....You're asking me to "see both sides"....when the other side is basically "ignore that Ron Moore outright stated that he didn't plan this out, but draw your own internal interpretation" — when, granted, I realize an argument exists that "even if Ron didn't plan it out it can still be a good show made spur of the…

There shouldn't have been literal Angels that late in the show (or if there were, they should have been set up better and earlier). Otherwise, a discussion of "fate" should be something more subtle:

I am as constant as the Northern Star.

....Sarah, I'm sarcastically quoting a funny exchange from Game of Thrones Season 3:

(Skip to 50 seconds in: Ygritte doesn't know what "fainting" is nor why girls would do it.

Oh come on, girls are always fainting, like when they see blood.

Hey, if it's the very first reveal of "dear god, giant humanoid talking turtle", I think anyone would cut her a break - to emphasize the sheer shock of how weird this is.

Well the faces weren't that weird.

This is disturbingly similar to that old science fiction short story, "The Fermi Paradox is Our Business Model". Who's cribbing?

I rewatch shows....loosely speaking...due to the amount of time and thought put into them. If a full year of worldbuilding went into a Game of Thrones season, each episode can be rewatched and picked apart for minor details. Lord of the Rings took 15 years to write, thus the movies based on it have all sorts of…

...are you responding from your home page? I go to a thread when I'm writing a reply.

I used to defend that episode....in comparison to other episodes from Season 3. Because we were promised a flashback episode specifically for the missing year. And I was so excited to see it that I forgot how, in hindsight, the flashbacks were badly edited (with many planned scenes never even filmed - scenes that…

Indeed, they didn't follow up on it well at all. Even so this has been a very production discussion because I managed to finally verbalize succinctly what I'm angry about: it's not that writers inherently owe that they pay attention to all critics — maybe it's a really "ahead of its time" project that critics just…

The horrors we visit upon nature in the name of science.

There is a lot of truth to that, but there are a few basic things like "why haven't they clearly defined the villains' motivations?", "it was utterly illogical to make these characters Cylons and in fact contradictory", and "giving Starbuck a comic book death was a cheap gimmick" —broad brushstrokes which creators do…

Well now I'm confused: how can you not think Starbuck was poorly written, but at the same time think her flashbacks in the boxing episode were awful? Isn't that part of "Starbuck writing"?

....oh. I see your point, actually. On the one hand, I was happy to finally get SOME flashbacks which we had been promised....but on the other hand, the actual contents of those flashbacks were bizarrely edited, i.e. the will they won't they stuff...at the time I...assumed, it would have some payoff later, but it…

...I pointed out that I had read that book; it was mostly people interpreting for their own agendas rather than simply discussing the quality of the series.

....why do a large number of people dislike the boxing episode? It actually followed up on the flashbacks to the missing year which they'd promised they'd eventually show us.

Hey, I'm an Administrator on the Game of Thrones Wiki.

"Edmure Tully (Catelyn's brother) is a prisoner of Walder Frey. He's the incompetent jerk who sacrificed a bunch of his men to capture a worthless mill. "

He didn't "sacrifice a lot of his men" - his losses were not severe. The bigger problem was that it was a…

Southern Westeros does not worship "Seven Gods": they worship one God, with seven facets.