I suspect he did incorporate ninjas into football. It’s just that you never see them...

I recall hearing that Fox reps had sent some really thoughtful notes to the Bob’s Burgers writers, so I guess they were the exceptions that prove the general rule of such things being worthless.

“No dragons and no tits...

I don’t think we share the same definition of “community”.

Luis Guzmán fans will never hold this against him.

Yeah, you tell everyone you’re knocking them down, but you actually blow them up with secretly-planted explosives. Wake up, sheeple!

If they can pick a random name to mention, they should be able to list them all, just as Disqus did.

Back in the earlier seasons, when the court intrigue was more along the lines of routine King’s Landing business, and he spent more time idly sparring with Varys, I considered Littlefinger more of a “love to hate” character. Since the bodycount and stakes have risen and the character count thinned, though, he’s really…

“In some ways it was cool and in some ways it trapped us. The way we do that show is not compatible with full serialization”.

<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…