Shadowlass

There is plenty of room on the Sansa/Podrick ship! Welcome aboard!

Holy smokes, there are so few of us now! I was so relieved to see both Sansa and Theon survived their jump, and Alfie Allen is really doing a good job selling Theon's remorse. And seeing Brienne and Pod ride in to the rescue was such a satisfying moment for the characters; Brienne finally being able to keep her oath to Cat was so moving. All she's ever wanted was to be allowed to serve an honorable master. *whispers* And I might be starting to ship Sansa and Pod just a little...

That entire group all I thought was, Get out of the way and let me see Jaja! They didn't show any of her second-round dancing, did they?

That was my take on it. It should bring his relationship to the other characters into focus if it is. I couldn't abide the actor who played Angelique, so I was delighted when she died. When Dorian handed her the drink I thought they were actually going to work through it, but when I saw it was champagne I knew she was a goner. Whiskey would have been to fortify them; champagne was way too momentous, almost elegiac: Well, I'm going to kill you, so you might as well have some champagne. 'Bye now. I look forward to seeing how Dorian's evil will affect the main characters.

That was me! Aww, someone remembers something I wrote. I thought of that again after the last episode, hoping I was wrong so that nothing bad happens to Ghost. I've been curious about all the ways Jon Snow could still be around next season. So far I've got: Nursed back to health the old-fashioned way by actual people, maybe Wildlings or some Night's Watch men who are still loyal; supernatural resurrection via Melisandre (conveniently located!) or that guy from the Brotherhood Without Banners; resurrection by Qyburn; resurrection by White Walker. Resurrection by White Walker would be the most ironic and the most painful for the viewer (for me, at least), but since the wights just seem to be murder drones, I'm not sure that would be the most valuable way to use the character--unless the White Walker resurrects him as something more than a regular wight, like Locutus-of-White-Walkers. Dead and evil but walking and talking Jon Snow would be pretty awesome (and awful). To the list of possible rulers of Westeros I'd add Doran Martell, since there's a great chance Ellaria has just plunged the Martells into war against the Lannisters. I'd also add Varys (did he say he doesn't want to rule? He might change his mind when faced with crappy alternatives); Margaery (assuming she survives prison)--she could rule either as the power behind Tommen or as his widow; and Arya. it seems very different from the path she's on now, but she was fascinated by the story of the Targaryen sisters who assisted their brother in conquering Westeros. And actual heir-to-the-king Gendry was in love with her, last we heard. Assuming Sansa survives her fall, I could see Tyrion having her marriage to Crazypants declared null and void and using his position as husband to the heir to the King in the North to shore up his own position as king.

So relieved!

They'd better not kill Ghost--Lady and Grey Wind's murders made me cry like a baby. I want Ghost and Nymeria to meet up and roam Westeros together until they meet up with Arya and form a lethal justice-dealing pack. Dany can have her dragons; Arya definitely needs a whole pack of direwolves.

Is Puddles an Irish wolfhound? I adore Irish Wolfhounds, so sweet. It didn't read as suicide to me--just that they thought the risk of possibly killing themselves was worth it for a chance of escaping. I'm so dumb. I had some vague thought that some Wildlings might find and revive Jon Snow, but Melissandre makes much more sense. I think Ollie was just saying "For the Watch" to maintain form rather than admit it was personal. I completely believe he was doing it for his parents. And yeah, seriously. I'm sick of Mereen. Spring the other dragons and head out, Dany. Even if Melissandre's plan had worked, Shireen's death would have meant nothing. Poor kid. On this show we've seen dragons, a woman survive a funeral pyre, smoke babies, and the dead reanimated, but a couple of people surviving a fall is too fantastical? About 50 percent of people would survive a 48-foot fall, no snow. If Sansa survives and Theon's dead, I'm good with that. I have to believe that Sansa isn't going to remain Ramsay's abuse doll forever, because that's tedious, and Mereen already has us covered for tedium. It's so disrespectful to Oberyn, though. This was a man who took pride in the fact that his people didn't hurt little girls. It's like instead of avenging him, Ellaria spit on his grave.

Last season they established that the last name of bastards from Dorne is Sand. Yep. I find it really disturbing that Elia's main preference isn't to attack the Lannisters, but to torture their innocent child. Especially considering Oberyn was so grossed out by the very suggestion that anyone in Dorne would hurt a young girl.

He didn't actually say "Yes, I am Lucifer," but he did say he was cast out of heaven. Like Lucifer. Which could be from a non-Western heaven, but I wonder if the Penny Dreadful universe contains multiple sets of deities, like American Gods.

Since the "secret" of Dorian Gray's picture is so widely known, I'm increasingly drawn to ganesh's suggestion that it contains Vanessa as well, or at least some other unexpected element. Why else would they be delaying its reveal for so long? For some reason the way they've styled Dorian puts me in mind of Wilde himself.

Oooh, I never thought of that. That would also explain why he's so fascinated by her ... other than her being Eva Green and crazy hot, of course.

Heh. I wondered if I should include a disclaimer in my post, because I don't think that's the same thing at all. He was really messed up, but still in good enough condition to crush my boyfriend's head at the end of that episode, and this was the very next episode that took place in King's Landing (where he's had access to medical care). Posters speculated that he might have died, but it wasn't implied. There was at least a reasonable chance that he was still alive.

I was initially concerned about that, but has that ever happened on GoT? We sure haven't seen Syrio since Arya fled the castle, and he was still standing when she left. Very satisfying season finale. Very gritty fight between Brienne and the Hound, Arya making a conscious choice to step into independence, great moment of shock when the legions attacked the Wildlings (I kept studying the soldiers, thinking they were Whitewalkers but being puzzled by their discipline and also the lack of rotting flesh and visible bone), the heartbreak of Dany confining her puzzled, distressed dragons. I loved Meera shoving Jojen back rather than let him get near danger. Arya not assisting the Hound didn't bother me at all. He's always been on her list, and while he might have helped her as he dragged her around looking for a reward, he also demonstrated his own needless cruelty, as when he beat and robbed that farmer who took them in. He may have been better than his brother, but he was still a danger to any innocent he took notice of. I was actually just impressed she had enough presence of mind to take his money.

Heh. Her weakness is sex. His primary interest seems to be sex. Of course she's all over him.

There was a leaf sprouting out of the palm. I don't think his arm situation is completely normal yet.

Heh. I think Adventure Time is like that gum commercial ... everyone experiences it differently. I knew it was the show for me in the third episode, when the Cosmic Owl told the Ice King that the reason he was alone was because he was a sociopath. I'd go straight to "Simon and Marcy" myself, but only the first two seasons are on Netflix streaming.

I started watching the show a month or so ago and am now completely addicted. I've talked a friend into watching via streaming Netflix, but she isn't that impressed with the first few episodes. Any suggestions of episodes from the first two seasons that you think would best represent the show's awesomeness? I'm thinking of "It Came from the Nightosphere" and ... hmm, maybe "To Cut a Woman's Hair"? Any suggestions?

Heh, no, display bread is a real thing. I used to work at a culinary institute that had several very fancy loaves in its cafe as decoration. For years. It seems reasonable to me, though, that Hot Pie simply retreated back into the kitchen and formed and baked the wolf loaf out of already prepared dough, then baked it off (It was a thin loaf, after all) as Brienne and Pod finished their meal and let the meal settle a little before heading out.

Charlie on DWTS putting Meryl in the bottom two with him the week he left: "Honestly to me, that felt contrived. I wasn’t happy that they pitted me against Meryl like that ... certainly our love triumphs over what makes an interesting moment.” He really is the most adorable thing ever.

I thought poison on a blade as soon as Oberyn volunteered as Tyrion's champion. Lord, I hope he wins. Why would they create such a vivid character just to kill him off so soon, especially when Stannis and Jon Snow are boring up the place? I love Tyrion and ache with sympathy for him sometimes, but at this point Oberyn is more interesting to me; I'd hate to see the character sacrificed as a vehicle to save Tyrion. That actor's kicking eight kinds of ass in the role. I don't think Myrcella is in any danger if the Mountain kills Oberyn, though. If the Martells didn't punish her in retribution for the atrocities against their innocent sister and her children, they're not going to punish her for something Oberyn went into eagerly. Hell, it was basically his real reason for going to King's Landing, and I imagine that they know that. (I imagine his daily life in Dorne as sex, sex, excellent wine and food, sex, planning revenge, giving presents to his children, sex, poetry, planning revenge, wine, sex.) (He is awesome.) Now, whether Tyrion/Oberyn/Ellaria/Jaime manage to convince Cersei otherwise in order to sabotage the Mountain, that's another story. Sansa ... yeah, she's cautious of LF. Very cautious, considering she got her father's lack of judgment. I don't think she's buying what he's laying down at all. Honestly, if she fell in love with him, she's probably be the safest she's ever been since leaving Winterfell. But although George Martin seems to be completely ruthless about characters, I somehow can't imagine seeing either of the Stark girls in sexual situations. I mean, it just sounds so, so wrong to me, especially with someone like Littlefinger. I have to agree with TellSackett that he's starting to seem straight-up crazy. I'm getting closer to wondering if the end game is Littlefinger vs. Varys for control of Westeros, with Gendry swooping back into prominence at the last.

Well, yeah. I'm not arguing that Littlefinger is responsible every bad thing in GoT, or that the Lannisters aren't bloodthirsty. I'm saying their well-earned reputation for bloodthirstiness makes a nice cover for his own bad deeds. Lord, I hope Margaery doesn't get killed. Her returning to the sister/mother conversation with Cersei seemed unlike her in its naivete. She's such a canny operator, although she's never has really been dialed into Cersei the way she is with others. But as careless as that was? I have to believe she has something up her sleeve. She's married and survived two kings, and escaped a relationship with Joffrey unscathed. I have to believe she's smarter than that. If Margaery and/or Loras dies, the shit will really hit the fan. Olenna would go bonkers, and even after the wedding spending she presumably has plenty of money to spend on war, while the Lannisters are broke and have warring for years.

I find it more amusing than annoying that Littlefinger is the author of practically every bad deed in Westeros, because most of the things he's being revealed as being behind weren't attributed to many different sources, but mostly to the Lannisters--and most of this stuff was regarded as completely reasonable to trace to a single source, the Lannisters. Now it's just moved from one source to another. And honestly, I love that part of what's attributed to the ruthless Lannisters is simply detritus from LF's long climb to the top. The Lannisters are powerful and ruthless, but they're also a bogeyman he's simultaneously building up and using as misdirection. How that would chafe them if they knew. I wonder if he simply killed the miners to prevent them from talking, like pyramid workers. I don't think wholesale slaughter of a few of his own villages would bother Tywin a bit.

Hmm. Hmm. That's intriguing. I can't really imagine the Lannisters, at least while Cersei's in the picture, going for that, but Littlefinger might have it in his head to keep Sansa off to the side for his own uses as the heir apparent to the North. Well, they're going to the Eryie, with all its deadly drops. And Sansa did almost push Joffrey off a castle wall...

Ah, thanks. I completely forgot that. Every time they say it I wish Jaqen were on the show again. Original recipe Jaqen, because I'm shallow. It moved me that Ice--part of Ice--is now being used to protect a Stark. Those Starks have to keep a better eye on their direwolves, though--only Shaggy Dog is safe and with his person. That's a pretty crappy ratio.