being the Azor Ahai stand-in, and he tempers the sword in Cersei’s heart. Sounds like a win-win-win for everyone.

Fealty to Danaerys might technically deny Jon the title of King, but as “Duke” of the North, with all the same subordinate nobles and territory, he could still probably use a good lieutenant/chief of staff.

I didn’t really see the previous week’s Sansa/Arya confrontation as being all that “at each other’s throats”. Sansa was always ambivalent about Littlefinger — actually more than ambivalent. She knew what he was capable of. Her doubts about Jon and Arya never seemed that strong to me. When Arya confronted Sansa about…

Pretty sure that’d be Threads, though I’ve not personally seen it.

I don’t remember that many details, but I do recall a bit where Robards’ car stalls out in traffic, apparently due to electromagnetic pulse effects. Either that and/or fuel shortages/confiscation could be the justifications for a quick return to animal power, particularly in an agricultural area where such…

I agree. I was a not-all-that-impressionable 19 at the time, and viewed it pretty much that way. I think generally public responses were pretty much politically aligned, with the Left/pro-disarmament crowd seeing it as a rallying point, the Right seeing it as a demonstration of why we needed Strong Deterrence to keep…

I could just about buy a slightly diverse Veronica, like mixed-race or something, as if her acceptance by the core Heathers was like a lame attempt at virtue signalling or something, but this really seems absurd and clueless.

It can be caused by two things. Two tragic, unnecessary, things.

While the Faraday Cage effect protects most aircraft against lightning strikes, in the later 20th century many military fighter planes began to incorporate “composite” materials, such as fiberglass and epoxy, that aren’t very good conductors, and can fracture and explode under lightning stresses. Today most such…

Well, had I been the sole winner of the $750 million Powerball, my plan was to buy back the AV Club from Gawker, run it at breakeven, and go back to the old system or something very close to it.

[T]he main thing movies get wrong about demonic possession is that it is a thing that is actually real and not made-up bullshit.

Yeah, I get it, but my diocese has refused to perform an exorcism on Kinja.