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He's a good actor. But he's not enough to get me to watch that.

Yes, Lancel was Robert's squire, IIRC. He has a somewhat larger role in Season 2, but I've yet to spot him in Season 3.

The doll who plays Loras, Finn Jones, I first glimpsed on The Sarah Jane Adventures, as Jo Grant's grandson.

Am I gonna have to trawl through Dailymotion to start watching more of this show? Because I'll do it. I've gone worse places.

That wasn't Loras with Cersei. That was Lancel Lannister, a family cousin.

Dat INXS cover, tho

I think they'd have been fooling themselves. She was a danger to everything around her. In this instance, Carol did what had to be done.

Nothing could snap her out of it - it's not a funk. She was psychotic. And as Carol said, it was clearly in her makeup long before the apocalypse. There was absolutely no way for her to function in that world except in the worst, most harmful way possible to the people around her. In everyday life she would have needed severe professional help to even begin to function safely.

I always believed she did it. We'll have to see what comes up for her, though.

Yeah, that's really a good point. Carol's arc in Season 4 - this kind of moral road and the consequences therein - is the sort of thing you generally see given to men on major primetime dramas, a Bryan Cranston on Breaking Bad, a guy on Mad Men, whatever. A woman, certainly not a woman of a certain age, less so. And also not one given what are often seen as the conventionally 'masculine' traits Carol has been imbued with - her lethality, her strength, her resolve. I get that on Game of Thrones, but Game of Thrones is a very, very different show with a fantastical context.

A few errant thoughts that I have collected:

The girl playing Mika was awfully good with Melissa McBride early on. She called Carol on her take on the new world and she was, up to a point, right - each of them, child and woman, represented a different extreme.

I had a feeling since their introduction that Lizzie and Mika would go the way of Ben and Billy from the comics and teach Carol the weight of her sins and her new ethos, but I wouldn't have minded if they'd thrown me another loop and let Mika win out while Lizzie was offed. Still, this was an excellent episode. The last scene at the table between Chad Coleman and Melissa McBride was unbelievable - the look in his eyes, the intimacy between the two (not romantic, though who knows if that's entirely impossible in future). I loved when he said they couldn't stay there - because though he forgave her (with some sort of astounding grace), I thought he would kill her if they did, alone.

I have no idea if Carol has a future with the show, as they didn't do the reveal I expected here - some sort of big, big moment where she sacrifices herself. That may or may not happen, but either way, they did a great job here.

I laughed when they showed the Talking Dead check-in before the preview for next week and the room was dead silent with everyone clinging to each other. Poor Yvette Nicole Brown.

Ohhh, this is good.

And of course, the incredibly self-conscious hipster critic at the A.V. Club hated it, which is always good news for me. Fortunately he's being raked over the coals.

Yeah, it was a kooky channel and so was Shelley Taylor Morgan.

Remembering him now, I didn't care for Logan then and I certainly don't now.

Possibly a very appropriate clip for the month - E!'s Pure Soap takes a look at the death of Bill Eckert in 1993 and interviews Tony Geary. Tony is, of course, not pleased. I remember this show well. Is that Michael Logan or some other strange goblin? Oh, yes it is.

I think Marcus was one of the teen assholes doing or dealing drugs in the painfully bad Ecstasy teens subplot.

And yes, they were clearly attempting to test Gabriel and Bianca, and it was gross. I don't know where that attempt came from.

This was in their third official month.

I may have posted this before. April 2003: Dorian returns and marries Mitch Laurence.

I will never forget the scene in the second clip - a repulsed Dorian kissing Mitch as the wonderful, incredibly creepy music plays, and a darkened Llanfair is totally empty, except for them, the minister, the offscreen Evangeline Williamson and a disgusted Blair, who finds herself unable to either watch or leave. They were doing right by Blair around that time, one of the last times the show did on ABC - with Todd gone and presumed dead she was the 'vengeful widow,' the only game in town left to go after Mitch. Until she confronts Dorian on the terrace, and Dorian finally says, "Mitch cannot be gotten to from the outside."

Here's another vid and a description from the child's mother.

Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman chat with a young fan Dalek while filming in Cardiff Bay. It's hard to make out, but Capaldi is talking about the last Doctor and is asking the little Dalek for permission to be the Doctor too.

According to the scuttlebutt, the little girl in the Dalek costume is an autistic child who loved Matt Smith and was very nervous about the new Doctor.

I half-slept through that episode. Not my favorite.

I don't mind the separate group episodes, I like the exploration - I mind it when I have to just watch Daryl and Beth, who I like as part of the ensemble but not alone together, for an hour. It doesn't help that I'm sick and exhausted at the moment.

Oh, Sully is just a big emotional quasi-centrist galoot who vacillates a lot. He'll see sense eventually, even if he couldn't handle New York.

I don't think these initiatives will ever succeed. But I do think they should be loudly fought against.

It's discrimination. And while I expected those initiatives to get shot down because of that simple fact, just the fact that it was coming up in this day and age - through the weasel tactic of trying to make it about "religious freedom" instead of what it was, which was institutionalized discrimination - made my skin crawl. Someone will try again.

Just wanted to add: Catelyn's speech in Episode 2 of Season 3 is jawdropping. I had no idea she felt that way - I thought the subject of Jon Snow was profoundly sealed and vaulted deep within her mind. That was incredible work from Michelle Fairley, who hadn't gotten as much to do in Season 2.

The Tyrells - the women, anyway - seem very, very smart. They're a lot cleverer than not only Joffrey but also Cersei, who to me has seemed utterly at a loss and often flailing about since the glory of her early victories in the first season faded. She knew a few tricks from being raised by her father, she'd gotten comfortable manipulating things under Robert, but with an uncontrollable son she helped coronate, and faced with people her equal if not smarter (not the least of which is Tyrion), she's been struggling to stay afloat. Be careful what you wish for.

I'm getting to Season 3 as we speak. Good times.

Claire Labine talked at length in a WLS interview about the various aborted Holly stories in her time at the show - the Buzz and Billy triangle, the lesbian thing. I always thought the idea of bi/lesbian Holly lusting after a straight woman was a step back. I did like her with Jordan Clarke and Justin Deas.

I thought Abraham looked ridiculous. It was like the Street Fighter movie - put him in a tank top with a flat-top and dyed red hair, like he's Jean-Claude Van Damme as Guile. This is why I prefer it when they deviate from Kirkman's tired comic, as they have with most of the show. The only reason the Governor worked for me is because they built that character slowly and differently from the cartoon of the comic.