I was just coming here to say this. It’s so very typical of him, when what would have happened in real life is that a person like George Russell would have absolutely given the order to fire. I enjoy watching The Gilded Age as an escape, but the better, more nuanced version of this show would take a much harder look…

I’m ok with this. There’s only so much I can take of watching Verstappen and Red Bull mop the floor with the competition. Injecting an element of unpredictability into the proceedings will be a good thing, imho.

It doesn’t, for sure, but in this case I am rather glad Disney is not letting this go, no matter what their reasoning. Politicians need to think twice about using their power to punish political opponents. If the blunt instrument necessary to achieve that end is Disney’s army of lawyers, so be it.

Yep, that’s what everyone used to call it when I lived there.

It was never going to work, because, as Logan put it, Roman is not a serious person. Whereas Gerri is a serious person. So serious that she is the company’s savvy general counsel (on her own merits, and not because she is a Roy), proved to be competent as interim CEO, and should have been reappointed to the CEO role…

He wants Hugo to throw his old man under the bus, and put it out there that Ken and Roman have been calling all the shots lately as Logan was starting to lose his faculties. Remember, Hugo and Karolina pitched that strategy to Ken and Roman earlier in the episode, but Roman vetoed it. Ken, however, wants Hugo to go…

I laughed out loud at that bit. Also, Tom’s line about surrounding himself with Greglets.

Sorry to hear about your mom, but glad she pulled through. And agreed, Ruck was fantastic. Based on previews for next week’s episode, it looks like Jerri is still in the mix.

That guy…wasn’t actually injured. It was an ambush.

Diana was a commoner in the strictest sense of the word, but was a blue blood. The Spencers are one of the preeminent aristocratic families in England, and her pedigree was therefore arguably even more prestigious than that of the Windsors, who were imported from Germany when the Stuart line fizzled out. It’s one of…

That kind of strident thinking is absurd, imho (although I am aware that a lot of people think this way). While it’s true that Weiss and Benioff rushed the ending, any reasonable person would agree that Martin also bears part of the blame for not finishing the story in the first place (and worse, failing to do so…

I’d imagine that the rando was someone nobody would miss (i.e., a servant). It’s always the smallfolk who suffer when the nobility wages war.

Not controversial at all, in my view. It’s been over a decade since he released the last novel in the series. No doubt the show could have done a better job sticking the landing, and allowing for a bit more time to allow things to unspool, but it is absolutely in large part Martin’s fault that the show went downhill…

Oh, I agree. There was definitely sufficient set up. What I meant was, it seems like the only thing that would satisfy such viewers is for Laena to tell Daemon that she was going to have Vhagar torch her, and why she was taking that action. Which is frankly unnecessary.

Exactly. The show demonstrated this earlier on with Aemma’s death, but also, there was no guarantee the child would survive either if they cut Laena open. So she went out on her own terms.

The show is clearly more sympathetic to Rhaenyra, so I suppose if one had to choose, it would be her. However, none of these characters (except for perhaps Laena and her girls) is truly sympathetic, and it is becoming clear that the incestuous ways and infighting of the Targaryens has increasingly made them unfit to…

Yes, that was the sense I got. 

Yes, that too. I certainly got the sense that all four were in on the plot.

I honestly don’t get what’s such a mystery about Laena’s death. She knew she was not going to survive (and/or she may have overheard Daemon’s conversation with the maester). So she decided to go out on her own terms. I don’t understand why people feel the need for every single little thing to be spelled out for them.

Laena ordered her dragon to torch her because she knew that she and her baby were going to die anyway. She preferred to go out by dragon fire than to die in childbirth.