I think it'll be "a while" before we go for a rewatch, and, on a first time through, I wasn't going to abandon two seasons, but I can definitely already see why people make that choice.

In our binge-watch of The Office, we finally crossed that much-maligned breakpoint called "Michael Scott leaves" and have already experienced what a terrible, no-good, very bad thing that has been for the show.

You're gonna want more pouches on that costume.

I cannot fathom how someone in Disney/ABC/Marvel let Scott Buck get his hands on not one but two MCU TV properties. How is that guy still working after the end of Dexter?!?

Speaking of, did he nuke his account or get banned or something?

It was definitely a needless swipe and attempt to kick Marvel when it's "down," despite there not really being any good argument for Marvel's movie department being down, regardless of what's happening in the TV world.

I very much also read Sansa's look as one of longing. "Oh, my weird little sister and became a badass assassin, my weird little brother went off and became a prophet, my weird half-brother became Lord of the Night's Watch, literally died and was brought back to life and was crowned king in the north…meanwhile…I've…put…

Until Sam dies and gets resurrected, he doesn't have an out on his oath like Jon, so, pretty sure the Tarly line would just die out.

Especially after the scene with Arya and Ed Sheeran. Granted that was mostly an Ed Sheeran cameo, but we now have an explicit POV into the armies that the major players move around and we know that all of those armies are full of conscripts who just desperately want to get home to their families.

Nothing about these books or this show have ever been about returning power to the people. Either the series ends with the Night King on the throne and everyone serving him, or it ends with a bunch of human kings and queens on their respective thrones.

Jaime fighting off any of the dothraki given how poor a fighter we know him to be with his offhand was not super compelling or believable.

I still have a hard time figuring out how under Littlefinger's thumb Sansa is. Sometimes she seems very aware of him, other times she seems like she's still under his tutelage. Why does she let him creepily follow her around like that?

I actually think Dany is increasingly in danger of not making it out alive. I mean, she still has potent plot armor, but I'm having sort of a tough time seeing her on the Iron Throne when all is said and done.

To the extent that this show (largely) gives zero fucks about depicting smallfolk or what they're thinking, I've can't remember anyone but Dany referring to her as a return of the rightful rulers of Westeros.

I found watching the entirety of that last battle to be very uncomfortable and I legitimately wonder if this wasn't Dany shedding a bit of her plot armor. Even though I understand intellectually that the Lannister army is coming back from doing a "very bad thing," my sympathies were unquestionably and unflinchingly…

By "surprise attack" you mean "magical teleporting armada."

Dany has a higher claim to the throne, because she is a trueborn heir. Jon is Rhaegar's bastard, so he has no legitimate right of succession.

I don't live in Kansas, so…I have no idea what their budget shortfall is. I'm unsurprised to hear Nebraska isn't too much better off, though.

Christopher Nolan, truly the Mark Cohen from Rent of modern blockbuster cinema.

Which is always tough. On the one hand, it sucks that artists get screwed and their families (who presumably they would want to benefit from their legacies) also get screwed. On the other hand, get a job instead of spending your whole life complaining that your dad didn't pick a good attorney fifty years ago.