Considering Storm of Swords was actually my favorite of the series, it feels like a big disappointment.  The luxury Martin has is that he already has enough fans hooked in that they will slog through a book that is rather inconsistent just to see a story through.  Dance of Dragons is an improvement though, so you have…

I thought this too.  I thought he was supposed to be a guy with rotting teeth and wearing animal skins like a cape.  Neither he nor his house looked particularly out of place in Westeros.  Or possibly I am just reading the backwardness of him where the author didn't intend it. 

Davos is introduced pretty quickly and then it seems like he gets dropped until he has to lead the assault on King's Landing.  I agree that they are showing the tensions between him and Melisandre much better here where in the book they seem to be rather abrupt changes for him. 

I am nervous about that scene.  It is fucking epic and, unlike other battles, it really can't be talked about as an off-screen occurence; it is crucial to showing Stanis's failed campaign and Tryion's competence.  That said, it almost seems beyond the scope of a tv show, even one with as good production values as this…

*Spoiler obviously*  The revolt of the Nightswatch at Craster's.  Sam is a pretty great character drawn from what looked like a pretty weak archetype, but his killing of the Other and the revolt are fantastic stuff for him.  Honestly, I just really like all of the stuff that happens beyond the wall.   

Honestly, considering how little she does of great and lasting consequence in book two, they focus on her too much.  Her stay in Quarth is important, but most of her chapters serve to update us on how far she has traveled and how the dragons are growing.  It wouldn't mess up the overall progression of the series if…

I have HBOGo running on my XBox and it had the episode at at maybe 10:30 or so.  I don't know why it would be different for running it through a Roku box, but that is about as good as having it as it airs. 

Apart from him brokering his own marriage, he honestly isn't doing that much in the first two books.  Unless they needed to narrarate the battles he fights as they do the naval siege of King's Landing, you can grasp what he is doing without explicitly narrating it.  Unlike Kat or Tyrion, his arc is actually pretty…

Are they going to condense events from Storm of Swords into this season?  If so, it seems likely that *Spoiler* Brienne escorting him to King's Landing will happen sooner in this season rather than next. 

*Puts on record of Alley Cat*

Vice already got there.  For Vice, it is surprisingly not terrible. 
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Couldn't they be better understood as make-the-film's-budget-back-overseas-stars?  I understand that that is often the case with a lot of films that are notoriously flops in the U.S.. 

That's a lovely thought. 

I would go with Calvin urinating on a Nazi symbol.  I'm not really planning on going to prison, so it seems like it would give people the impression that I like Calvin and Hobbes and that I hate Nazis, neither of which are true.  

I thought it was mostly boring, but none were offensively bad. 

Complaining about "stuff white people like" is a first-world problem.  Did I do that right? 

I don't use the term 'rapey' to describe songs very often, but The Whisper Song was an incredibly rapey song. 

Not to mention it is a pretty high-brow joke for a sitcom.  A joke about either  the precarious position of whites in post-apartheid South Africa or someone with ties to the National Party is pretty daring.  I didn't get it as a ninth grader watching it when it originally aired, but I would get that the joke probably…

I don't think your or Hyden's arguments are mutually exclusive. 

I know what you were going for, but I wouldn't mind this trend if the next wave of boy-bands always performed in black face.