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The only ship I have for this series is Littlefinger and his head busted up against a brick wall. I totally ship it!

I really wish Sansa had been the one to go as an emissary to Dragonstone, because while Tyrion's a good adviser to Dany, he still does not know a whole lot about the North and how the people up there operate. I think Jon will be polite about it, and I think Sansa would be like, "Hey Dany, take a seat, in fact, take a couple of seats". I don't think she would put up with a whole lot of Dany's whining about what was "stolen" from her. Dany didn't really have much stolen from her. If Robert's Rebellion hadn't happened, and her batshit daddy didn't actually go and set King's Landing ablaze, her brother Rhaegar would have been on the throne, his children in the line of succession, she'd be living in a keep somewhere married to her albino Joffrey-lite brother, and that would be her life. None of this would have been hers for the taking from the get-go, and she probably would have had a real shitty life as a result. She's very opposite from Sansa, who actually saw her father who was a good man killed in front of her, her family murdered, and was married off to a sadistic madman, and then took back the place she grew up in, her home. Sansa just wanted her home back, the last place she was when her family was all together and happy, Dany just wants all this because she feels like she should have it. I'm having a very hard time rooting for Dany at the moment because she's coming off as a spoiled little shit. And really she rode on a boat across the Narrow Sea with Varys, she couldn't have had that pissing match with him sometime on the boat? Even if it were a flashback it would have made more narrative sense.

I hope when she asks Jon to bend the knee that Jon tells her to go fuck herself. I know that won't happen, as he needs her dragons and army to defeat the White Walkers, but that's what happens in the Game of Thrones that plays in my head.

Hot Pie!!! I was not expecting to see him and Arya have a reunion. Poor Sam has the grossest tasks. Dany gets less likable each season, I know we're supposed to be rooting for her, but at this point I just kinda wish Drogon would eat her. I don't think Cersei and Yara have ever met so I'm going to laugh if Euron's all, "Here's your present!" and Cersei's like, "I know who Ellaria is, but who the hell is that?".

BRB, crying forever.

When I realized that the scene with Walder Frey was not a flashback and figured what was about to happen, I was so happy! Arya is such a badass, and I love that she kept the women that had no involvement in the slaughter of her family out of it. Jon and Sansa need to work together now more than ever. He has a lot of insight into the threat of the White Walkers, and Sansa has lived with the enemies in the south so she has a lot of knowledge there, they need to collaborate more. Samwell living the life of an intern went on fairly long and was glad I had eaten earlier and not ordered pizza to eat while watching the premiere. Euron's flagship with all the giant sails was like a monster truck descending on Westeros, seriously, small penis much Euron? Wanted to strangle Littlefinger through my TV and glad Sansa kinda put him in his place. Brienne, come on, give Tormund a chance! I felt at first that the Ed Sheeren scene with Arya was a little extraneous, but Arya's had so little downtime in the past few seasons and she got to learn about the soldiers individually and their families, with no agenda, and it was just kind of sweet. I'm also liking the transformation of the Hound. I couldn't understand last season why they got Ian McShane for such a small role, but that small sequence plays a lot into the Hound trying to be a better person. So, Dragonstone has just been empty this whole time? I'll just suspend disbelief on that one, and blame it on a lot of shit going on in Westeros. If they're going to do spin-off shows from Game of Thrones, I'd watch one everyday with Bear Boss Lyanna Mormont just yelling at people. She is the best!

Had to laugh at the debate, but I live in Houston where we have the infamous Starbucks across the street from another Starbucks, that has a Barnes and Noble next door with a Starbucks in it, and a grocery store a block down from that with a Starbucks. Seriously you can't throw a water balloon in any direction in that intersection and not hit a Starbucks, but I digress. I was a teenager when this story line was onscreen, and I was really annoyed that instead of having a compelling story of Val having an abortion, and women sincerely helping other women, even if they were adversaries, we got a fake pregnancy, fake abortion, and Kelly using it to yet again expose Val and be a bitch. I think it was around this time that I really stopped watching the show for the most part, I'd never been a devoted fan, and having the Val aborts a pillow and then Kelly is a bitch about it storyline wasn't enough to keep me interested. Although if they had given Val a real abortion storyline, I'm not sure that this show wouldn't have just made it 10 kinds of terrible, so I guess they did save us from having to watch that.

Dick was also in one of the greatest movies of all time, Teen Witch!

Ummmm...Kol, if you're planning on using that entire diamond for just a necklace, a pair of earrings and an engagement ring, you're probably going to want to throw in a fur coat, a lapdog, an econo size can of Aqua-Net, and some bad spray tan for Davina because she'll need it to to complete that tacky Real Housewife look. I wish they could have known the renewal was going to happen or would have filmed two separate endings to leave some things open ended for next season since they were renewed before the episode aired. Everything was tied up pretty neatly and while I will enjoy seeing how the family dynamics play out next season, it'll have to undo a lot of things that were tied up this episode. Now it seems like all they'll just find an easy loophole in the first episode and then just bring on the chuds.

Hayley can take about a million seats. She was no stranger to murder before she even got to New Orleans as she got Klaus to murder a bunch of hybrids in Mystic Falls (in an awesome sequence), and she also knew Elijah was an original vampire, which does not mean angel in the streets demon in the sheets, so I don't get her, "OMG, Elijah did some bad shit in his 1,000 years on earth!".

Juliette and Avery are awesome together. I can't get into this Daphne storyline with the homeless kids. The cast is already about to get more characters already (although admittedly, I'd watch Rachel Bilson read a phone book because she's awesome!), but there doesn't need to be 20 new characters to make up for Connie Britton's absence, plus didn't we just have the, "OMG poor orphan type people exist!" storyline with Maddie finding street singer Clay who rents a room in a studio to sleep in? I also don't care about Scarlett's pregnancy with Tom Riddle. It's all just a set-up to get her back together with Gunnar and have him raise the baby and have him look super benevolent for doing so.

Janine's ceremony with her new family was so difficult to watch, especially when she started to freak out and they all just seemed confused by why she would do that. This is a woman who has been through major trauma in her life, from being gang raped, to being mutilated by having her eye cut out and whatever the hell else happened there, to having to comply with the regime and having her baby taken away, and they're suddenly shocked by her non-compliance? Pretty clear that Gilead didn't think this shit through too well. Especially when it's shown that the men are being watched too, to make sure they don't step out of line from this completely gross religious regime, and that Warren will be questioned (and probably only questioned and not with a cattle prod since he's a powerful man in this regime, unless someone wants him gone for some reason). Janine was almost the voice of reason in this, they can take away all weapons of murder or suicide from the handmaids, but there's no accounting for a nicely placed bridge. And even then poor Janine got no peace.

I kinda go back and forth with this show, and have given up entirely at times, but I really love Charles Esten, man does he just make you feel all the emotions. I also love the friendship of Will, Gunnar, and Avery. I just want to hang out with those guys and throw back beers and talk about life.

Christ on a cracker that is still super fucked up! There is no excuse for someone grossly abusing their power on a child in any way, shape, or form, and I'd really like to punch that priest. My parents weren't particularly religious, and they didn't make me go to church after the age of 8 (I hated church, I never wanted to be there, nothing weird ever happened, we just got an interim pastor around that time that used religion as a weapon, and I was not comfortable with super religious people), so I don't really understand the allegiance that people had to a church or religion, but I grew up a little differently with parents that were not allied to a religion. I can't imagine growing up like these girls where the church was such a huge part of their lives and the trust placed in the ones in power was absolute.

Exactly, they can't see the forest for the trees. Even though these women are forced into being handmaidens because of their fertility, they're still looked down upon. It's like the virgin/whore dichotomy or like how women are supposed to go through with a pregnancy, but are treated like crap afterwards if they're a single mother. I think also too, there's a certain amount of jealousy. My mom dealt with infertility issues for years and she's told me that every friend of hers that got pregnant during that time was like a knife her gut. She would just hope they got ridiculously fat. I honestly think if my mom hadn't eventually gotten pregnant, she would have been in a maternity ward stealing babies, she was that obsessed with having a baby. So her having these negative horrible thoughts about people that could have babies when she was struggling to have one, it came out of a place of pain. She didn't necessarily want to hate them for having a baby, but at the same time, she hated them for having something she wanted and was having a hard time obtaining. I think the wives had a lot of these same thoughts about the handmaidens, the, "how dare she be able to have a baby when I can't. It must be because she's a whore!". The wives need to put them down because it was a coping mechanism. It was keeping them sane in the batshit crazy world they found themselves in. Not excusing the wives here because they're assholes, but just a perspective.

I watched all 3 last night, but this episode stuck with me the most. I felt nauseous and on the verge of tears all day. I've never liked religious fundamentalism, I grew up in a small town and saw the hypocrisy of it my whole life, and it's always scared me to a degree with the fanaticism. It frightens me even more so because people I had trust in, my parents most of all who always wanted their daughters to be educated and saw that we were smart and pretty much demanded we go to college, have changed a whole lot and are now, "We never should have sent you off to those liberal institutions! You should have stayed home and had children and gone to church". They would be complicit in a new world order like this. So I see people I know in real life in the progression of this story, and it's hard to watch. Alexis Bledel did an amazing job in this episode. I can't get over her anguish in the van watching her lover get hung and the inhumanity of it all. That was not an easy thing to watch.

I saw it opening night and then watched it again yesterday with one of my closest friends from childhood who is almost as big of a Star Wars nerd as I am. Loved the Easter eggs, and caught more the 2nd viewing than I did on the first (because really the first time around, I was fangirling like Principal Skinner over Ralph Wiggum's non-diorama). I loved the characters and also that there was not a lightsaber in sight, other than Vader. These were the ground floor Rebel Alliance characters making everything possible. K-2SO is by far my favorite droid ever, BB-8 is cute and all, and R-2 knows everything, but K-2 was awesome! I came home and Attack of the Clones was on tv, and it just cemented that Rogue One really belongs more to the original trilogy than any of the prequels could have ever hoped to. This was the prequel we waited for. I nearly crapped my pants when I realized they were going to Bast Castle, even though they put it on Mustafar instead of Vjun. Plus this Vader was a little sassy, but at the end, the Vader I remember from my nightmares as a child (I watched A New Hope on my early 80's top up VCR on my console tv every day when I was a child, stands to reason I would have a few nightmares involving Darth Vader). Pretty sure I was yelling at the Alderaanian guard troops to just push the plans through the crack in the door opening and get them to Leia during both viewings because that whole last sequence was intense. Some part of me really wishes they could have saved Jyn and Cassian and just made them some deep undercover alliance spies to explain away their non-presence in the rest of the movies, but I appreciate the way they ended the movie (far more than the girl sitting down the aisle that starting having an emotional breakdown when K-2 died and it just got worse from there, honestly hope she had either hot chocolate or tequila waiting for her at home, it seemed to hit her pretty hard).

I would read the hell out of that fanfic!

I knew when I saw the dreaded words "Directed by Daniel Palladino" at the beginning of Spring and Summer, that we were going to be going into tertiary townie character hell with bad jokes and "whimsical" town events that were way overplayed and Summer totally delivered on all those fronts. I mean was anyone really clamoring for the return of Bootsy? And the jokes about Luke and the floaty hut would have been funny if it hadn't gone on way too long. It was good for one joke at the most. I had horrible secondhand embarrassment watching the musical (which also went on too damn long). Sutton Foster is a national treasure, but everything about the musical was just cringe-worthy. I would have much rather watched the entire town stand in line to smack Rory across the face. Rory's so spineless and spoiled. She flounders around until something is handed to her because she really can't stand on her own two feet. The paper is handed to her by Taylor (which was that even a paying job?), and her book idea is handed to her by Jess. She's so snotty about moving back home too, "Oh no, I'm not back!", uhhh.....girl you have no job and not a lot of prospects, so maybe don't be so rude about it. Things in life don't always work out the way you have planned and Rory's never had to worry about the very real problems people have when they find themselves without a job, so it makes her whining even more annoying.

I think deep down Ned knew what would happen if Jon's true parentage were revealed before he was old enough to defend himself. While Robert made a big show of loving Lyanna, I doubt he would have hesitated to kill Jon as a child knowing that a.) he was a Targaryen, and b.) a constant reminder that Lyanna may have chosen Rhaegar over him. The only one in the series that seems to have a bad thing to say about Rhaegar is Robert, and it could be that he had to make up his own narrative because he couldn't deal with it that Lyanna may have run off quite willingly. Thus Ned had to keep him safe and his origins a secret from even his own wife in order to keep him safe and keep his promise to his sister. He couldn't take that risk, and Ned seemed like the kind of guy that probably just started to think of Jon as his own after awhile.

Make room at that table for another chair! I'm not sure how it happened either, I think it's the chemistry of the actors, I was a little blindsided by it. Glad Ramsey got fed to the dogs, I could think of no more fitting end, although the actor is amazing. This episode had a lot of girl power in it and interested to see where it goes.

Or "The Cash Cow" which will be a total oxymoron once Deacon is no longer bringing his famous friends to play there.

I'm not sure why I still watch this show as I wish half the characters would go the way of Beverly. It was pretty awesome of Juliette to send Glenn to Maddie's showcase. I wish the dumb girl would have listened to him, I mean anyone with an ounce of the maturity Maddie claims to have would have seen the red flags Cash was throwing out. Deacon, don't crawl back in a bottle, just sign away your part of the bar and be happy to be done with that asshole. I figured from the get go that Layla had arranged that paparazzi incident, so it wasn't surprising when Glenn brought it up. Chris Carmack was adorable with the baby! That was probably the one good scene in the show. I'm glad Will went to his mom's funeral anyway and that his dad seems to be coming around somewhat. I stopped caring about Scarlett and Gunnar a long time ago. They can still sing in the episodes as the music is good, but they've been in storyline hell for awhile now and it just keeps getting more boring. I'm finding myself liking Luke lately, I'm glad he's in Will's corner. Cash and her greasy dad should go play in traffic, so maybe instead of attempting to hit the bottle again, Deacon can just put a dollar on a fishing line (albeit a fishing line a hundred yards long), and hang it over the freeway and watch them chase it until, whoopsie, here comes Reba's tour bus to flatten them!

I liked Rory and Jess together the best, although most of their interactions that were the best were either before they were together or the episodes where he came back after he had matured a little bit. Once they were together it seemed like he had no idea how to act and had probably never been in a relationship like that before, and with his emotional problems that he had from growing up, his habit of pushing people away, and his determination to be the anti-Dean, he blew it all to hell. As much of a snitty little asshole as he could be though, there were some things that I did appreciate about him. He was never really afraid to call Rory on her shit whereas other people tended to kiss her ass. When she got back from Washington and was being pissy with him for kissing another girl when she had kissed him and run off before she left, hadn't contacted him in two months, and was still with her boyfriend, he called her out on it. When she dropped out of Yale and Lorelai basically stopped talking to her, her grandfather was trying to figure out ways to bribe her to get her back to school, and Logan wasn't really doing anything to help the situation, all it took was a Jess calling her out and she got her shit together right then and there. I also got tired of Lorelai making Jess out to be the devil and praising Dean all the time, "Dean wouldn't have gotten into an accident, Dean would have been more careful, Dean would have called, Dean is wonderful, blah blah blah". Dean was a sweet guy, but a total doormat, and I would have had my number changed if someone was calling me as much as he was calling Rory when he got all clingy. I feel like Lorelai liked having Dean around because she knew that he'd probably never even tongue kissed her daughter and kept his hands to himself so she was in the clear to continue being Rory's best friend instead of her parent. Rory's fascination with and later relationship with Jess forced Lorelai into the parent role probably much more than she would have liked. Not that I blame Lorelai for not liking Jess, he really didn't try very hard to get along with her and when he first got to town he was such a rude little shit to her that she should have smacked him across the face, so he really did not make a great first, second, third, etc. impression on her. He was a really troubled kid that needed to grow up and fix his problems and it's good that we got to see that he did. The later episodes that he was in, he seemed to have it more together than Rory did, probably because he was used to rejection and life kicking him in the ass and he grew up and got to where he knew how to dust himself off and move forward instead of acting out, whereas Rory was sheltered and always got whatever she wanted and had no clue how to deal with rejection or an ass kicking from life so she couldn't handle it when it did happen. Hopefully he'll have a good story arc in the revival whether he ends up back with Rory or not.

Rory really did annoy in that way. She always complained about privileged kids that had everything handed to them, yet she had wealthy grandparents to fall back on to pay for private school, Yale, etc. It's not like she was a scholarship kid from the slums. She also would come apart at the seams the second things didn't go her way (getting mad at Lorelai for not being happy that she slept with Dean who was married, then stealing a boat, dropping out of school, and moving in with her grandparents because she got a bad review on her internship). She'd always been told she was the best of the best of everything, and she couldn't handle dealing with the harsh realities of life. Emily was so in the wrong about going to Christopher and trying to bust up Luke and Lorelai, this control stuff was why Lorelai left in the first place. And then with her busting into the diner and trying to act like she did what she needed to try and save their relationship and couldn't get why they weren't back together, ummm....maybe because it's not about you Emily, butt out.