Every once in a while, when discussing the phenomena of movie nitpicking, someone brings up the argument that “how can you believe in the giant spiders, talking lions, and semi-magic telekinesis but not that who’s-his-face survived that explosion?” John Scalzi has written about this topic before (“The Flying Snowman” Part 1 and Part 2) landing on the side of “if you can accept these implausible things from the science fiction, why can’t you accept this implausible thing?” (even though he contradicts statements made here) But I was mostly instigated by this trending GIF from Conan’s Comic-Con interview with the cast of Game of Thrones. Also, Maisie Williams’s expressions are priceless…