You want to cause me physical pain with those apostrophes don't you, Xander?

Never ever.

I think the final iterations of Galadriel make her the most powerful elf period, but I guess that's one of those long, nerdy and pointless arguments that doesn't really go anywhere.

I believe there's significant inconsistency between drafts, but on at least one occasion Trotter's dialogue in think in Rivendell makes it pretty clear he has wooden feet because the Nazgul chopped them off.

I can't actually tell you how much it would make me laugh if the end of GoT was a pure, Monty Python-esque troll of the audience. The police show up, or everyone starts taking off their costumes and breaking character and you can see the sets and production crew. That would be a finale for the ages.

I mean, clearly. It's just bizarre in retrospect given how languorous the narrative has been up to this point.

I mean, sure, if it were like passing off a baton, I agree, but it's not, because the US is not going to go quietly into that good night and because Russia is going to do everything in its power to prevent it from happening and because China, though geographically less threatened by Europe, wants their own piece of…

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By "how long" I meant in terms of narrative not in terms of chronology. Also, it has been explicitly stated in both the show and the books that long summers are followed by long winters, so, I guess they could do that, but it wouldn't make sense.

The near-term "option" is a resurgent EU, Russia, and China fighting amongst themselves while we and India snap at their heels. Gonna be great.

I feel like I have a very poor sense of what the end of this story looks like.

I feel like the list of people who can successfully rock a platinum blonde pixie cut that hard has to be fewer than 5.

I mean, I'm not saying it's a total collapse? But there's no way we get to be at the head of the table by default. It was a total abdication and rejection of what literally the entire rest of the planet had agreed was the correct course of action. And Trump did it just to spite Obama's legacy.

Frankly, it has nothing to do with whether it should be and more to do with it was, and the end of that significantly destabilizes the international community, as any of a large list of countries and regions seek to fill that power vacuum.

I am at a complete loss for how any of those tweets could've been written in earnest by actual real people. But, you know, here we are.

Pulling out of Paris was The End of the United States's era as global hegemon. We might not fall as far as the UK did after WW2, but - even if it results in no actual impact on the environment or our approach to it - it was devastating to our credibility and position as world leader.

Holding tweezers for that long makes you cramp.

It was a catastrophically stupid and tasteless stunt for her to pull. It was the absolute worst thing she could've done, because it was actively harmful to the cause and also had zero entertainment value.

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