FictionIsntReal

To "reboot" just means to reset the continuity of a serialized story. If continuity is not thrown out, and a show continues from where it previously ended, it should more properly be considered a "revival".

Cersei really is a terrible ruler. Not only did she blow up a big piece of her capital in order to avoid facing trial, she alienated the Tyrells, leaders of the most fertile region of Westeros. As Jaime pointed out, her subjects are going to have a tough time managing low supplies of food during the winter.

I've only seen the pilot, and Alison Wright is not in it, nor is the parole officer, or any Justified castmembers I recognized other than Margo Martindale. Herk from The Wire had a small part though.

I'm puzzled by some TV critics, who talk about the show being ambiguous about Daniel's guilt. While it started out that way, by the end it was clearly pointing away from him and toward Chris. I see that some commenters were disappointed that it wasn't more explicit about what really happened or what's going to happen to these characters, but this is really as much as you can expect (and more than I had expected) from this show. Regarding Bobby & Judy Dean, the sheriff came by to tell them about new developments in the case.

I was scoffing at the promos implying something menacing. Rectify is the not the kind of show where someone makes a badass boast and then actually kills someone.

Dr. Chris was in the 3rd season of the show. His DNA (along with George Melt's) was found on Hannah Dean. Trey spilled to the sheriff after getting arrested, and then the sheriff confronted Chris. I don't know who Roger is either.

Ted Sr didn't strike me as frustrated with Janet's reaction. It was Amantha who was dismissing Daniel's lack of communication and her mother's reaction as just their normal M.O's.

I thought they gave that epiphany to Miriam Lass in season 1. I just got into Jan Svankmajer a couple months ago, but didn't make the connection. I guess the Hart/stagenstein wasn't quite disgusting ENOUGH. I actually thought the series was best in its first season, melding in episodic "Killer of the Week" material. But this seems to be the sort of stuff Bryan Fuller most wants to do. He's also a bigger fan of the third novel & Ridley Scott's film, whereas in terms of Harris adaptations that ranks below even Black Sunday for me (Manhunter is my favorite). Harris isn't a perfect writer, but I'll give him one thing over Fuller: he was willing to drop the protagonist of Red Dragon at the conclusion of the novel, whereas Fuller has indicated that's not going to happen on the show, even if it would make sense for Will to completely cut ties with the FBI after everything that's happened. Harris did eventually fall in love with his characters, but I'm giving credit where it's due. I agree, except that if the show embraced surrealism even more it might be ok as pure exercise in surrealism (like some art films). However, it tries to maintain some degree of narrative continuity, and the clashing of realism & unrealism can bring down some material. I agree with whoever complained about Pazzi being overly whispery. Characters with motivations are interesting, characters without are not. Will aimlessly wandering the catacombs without any plans for what comes next is boring. And Hannibal just waiting around one of his crime scenes while hte police are there is just stupid, he generally didn't do that in the first two seasons. He is eventually going to be caught, he can't just be a murder wizard who doesn't need to be concerned with such possibilities (or else why the plastic kill suit?).

Just a minor point: she's never caught them in a lie, she just has lots of reasons to be suspicious that they're hiding something. Agree with everything else you said though. It was Elizabeth who suggested sparing Todd, Phillip attempted to spare a truck driver last season in Martial Eagle. Henry was in his own room, which is why he had the door locked and Paige knew to knock and call for him there.

Folks at IMDB seem to believe there is still no DVD: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1389371/board/thread/212168732

The Honourable Woman was fantastic, but I'm not sure it's a good comparison. The protagonist does not work for an intelligence agency. Also, it's a miniseries. A better point of comparison is "The Americans", which has been far better than Homeland every season in which they both aired. But as long as we're talking about other shows, Meredith Stiehm left to help create the first season of the American version of The Bridge. Apparently she disagreed with co-creator Elwood Reed on how closely to follow the Scandinavian original with regard to the serial killer angle. She went back to Homeland after, and the second season of the Bridge really came into its own by focusing on the U.S-Mexican border rather than a supervillain. Hardly anybody watched it and it will likely be canceled, but it started getting comparisons to the Wire (yeah, it's not THAT good, that's like another plane of television) in the scope of its ambitions. Homeland's best season was able to rely on the original Israeli series, and it has faltered afterward. On the other hand, that's sufficiently different in that it's supposed to focus on the POWs themselves rather than anyone analogous to Carrie. But for people willing to go back in time a few years to another Homeland adjacent show, I recommend the one-season-wonder Rubicon. The late Henry Bromell (who wrote the Q&A episode from Homeland's season 2) was brought in as showrunner when the original creater was removed after the pilot, and it's not a completely smooth transition, but there's some very good slow-burning stuff. There's one episode largely focused on all the characters taking polygraph tests in order to uncover the source of a leak. In another they spend the entire episode debating whether to order an airstrike based on incomplete information (contrast how long that takes in Homeland's season 4 premiere). The late Christopher Evan Welch, who was the best part of Silicon Valley in the small number of episodes before his death, manages to humanize a rather dislikable character over the course of the season. On the other hand, there are plotlines that don't go anywhere, with Bromell seeming not to know what to do with some of what he inherited. And as indicated, it's much more slow-moving than Homeland. But those wanting a contrasting spy story should check it out.

Abigail actually had a closer relationship with Hannibal than Will (which actually played a role in Will's failure to see her darker side). And I think Hannibal does have genuine regret, which is why he actually apologizes to her.

I think they only recently married on the campaign trail. The Twins are at something like the southern tip of the Riverlands, further away than northmen like the Boltons would usually travel. But Robb brought his bannermen south, and entered into an alliance with the Freys.

I'm not sure to what extent Hannibal respected Tobias, but I recall him telling Bedelia that despite their similarities, he rejected that friendship in favor of Will. My own interpretation is that Hannibal is a narcissist. Tobias would have been on too equal a level. Hannibal likes being the psychiatrist authority figure over Will, getting to hear Will give an explanation (or appreciation, in Hannibal's view) of crimes that Hannibal himself committed, without having to reveal that he himself did it. Additionally, Lecter did NOT eat Tobias. Tobias attacked him, Lecter killed him in a fight to the death, and the police found that result.