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Mädchen Amick: Sherilyn Fenn shares David Lynch's personal message to her.

Particularly interesting:

Woohoo!

Bill has a very coherent interview with ABC.

Ray Wise is questioned about the future of TP - with Michael Fairman, at the Daytime Emmys, of all places:

We dig deep into the Addams Family at Winterfell, Daenerys goes deeper into Dick Cheneyland before turning away from the abyss, and Jon Snow is finally becoming the boss he was meant to be. They've given so much time over this year thus far to characters who need and deserve it, especially this week, from Stannis and his family to Jon and his crew and so on. Even with the homicidal Boltons, it's like Jean Renoir says - everyone has their reasons. That's always been true on GOT as well. And it's the Season of Stannis! I loved everything with him and Sam, watching Jon, etc. They're giving him so much time that I feel even more convinced Stannis is due for a noble death at the close of this year. Of course, I've counted Cersei out many times before and often been wrong. But I have a terrible feeling almost none of Stannis' family is coming back from their attack on Winterfell, even though they apparently outnumber Roose and Ramsay. I think the Boltons will fall, but I think it will take most of the Dragonstone contingent to do it - and Melisandre will walk out unscathed. At her core she is a grifter, this is what she does; cannibalize a host and move on. Jon Snow is her big game. Poor old Aemon. I wonder if he suspects about Jon. Everything with Jon coming into his own is as fascinating as Daenerys' evolution to me. The Theon/Sansa/Boltons stuff was all fascinating. I just hope everything Ramsay is doing is ultimately what pulls Theon out of himself. The ending, with Valyria and talking of the Doom and the Stone Men, was not at all what I expected to see. This is what I mean by the show feeling liberated - they're going places I never quite anticipated, and it's thrilling. Poor old Jorah, though - solid as a rock!

No one cares.

I don't think we know any of the women well enough to say what they are, Ellaria included. As it is, the Sand Snakes have only just been introduced. I'm going to need more than a single scene to dismiss a storyline as lackluster.

I can, easily. I'm just surprised they're doing it that way.

I'm finally getting to last week's episode - that scene with Stannis and Shireen was beautiful, just as Melisandre's invocation of Ygritte was bone-chilling. Dean-Charles Chapman is actually quite good as Tommen, coming into his own. As he's a third-tier character, not every show would let us get inside his (or Stannis', or even Olyver's) head(s) the way we did when he was quavering on the steps in front of the Faith Militant, heckled as a bastard. They wouldn't take the time for Stannis and Shireen or Selyse, either. I felt for Olyver and Loras, but I think in the end, as always, Cersei's grand plan will turn inward on her. Sansa is really coming into her own this year. That being said, I somehow doubt Littlefinger's perfect plan was go as he lays it out. I can't believe Jaime has only just discovered that use for his golden fist. Also, glad to see Keisha Castle-Hughes as Obara Sand - she's still a formidable presence as an adult actress, as she was last season on The Walking Dead. I find Ellaria's scheme a bit cartoonish at the outset, but we have no reason to believe she had any affection for Myrcella the way Oberyn did so I'll let it play. They're really setting up the story of Rhaegar and Lyanna, a long-held fan theory. I wasn't expecting this to come up any time soon and I'm pretty pleased with it. RIP Barristan and Grey Worm! At least they went down fighting. Jacob Anderson (Grey Worm) is in a lot of stuff these days and assuming he really has croaked, I hope to see him again soon.

More news from the edge of oblivion: Dave Coulier, the man Alanis Morissette went down on in a theater, is confirmed. Candace Cameron is also claiming Lori Loughlin is as well, I believe, but in the meantime let's just let Candace take us 'deeper" into the endless white hole of reality that is Fuller House with this new interview. Meanwhile, I can't take Andy Cohen but the fact that Lori Loughlin somehow keeps a mostly straight face during this is hysterical.

I didn't realize this would be necessary, but Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind is now heading to Indiegogo.

Dana Ashbrook at an Antwerp convention. Reiterates that Lynch very much wants to do it and is negotiating with Showtime; this is the basis for the news item a week or so ago.

Seth Gilliam's been busted for DUI and possession.

Now a guest star and a journalist.

No news just yet, but who knows about the rest of the day? In the meantime, Mädchen Amick weighed in on Twitter about what she thought would have become of Shelly Johnson 25 years later:

More from yesterday's David Lynch Ladies' Night - as Mädchen Amick notes, "Sheryl Lee has been enveloped in white light appropriately". Also, Lynch and Kimmy Robertson.

I love it too.

I would be more concerned about it if not for all the optimistic noises coming out of most sources or informed parties for the last several days. I think it's going to happen.

Meanwhile, the ladies of TP had another get-together last night, with one surprise guest:

Meanwhile, Rose Leslie and Vin Diesel are, in the words of Bloc Party, hunting for witches. I still haven't watched Leslie's recent horror flick Honeymoon on Netflix, but I'll be doing that soon.

Michael Ausiello has encouraging news:

But Littlefinger knows she won't be, because Roose Bolton is determined to hold the North and needs Sansa to do that. Roose told his son that much. I think it will be a rough ride for Sansa to be sure, but I don't think it's there just to make her a victim or degrade her. Whatever happens in the short term I think the Boltons are going to get theirs.

I don't think that's what's coming. And I also don't think Roose Bolton is interested in killing for killing's sake, at least not when power and survival are involved. In fact, that's exactly why he told his insane son (who will only defer to him) that killing is not always the right means to an end. Roose told Ramsay they can't hold the North alone, which is why they needed a convenient marriage with someone the North will respect and follow. That is Sansa Stark. They need Sansa and they need her alive. That was the whole point of the conversation between those two. I read that interview and I disagree. That is not what they said - they said they thought Sophie Turner was incredibly talented and they did not want to sideline her as the most recent book evidently had. Instead they wanted to put her in the thick of the action in the North, which they have. I don't think it's just going to be a story about Sansa being abused and tortured. She made the choice to go back to Winterfell and to take back the North, and I think that's exactly what she is going to do. I don't see Ramsay lasting the year, but we'll see. I think this is who Sansa is now - this is who she chose to become after watching what happened to her family in King's Landing, and what happened at the Eyrie. She knows that like all the others, to survive she has to change. But I don't think she is going to change into what Littlefinger wants, either. She's playing him as much as he is playing her; that is what I took away from their interaction after Lysa's death. It was clear the choices she made there and I think it was Turner's best work on the show. She's really come into her own.

I about died when I realized Sansa and Littlefinger were about to ride into the same hold as Theon. Events are all coming to a head and a lot of them seem to bringing several people from House Stark back together - I honestly can't wait. But if anyone gets to kill Ramsay I hope it's Sansa herself. Theon's been through a lot but he made several of his own choices, and I'd rather give Sansa the win. I think if we assume she will be victimized and destroyed we don't give her enough credit, and I also don't believe she trusts Littlefinger at all, but he had a point about not running anymore and that's why she chose to go. BTW, that was a wonderful, understated moment when Theon saw the flayed bodies and clearly was thinking back to Bran and Rickon. I am glad we got Brienne's wonderful monologue - I love Gwendoline Christie so much. And I am glad she hasn't given up. What was driven home this week for me was how all that's left of House Stark has had to change and transform in order to survive. Sansa rides into Moat Cailin with her hair dyed and dressed as a regal lady to wed for her survival, Theon is cowering like a mad serf in the dirt and trying to stay unnoticed; Arya is a world away in the House of Black and White trying to learn their impossible ways; Bran is beyond the Wall all season probably becoming a Jedi Knight; and Jon has finally embracing the hard duties of leadership and is looking and feeling every bit the Lord Commander. Speaking of the Lord Commander in charge, Kit Harington was born to play this stuff and he does it so well, with real gravitas that reminds me a lot of Sean Bean's gruff authority. The character's also balanced on an interesting knife-edge - Stannis truly does respect him (as we saw in that great scene with him, Dillane and Liam Cunningham) and he can display qualities which Stannis can approve of, because some of those qualities (like commanding loyalty and discipline, and therefore killing Slynt) are absolutely necessary. But he can't be like Stannis, not all the way. Yet Davos does have a point about them leaving the Wall. We all know Jon can't stay there forever, it's just a matter of time. Everything with Cersei was deeply interesting. She actually looked fairly devastated to me when she went to see Margaery, and I was wondering if she'd finally begun to realize (after Tommen brought up Casterly Rock) how badly she'd fucked up in alienating the incumbent Queen. (I also don't think Margaery came off as an idiot at all - she simply is Queen now, she has the power and she knows Cersei can do nothing to her anymore, or so she thinks. I don't get the sense the show has disdain for the Tyrells and certainly not for Margaery.) I don't know where her relationship with the Sparrows is going but it fascinates me. And Jonathan Pryce is one of the greats. I knew the Mountain's body was going to move on that table in Qyburn's laboratory, and I just know something terrible will happen. Speaking of Tommen, I know Dean-Charles Chapman gave an interview about doing that scene with Natalie Dormer, which I was a little surprised they went through with. Apparently she's a total pro and put him completely at ease on a very, very small and closed set. That can't be easy for a kid of 16, even if he was apparently still dressed. Another nice grace note: Tyrion being reminded of Shae and being unable to go with the prostitute in Volantis. Also, Daenerys becoming enough of a cultural phenomenon that they've got whores cosplaying as her. The whole thing with the High Septon, BTW, cracked me up (as did what appeared to be a faux-bearded Olyver's deeply bored delivery). It was so bawdy and ludicrous and yet so typical of hypocrites in high places - the show may have a fantasy context but kink is the same everywhere. ETA: My mistake - apparently Sansa, Littlefinger and the Boltons (and Theon) met up at Winterfell, and Sansa and Littlefinger only passed through Moat Cailin. (The opening sequence map was misleading.) The set did look familiar to me, and the scene with the maid who says "welcome home" has more weight now (as does Theon seeing the flayed men).