I disagree. Dragons only came to Westeros a few hundred year prior to the Game of Thrones era, when the Targaryens fled the Doom of Valyria and brought a few with them. It was the thousands of years prior to the Doom in which civilization had stagnated. Much like the strange seasons, the civilization being trapped in…

The show is putting in material from the books that I thought had been cut for good reason - which has gone well so far, but still. I think subplots were cut when the show was only going to have seven seasons and is back now that there will likely be eight.

No, the Starks are First Men, they were there before the Andal Invasion. Bran the Builder was a Stark, as were many Lord Commanders. They have been in Westeros for thousands or years. The Targaryens came to Dragonstone 400 years ago, and united the 7 Kingdoms 300 years ago. The Three Eyed Raven can be a Targ because…

Ben Morghulis. Spidey Dohaeris. It is known.

This is where the near total separation of the supposedly interconnected TV and big screen universes is most frustrating. On AoS, it’s clear the US Government is putting institutions in place to deal with the new environment of alien and superpowered threats. Why would they agree to the Sokovia accords (totally out of…

My suspicion is that the “old gods” are actually greenseers from the future. So it’s not possible to “change” the past, because greenseers were there the “first time,” if you see what I’m saying. Bran was always present at the Tower of Joy, and his father always heard him.

The resemblance is spooky. They should have used Ellie Kendrick as Lyanna in the flashbacks and cast a different Meera!

This happened in the comics, if I remember right, so de-aging her and having her enter the current timeline (maybe as the new SHIELD director) is not out of the question. Killing Coulson and replacing him with Carter might liven up AoS a bit . . . don’t everybody shoot me at once, it was just a passing thought.

My 8 year old actually likes the Clone Wars the most out of anything Star Wars, and I see his point of view. I’ve gone from thinking the prequels were total crap to thinking Eps II and III could have been salvaged with a different Anakin. Whoever the Clone Wars voice actor for Anakin was does a very good job of…

She never saw herself as a villain, though - in her eyes, she’s the protagonist of this story, and she’s been trying to save the world. I like that she’s grown up enough to say to Ser Davos “you were right about everything,” and do what she can to help. I’ve known villains IRL and they never see themselves that way.

That would have been cool. I have always believed that burning the witch was part of what woke the dragons from stone, and I wondered if Davos wasn’t going to burn Mel in Jon’s funeral pyre for revenge, accidentally resurrecting Jon. But I’m glad Mel didn’t die - after last weeks reveal, I want to know more about her.…

The Dorne and Ironborn subplots in the books did not interest me, and slogging through them was something I only did because I was commuting by bus at the time - public transportation is really my only chance to read anything anymore. So in theory I should be excited by streamlining and speeding up the story. But I…

For some reason I teared up at the scene where Brienne takes Sansa as her liege lord. In the midst of a show about everything that’s horrible about medieval society, it was a moment of poetry and grace.

I would watch that.

R2 obviously has a full backup of BB8's memory files. It must be on the flash drive with the missing map fragment, along with MP3s of all 8 Beastie Boys studio albums (also canon, that’s where BB8 gets his name).

This is a wild theory? I thought it was canon.

I don’t really agree that it’s “bad” - I enjoy it so much more than almost anything else (that isn’t a Netflix Marvel show or Orphan Black) that I’d still have to rank it as the best thing that I watch. But I am a bit frustrated that the story - both on screen and on the page - is taking so long to get to the point.…

I enjoyed it. It’s sort of a shame they had to scale back the epic battle stuff due to budgetary concerns, but in the end I don’t think that detracted much from the show - the characters the show actually invested in weren’t at Arborlon anyway. For a Season 2, they almost certainly won’t be directly adapting anything…

Maybe the first half of the first season hewed pretty close to the movie, but it’s been rapidly diverging since then. Ramse brings a whole new element to the show, and Jennifer Goines bears little resemblance to the Brad Pitt character beyond a name and symptoms of mental illness. It’s been so long since I’ve seen…

“In the Cinematic Universe, strange aliens flew out of the sky when he was seven years old [in The Avengers].”