I don't think I needed additional sympathy for small children being burned alive by their parents. Of course I've always been that way with kids. I mentioned Schindler's List above because I literally puked visiting Yad Vashem. It was the closest reaction I've ever had to that, and it was on a TV show I'm supposed to…

Outlander is SUPER trashy. Claire's barely constrained heaving breasts are either getting fondled in a good way or fondled in a rapey way just about every episode.

I would say that was one of the most disturbing things ever portrayed in a work of fiction. Some scenes in Schindler's List top it, but that was at least a historically important story to tell.

All explanations aside, that made me physically ill, I did not enjoy the rest of the episode and I had a hard time sleeping. I've been fine with literally everything else, that went too far for me. I couldn't even really appreciate the dragon scene, I was so affected. Kind of pushed the bounds of what qualifies as…

Right? I thought that was horribly portrayed. I get the raid was a success, but they manage to get into the heart of the camp, light all the food stores on fire, light over a hundred horses on fire, light the siege weapons on fire, and escape without a single captive or casualty. First off, pretty sure horses aren't…

And in Iraq the Baathists did run a stazi like operation and gassed 50,000 innocent Kurdish civilians. So I guess the parallels remain.

And like Iraq, it wasn't so much her goals as her terrible, terrible strategy. First thing she does, like Iraq, is completely freeze out the old ruling structure, which she sort of tries to fix with little success. Second she way over-empowers the formerly suppressed masses, way too quickly. We gave Iraq to a bunch of…

Is it? I don't know the rules! I thought anything in the book was fair game.

I gotta say I've also been shocked by the difference. I mean, Sansa knew what she was getting into when she went to Winterfell at least. She was going to marry the bastard son of the people who betrayed and killed her family. She knew she'd be raped on her wedding night, if she wasn't going to consent she'd be raped.…

I highly doubt she's the first recruit to welch on her first couple assassination attempts. The whole point of the faceless men is they kill invisibly at the appropriate time. There's no time limitation to their contracts.

Right? They suck at fighting, some super-soldiers they are. Then again maybe it's been their reputation as much as anything keeping them around. Or maybe they just use good anti-Dothraki tactics, so people think they're good at fighting in other ways.

You know, I've been thinking back since my initial horror wore off, Shireen Baratheon is so not dead. First off her death breaks the established Game of Thrones practice of showing you people who die, die. Second, the "stone dragon" prophecy has got to mean something, right? She's a stone man, she's rising from the…

Why do you say that? What followed may have been a spoiler I'm taking it down regardless. Sorry if you read it.

He believes he needs to be King because he is the chosen one and only he can prevent the White Walker apocalypse, not because he wants the Iron Throne. His motives are not worldly.

Or is it? Orell was transferred to an eagle when he died.

Do you confuse us with simpletons!?!

Am I the only person in the world who thought Shireen was WAAYYY harder to sit through than Sansa? It made me physically ill, that on top of the child rape earlier. Where are the think pieces on this one? How does rape hold a candle to burning a little girl alive while she screams for her father??

No, I know the difference, I was just giving an example. The issue is violence and discrimination, which we should of course be fighting. The passion around the issue online however, turns into a massive, judgy circle-jerk over semantics.

I feel like our society is divided 20%-60%-20%. 20% actively hate on trans people, 20% actively defend them from the slightest perceived slight (she's not trans she's intersex, you bigot!), and 60% just stay the fuck away at all costs.

This is my number one complaint. I've mentioned the overbearing social agenda on about ten topics crammed into the series, but really that's completely secondary to the terrible pacing. Who starts a series with an entire episode of backstory? Why should we care about these people? The second episode doesn't get better…