Juliajms

While never a Laurie fan I feel bad for her in all this. Just the fear that her child could turn during the birth. Good lord.

Yes, that was completely brutal. Hard to believe anyone could survive Rick's version of an amputation. Damn!

Thanks for the reminder Ann. I'm going to watch the first few episodes.

Hi Q! Yeah, I remember that scene with the prostitute, but I didn't pick up on it until other people mentioned it.

Deleted Tywin scene. Gets interesting around the 1:30 min mark http://www.windsofwinterrelease.com/awesome-deleted-scene-from-season-3-with-lord-tywin-and-pycelle/

Bad choices and bad judgement are mistakes. That's not the same thing as an accident. Just because I have compassion for them doesn't mean I think they should get off scott free. As I said, they were greedy and now they have to pay for that. Almost every adult in a bad situation is there because of their own poor choices, but I can still sympathize with them as long as they haven't committed a violent crime. I'm an atheist, but I don't believe in judging others too harshly, especially since I certainly haven't lived a perfect life. At least they have family that can take care of their children. That's something.

I don't think she should get off, if the government proves their case, but I wouldn't want to see anyone do 50 years for these crimes. Anyone who makes a million dollars and evades their taxes deserves to do a little time. Then they need to get their asses back to work to pay what they owe plus all the penalties and fines. The part where they lied about their income to get a mortgage is interesting. Wasn't that part of the issue that fueled the housing crash? Lenders were encouraging people to do that kind of thing if I remember correctly. That doesn't make it ok, but I wonder how many people out there have done the same thing without being charged with a crime? I personally know at least one, but not on this level by any stretch and she did end up in foreclosure. So yeah, I feel a little compassion for Tre. People make mistakes sometimes and don't think about the consequences until it's too late. Still, to me, it's the sheer arrogance and greed that I can't get over. They obviously thought that they were above the law and could flaunt it on TV. They were wrong.

I'm shocked to see Tre plans to plead not guilty. Good luck with that. This is the kind of case the feds dream of. They don't have the resources to send every Applebee's server who fails to declare all of her tips to prison. They can send all of those people a nice little warning about what could happen when a celebrity evades their taxes and does a few months in the big house. I was thinking this could be a Lauryn Hill situation. Plead out and do a year or two, but if she doesn't plead out this could get ugly. I hope for her children's sake she doesn't get too much time.

I guess I shouldn't feel sympathy for these people, but I kind of do. This seems like the kind of crime that snowballs. The lies just keep getting bigger and bigger. Still, I just can't wrap my mind around committing crimes like this and then drawing attention to yourself with a TV show. It paints such a target on your back because of course the feds are going to want to make an example of him/them.

I'm surprised at some of these charges. How could they think they would get away with things like fake W2's?

That looked awesome and as Vee mentioned "D" from The Wire is on. Yay! I always liked him.

I can't wait. I've really missed this show.

Yeah, that's how I feel. I'm not going to be attending any protests in favor of polygamy, but I think people should be able to live that lifestyle if everyone involved is of legal age and consents. I very much doubt legalizing it would lead to a run on polygamy. What it might do is make if harder for the Warren Jeffs of the world to isolate women on those insane compounds. I can only see that as a good thing.

Bestiality is animal abuse and has nothing to do with marriage rights. Polygamy is a marriage rights issue. Lots of people feel that consenting adults should be able to marry whomever they want. If that happens to be more than one person, why is it the government's business to tell them they can't? One of the rallying points of gay marriage has been the idea that government should stay out of the marriage business, why shouldn't the polygamists take up that idea? It seems to me a no brainer that they would and I do think they have a legitimate point. Personally, I can't imagine being married to more than one person. Then again, I can't imagine being married to another woman. In neither case, do I think it's my business to push my thoughts on the matter on other people. Everyone should have the right to run their personal lives as they see fit, as long as they are not hurting anyone else.

I think she is closer, even though I didn't care for that last scene one bit. Her dragons are older, she has proven that she can get people to follow her and her army is growing. I guess you could also say she's winning over people like Sir Barriston, who are loyal either way, but are going to be inspired by the possibility that she's going to be a just leader and not just another crazy.

I think most reasonable people generally consider rape and incest exceptions to any rule. Note I said reasonable people. This is always going to be a sticky issue because people will never agree about when life begins. But even in the case of rape and incest should it be legal to have an abortion a couple of weeks before the due date? Either way is going to be traumatic for the mother. Frankly, I'm glad I'm not on the SCOTUS, so I don't have to make these decisions. I'm not behind closing clinics in any case. I'm all for handing out birth control, contraceptives, morning after pills and the abortion pill free of charge to anyone who is medical approved to take them. The republicans have been so infected by the religious right they refuse to see the forest for the trees. It would save a lot of pain and money to take care of unwanted pregnancy early on.

^ Thanks Anne. That at least answers the question. I'm glad Texas didn't succeed in passing this and I hope they don't the second time around either. Even though I'm not gung ho on abortion after 20 weeks (I would make an exception for medical issues) I think anyone who wants one after that, means business. If they are that determined to do it, I'm not really gung ho to stop them either. I'd say I'm pretty ambivalent. I wouldn't join a march in either direction. Once a baby is viable though, I do wish people would just have it and let the chips fall where they may.

I don't think the media is doing the best job ever of explaining the situation in Texas. I've read some articles on it and I still haven't seen the details of the bill. I've seen it said that it would shut most of the clinics in Texas (which I agree is insane), but not why that would happen. Maybe I need to dig deeper, but I wish CNN would have just spelled it out. At this point, the only part of the bill I've seen emphasized is the ban on abortion past the 20 week point. It's hard for me to get worked up about that. I'm pro choice and an atheist, but 20 weeks seems like a long enough time to make up your mind. The cut off has to be somewhere. The part I do get worked up about is that the same people who don't want women to have an access at abortion are against birth control or morning after pills. If I really felt strongly about trying to minimize abortion, I'd be trying to hand out morning after pills like they are candy. Why not give high school kids free confidential access to b/c and morning after?

Hey Q! I'm guessing HBO, since that does sound like "our" Tywin. Plus this one is the actress who plays Ygritte: HBO has one hell of a website, so it makes sense they would do this sort of history, so people who haven't read the books have a better sense of what's going on.

Only two scenes have made me feel uncomfortable. One was Tywin laying into Tyrion about being a dwarf. I can't remember the episode, but it was pretty awful. It was a necessary scene, but I felt bad for Dinklage. I'm sure he has a tough skin though. The other was that last scene with Dany, I've already explained why. The sex has never bothered me. I guess I just think it's fundamentally true that women on the low end of the totem poll get used in that way. Dany was clever enough to make the most of it. Actually Roz was too, until she let Varys convince her that they were smarter than Baelish. Plus, we certainly saw quite a bit of Theon and he had his sexuality used against him as well, as have the unsullied.

Here's an interesting article on the matter: http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/06/09/game-of-thrones-future/

I don't think she deserves her issues exactly, but she seems to have over spent a bit. Happens to the best of us. She's lucky she has the opportunity to dig herself out.

She was going to push him off. I don't think she cared if she went with him in that moment. Sansa wasn't happy about Tyrion being a dwarf on the show either. She's a 14 year old who grew up dreaming about marrying a handsome knight more along the lines of Jamie. Not that different from today's teens who grow up dreaming of marrying Justin Beiber. I think in a couple of years Sansa could have grown to love Tyrion, but after The Red Wedding, all bets are off. I ship them in the books, but I can't really ship a 14 year old with a 40 something, tbh. That last scene with Dany was very glaring. I don't know what they were thinking. I've seen fan excuses that they are filming in Morocco, so naturally the extras are dark or that Dany has been surrounded by darker skinned people since marrying Drogo, she's on a continent where there aren't many white people and so on. It doesn't matter, imo. They should have found away to make that crowd include some white people.

Watching Lord Frey and Joffery gloat was very annoying to me. It was sort of fun to watch Tywin reaffirm who the real boss is, but I with he would drop all pretense. Joff is so arrogant and dense he needs things spelled out for him. I don't even think he caught the implied threat behind Tywin sending him to bed with Nightshade. Cersei and Tyrion did though. The first seen was a little bit of a heartbreaker for me. Sansa was warming up to Tyrion. I think she would have taken Maegerys advice, if not for the Red Wedding. The Sansa situation is the only thing that makes me regret Peter Dinklage's casting, since Tyrion is supposed to be in his early/mid 20's. Was Dany in the last scene of season? I can't remember now. I guess that last scene was to show us that she can win the love of the masses. That she would be a better ruler then some of the other main contenders. I think in some ways Gendry's scene was more about Davos than Gendry. Davos as a hero who wants to be loyal to Stannis, but not at any price.

It couldn't hurt to give it a try and see if you like it. Start from Episode 1, if you can. Makes the payoffs much better.