If he spent more time making unique and interesting observations about film and less time shrieking and spouting memes, I might have more respect for him. He's plot-hole-culture incarnate. That entire way of looking at film just bugs the shit out of me.

And tbh, he's not nearly as bad as all the shitty imitations of him. Because of him, there are thousands of people on the internet who think that screaming about bad movies is as good as criticism gets. And that's basically evil in my book.

I think the Nostalgia Critic is an embarrassment to criticism and he must be stopped at all costs. So there's my contribution to the conversation.

Team Godzilla 2014 grows stronger by the day.

This is a great point, but the show often tries to chase these big "cinematic" ideas (on a filmmaking level) even though the story is all about this very "realistic" treatment of the fantasy setting. For instance, the Hound/Brienne fight would have been more comprehensible without the rapid-fire cutting and the occasional arbitrary switching to striking wide shots (ditto the Mountain/Viper) but it also would've been more affecting and interesting. Shit, let's see the Dogme-95 version of Game of Thrones.

It's the Nostalgia Critic, what did you expect?

Completely off-topic, it saddens me that his style of "criticism" has become so ubiquitous online. There's so much great film criticism out there that's actually insightful and intelligent, but most people prefer the opinions of shrieking morons on Youtube. There's probably an enormous group of burgeoning movie buffs who look at people like him for guidance in their "film education." I got depressed just typing that.

DON'T. Enjoy the pleasure of a very good episode of television without the burden of having to nitpick book changes/omissions. Also there be crazy spoilers all up in that shit.

I have many thoughts:

- STANNIS THE MANNIS, y'all. This is the version of Stannis I've been waiting to see. I loved his expressions when they were burning the bodies. "Oh...so you guys do this after they die? Weird."

- Jojenpaste is dead, long live Jojenpaste

- Cleganebowl lives! Long live THE HYPE.

- No "Wherever whores go"? No "Lancel and Osmund Kettleblack and Moonboy for all I know"? Thank god. I got tired of hearing those lines over and over. It'll be interesting to see how Jaime's arc plays out from here though, considering that his distrust of Cersei stemmed primarily from Tyrion telling him about her infidelity. Maybe he's upset that she told Tywin? That would make sense.

- That Wight attack outside Bloodraven's cave was so metal. It was like a Led Zeppelin album cover come to life. I wonder how many non-readers will be confused about Leaf, though. It's kind of a non-sequitur and the Children of the Forest haven't been explained in the show. All of a sudden there's this little girl who can shoot fire out of her hands? That's pretty awesome, and it's a good mystery to leave people hanging on.

- Loved Brienne's fight with The Hound. The choreography really made them feel like an even match. And his final scene with Arya was great. I hope Cleganebowl is true (or at least that The Hound really is the gravedigger on the Quiet Isle) because I'm going to miss him

- I was worried that Tywin on the toilet was going to look too goofy but WOW did they nail it. It was chilling. Sad we didn't get the line about him not shitting gold, but I guess that's hard to do without narration.

- WHAT THE FUCK NO LADY STONEHEART FUCK YOU FUCKED IT UP AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I mean I liked the ending of the episode but congrats on getting a ton of non-readers spoiled on one of the best twists in the series, guys. Because now there'll be 10 months of book readers complaining about this and the beans are gonna get spilled for a lot of people. Unfortunate.

- All in all, good closer to a good season. Season 5 is gonna feel like a reboot in a lot of ways, I think. So many radical changes for so many characters, not nearly as much time in King's Landing, and a dive into Westeros' mysticism with Bran. Very excited.

Oh god, S4E09 absolutely killed me. Well done.

Edge of Tomorrow draws pretty heavily from WWII, so I'm willing to buy this.

I saw a lot of people suggest that Brienne and Pod are the people who Arya and The Hound will meet next week. And I'm 1000% sure that we'll get Stoneheart. Especially now that Gwendoline Christie has been cast in Star Wars. They need an excuse to keep her out of the majority of season 5 so she can shoot Episode 7. Not to mention the teases I've seen of Stoneheart in interviews and stuff.

Anyway, the Stannis thing is basically what the entire episode should've been leading up to. It's such a limp-dick way to end an episode. Instead of "they fought the wildlings and just when all hope seemed lost BOOM STANNIS THE MANNIS," we got "they fought the wildlings and all hope seemed lost...the end?" There's so much stuff to cram into next week that it's better to close off this episode with the last major event for this storyline. It gives the episode a proper climax and it leaves room for more conclusive stuff for all the other storylines next week.

So I haven't been dropping these in weekly, but I'm very proud of this week's episode of the GOT podcast I co-host. We get into the series' relationship with death, morality, and fate.