But your point is still valid. Don't let all the wishful thinking guys bully you. It's a scene we've seen and read a million times—in fact the book Gone Girl even discusses the "cool girl" \who pretends to love it. Hence the other popular joke about how many blow jobs happen before marriage and how they end up being…

I thought it was funny

this

He was all cleaned up and Born Again in American Crime, a show I stopped watching, but not soon enough. I prefer him grungy and better written.

You don't have to sacrifice the human element for dragons. Look at LOTR, who's more human than Samwise, and he isn't even human. It's just that GOT is not the the kind of profound art that TW is; it's comic book art. And as comic book art, we readers could use more joy and less being beaten over the head and…

precisely

I can't wait to share this with my daughter!

Somewhere else (I've read too many) there was a comparison to the Wire
which is both very dark and generally considered the finest TV show
ever. I am not sure how to explain the difference between the bleakness
of GOT which is irritating and makes me want to hurl something at my screen and TW which is depressing but…

Ugly, nasty revenge is not the kind of payoff we mean. And what did Jon Snow do? Or ('cause I've gotten onto the wrong thread) are you guys all sure he'll be back? Wait, don't tell me. No, do tell me, because without one decent character I may have to count on my crap memory to tune in again.

Somewhere else (I've read too many) there was a comparison to the Wire which is both very dark and generally considered the finest TV show ever. I am not sure how to explain the difference between the bleakness of GOT which is irritating and TW which is depressing but in a good way. GOT doesn't earn the ugliness.…

It was one of my favorites. Watching each brilliant actor respond to the stress was delicious. They are (by far) the best comic ensemble on TV.

You think our current congress isn't capable of this kind of absurd, unbelievable crap? Or our politicians are idiots? Have you been paying attention?

After Abraham Put the knife to his beloved son 's throat

Thanks, I'm convinced. I just don't get why nobody has tried to turn these into films or HBO; they seem so natural a fit.

Yes godammitt, it's interesting, probably wrong, but interesting!

Ramsay and Melisandre: the perfect couple

Maybe George Miller could do them in between Mad Maxes (A girl can hope)

well, those were short-lived hopes.

well thank you

Catharsis delayed is catharsis denied.