The show really started to lose me when Barry and Cisco went to Earth 2 with a serious mission, lives on the line, and a hard deadline that could have left them (and Wells) trapped, then basically just fucked around, goofed off and got Joe-2 killed.

The writers for The Flash are incredibly stupid. I say ‘the writers’ and not ‘Barry Allen’ because Barry’s actions are literally unbelievably stupid. I cannot emphasize enough how unbelievably stupid Barry is.

Least the quality from two to three can’t be as bad as another show...

*takes a deep breath*

I thought he didn’t save his own mother because his future self told him not to.

They can always cheat. Have him speak only telepathically in most episodes or control a human who speaks for him (with the heroes and villains not knowing that the human is only a puppet).

To be fair, most male protagonists of CW shows are generally selfish manchildren.

This episode was one of my favorites right up until the end, when I walked away thinking it may be time to give up on this show before season 3 even kicks off.

The solution was definitely something that was pulled out of the Doctor Who handbook of BS.

The waif is a a character I would not miss at all.

I’m genuinely heartbroken and simultaneously floored by the tragedy and mastery of the Hodor scene. First, kudos to Benioff and Weiss for teasing it well a couple episodes ago—you could tell there was something melancholy about Bran seeing young Hodor before his affliction—maybe it was in the way Hodor’s and Three…

I vaguely recall early on that the Stark kids were speculating about how Hodor got that way and someone suggested he must’ve been kicked by a horse. But it was never presented as fact.

I’m thinking Winds of Winter ends with Hold the Door.

Technically speaking, there are a lot of reasons to have issues with time travel. Honestly, some people just don’t like time travel. Attempting to contemplate the implications of paradox and time modification can be frustrating. HOWEVER, in the case of Alakaboem (and I’m guessing he won’t be alone), the problem with…

Well, the important thing is, you were mad online about a fictional universe.

When this theory was brought up in 2008 (?) for the first time, everyone was like “no, GRRM couldn’t possibly do anything that dumb”. This followed by a couple of years ago, when time travel theories came out following ADWD, a bunch of us basically set the bar for bullshit at time-travel meddling.

The reason it was mind blowing is because time travel never makes any sense and ruins everything. Other than that, I actually have been loving this season.

Bran murdered Lyanna in the tower.

...seriously? That’s... that’s honestly the most disappointing media-related thing I’ve heard in a long time. I’m not quite sure how to respond to that one. This is literally the one bar that I’ve always held as the “ASOIAF/GoT killswitch”, and if that actually came from GRRM himself... fuck. Just... fuck.

For what it's worth, D&D were clear the Hodor thing comes directly from GRRM.