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    How the hell do you go to the bathroom?

    Maybe "Princess Perfume" would be a better translation name.

    They're trying to unite a pan-Asian "co-prosperity sphere" of sorts (consisting of Han Chinese, Uighurs, and Khazaks) in harmony...against greedy Westerners?

    Racially/ethnically/culturally tolerant people, also tolerant of alternate sexualities, who are intolerant of and hate people who are themselves intolerant and resort to poorly planned violence.

    I think it's a chicken-egg scenario. Equally probable is that Harry Potter was so popular in the first place because a generation of tolerant people who hated the Bush administration and Iraq War found that it gave voice to their concerns.

    People who were expecting another Stargate-level show got shocked that it had Sopranos-level violence in it.

    Good night, sweet prince. A flight of angels sing thee to thy rest.

    So it goes.

    I read in the TV Guide that this was sort of a plot point; they want us to be as confused as Claire is. So they had tutors teaching the actors Gaelic...which they're using *unsubtitled*, most of the the time. But enough of them also speak English that they can communicate with her if they feel like it.

    I'm worried

    Basically the idea is that Jaime isn't an inherently cruel person, but we're seeing him at his lowest ebb.....when he was a young recently knighted teenager he was a bright-eyed idealist, who idolized the noble knights of the Kingsguard. Then after he joined the Kingsguard at 17....it was the Mad King's Kingsguard.

    FOR DOOMHAMMER!!

    The same logic that says "Jesus only appeared to humans so aliens are unredeemable and evil" is the same logic that says "Jesus only appeared to the western world and Roman Empire, so all Asian/Black/Native American peoples are unredeemable."

    Fundamentally this is just some crazy bigot taking the "Jesus was the new

    ....referencing a backstory plot point mentioned in Frank Herbert's Dune, or, the obscure and poorly received prequel trilogy titled "the Butlerian Jihad" written by his son?

    It piled cliche upon cliche.

    ....specifically how?

    You need weekly reviews of Attack on Titan as it airs on Adult Swim.