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Yeah. But I've got the feeling that Sansa's about due to stand up and become a force. Seems like the other Stark kids are being set up to be still very important, so it should be about time that Sansa joins the fray. I think what happens in this episode, and her connection to Tyrion, all seem to point her in a direction where she is either going to just go away, or stand up and fight. (Of course, with the Starks it seems like you stand up and fight. And then somebody kills you in episode 9. So I guess she could do both!)

Do these guys fish for other things during the same period? It would seem like that might not be a bad idea to at least have an ongoing, less high margin, less high risk income source.

I agree. What I'm really hoping for is at some point for him to be in the same room as Fitz and Simmons, and have reason to bonk both of them on the head with a shotgun. Hee! You mean Mr. "I'm everybody's type"? Best Evil!Ward line by far.

I am absolutely over complicating it. Seems like the thing to do when it comes to this show.

Heh. I like Big Head. He follows "They're giving me a $600,000 annual salary." with "I can move out and get my own apartment!" After the scene at the bank, it suddenly occurred to me that HE will be the one with the disposable income in the near term, which has got a lot of good story potential.

Well, if I want to tie everything together, I could say that the Fool gave Sansa the necklace, which had the poison in it, but that was just to make it available to Lady Olena during the wedding. Lady Olena took the poison off of the necklace while she was giving Sansa the "to kill somebody at a wedding, tsk tsk" talk. She then slips the poison into the drink or maybe pie, which she had the opportunity to do, and Joffrey dies. The Fool then grabs Sansa and whisks her away because HE knew where the poison came from, even if Sansa had no idea what the hell just happened. While maybe he didn't think Sansa was going to get in trouble for just being the carrier between him and Lady Olena, he probably also wanted to cover his bases and get her out of there just in case Lady Olena decided to throw Sansa under the bus right there. There are obviously A LOT of holes in a theory like that, starting with whether or not Sansa's necklace is the right one. Which it probably isn't. Although there are also a lot of compelling reasons to keep thinking about necklaces. There were two different necklace stories leading up to the wedding. The Fool was in one of them and Lady Olena was in the other one. The fact that the eagle eyes around here noticed that Lady Olena touched at Sansa's necklace during the wedding only adds fuel to the fire and my speculation that necklaces are involved somehow.

Cajun-Asian Fusion is really hard to say in my mind. I'm afraid to try to say it out loud. If that combination catches on, somebody needs to give it a better name. It makes me think about certain people who have been on my TV in one form or Top Chef and another, and it makes me realize how very rare it is to find somebody who has all three of the skills he or she needs to become a super successful restauranteur. We've seen lots of people who had the cooking part down. We've seen a few who also seem to have the leadership skills that would allow them to run a staff. (Note: This year's winner was not one of them. I'm not sure about last year's either, for completely different reasons.) And we've seen a few who get the business/marketing/promotion side of it. Even on Top Chef Masters there are very few who clearly master all three. I can remember a few Masters who commented that it has been a while since they cooked like they were on the show, because they were so busy running the business. It's a hell of a hard business.

Heh. I forgot about that restaurant pan. I laughed at Maggie and Gerald. That was really smart.

That is the curse of becoming a successful Food Network personality. Unless you are a world class chef, you are very likely to run out of "A" ideas WAY before Food Network is done with you. Giada probably did 100+ shows in her first two or three years. She became a very popular host during that run, and now she's got seven more years of shows on her resume. It's pretty easy to conclude that she either needs to repeat the things she did in 2004 with some sort of twist, or she needs to keep trying to do something she has not done before. When I watch chefs like Flay or Emeril do a cooking show in 2014, I see them continuing to explore topics they've covered many times in the past, but somehow it always seem like they have a new take on it. Giada's not bad at showing us stuff she's done before, but she's not as good at it as those two guys.

I do believe that the scene earler with Lady Olena and Tywin existed to remind us of exactly that. Kind of a "regardless of what happens later, don't forget why this marriage is happening" for us.

Hee! That was a great one. Here is one of my favorites from what was probably my favorite period of the show. And there is also the 1990 episode when Tom Hanks joins the five-timers club. I loved this so much.

I think that if you are going to tell a story that involves Lisa doing charity work with the Zombie population in the future, you might as well have Milhouse play the role he played here. I think that if this future episode had Lisa as the leader of some sort of major organization or political party, they would probably not have her ending up with Milhouse. Basically, there are some futures with her getting together with Milhouse, and some without. I don't think they would ever settle on that being defined as one or the other. I think my favorite Homer Clone Death came when he electrocuted himself at the toaster. Heh.

I didn't get a chance to see the last few things after WU until last night. I really liked the Booker T Washington sketch, which is hit and miss for me. I was already laughing at "threw thirty beach balls into the hippopotamus area" before the punch line. Heh. And then Jay's delivery of the Hungry, Hungry Hippos line was great and made me laugh harder than it really should have. Most likely because that whole idea is exactly the kind of harmless smart stupidity my friends and I engaged in when I was a kid.

I did not see it, but I've got Paul pegged as good people. He's goofy. He has a heck of a good time trash talking. But every once in a while he says something in his serious voice, and it seems like he is a compassionate, and kind guy.

Well, I enjoyed the heck out of that. But I enjoy Mike Judge's stuff a great deal in any form. It is the stuff like "fat guy with a pony tail" that get me.

Good boy! Bark at those whales!

In particular I liked how she scoffed at the idea of taking Ariel's hair.

Well, at some point his sister has to show up given that we last saw her gathering together 50 of the deadliest killers or something like that. I agree though, I am done with the Theon torture. It makes sense they didn't visit that story in the premier. Too many other balls to set rolling before we dial up that one.

Hee! I'm just rooting for Arya to grow up. Sadly, the more episodes like this make me like her (and The Hound), the less I like their chances.

If for no other reason, it gave the show a chance to let Patty and Selma break out some new insults. I forget what the first one was, mostly because I laughed really hard not so much at the insult but at the way Patty and Selma cracked themselves up. Heh. I do remember the called him Justin Blobber at one point.

I stumbled upon a Jim Breuer comedy special on Epix last night, and I really liked the part I saw! I picked it up somewhere towards the end of a bit he did about being an older guy at a Slayer concert (which was okay) and stayed with it through a couple stories about his family, The family stuff I loved. He pretty much had me at the part about him coming home from work all happy and stuff and walking into a home where his youngest daughter had "broken" his wife and emotions were running high. Heh. I've been the parent on both sides of that scene. Even better was the entrance of his middle child into the scene, because, A) it was really funny, and B) I can tell that regardless of how much of that story was true, he is crazy proud of the middle child. I stuck with it through the journey through the Great Adventure Safari story. Which I also enjoyed thoroughly.

I know that this is wrong, because A) pretty sure that was a cotton-poly blend and not latex, and B) more of a mash up of the titles than a before and after, but since it got into my head, I'm hoping that by sharing I can clear it out of there before the god-awful theme song makes an appearance.

Banana Bread! What the hell were you thinking!?

The Huntress is an interesting character, and in my opinion, in a single episode they did a good job of setting up the transition from what she has been to whatever she will be the next time we see her. It is also interesting that this episode followed the Suicide Squad episode. There are both themes and characters that tie the two together nicely. Indeed. It pops into my head when the sisters are having a conversation 18 inches apart from each other, but I have the part of my brain that believes in super-soldier serums and earthquake machines shout down the common sense part until the scene is over.

::waves:: Hi A Boston Gal! I find judging the guys on this show a little difficult, as they are so clearly coached to say stupid trash-talking stuff in the interviews. It's a little easier to figure them out when they are actually on the boats. Having said that, I'm not a fan of Bill the harpoon guy. At all. Probably because I'm predisposed to not like anybody nicknamed "Hollywood." And on that note, I could go either way on T.J., who seems like a good fisherman, but needs to earn back a lot of points just for naming his boat Hot Tuna. And even though he's having a tough season, and part of that has to do with bringing along really inexperienced kids, I like Tyler.