Yep. Corporations slop both troughs. Cost of doing business, which isn’t depressing at all, nossir.

Chapek is an idiot if he thinks the evangelicals will stop here.

I’ve never heard a conversation described as “fulsome”. I don’t like it.

I wish I could say I'm surprised but I've never been less surprised

Well to be fair, Bran being king may be a George RR Martin idea an hence part of the reason the books are stalled given the reception was less than stellar in some quarters.

All of those are just fanservice moments without any groundwork, and therefore don’t have any payoff. For example:

well if we can’t depend on multinational corporations to have integrity what indeed can we count upon

This is like when your landlord says they’re totally going to repaint the apartment before you move in but they won’t put it in the lease.

Words have meaning. Failure to use them also has meaning. We are waaaay past the “trust me, I mean well” stage. And this knob doesn’t understand that “fulsome” is a word with definitions. None of which fit whatever white noise he’s making. 

GRRM and HBO both wanted 10 seasons, it was B&W that decided to stop at 8.

I think it’s both the case that they got bored and that they were trying to execute the bullet points GRRM gave them. GRRM himself hasn’t been able to write a path from his most recent book to his planned ending, and D&D haven’t had nearly as much time to write, so they just threw up their hands and plowed ahead to…

This is excellent satire. 

The better seasons (which I give credit to D&D for) were more than collections of moments. The parts worked synergistically to make an effective whole.

It’s one of the best TV seasons in history.

Rushing to check off the remaining plot points in a single season so they could move onto other projects is the opposite of ambitious. Yes, they made an excellent show, and then they torpedoed it because they got bored but wouldn’t/couldn’t hand it off.

“Most expensive,” maybe. But “best”? Get the fuck out of here.

Season 8 isn’t even one of the best TV seasons in Game of Thrones.

Whoa, there are still people defending S8? Wacky.

If that line had made it into the movie it would have greatly improved it.

Tommy Lee Jones said that? Remember, he and Al Gore were college roommates: