She would be a logical choice for a wife, what with being the only respectable noble in the North and everything.

I think it has more to do with the nebulous nature of why anything is happening anymore. The initial thrust of the narrative made perfect sense, King dies, legitimacy of his heir in question, war. Easy peasy.

Yeah, everything in King's Landing has been almost unbearable for me for a while now. All of the characters had to be written into oblivion for this whole High Sparrow plotline to play out(and then it kept going and going and going).

I'm actually a little surprised(but only a little) at the rapturous reception to this episode. Literally blowing up a bunch of characters to end an ill-conceived and drawn out plot is not something that I think should be lauded, especially when Margaery is amongst the exploded(RIP).

I was about to say something similar. The podcast might be great but I just know I'll get exasperated anytime they criticize it, I love that show too much.

More Other Space, less of whatever the heck this is going to be.

Thea would be my close #2.

If this is the end for Laurel I'll be pretty bummed, I've loved her ever since she became a drunk all those years ago. She has been sorely underutilized for most of the show so this feels extra pointless.

While I'm not saying "Squall is Dead" is true, saying "it gets weird as it goes on because they're weird games" is really doing a disservice to just how nonsensical and ridiculous the story gets in FF8.

"You might call this a college town…Communist style."

Anger mode - Activated

Terrible, terrible, terrible news. FLCL was a lightning in a bottle show and trying to recapture what it was is impossible.

This is all true.

Battleship is, with not a single ounce of hyperbole, the most subversive Hollywood film since Starship Troopers.

I think what makes it work so well is twofold:

Yeah, the thing with Angier and his clones(and why no clone would back out) is the obsession of it all.

The film is full of this same"trick", which I think can best be described as the film playing fair/giving you the answer before you have the full question in mind. The scene in the article is one, the bird trick is another, but the best is the first image of the film which shows an outdoor area littered with top hats.

This goes beyond wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey, it basically ignores 'cause and effect', saying that Reverse Flash still exists due to Speed Force/The Future Is Tomorrow So It Is Still There or Something, Please Don't Ask, but that very principle(Eddie dies, Thawne is never born) is what allowed them to stop Reverse…

Oy vey, the time travel and its ramifications in this episode.

I like how after they use their Plot Resolution Beam™ you see them touching and, what do you know, their is no cataclysmic reaction.