The parts about sex in The Stand (especially the parts, like in Mother Abigail’s flashbacks, were he tries to write about it positively) made me feel secondhand embarrassment.

That’s pretty much what I think it is. It’s that he neglects everything else about his life other than being obsessed with It.

I remember reading stuff that Abrams and Kennedy butted heads, and the production of TFA seems like it was something of a strenuous time. I imagine Abrams was just plain exhausted, which is why he seems to be coming around to regretting it a bit now. 

That “’s” makes all the difference.

I think part of it is that the tech for capturing and tech for displaying just don’t link up at all. So you have these faces that, in some spots, are expressive and static in others, which somehow makes the whole thing look wildly over-expressive.

I had the same one, I think. Was an odd game. Weirdly, the Xbox version differed wildly (I had a strategy guide that contained the info for both) and had a bunch of secret areas and side missions.

I recently read The Shining for the first time, so I decided to start watching the miniseries.

Yup. I think Robert said the boy would be better off dead or something.

Sansa accused him of it during the execution scene, so I assume that was part of the knowledge that came from Bran.

Weirdly, all the kids die of this flu going around in the last 5 minutes.

Ouija: Origin of Evil somehow rules despite everything about it.

At that point, why not just read a wiki?

For sure. I’m also unsure how the “Billy” stuff alongside her will play on rewatch. Other things, like Red and the missing man who never meets Andy, stick with me, but not necessarily in a way that I feel needs to be resolved.

She’s quite good in it and cuts a slice of pie.

I was going to mention that a lot of this has the cadence of old poetry that reminds me of Joyce. Feels bizarre to admit that, but it’s the first thing that came to mind.

Maybe they’re finishing the episode and then porting the whole thing to Switch? That’s what I hope, anyways.

It’s also weird how the shows have LF as being responsible for sending the padfoot to murder Bran, which really sparks the whole thing, rather than it being a dumbass move by Joff.

The chains are odd, but I find them being able to attach them to the dragon way more confusing since wights apparently can’t handle water.

I really don’t think we’re getting the wight dragon in the books (or, if we are, at least not at all in the way it happened in the show) because the Inside the Episodes for ep 6 & 7 made it really sound like both the wight dragon and using it to burn a hole in the Wall where ideas D&D came up with to get pieces where…

GRRM does similar stuff with the “black, oily stones” that turn up across the world. I love shit like that.