Oh, they can fly. They just can’t land worth a damn.

Art Deco has traces of Art Noveau to it, which was maybe just on its way out of vogue in 1919.

The “Roman Salute” isn’t anachronistic for 1919, though perhaps a bit early for its peak fashionability.

At least in the ‘80s.

The sheer impact of Robb and Catelyn’s loss necessitated the bold approach, and further established Game Of Thrones, at least for a while, as the show where literally nobody was safe.

I was a late arrival to the series, and I was aware through peripheral buzz that there was a “Red Wedding” that was rather shocking and nasty. I did my best to avoid any details, and honestly, with a fair number of weddings going on, I got to the start of this one not knowing whether this would be “it”. It was…

You wish!

And an Andrew Lloyd Webber adaption of it has been playing on Broadway for four years. I really think the producers should send Fenger free tickets if he’s still around.

In space, no one can hear you work hard or die trying, girl.

Well, German barbarism was the focus of British propaganda for US consumption from the beginning — the Germans’ actual (and imagined) atrocities in Belgium and the sinking of the arms-laden Lusitania. I’ll grant that specific emphasis on saving democracy came late in the broader war, but was surely there from about…

I’ve used Private Hudson’s “rat-fuck son-of-a-bitch” as an epithet of weary contempt ever since first seeing Aliens.

Actually it was mostly Himmler, rather than Göring, who was the chief occultist of the Nazi leadership. Göring’s chief hobbies were hunting/nature conservation (he also sponsored selective breeding experiments to revive extinct species like stone-age wild horses and European bison), fashions, and heroin.

I don’t remember whether they gave any specifics of the doctrinal dispute at all, but yeah, that was clearly ominous. And definitely lays responsibility for the family’s doom primarily on William’s shoulders, though from his perspective, he would have thought he was preserving their souls even at the potential cost of…

Along with B Town’s observation, this is indeed my take on it (and I went though the same sort of calculus while watching). While we think of WWI as utterly senseless today, and there was something of the same understanding in the ‘20s and ‘30s, at the time it really was thought of in those black and white terms. The…

he sexualized his sister a lot, but I think that came from living in that terrible, terrible family.

Honestly this is probably one of the least troll-ridden comment sections I know of on the web. If I were willing to pay for anything, it would probably be to get rid of Kinja, in favor of a system closer to its predecessor.

Well, Gawker wanted it to be Gawker, anyway...

Yeah, it could easily be a line, but not the movie slogan.

As Sean C. notes, it’s never conclusively clarified, but I think that since Littlefinger’s jealousy of Stark was a major motivation of his at the time, it’s a pretty safe bet.

That was a longer occupation than a lot of folks realize.