Underneath it all he’s a spoiled but confused teenage boy trying to make his place in the world.

IMHO, the entire character is a critique by GRRM at the very idea of transfer of power through heredity and the absolute destructiveness of that power when it is thrust on someone unprepared to wield it.  He’s right in the…

I remember not love, but mutual respect in the books.  Sansa and Tyrion weren’t in love, but they were at least becoming friendly with one another. 

One has the distinct impression he keeps his men in check with fear alone. It really doesn’t make much sense that his men weren’t restless under his command. Maybe not outright rebellion, but definitely some deserters. Morale is definitely going to suffer when the leader is more interested in torturing people than…

Tyrion is the other? For a character that started out so awesome he spent the last season just standing around giving what turned out to be disastrous advice.

I would laugh my ass off if the White Walkers start pouring into the northern lands in the first episode and then the head honcho gets immediately ganked by a dragonglass arrow and the army evaporates, then we spend the remainder of the series squabbling over who gets to sit on the burnt out remains of the iron…

It also helps Sansa that Littlefinger suffers some pretty serious villain decay by the 6th season. His death is practically a joke. His real strength was knocking things over, but his plans for stepping into the power vacuum and grabbing control were poorly conceived at best.  Worse, he still thinks he’s so clever…

IIRC there are some fairly graphic descriptions in the book of what Ramsey did to Theon (spoiler alert: lots of flaying was involved).

Frankly, given how deadly most flesh wounds are in the books (One thing GRRM does not shy away from is how untreated infections are deadly) it’s something of a miracle that Theon was…

But then we get the last season where they tried to simplify and condense the plot to an almost absurd degree and it turned into a bunch of disconnected setpieces with characters teleporting around to where they would be most plot convenient. 

How about an actual member of the Cult of the Dead Cow that phone phreaked back in the day?  Unfortunately, he seems to have gone College Libertarian in his beliefs since then.

> I’m reminded of the father of a teenage girl who only found out his daughter was pregnant because Target’s predictive algorithms started sending her pregnancy based coupons. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/#4283fcb16668 And I…

The AVClub probably would have been a harder sell since there isn’t one person who is the face of the organization.

That said a “buy out AVClub so we can burn Kinja to the ground” fund would undoubtedly get some attention.

It has to be the prototype model, which is not only a vastly superior combat machine to the final design, but also shockingly problem free. Just once I’d like to see a kid hop in the cockpit of a prototype superweapon and discover that a ton of shit in it doesn’t work and was fixed in the later models, and it breaks…

There are a lot of things that seem obvious to you but are definitely news to others.  I don’t want to see every LWT turn into “Penis Pills: Do they work?”  but having a few of these every season provides us with nice linkable videos to forward to that uncle who just posted about this amazing new discovery he had from…

This is one of those topics that LWT has a difficult time with because there isn’t really a solution. Technology marches on, people are losing their jobs. There might be new jobs for them in the future, but they’ll probably need to be smarter than they are to do them. There’s very little you can do about it outside of…

Ghostbusters is one of those movies I wanted to show my kids, but I rewatched it first and went “oh yeah, this was rated R for a reason.”  Not a hard R, but they’re going to need a couple of years before I show it.  The sad thing is they love the remake, even though it’s such a bad movie. 

Her outfit is an off-brand Star Trek uniform too.

Kind of sad when the Deadpool movie ends up being a better X-Men movie. 

He’ll be killed by the rightful heir to the throne: Ser Pounce. 

Was anybody else annoyed that the teacher decided that the best way to get all of his students back together again was to stage an elaborate murder mystery where he was the body? Was this really more efficient than simply telling them the truth for once?  Was the guy deathly afraid of context? 

Five was pretty adamant that there were no survivors, but he also decided to become a hobo living in the husk of a library so maybe his search wasn’t as complete as it could have been? Still, he had a lot of years and the ability to teleport around, if there were signs of life it seems like he should have spotted them…