The best years of GoT were the best years of AVC. Then it all ended with season 7 and Kinja and I hardly think about either anymore.

Oz will always be the gold standard pilot for me, but GoT was a good one. Did a great job of building that world.

“delivered needed exposition without feeling forced or heavy-handed.”

Yes, exactly this.

Because it was a great show. Recency bias and the last seasons notwithstanding.

Curry seemed to be one of the only decent people in that whole vulture group at Today.

I’ve not rewatched the final season since its initial airing but I did binge the entire series over the space of a week and a half ahead of the final season.

“That reversal means someday the superb storytelling that made up the show’s first six seasons—the very reason it was able to disappoint viewers so much in the final two—will eventually be what fans remember most.”

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Shame. I normally enjoy these. And they have made impacts. 2011 inaccurately described as the motivation for Trump running in 2016. It was actually what scared him away from running in 2012. Those were all the jokes. He was thinking of running so Obama slapped him across the beak and Trump cowered away for four years.

Billionaires give absolutely zero logs of shit about what us plebs like and hold dear to our hearts. If they choose to swoop in and turn it into more soulless high-rises that no one lives in or visits except for the Sweetgreens on the ground floor, they can and absolutely will do that. 

I worked at the Arclight Hollywood in 2012/2013, and as a film fan it was such a cool experience. Got to meet about every famous actor and filmmaker you could think of, saw so many movies for free, and worked with a ton of awesome people. A few stray memories:

This was up my alley, as someone who has definitely noticed the recent uptick in period lesbian movies that are110 minutes of scenics and silent, longing stares, and 6 minutes of what WWE Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff once deemed “HLA”, for Hot Lesbian Action, but for the AAAAAAART. Sure, the sketch is low-hanging…

It was funny.

I like these articles that are blow-by-blow descriptions of videos and then I watch the video and it’s exactly as the article described it!

I think young activists fall into a trap of vehemently insulting people and then wondering why those people don’t become allies. There’s an expectation that people should be willing to endure hazing and meanness before being welcomed to the progressive side of things, even though no mentally and socially healthy…

It’s not even that they’re exactly wrong on the facts but they’re presenting them in a way that’s wildly unproductive. Like, even if they do successfully manage to convince people that America as a concept is rotten to it’s core and that anything positive its accomplished is bullshit... what is anyone supposed to do…

I think the focus on America in a vacuum is odd. America had slavery for longer as a British colony than as an independent nation. Columbus was Italian and sailing for Spain. We have to reckon with the lasting impact on real people for sure (because we are upholding those systems), but I don’t understand this…

Haven’t seen the show, but if you think a time traveler killing Baby Columbus would do anything, you’re nuts. Europe was badly polluted and over populated, and some resources like wood and fish were running out - if Columbus didn’t make his try, someone else would’ve.

That’s 55 million human lives gone, but there’s still debate over whether to continue honoring Columbus with a national holiday