Mereen and the rest of Dany's march through Essos serves as the training wheels version of her eventual conquest of Westeros. It's like GRRM needed to give her something (anything!) to do besides be buffeted by various evil plots and just said, we'll do a dry run. But unless she decides to go back to Mereen and rule…

Yeah, the search for Dany is going to be tedious if it drags on too long. Like, Daario and Jorah are hot on the trail, but they're going to have to infiltrate Vaas Dothrak, and Jorah's turning into a rock monster, and that's just going to be awkward for everyone. And it's really unclear where the political…

Only if there was a special kind of hat worn when eating lemon cakes.

Well, I can't believe that GRRM would have invented her if she didn't serve a purpose in the larger story. So it irks me to no end that they seem to have lifted her out of the show. I mean, even if Michelle Fairley couldn't come back, there's no reason they couldn't still do the character. She's a dessicated revenge…

Exactly. They're spending way too much time rejoicing for there not to be something up.

Yeah, it's just convention that if you don't see the death/the body, that character isn't really dead. It would be a nice way to skirt the fact that Stannis is apparently alive in WoW, and give the season a nice kick. Would Jon Snow's resurrection, Stannis' return, and a possible Lady Stoneheart appearance be too many…

Random thoughts:

For some people the internet is incomplete until they weigh in with their opinion.

I don't understand why people who have no relationship or love for Prince keep coming in here just to tell us all how unmoved they are by his death. I get that it's an open space, and everybody's technically welcome to give their opinion or make a comment, but come on guys. If Prince mattered so little to you, why are…

Yeah, I agree about Controversy and Around the World in a Day being slightly (slightly!) lesser Prince. Tellingly, both are kind of hard to separate from their immediate predecessors; Dirty Mind and Purple Rain being huge, tectonic moments in his career. Controversy simultaneously tries to double-down on the shock…

Around the World In a Day is a such a crazy album. It's hard not to see it as almost a U-turn following Purple Rain. He could have released When Doves Keep On Crying, but instead he made a crazy, psychedelic whatsit of an album… that nonetheless has Raspberry Beret and Pop Life on it. The man oozed creativity, and for…

I was always a little afraid of Prince. When I was a kid, I listened to what my mom listened to, and while she loved Madonna, The Pointer Sisters, and Michael Jackson, she really didn't care for Prince. And, even though a lot of Prince's big themes—sexuality, religion, ecstasy—were beyond me at the time, I still got…

Yeah, they could go that route. But the Celestial in GotG was only part of the movie for a second, and didn't have to interact with anyone, or provide any "performance" except for just being huge and imposing. Galactus needs to be huge AND a character… it's potentially doable, but it's not without obstacles.

In the face of impending President Trump, Bowie and Prince elected to "move to Canada."

I mean, I won't lie and say that Prince's music means nearly as much to me personally as Bowie's, but this is an enormous, enormous loss, right up there with Michael Jackson. It's particularly rough because so much of Prince's music was the soundtrack to good times, to dancing crazy to Kiss, or dry-humping to U Got…

The problem is the uncanny valley. It's relatively easy to make Groot, cause he has to be humanoid, but not strictly human. Rocket just needs to convincingly look like a raccoon that walks on its hind legs and can shoot guns. What's hard is making a giant CGI man look convincing. We still haven't gotten over that hump…

I wonder if that would change the dynamic too much. If everyone else gets powers and Reed is unaffected, I feel like it sets up the potential for the movie to be about how resentful everyone is that Reed got spared the cosmic rays. I think they could come up with interesting ways for Reed to use his stretchiness…

That would be much better than just having his limbs get looooonger, which is all they seem to be able to think for him to do. Big fists trumps weird stretchy arms every time. But still, I'd be fine with Reed doing Big Science Stuff and using his powers kind of sparingly. The movies tend to put inordinate amount of…

I think they'd be better off ignoring Reed's powers as much as possible, too. Something about him being able to stretch himself just comes off really goofy when you see an actor turned into living taffy. The comics these days barely use his powers anyway; it's all Reed's opened up a portal to infinite other Reeds and…

Yeah, the core of the FF stories is sci-fi, and introducing magic into it would just be overwhelmingly complicated to do in one movie. Audiences seem to have a hard enough time buying the characters without bringing demons into it.