Also, I've been with a woman who enjoyed physically resisting at first as part of play. If you didn't know our sexual relationship and randomly threw a camera in the room you'd think I was raping her, when in actuality it was something we established together as lovers. It freaked me out at first, but hey, that's what she was into; I knew where the lines were and I did it for her. Does that make me a rapist? I know Cercei wasn't raped because I read the books and have that extra information, not because of what was seen on the show. The directors also knew what I knew and failed to portray it correctly for the masses. Rape is despicable. Onward.

I agree with her in her assessment of the rape depicted in episode four and understand why a woman would be bothered by it, as I myself was bothered. I hope that was the purpose though– to bother us and make us hate the mutineers. The problem is that there has been so much sexposition and gratuitous sex in Game of Thrones that the Crastor Keep scene could easily be portrayed in that same light, and using rape as sexposition to turn people on is wrong. I'll jump in with the feminists on that one if that's what they did.

I didn't mind the tone of the review. I knew she was joking with the little commentaries and they didn't bother me. It was well written and kept my interest throughout. I guess what confuses me is this:

"Jon drives his sword straight through the back of his head and and through his mouth in a delightfully phallic and violating way. If only our gal had been able have the pleasure of doing that to Karl."

You're sensitive to rape but just described a grisly killing where a man shoved a sword through the back of another man's skull and out through his mouth using a sexual overtone like the sword raped him. That's a little messed up. I'm with you. It's just hypocritical and messed up.

Your casual commentary, filled with purposeful misspellings and slang, designed to capture the minds of an audience that is probably of an age that shouldn't be watching this show, show that the folk that manage this site have placed way to much confidence in your abilities, and have either neglected to check your references when you applied to be a writer here, or it shows that it takes no qualifications at all.

To those of you who enjoyed this style of writing, though I can't fathom why, please, return to your People magazines, where this sort of rhetoric runs aplenty, and stop diminishing the pool of reviews where others are actually looking for opinions from writers who know what they are talking about, have the maturity to write about it, and don't fill their articles with excerpts from conversations they had at lunch before their home economics class.

Aside from the women at Craster's Keep, Cersei's scene with the Red Viper in the gardens is particularly compelling given her own recent rape. This scene expertly depicts the emotional transformation that her violent encounter with Jaime has had on her, with specific regard to her daughter's precarious situation and the general treatment of women in the realm.

If commenting on your mockingly written posts is sad then how exactly should we categorize the attitude with which you've chosen to write about this show? If you'd like your POV to be taken seriously perhaps you should cut the puns, read the books and save the vitriolic discourse until you've allowed the show's writers/creators to fully develop the storyline of the characters.

WRONG. Brienne respects him not because of the killing, but because of his loyalty, because he has risked his life to protect Tyrion whom he was squiring for.

Hey i think you did a great job, it was a lot of fun to read this keep it up!

First, how do you gloss over the fact that Lady Arryn mentions how she poisoned her own husband with the help of Littlefinger? Argueably setting in motion this entire story! It really gives you a much bigger appreciation for Petyr Baelish and how much he really really impacts the story line, yet goes so unnoticed by the major players. This is major information and so much a part of these characters.

Lady Arryn is depicted more and more like Cercei than we realize as she brings Sansa into a false sense of security discussing her mother and making Sansa feel like she is safe. Only to turn 'crazed' over her jealousy and thoughts that her husband may have 'had his way' with Sansa at some point. Is Sansa really as safe as she thought? Can we not mention the character similarities here?

Arya and The Hound – again, missing the entire point. At the end when The Hound explains that Arya's hero is only dead because of 'armor and a big f**king sword' shows us that The Hound may just be the best teacher Arya has had, despite the fact he is on her 'list'.

Katie dear — please don't complain about character development unless you fully understand and realize how these characters are being developed. How even something that appears so small and insignificant, can change the direction of a relationship or character development in this show. I feel that is where the disconnect is. I feel that you think that much of what the writers and directors are portraying on the show is not part of character development. Yet in the end, I don't read anything from you that shows you understand how characters are being developed.

I thought your article was refreshingly well written and enjoyed your entertaining recap having just watched the episode.

It's depressing that there are so many negative comments and sniffy people calling into question the article's professionalism. Wow. I mean, it's a lighthearted point of view piece not a treatise for peace between, um, mortal enemies?

Anyway, I get it. It's not hard to get if you're not judgmental. Because the Craster Keep fight scenes were so dimly lit it (and the Crows are all wearing black etc), it's difficult to make out what's going on in the melee in such a short space of time, so it was 'dim and confusing' in this respect is how I read it. How people can take fault of such observations is hard to appreciate. Relax.

Now, onto my opinion… The last two GoT episodes have been really weird and disappointing in *my view*. I understand the creative need for deviation in storyline between the books and the show – yes, I read all the books too – but I think they've gone too far off beam with some of the plotlines of late. I can't pretend to remember (or even perhaps fully appreciate) some of the deeper intricacies and undercurrents circling around in the GoT novels but I felt the overall nuance of characters and their relationships with each other had been conveyed pretty well until now. I mean, you hold out and reserve judgment to a point but I feel things have nose dived pretty spectacularly of late in some of the storylines as they take too many liberties reflecting those more subtle, um, nuances.

SPOILER ALERT: It's really clear Cersi starts to totally lose it and her relationship with Jaime completely breaks down. I think it was quite clear this relationship had fundamentally altered at the end of last season so a simple continuation would have served better than a very clumsy rape scene at Joff's lying in state. As far as I recall, they did bonk each other in the book at this point but I don't remember it being flat out rape like this. Did I forget something? This episode really breaks the redemptive Jaime story – yeah, the characters are multilayered yadda yadda – so the future Jaime plotline is not going to have the same impact it otherwise could have done (ie – the audience is with him then he does something terrible [again] and betrays them). This is the point – a man beyond redemption finds some small part of it with Brienne. So wtf have they done? Gone for a shocker prematurely I guess?

Can't remember Craster's Keep Part Three: The Revenge of the Crows in the books. Made sense to go shut the surviving defecting black cloaks up but was it all really necessary? I think the show's creators wasted loads of screen time with this when they ought to have been focusing more on the impending threat of Mance and building up his attack on the Wall. I'd like to see several episodes of the battle in the detail they promised when they mentioned there'd be an expensive battle fought (ie – battle scenes cost a lot to produce in filmmaking terms).

Well, anyway… I'm not hanging around here to get flamed and chewed up by all the highly strung humourless bro-fos here. My first visit and all. I just wanted to say nice article, very amusing and well written. Don't let the whiners grind you down.

Joe Crow
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