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I think I missed the part where Jon expressed any thankfulness whatsoever for the surprise attack. Or I've somehow forgotten it--it's been awhile. Perhaps she could have gone about it better but given her experiences there's no way she would have, I don't think. Trusting LF to show up with an army is different from trusting him to be a good ally afterwards, which I don't believe she does.

I just think it's ludicrous to expect her to trust anyone or to make good, smart choices based on healthy trust, because in her life trust has always been a stupid move, whether on her part or on someone else's. So no. I'm not gonna fault her for the surprise attack which was hers to make, and Jon's to be thankful for. I find her at fault for very little, because she's had very little power. This is the first REAL power she's had, and I don't blame her for exercising it independently of Jon, particularly considering what happened afterwards.

If she were a Mary Sue everyone would like her. They don't. She's anxiety-ridden and grieving for her brother--that's plenty of reason to be "broken bird," which again, she would not be if she were a Mary Sue. The Mary Sue is a wish fulfillment character for the author--loved by all, and effective in every situation, which Alice is not. Alice's virgin princess demeanor is a rebellion against her parents. She could hardly rebel any other way, could she?

It's her nose. The way it's placed gives her a permanently snotty look. She can't help it and there's really nothing that can be done about it--she's not making that face, her nose is. Julia isn't very sympathetic, though, because she doesn't care about others much. She put Quentin through hell in the very beginning, and she has endangered the group several times. I think of her as kind of a villain.

No. When people tell you their experiences, especially when they are experiences you personally have not had, you should believe them unless there is a very, very good reason not to. One way to tell if someone has privilege is if they absolutely don't believe any stories of the prejudice someone else has encountered. If you'd ever experienced it you'd know better, and you'd also know how painful it is not to be believed or to have to keep proving everything that's ever happened to you over and over. In the case of any actress, her agent TELLS her why she wasn't cast. "You're the wrong size opposite the male. Too tall/short/fat/thin/light/dark. You're too ethnic. You're not ethnic enough. They wanted someone shorter. They wanted a blonde. They wanted a less recognizable actress. They wanted a bigger name." Agents are paid to do this and they do it quite well. If she says her ethnicity cost her roles, then you may be certain that it did.

Only if he's really, really, really obsessed with Ward. Or unless Ward is standing there, which is unlikely. I would hope that whenever Coulson thinks about May, he's going to just think about May, and vice versa. I've always liked them as a ship and was kind of disappointed that they weren't Daisy's real parents.

The average guy in Paul-Louis' shoes never finds out. There is a reason for this. Usually he never asks and she never tells. This is because there is no relationship there and most women won't even go as far as Hannah went in assuming he might be interested in the child or in their situation. Also there are some men who, if they took an interest in every pregnancy they caused, would be paying child support for 30 or 50 kids by now. Imagine how many women Paul-Louis could have impregnated over just one summer. No wonder he'd rather not know. Now, Paul-Louis is not the average guy. The average guy is probably not often in Paul-Louis' shoes. But that guy is out there, make no mistake. And if a girl has actually told you, "he didn't care," believe her. There are guys like that in the world.

Had. They had many cousins. But I think Cersei's explosion, and the war, took care of most of them. In the books there's a sister, but on the show there's just Kevan. I think as matters now stand, the heir is Cersei.

Seemed pretty realistic to me. Why would a "chick" tell her friends it went that way if it didn't? The average guy, the higher the stakes for the girl, the more detached he is. It's simply not his problem and he's not going to pretend to care when it's not happening to him. Of course, the very same guy might flip out and act nuts if she shows up explaining how she's going to have an abortion and needs him to pay half, because that affects him--he's out $100 and might call her a liar or whatever he can think of, to get out of that. Or if she shows up apologizing for already having had one, because who does that? A lot of guys who are completely chill and indifferent if they think you're having their baby, will knock over tables if they think you got rid of it without consulting them. It's not logical or "realistic" but it's true.

Three Starks were killed at the Red Wedding: Catelyn, Robb, and Talisa. One of them was pregnant, so you could argue that four Starks were killed. I don't think it's a numbers game, though. Walder didn't just kill the Starks, but all their men and their servants, too. So Arya is within her rights to kill anyone wearing Frey colors she happens to run across. There's no set limit to the number here. I agree with the whole rest of this post though.

Why are we expecting a maiden completely unversed and untrained in war to know how war works? Her entire combat experience to date has consisted of praying with the women in a room, being told by Cersei that women are raped in war, and looking at scars. That's it. And why are we expecting a girl who went from finding out she couldn't trust Joffrey or her own feelings, to finding out she couldn't trust her aunt not to throw her out a window or trust Littlefinger not to sell her into marriage to Ramsey, or trust her groom not to torture and rape her, to be some kind of expert on trust and good feelings just because she sort of knew Jon growing up and we, the audience, like him?

Jon Snow: Dead Sansa Stark: Dead Arya Stark: Alive Bran Stark: Alive (but in some weird form) Ghost: Dead Nymeria: Alive Cersei Lannister: Dead Jaime Lannister: Dead Tyrion Lannister: Dead Daenerys Targaryen: Dead Missandie: Dead Grey Worm: Dead Drogon: Alive Viserion (gold dragon): Dead Rhaegal (green dragon): Dead Yara Greyjoy: Dead Theon Greyjoy: Alive Euron Greyjoy: Dead Brienne of Tarth: Dead Podrick Payne: Alive Davos Seaworh: Alive Melisandre: Dead Tormund Gigantsbane: Dead Sandor Clegane: Dead Thoros of Myr: Dead Samwell Tarly: Alive Gilly: Alive Baby Sam: Alive Varys: Alive Petyr Baelish: Dead Qyburn: Dead Ellaria Sand: Dead Obara Sand: Dead Tyene Sand: Dead Nymeria Sand: Dead Olenna Tyrell: Alive Meera Reed: Alive Robin Arryn: Dead Edmund Tully: Dead Dolorous Edd: Dead Bronn: Alive Jorah Mormont: Unknown Daario Naharis: Unknown Gendry: Unknown Hot Pie: Unknown The white walkers: Dead The wall: Destroyed The iron throne: Destroyed One isolated weirwood tree: alive.

That is an excellent theory, and a Robin that isn't her true love is exactly what Regina/EQ deserved, considering the current curse on the Charmings.

I am even more cynical than you. I don't think it's accidental or subconscious. I think it's fully intentional. "Take that, audience!"

It misses the point not only of the episode, but of the entire show, to boil it down to sex=sexiness=attractiveness=success. The whole point of it is that it's none of the above. Sex is just sex. It accomplishes nothing, proves nothing, gives nothing. Chuck likes the sex he has with fans because their availability to him "proves" to him how much they like his writing. Not how attractive he is, or how much they like HIM, but how much they liked his writing. But the sex itself is unimportant--I doubt he even remembers any of the women or what they were like. In return, his sex with them makes them feel like they got closer to "greatness" or something, but it's not an equal exchange. "I slept with Chuck" isn't a ticket to anything. You can't put it on a resume or get a comicon booking based on it. Chuck, however, can say "thousands of fans want to sleep with me" and leverage that into something. Sex on this show isn't about sexiness, because so often in a girl's life sex is not about sexiness at all. Chuck feels abused when the women complain and say it wasn't consensual. In fact it's just bad sex, which shouldn't make him feel good either. I think Chuck is technically innocent, but the dynamic between him and his female fans is a very unhealthy one. That he knows this, is proven by the weird position he puts Hannah in. Knowing Hannah, she's going to write it up exactly the way it happened, though. In the end she won't have it in her not to, daughter or no daughter.

Since when has sexual assault or harassment EVER been about the victim's attractiveness? Fat girls and offbeat looking girls get catcalled just as much as "hot" ones, and probably get sexually harassed and raped even more often, because the men imagine that they're doing them a favor by even noticing them, and because nobody will believe the ordinary looking girl who says a handsome guy harassed or assaulted her. Just because you're not attracted to a girl doesn't mean she's not having lots of sex. I think both Dunham and Schumer draw on their own experiences a great deal. I don't know about Fluke--I've never seen her act. But the average woman has lots of sex, most of it under unsatisfying or invalidating circumstances. Average women have to worry about being called sluts if they do and prudes if they don't, and sometimes whether they even want to or not gets lost in the giant list of male demands and expectations they have to consider before their own needs. Schumer does a great job of making fun of this phenomenon.

I've had that thought more than a few times. I think the writers are stuck in an "it works, it made me popular, anyone who doesn't murder villagers for laughs is stupid and deserves what they get" kinda mindset leftover from perhaps being popular kids in high school?

The real problem is actresses with beautiful faces and thin bodies, but thin, boring, flat voices that simply can't rise to an iconic level.

Gaslighting is the worst kind of mental and emotional abuse. Killing a pet is abuse, so I'm pretty sure killing your child's favorite teacher qualifies too. Killing the whole town, or even just threatening to, is in a class by itself.

He was. He's really Regina's.

And it IS canon. Emma says it, and several times other characters: Henry, Snow, Hook, even Regina, have said "use your superpower." I think Rumple might even have done it once, to prove he wasn't lying. Everyone knows Emma has one superpower: she can tell when someone is lying. The show should have made more use of it. Too bad.

Aunt Em might've deserved better, but Milah didn't really. She wanted to turn an innocent man into a murderer, and was furious when he found a nonviolent way to solve the problem. She was furious about a child that didn't exist and possibly never would have existed anyway, the way that relationship was going, instead of being overjoyed that Rumple had saved their child without committing murder. Rumple says "she made me who I am," and he's not kidding. There was a lot of Lady Macbeth in Milah. Also, she did abandon Bae to run off with Hook, possibly because she could have no more children with Rumple and in her own words "had grown to hate him." But this means she was eager to take up with someone who killed people to take their stuff, all over the high seas. The idea of watching lots of innocent people walk the plank didn't bother her as long as she got to keep a ring or two. Milah wasn't any better than she absolutely had to be.

Hannah didn't have feelings for Adam by that time, either. It was her choice not to get back together with him, and that was at least a year before Jessa made a move on Adam. Hannah was in a serious relationship with someone else by then. I don't get why it's any different either.

He turned over the entire village of Storybrooke to be killed, remember? The whole place was to die to let Dark Ones take their places. That went nowhere, but it was about to happen and it was on Hook. And unlike Rumple, this was with no coercion or deals in play. In under 48 hours he was about to match Rumple's body count. Think what he'd have done in a year. He'd have made Rumple look like a cute little peddler. Hades was a fool not to see it. The switcheroo really makes no sense since Excalibur crumbled and that should have meant no more dagger, either.

Someone with no evil in him, no darkness, would not have made the choice Rumple made. There would be no appeal in it to him. Sure, he'd eventually have made mistakes and become like everyone else, but the point was that he was NOT like everyone else at the time he pulled Excalibur from the stone, or chose to take back the darkness. It still makes no sense. And when, exactly, did he do it? I'm still confused.