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This dude apologizing for almost running her over like it's just a big misunderstanding is HILARIOUS to me. You ladies were on fire this ep, btw.

I really like this show. I like how the stories they are based on have allowed Rowling to explore all the dark things she's encountered in the land of super fame. Also, I feel a little sorry for the fiance. Robin is all about Mr. Strike- the job, the one legged sad dude. All of it. His ex is mean- why would she send her wedding pictures to him?

She doesn't wear interesting clothes unless some designer puts them on her (even then it's debatable). She has no fashion identity or specific "Kendall" look. She has a bad walk. The idea that she is any kind of fashion icon, let alone for the decade, is a joke.

W Magazine published Kendall's behind the scenes photos of Paris FW. https://www.wmagazine.com/gallery/kendall-jenner-couture-photographs?mbid=social_twitter W wants to convince you they are amazing and are trying extra hard, but mostly it's pretty girls who are very thin hanging out. "There's no question whether or not Kendall Jenner has skills in front of the camera, but recently, the W cover star has proved that she's also a force behind the lens. " Um....

Every time I see "Due North" I think of the Game of Thrones' creators' confederate show. And I laugh. And yes, Issa needs a new job. It's interesting that Freida got the promotion, though they were both involved in the "segregated" program. Yes, Issa took responsibility but Freida was there, too.

"BITCH, WHERE? YOU AIN'T GOT NO MONEY!"

Fiennes is so creepy in this, it's kind of fantastic. So oily.

Someone already mentioned Children of Men as a book and mentioned the movie. I haven't read the book but the movie was great and had very similar ideas about fertility- the lack of babies was mysterious but also a punishment for going wrong somehow. I thought Cuaron (the director) did a really good job of situating this extreme dystopian situation in a way that was very recognizable.- there were images that looked like things we see on the news. In a similar way this show places these people in situations we recognize but pushed to the extreme.

Though it's a different episode and yeah, focused on Luke (and therefore a dude) but I also think this one was the most rooted in things that are currently happening right now. Not that there aren't aspects of all the other things portrayed happening in the world or in our society. I thought of my bestie from university was from Sarajevo and she told me how her family got out during the war in the Balkans. There was a lot of craziness and near misses and driving and checkpoints. There were bombs and violence. People running from Latin America across the border experience this, as do the various refugees travelling on boats from Syria and trying to land in Europe. People don't know what they are doing once society collapses and I think this portrays that pretty accurately.

I consider not caring about small things that characters mention or talk extensively about and then forget about depending on the episode and the show runners not giving a shit about that to be a flaw. Though them not caring as long as the audience stays doesn't surprise me. (I don't watch any behind the scenes stuff.) It's all "Look at the DRAGONS!!!!"

The food situation is a flaw in the writing of this show - it's an issue when the show needs it to be an issue and isn't when they need it not to be. Much like Jon's lying- he'll lie to Mance Rayder, Tormund and Ygritte for two seasons of the show and will lie to Danaerys about coming back from the dead when she asks him a direct question about knives to the heart this season, but he won't lie to Cersei when the plot requires her to storm off and Tyrion to go talk to her. He gives a big dramatic speech about it and talks about Ned, but that's not actually consistent. The plot requires him to be inconsistent. Much like Tyrion's wavering intelligence.

I think we have a benefit of seeing Dany in a way the Northern Lords have no way of knowing. We have had the benefit of seven seasons of this character's growth, and while she isn't my favourite character (book or show), I get her and that she does, for the most part, mean well. All the Northern lords know of her is that she's this girl who is the daughter of the notoriously crazy ruler who burned their lord alive and killed their lord's heir (I think Brandon also got burned in the show, but in the book the description of him strangling himself trying to rescue his father is quite vivid.) She's got one army made up of eunuchs that are trained for one thing and another who have a rather notorious reputation for raping and pillaging. She also has large, fire breathing creatures who are more or less myth at this point. With Cersei, at least it's the devil you know. Dany is a complete wild card. I'm not sure how the Stark forces are going to react to Danaerys and Jon bending the knee. But for how profoundly silly the show has written them after about the second season, I still wouldn't blame them for having misgivings. I mean, it's all a little crazy.

I would take the dragonglass out of the list of "What Dany gave the North" as it was completely useless to her. When Tyrion brings it up to her they both shrug and are like "whatever." It's not a sacrifice if it doesn't cost the person anything. The armies, yes. The dragons, yes. Dragonglass, eh. It's actually a bit silly that Sam had to think of it this season at all. They've known dragonglass kills walkers and (in the show) wights since the third season and that Stannis has a bunch at Dragonstone since the fifth,. Dragonstone which is standing completely unoccupied until the start of this one. Jon, as Lord Commander, should've sent someone to go investigate. Jon as Lord Commander is a lot more proactively looking at ways to survive the winter and fight this war in the book. He's constantly evaluating and re-evaluating his decisions. I guess it's the benefit of being inside Jon's head in the book. Book Jon is a lot more pragmatic in the book. Book Jon lies a hell of a lot more, too. I'm still not quite over the "I can't lie" speech he gave Dany and Tyrion. It's one of the issues I had this season. I don't like it when characters have to behave in a certain way that goes against their previous behaviour/personality just to advance the plot. The plot requires Cersei to storm off in a huff, so let's have Jon do this. Jon bringing up Ned when he says he can't made me think they did that to underline the massive lie Ned told for nearly two decades that they revealed in this episode. I suspect one of the big things the Stark kids are going to have to come to terms with is that their father, almost universally known as honest to a fault, lied. I know it's in the book this way and Ned never thought it would be the last time he 'd see Jon, but he really should've told the kid the deal before sending him out into the world. Even if it was still a secret Jon had to keep. For all intents and purposes, Jon is a man when he leaves to join the Night's Watch. He should know his history and have the opportunity to learn about his mother from someone who loved her very much. I guess it's part of the tragedy of Ned Stark. And I can't imagine Sam and Bran are going to keep this to themselves. It'd be cruel. Tell Jon and let him decide what he wants to do with that information. Had Jon told anyone else that he'd bent the knee to Dany or was that speech the first time any of the rest of them knew? Davos makes a face that I'm not sure how to read- is he dismayed because Jon basically wrecked the whole point of the parley or is he dismayed that Jon bent the knee, either at all or without consulting him? I'm also a little curious about Sansa's reaction to Jon's raven saying he bent the knee. She's annoyed because he didn't consult her- I was wondering at first if she thought he shouldn't have, but I'm thinking more that she's been working her ass off trying to keep the Northern Lords and the Vale Lords to stay loyal to him as King in the North and he just decides he's not going to be that anymore.

Watching Strike- notice two GOT alums Tara Fitzgerald (Selyse Baratheon) plays Tansy Bestigui, a name I just like saying and hearing other people say. She joins Iain Glenn and Richard Dormer in having a silky, silky voice. And the PI Cormoran Strike goes to a club and talks to the on and off boyfriend of Lula Landry. I didn't recognize him at first because he didn't say, "I know I broke my oath. I know I'm a deserter. I should have gone back to the Wall and warned them, but... I saw what I saw... I saw the White Walkers." But he could have. ETA- Dolorous Edd is in it, too. "Ah, look. More shit. I was starting to wonder what to do with the rest of me day." (And Holliday Granger is in it- I've mentally cast her as Val in my alternative universe version of Game of Thrones, where my favourite so far minor character exists on the show.)

The Frankenstein Chronicles airs on A&E in the US, I think. (I'm in Canada and no longer have cable.) My point is that they might air repeats of the first season before the second airs. Also, ways and means. That's all I'll say. I have a feeling, in addition to being pretty and pretty talented, Madden is benefiting being on the show that still has buzz but not actually forced to have that schedule or location shooting. I don't know if the others will benefit as much (some are not as talented, for instance) because the buzz will die down once the show ends. Madden has the buzz glow without the inconvenience. He is also a mainstay in the British tabloids because he makes out with pretty girls.

James Norton is insanely talented. And pretty. Topic? Topic: Richard Madden and his curls will be on Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams in an episode called "The Hood Maker", with his Lady Chatterly co-star Holliday Grainger. It airs on Amazon and Channel 4 in the UK. The Young Wolf is also in Oasis on Amazon:

Trailer? Oh ok. Robb Stark as Mellors. I haven't seen it, but James Norton and Holliday Granger are in it, too. James Norton stars in Grantchester, that show about the vicar who solves crimes. The DI in that show is played by Robson Green, the other half of the pop star group Jerome Flynn was in (Robson and Jerome).

Nothing wrong with Lady Chatterly. Bean is a dish. His GOT son and heir Robb Stark (RIP young wolf) Richard Madden played the same character in Lady Chatterly a few years ago. Frankenstein Chronicles has a weird airing situation, so people kind of have to look for it. But enough people saw it because it got renewed for a second series. Trailer for the first series:

I binged watched The Frankenstein Chronicles this weekend. It is strange and spooky and fit the Penny Dreadful shaped hole in my heart. Sean Bean is fantastic in it. He plays a police detective in 1830s* London who finds a very strange corpse of a child on the beach.Turns out it's not a regular corpse of child, it's body parts of eight different kids sewed together (Frankenstein's monster- style) He is ordered to investigate by a politician who believes the corpse was sent to sabotage an upcoming controversial science bill that involves donating corpses to medical schools for science.. However, Marlott seems to think the child woke up and grabbed his arm. But! He's got syphilis being treated by mercury and the hallucinations are crazy. The more he investigates, the stranger and messier and weirder it gets. He meets Mary Shelley (the always great Anna Maxwell Martin) and he reads her book because he's worried about a copycat. She reads passages of Frankenstein in voiceover, it's great. He tries to find the people rumoured to be stealing children. He encounters grave robbers who sell corpses to the medical school. Including this family called the Bishops, whose leader is played by Kate Dickie. Yes, Ned Stark and Lysa Arryn share some scenes. There are several suspects and I actually guessed who it was quite early, but I didn't really care. *Actually 1827- I realize this because that's the year William Blake died, and well, he dies in this. His art makes up the opening credits, notably Ghost of the Flea. Also, Charles Dickens, calling himself Boz, is a character in this. Blake, Shelley, Dickens. I don't know if it actually works, but had so many good Sean Bean things that I loved it. He's great in this. A lot of Sharpe references, too. Marlott fought in the Napoelonic wars and was in the 95th Rifles.

Yeah, though there was probably some "disillusionment" but it was Roose Bolton recognizing the disillusionment of House Karstark and realizing Robb had lost the long held loyalty of that family. So when Tywin approached him, Bolton saw the opportunity for his own house to be the great house in the North and could get a house like the Karstarks to support him. It's not a "I have issues with your leadership, Robb and I no longer believe you make a great king." situation for Bolton. Also, getting rid of the Ironborne from the North would win Roose a lot of points.

Um, zucchini in chocolate cake makes it insanely moist and you don't taste the zucchini. So shut up, Dave.

Yeah, direwolves themselves are perhaps not magic but aren't found South of the Wall- therefore someone (Bloodraven works) or something sent them through the Wall somehow. So the magic is them being there for the Starks to find. One of my most favourite scenes in the entire series is the direwolf finding scene- and the grown ups in that scene are freaked right out- it seems the older you are, the more freaked out. Bran is basically "puppies!" The warging is what's magic. I think in this world there are regions that are more magical than others. And north of the Wall is one of them. Asshai and the Shadow Lands (where the dragons are from) is another. Back to the episode- I want to shout out the music- there was a good mix of the different themes. I think Cersei's cello is the most distinctive, but that may be because I associate it with the amazing S6 finale scenes, which felt like Michael Corleone renouncing Satan and all his works while the dons of the Five Families are being murdered on his order. It's also interesting that all the queens (Cersei, Dany, and even Sansa, a stand in queen) all wore black most of the season. Everyone wore black, actually. That whole Dragon pit meeting- it was a sea of black, except the Hound.

I would probably go with "cool dragon CGI" and whatever dragon relationship explored will be Jon and Rhaegal and Dany coming to terms with having to kill/re-kill Viseron, possibly using Drogon to do it. Or that her child is the destructive weapon that empowered the enemy. But I'm not holding my breath. (that decision to make it a direct cause and effect- dragons fly North, dragon dies, Night King raises dragon, dragon destroys Wall- is a little problematic for me, mostly because it makes the wight expedition that much more stupid. Like, was the Night King just going to hang out until he got a dragon? Thousands of years? It looked cool, though. That may be this show now- hey that looks cool, but don't think about it too long or the sense dissolves.) In the books, though this isn't explored in the show other than Bran, the three POV Starks that still have their wolves are wargs. The wolves are often described as being a part of Stark kids or they are the Stark kids. We don't know about Rickon or Robb (as they aren't POV), but the show at least mentions rumours of Robb turning into Grey Wind in battle-which doesn't make it fact, but it does call to this idea.) And possibly, Sansa didn't have enough time with Lady to find out or GRRM wants to set her aside as an "other" Stark. Anyway, while the direwolves are almost always described as being part of the Stark children, an extension of them it's in contrast to Dany who is not the dragons themselves, but their mother. They are her children. She doesn't have dragon dreams*. I've always found the Stark wolf relationship more interesting than Dany's with her dragons. But that's just preference. It's one of the things that's frustrating about the show abandoning the direwolves in favour of the dragons. Now that the major mystery of Jon's parentage is settled for sure, I'd like to know some solutions to more minor mysteries- who or what sent that pregnant direwolf south of the Wall? What does it mean other than a general indication of magic returning to the world? * sorry, Dany does have "dragon dreams" which is what GRRM calls those premonition dreams. She doesn't have "dreams as a dragon" like the Starks and their "wolf" dreams

The only power Dany has is the dragons. All of her armies are hers because she has them. I don't think they are flying away. They might all die, but then again, so might she.

"Game of Thrones is not a political drama." I think that sums up the issue some (many?) fans have with the overall direction of this show. It used to be a political drama, with dragons and magic as background noise. It was about diplomacy, people in charge making good and terrible decisions, it was about negotiations and peace treaties. People learning to lead, different types of leaders. What is considered good leadership in this world? Tywin and Tyrion used to have epic conversations and it was all about politics. Tyrion Lannister: You just sent the most powerful man in Westeros to bed without his supper. Tywin Lannister: You're a fool if you believe he's the most powerful man in Westeros. Tyrion Lannister: A treasonous statement. Joffrey is king. Tywin Lannister: You really think a crown gives you power? Tyrion Lannister: No. I think armies give you power. Now, it's dragons and BEND THE KNEE. Maybe it was always going to be that eventually, but it is a different show.