So what was the plan for the Dothraki before Mel came back? They didn’t look like they had dragon glass weapons at all.

The episode was a mixed bag for me.

I dunno. I was able to see everything, except the stuff that was purposefully hard-to-make-out, and the pacing was pretty great. I thought the battle was spectacular. Not quite as epic as Helm’s Deep, but nothing could be. I was a little bit disappointed by the end, Jon being kept from the Night King, the lack of…

How I would feel about people dying next episode:

Sad, but resigned: Beric, Jorah, Jaime, Theon, Bran

Honestly pretty surprised: Jon, Dany, Tyrion, Sansa, Arya, Sam, Gendry, Varys, the Hound,

Not suprised, but devastated: Brienne, Tormund, Pod, Greyworm, Missandei, Gilly, Davos

Jesus this sounds like an ‘Ian McKellen crying moment’...acting against a green screen with no other actors and no idea how you’re really supposed to act.

Raps groups are surprisingly still a thing, however their form is a bit different. Now they tend to do most of their own stuff and occasionally feature each other on their songs. I’m not a fan but the YBN crew is one of them, Odd Future (you might know Tyler The Creator), Black Hippy (Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q,…

So you could say that in the Game of Thrones machine [puts on sunglasses] he was just a cog, man.

I actually do recall a fair amount of bitching about Janeway, mainly because I was in college in the 90s and spent a fair amount of time on message boards and chat rooms. I even saw a lot of everyone’s favorite classic comment: “I don’t have a problem with women! I just don’t like her!”

Tell that to Youtube algorithms.

A friend and I were talking recently about how fascinating - in a depressing, soul-crushing, infuriating kind of way - it is that, next to actual politics, science-fiction entertainment has become the biggest hotbed of right-wing politics in American culture. *So much* of the seminal stuff from the early days - whether…

I don’t know where you got the idea that Wang Tang Clan is something with which you can fuck, but allow me to disabuse you of that notion forthwith!

Just CGI some walkie-talkies over the top of the cigarettes.

This very sad news. I only recently watched all of Deadwood for the first time. It feels selfish to think “at least he got to finish the movie” but I am happy he got to do that.

I thought the Foster-Pym conflict was pretty well done, and it’s the kind of thing comic book movies typically fumble badly. You get a decent sense of where both guys are coming from, the characters are reasonably well balanced, and the acting makes about as much sense as it can when they’re saying impossible…

One of the fascinating things about the MCU is how disparate these rankings are among different fans. There are some movies with near-consensus agreement (everyone loves Winter Soldier, pretty much everyone hates The Incredible Hulk), but beyond that....

Is Iron Man 3 a fun, quirky, weird, character-driven delight, or…

Um... did anyone else get a Community notification for this?

TNG I’d go with season 5's “I, Borg”, “The Next Phase,” “The Inner Light”. You’ve got a classic Trek ethical dilemma with Borg, some great concept Sci-Fi with Phase, and The Inner Light is the best episode of any Trek series.

Stark and Strange form an interesting contrast for me - the former started out as a weapons dealer, who became a hero to try and atone; the latter spent his career saving lives (even though he was in it for the glory), and was reluctant to fight.

I think Dr. Strange’s on movie did a good job laying the groundwork for the character and magic in the MCU, but Infinity War really knocked it out of the park - THAT Dr. Strange was what a Sorcerer Supreme looks like.

I mean, in Apocalypse Rose Byrne looks awfully mid-30s for someone living in 1983 who was an adult government agent during the Cuban Missile Crisis.  I think the X-men franchise has rejected the concept of linear time.