I chalk that up to Cersei’s insecurity, over the Tyrells’ encroachment generally, but especially the seeming threat of “losing” Tommen to a younger, more artfully charming woman so close on the heels of Joffrey’s death. She’s not someone who’s had to manipulate and claw her way up from the bottom, but like sort of a…

No argument about her performance, it just did a great job of inspiring my shadenfreude, rather than my sympathy.

There are a number of random secretaries despairing (one playing Traudl Junge, whose book was one of the sources for the film - Hitler was apparently nice to all of his secretaries, and they adored him, go figure). Eva’s the one wearing not a blouse, but something that looks more like a Bavarian milkmaid outfit.

yet there’s still some sympathy to be mined in the grief expressed by Lena Headey, or the way Jaime barrels his way through onlookers to reach the side of the boy he pretends is his nephew (but even the most pickled wedding guest knows is his son)

I’m no art major. I was just thinking in terms of the organic curves of Art Nouveau comparing to the similar “streamlining” feel of Deco. I’m always a little suspicious of hard end-dates for artistic styles, though, even more than start dates.

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.

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…

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...