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If they committed criminal acts, then they were criminals. Nobody is born a criminal - circumstances+choices is how criminals become criminals. Showing what circumstances and choices led them to become criminals is character development.

This episode was awful, and everyone was such an idiot. I'm over Quinn's crassness and inability to stop "producing" the people who work for her. I'm sick of Rachel's constant self sabotaging. Coleman was a moron to go along with her idiotic plan, but of course he did, because he tries to hide his venality behind a self righteous facade just like she does. Adam's following Rachel around like a puppy begging for her to take him back was beyond pathetic. All these assholes deserve each other and their misery, and it's no longer entertaining to watch.

I think the show has pretty firmly established that Johnny isn't in love with Dutch and has no romantic interest in her, but that he does love her. She's his family, in some ways more so than D'Avin.

Craig will always be Kalf from Vikings to me, and yes, I appreciate getting some Female Gaze in this show. It's a nice change up. What they did to him was brutal but he can't say he didn't have it coming. As stupidly as they go about things, I'm really astounded that they've managed to be successful for this long. They're doing every thing they can to ensure that J turns on them with the way they antagonize him at every turn. If their goal is to keep him close, they sure as hell don't have the first clue how to do it.

I really want more on Pree's backstory now.

I don't find it remotely unbelievable that the billionaire Brit (Welshman) would be into the gross drama. People with that kind of money have a tendency to live on a moral plane all their own. When you get to a certain level of wealth, it's all too easy to stop seeing people as people. Last season's suitor gave occasional pushback, but for the most part he was easily manipulated. I like that Darius continues to keep them on their toes. I find him so much more interesting than drippy, spineless Adam. So long, Jeremy. Don't come back now.

As big of idiots as these guys are (maybe excepting Baz,) I don't know how they manage to dress themselves every day, let alone support themselves so comfortably with their criminal activity. Damn, Craig is an even bigger scumbag than I thought, robbing her while leaving her to die. When Daren came in and asked where breakfast was, I realized it was the first time I'd ever seen Smurf in the kitchen where she wasn't surrounded by massive piles of food. I can see where Catherine is coming from but girl, you made yourself complicit in all of this. You knew what you were getting into, with Baz and with Smurf. Learn to play along or get out.

I've seen a few people suggest that Jon could be legitimate if Lyanna and Rhaeger had married, but that wasn't possible as he was already married to Elia Martel. She and her children were murdered by the Mountain after Rhaeger's death at Robert Baratheon's hand. The Dornish may be Dany's allies right now, but I'll lay bets that Tyrion is going to have an opinion about them murdering his niece. Apropos of nothing, I can tell I've been watching too much of this show lately because as I was driving to work today, there was a shadow overhead and my immediate thought was, "Dragon!??!"

Cassie has disappointed me this season, but I kind of get where she's coming from. Being sent to 2044 and actually living in that world did a number on her, and having her brain hijacked by The Witness on top of that was even worse. In a lot of ways, she's as unhinged as Jennifer, it's just not as showy (or as entertaining.) Also, I admittedly have great love for Todd Stashwick anyway, but when did Deacon become my favorite character?

Ramse needs to die already. He's a useless, self-absorbed whinging moron.

Hitch yourself to that Lyanna Mormount, Jon Snow. She's got some years to go before she's of marriageable age, but you'll be busy for awhile anyway. I suspect that when Cersei does finally get hers, it will be at Jaime's hand. Dany will never sit on the Iron Throne, if only because the first thing that she'll do is have her dragons melt that monstrosity down.

I'm sad about Margary, but also oddly good with the happenings at King's Landing.You have to admit it was a hell of a baller move on her part, and once again her scheming came back to bite her in the ass, hard. All her children are gone. Now she can sit on the Iron Throne, her children all dead, and wait for Dany and her dragons to take away the last thing she has left.

You have it confused. Lyanna Stark was supposed to marry the eventual King, Robert Baratheon, but she was kidnapped/ran off with Rhaeger Targaryen and had a son with him, Jon Snow. The search for the king's bastards was instigated by Joffrey, his supposed son by Cersei Lannister, in order to murder them all and eliminate any other potential claimants. One had nothing to do with the other.

I think when Tyrion first came to Dany, it was opportunism. He was smart enough to figure out his best shot at survival, vengeance and power all rolled up in one, and he went for it. Then he found what he least expected - he truly believes that Dany is The Real Deal, and he'll serve her however he can. Lyanna Mormount 4EVA. Arya pulling a Titus Andronicus wasn't what I was expecting, but I'm 100% down.

There's a MotherJones investigative series about private prisons that just came out today. Fiction doesn't apparently stray very far from fact. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-prisons-corrections-corporation-inmates-investigation-bauer

It may be an easy get, sure. It's also pretty realistic that someone who seeks that kind of work because they get off on the power trip would have those kinds of prejudices. I find Piscatella especially awful because he's not just an asshole because he gets off on it; he actually believes the dehumanizing crap he spews. TBH, I'm sure my viewpoint is colored by my experience working with these kinds of people for so long. There are plenty of good ones, but it's a profession that really does attract a certain type and you just hope that they're quickly weeded out.

I have mixed feelings about the whole situation with Coates, but I don't necessarily think it's bad to show how so much of rape culture stems from not adequately teaching about consent. The guy is a rapist, there's absolutely no doubt, but it pays to ask how someone gets to think the way he does. I'm sure it's based on actual practice, but I still can't reconcile with male guards having this much freedom for physical contact with female inmates. It seems like a recipe for disaster in so many ways.

I don't care how guilty Maria is. Piscatella is still the King Piece of Shit here. I hate his fucking face, the racist power tripping sack of garbage.

I think he's been pulling a lot of strings and definitely playing the long game, but he's also not infallible. Like everyone else, there are things he can't control and he has his weaknesses, his obsession with Sansa's mother being one of them. I don't think Sansa's marriage to Ramsay turned out the way he planned, for one.

After watching the "making of" the battle scene clip on YouTube, I'm even more impressed knowing how much CGI they actually *didn't* use. That was visually stunning. On rewatch, one of my favorite small moments is Grey Worm straightening his vest after slicing the master's throats. The Lannister armies are at Riverrun, and both the Lannisters and Tyrells at King's Landing are basically under the thumb of the High Sparrow. There's not a damned thing they can do about the north. Littlefinger came to Sansa pretty much begging to make things right with her. He may currently be leading the Vale army, but there's not a soul among them who trust him. Sansa is their lord's kin. Littlefinger is the upjumped lordling who married their lord's mother who died at his hands. He's burned his bridges with the Lannisters. He has power now, but it's damned precarious and he's smart enough to know it.

That smile on Sansa's face as she walked away at the end. Girl has HAD it. Sansa may have sent to Littlefinger for help, but she doesn't trust him as far as she can throw him. Even if he had sent a raven telling her that he was on the way, she couldn't trust that he would actually show until he did. As others have said, what would be the point of even telling Jon; he already wasn't listening to her about Ramsay. Tyrion did the best he could with what he was given, all things considered. Dany has big ideas, but she needs a voice of reason like him and she clearly knows it. Tyrion's been in the game his whole life, and he knows better than anyone that brute force isn't enough to stay on top. I'm fully on board with Dany conquering Westeros. She and Tyrion are the few characters in the series who have consistently tried to do what's best for everyone, not just their own pride or self interest.

Not on board at all with the Piscatella love. I've worked with enough LEOs like him that are clearly only in the job for the abusive power trip that I don't find his brand of asshole remotely amusing. "We've all eaten lead; that's probably why half of us are in here." I almost choked on my drink at that one. It's going to be deeply amusing watching Piper get smacked down.

The part that got me was Paige offering to make her mother something to eat after a long day/night at work. She may get mouthy sometimes, which, frankly, I find understandable considering the position she's been put in, but people seem to forget how much adult responsibility she's actually taken on. In many ways, she's basically taken over a lot of the duties of running the household; it's only natural that she's going to resent to what she perceives as being treated like a child.

"Guns and Ships" is pretty challenging, good on James! This is pretty much my theater friends and I on a car trip, except, you know, with the actual ability to sing thrown in.

Holy crap, I didn't even recognize Craig Bierko at first. Then he started talking and it was like, "Oh, there he is." Of course he'd embrace that evo psych bullshit he was spouting. Rachel not being able to fire Jeremy *should* be a lesson about sleeping where you eat, but not on this show. The way she handled it was probably even better than firing him, though. Jay seriously needs to stop with the whining. If he has such tender sensibilities, he's on the wrong show and in the wrong business. Rachel and Quinn's have a dysfunctional, mutually abusive relationship, sure, but it's probably the deepest one that either of them have had in a long time, if ever. Quinn may have been the one who bent the rail to derail the Adam/Rachel train, but the way Adam dealt with it proved she was right, and Rachel knows it. I watch some fairly dark and violent shows, but not even "Game of Thrones" tops this, imo. How much do I love the ads for this show with Heart's "Barracuda" playing over them. SO much.