I had one about the same age, also for Christmas. I got it with Tetris and Super Mario Land, both quite good games.

The question is, will the show devote time to this? On the one hand, the writers have only intermittently been interested in showing how the decisions of the main characters have affected the general populace. On the other hand, they have consistently portrayed how Cersei's selfishness and lack of strategy have come…

I think he had a very short lived MSNBC show. And now he's got a podcast.

It makes even less sense if it's about Robert. Humorless? Honor? Robert was basically a hedonist.

I'm used to the "Ned was dumb" stuff — even though he did as well as could be expected in hostile territory and with limited information.

Your larger point still stands, but you forgot Deadpool and X-Men Apocalypse.

followed by 14 years of rule by a humorless prig who valued abstract concepts like honor above the wellbeing of his family and subjects.

I care much less about these things than I used to, but this is a pretty clear violation of the "no book" posting policy of this review.

That's exactly what happened with Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. To the extent that he wrote a 700 page book where literally the only important thing in it happens on the last page.

I've thought about the "commoner problem" as well. I think it's perfectly fine for the show to avoid delving into it in this finale, but I'll be disappointed if they don't spend some time on it next year.

He's never wanted any leadership position, as best I can recall. Others keep thrusting him forward, though.

Wow, good call on the grades.

He strongly implied he was dead. He certainly looked it.

Non-concurrent storylines.

I wasn't sure why they killed him. He was always a loyal Lannister toady, wasn't he?

I've mentioned before around here that Bee's show leans way too hard on the "mean girl"-isms of profane name-calling and making fun of people's looks. It often undercuts whatever point she's trying to make.

That's kinda the point: Her hatred of Arya made her throw out her training and subtlety. (We saw this last week when she disobeyed the order to not let Arya 'suffer'.) It also caused her to underestimate Arya, who was able to lure her into a trap.

Cinemax is owned by Warner Bros, which owns DC. Won't happen.

I was going to say…

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