He begs Brienne to just “accept” her fate and she quickly snaps back “would you.” No, he wouldn’t because he’s a man. In Jaime’s eyes (and many men’s eyes) he’d still have some minute measure of power despite the act of rape being entirely about the complete annihilation of it.

Somehow in Catelyn’s head her betrayal of her “motherly” duties to him as a child are what have brought down all the misery upon her head. It’s a horrific moment.

hey’re the only two women not of noble blood and it is no coincidence that they’re both prostitutes. It is the only way a woman without a title can hope to make it in the patriarchal feudalist society George R. R. Martin has carefully cultivated from history.

A whole bevy of Doctor Who and Game of Thrones trailers were unleashed over the weekend and they are all glorious. Is it then end of March yet?

It’s funny how just the other day, a deleted scene was released for The Avengers that would’ve basically started the movie in media res, with the story already in motion and the characters now looking back to ask how it came to all this destruction and death and CGI. It’s a common, even overexposed trick—how [...]

Quick name the five most critically lauded dramas on television! Likely you’re starting off with Mad Men, maybe Breaking Bad? A little Boardwalk Empire. Some Homeland. And I bet Game of Thrones finds its way onto your list. They’re very different kinds of shows but they all have the same thing going for them. They’re [...]

  I don’t watch Glee! (exclamatory note entirely theirs). It is not my bag. Because my bag is not full of crap. I tried. I called myself a Gleek. But ultimately my very soul recoiled. That said, I know some of you guys like that show. Did you now Cory Monteith is THIRTY YEARS OLD? [...]

When I was fourteen the height of hotness was The Saint. You know exactly which part of the film of which I speak. He’s soaking wet and dying from coldness and she’s just smuggled them into some crawl space in a Russian apartment building and the only thing that will save his life is for [...]

Okay, they didn’t fight shadow babies so much as watch shadow babies murder people and stare on in horror, but they still started their epic soromance which is like a womance but without making me see read with the stupidity of the term. So it begins. Catelyn and Brienne have teamed up to have pseudo [...]

Last night might have seen Tyrion achieve his greatest coup yet, and it might have seen Theon twisted to serve a new king, but ultimately it was all about the women. Scene after scene reminded us of the great inequality of power in this fantasy universe and showed us the pathos and the honors that [...]