What, and land upright and then scurry away perfectly OK?

Makes Ned Stark a better guy by….placing his honour above telling his wife? Ned and Cat seemed pretty close. You'd think Ned would tell her eventually when he saw what it was doing to her and Jon. But no! Dumb honourable, admirable Ned has to stick by his principles.

Luring Lancel down to the wildfire was entirely so that we could have the suspense of seeing the bomb timer ticking down with a character we (kinda) knew. Given how expertly that sequence was constructed, I'm fine with it, but I can't argue your point.

Look, the show's adherence to geography and travel times is laughable at this point (just go with it…), BUT there are Martell and Tyrell ships in Dany's fleet. I think we are to presume some time has passed since that meeting in Dorne. Doesn't make Varys showing up at the end anymore of a WTF moment, to be sure.

It won't be pointless when Sam wields his family's Valyrian steel sword and uses some hardcore book knowledge to help defeat the White Walkers. I'm sure there's an endgame with Sam.

With the ever-shrinking cast and the increasing TV-show like feel, I appreciated that. Nice bit of world building and texture.

*upvotes through tears* *sniff*

He's pushing 70. People get older and change. I thought Tintin had a fair bit of that energy but in general I think his interests have just shifted.

There's a deleted scene of Postlewaite before he went to the island, kind of like the Nedry scene from the first movie. Would have been nice to keep it, as it fleshes him out a bit more.

Go watch Close Encounters, stat!

Catch Me If You Can is just so entertaining and it moves so quickly. There's something so compulsively watchable about it.

I give Lost World a bit of pass for the GoldBloom and the set pieces. Sure the last 20 minutes is dumb, and, ugh, gymnastics, but the Cliff Attack is one of the best things he's ever done.

I sincerely hope Spielberg is making Indy 5 to make up for 4. He never even wanted to make that film in this first place, and his instinct to leave well enough alone with The Last Crusade was exactly right.

Because Williams-Spielberg are probably the most significant director-composer collaboration in the history of cinema (Hitchcock/Herrmann notwithstanding)?

Very insightful comment. +1

I thought Lincoln was surprisingly propulsive and funny, which is not what I expected at all. That's mostly the writing and acting though. It might be the most restrained Spielberg's ever been, which might be what your referring to.

Of those Empire of the Sun should be top of your list. Most underrated Spielberg film, I'd say.

The scene where they straight up murder (*redacted* for Ben Grimm's benefit) is the most chilling thing in Spielberg's filmography. I didn't know he had that in him.

When I first saw it as an 18-year old I thought it was a sappy, happy ending (A lot of critics also seemed to at the time). Now I realise it's dark as hell. Seems like this is a common progression.

He has a weird thing for Sansa because she reminds him of Cat. He is a super puppet master but that is his weakness and it will be his undoing.