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They can't just kill the High Sparrow. That is like the Italian government deciding they're going to kill the Pope. Right now they have one enemy, if they kill him the entire 7 Kingdoms will be their enemy. Fighting the church as a government is like fighting a cop as an individual. Even if you win, you'll ultimately lose. At the very least you'll never talk your way out of another ticket, at the worst you'll die in the street. The problem with the Lannisters is that the people no longer believe in their power, for good reason. They don't have any. The strength of Highgarden can most likely beat the Faith Militant in battle, but they probably don't have the strength to fight everyone else who would come after. You have to remember that the Lannister army isn't really in a position to fight another war. They won't get any support from The North, The Vale, The Riverlands, The Stormlands, or Dorne. All knights in Westeros are knighted in the name of the Seven, so there is reason to believe that a good number hedge knights and landed knights would take the side of the church. The people would burn the Red Keep to the ground.

I agree, that bat flip is probably my favorite baseball moment ever, and I don't give two shits about the Rangers, Blue Jays or any team not in Cleveland(my favorite team) or Washington(The games I go to).

Not what I'm saying at all. Omar was Omar, and never pretended to be anyone else. The court scene was basically his mission statement. "I steal from drug dealers, shoot people, and I don't give a fuck how you feel about it." The difference is that Levy, the police, and even the drug dealers believed that their form of profiting off of the drug trade was somehow honorable. Omar knew that there wasn't any honor to what he did, so he was honorable about who he was. Almost everyone else on the show was willing to betray their character to get the job done, Omar knew what he was and wasn't going to compromise his moral code even if it meant his death.

Branch? We could plant the tree.

Omar is the closest thing to a hero on that show. He's the least morally ambiguous character on the show, while everyone else lied to themselves about how corrupt they actually were. I'd agree Stringer was the biggest villain, he's might be the most reprehensible character in the history of television. Marlo, Avon, Prop Joe, etc.were monsters, but they played the game the way it was supposed to be played. Stringer was coloring way outside the lines of "The Game."

Is there another case where the lesser known brother is clearly and totally better than the more famous brother? There are plenty of Billy Ripkens and Frank Stallones out there, but Bruce is head and shoulders better than Michael.

We need to get a show where her, Antonia Thomas, and Nathalie Emmanuel on a R-rated Charlies Angels show. Many nude scenes would be involved, and I'd be the the world's #1 authority everything surrounding the show.

There needs to be a 30 for 30 where it focuses on great athletes who left cities based on something stupid. Remember the Kevin Durant, "Mr. Unreliable" story? What are the odds of a player of KD's caliber ever choosing to go to OKC? Why the hell would a paper put that story on their front page, when he's very likely the best player that market will ever have. If he leaves OKC, I want him to go on TV and say, "apparently these assholes think I'm unreliable. After next year, when Russ leaves they'll have to rely on Dion Waiters." What about when Jim Brown told Art Modell his movie was running over schedule and would be late for training camp, and Art Modell threatened to fine him. Jim Brown decided, fuck him, I'm going to retire. Just a never ending marathon of people complaining about people breaking their bodies for their entertainment until that person says, "Fuck you, I'm leaving." It would be told from the athlete's perspective where they tell stories about how they went to children's hospitals, homeless shelters, and Habitat for Humanity events, only for some dickhead at a typewriter to call him selfish.

I stopped playing 3, because of what you are talking about here. It took a game I really liked and just made it a frustrating mess.

My favorite kind of baseball fight, when one guy thinks it is a baseball fight and the other guy thinks it is a regular old fight. Never pick a fight with someone if you aren't ready to fight, that is a quick way to get your ass beat.

According to her, that was no body double. I think it was just the amount of CGI on the screen at the time made everything look artificial.

That James Blake entire album sounds like one of those parts where the song changes on Kanye's 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy." I liked those parts when they were pieces of songs, I don't know if I like them as whole songs. I'll give it another listen, but as of now I don't really feel it. I do think that it will be sampled to death in the next few years, and I'll probably like those songs better.

I have no idea why they love Ramsey so much, it was overkill when he tortured Theon, but now I just hate every time he's on TV. A couple of notes from last week that I meant to post, but didn't... The music that played when Jon hanged his killers was a song that had been used multiple times before, all of which were in triumphant Dany scenes. I don't know if it was the same music last night, but that would be a pretty fun bit of foreshadowing if it was. The Three-eyed Raven insinuated that he was a thousand years old, which makes it impossible for him to be Bloodraven, or a Targaeryn bastard for that matter. I don't know why they changed that part of his character, but then again Mellisandre seems to be significantly older than her book character too(I really like the theory that she is the child of Bloodraven and Shiera Seastar).

Hayley Atwell is out of my life for the time being...

There are 100,000 of them, some of them women and children, it would take years for them to split into small groups and climbing over. The Others are here now, and the wall can't be defended by The Night's Watch. They would have won no matter what they did. The war was over before Stannis showed up, The Wildlings had won. Jon was supposed to be either negotiating their surrender or assassinating Mance Rayder. The Wildlings were taking The Wall that day no matter what.

I read plenty of other things, but this is the one fantasy series that feels different. I really like how dense the series is and how it leads itself to theorizing and speculation. It is probably why the community around the series is so large.

If Stannis wouldn't have shown up exactly when he did, they would have been slaughtered. They didn't have enough people to hold the wall for another attack. They were dead to rights and there is no possible way they could have survived. At the start of the first book, they had less than 1,000 men. That is before the fight with the wights at the Fist of the First Men, before the mutiny at Craster's Keep, and before the battle against the Wildlings at the Wall. When you realize that those men are spread across three different castles, that is not a lot of people. In the books, there are about 40 Night's Watch against 100,000 Wildlings including over 100 mammoths. So even if One man on top of a wall is worth ten men beneath it, they would have all died.

There's no such thing as too much jheri curl Ice Cube, there can be too much of any other version.

Yep, all the sense in the world...

This is good perspective on something I'm thankfully pretty ignorant about. I could see someone grabbing someone and yelling at them in an argument, despite that I would think they went a little overboard. Taking their phone isn't even something I thought was a crime. When you add the perspective of calling the police, because you know how far this person is ready to go, it makes me look at the situation differently.

You can't though, Baltimore is clearly different to everyone in the DMV and everyone in Baltimore. It is kind of like San Francisco and Oakland, A's fans and Giant fans are not the same people, they'd never claim to be the same people, and have no interest in being the same people. Montgomery County and PG county are DC suburbs, They might go to Baltimore every now and then, but if they had to explain to someone in Kansas where they were from they'd say they're from DC.

Jon Snow recognizes that the job of The Night's Watch is to protect the realms of men from the Others. The Wildlings are men, and his job is to protect them as much as it is to protect the citizens of Westeros. The Wildlings aren't good people, but they are people none the less. He knows what the job is, the other Black Brothers do not. They Watch cannot beat the Others without the WIldlings, they just don't have the manpower. With the Wildlings, they at least have a fighting chance.

Yeah, the entire Wildling culture, as well as the Ironborn for that matter, is based on raiding, pillaging, etc. They live north of The Wall where nothing grows, game is scarce, and life is hard. They'd literally die off if they stopped raiding and pillaging.