Like the 2016 US election - half the country elected a dude who insisted the end of the world wasn't coming. (Yes, I think the Walkers are a global warming allegory.)

I agree 100%. Quentyn Martell is the best example.

You sound like a barrel of laughs. If this is your vision of a lack of ethics, I'm surprised that you haven't had an aneurysm by simply existing in 2017.

Oh, I totally agree that the seeds are there. But, I know a lot of watchers (non-readers) who just are into King's Landing stuff. And most of the book fans I know care the least about KL once you're far enough in.

Nah - I made two arguments and stand with them both. The first, main one, was made above: "Except most shows intentionally deceive with the previews…" You claim they count as spoilers. So then I speculated on how basically everything is a spoiler in your eyes.

So… even as a book reader, I really like the show (I don't cur, haters). But, I'm realizing that a lot of non-book readers find the whole Night King to be a sideshow and/or uninteresting. And I wonder if it's because the show really ignored the mythology of the Children of the Forest and the First Men. So, I'm…

Given how shows like Breaking Bad and the Americans use trailers as fakeouts, I think you're wildly overstating their spoiler significance. Or, Mad Men? Did knowing Don would say, "Shut the door" and someone would stare into the distance ruin your viewing experience?

Really? If I'm watching, say, the Sopranos, and I am watching Made in America, you're telling me my experience of watching isn't different if I don't know it's the last episode? Penny Dreadful is an example of a show that actually played this game creatively (debate whether the last season worked, fine) by ending…

Sure. Acknowledging the existence of future episodes and seasons is a spoiler too, if we want to get to that point. Being told something is a season/series finale is a spoiler!

Treetop? What's the worst offense?

Glass bottles or dragonglass bottles?

Except most shows intentionally deceive with the previews…

Nothing implausible about that, friend.

Poorly. They are very bad at holding down jobs. That said, they are skilled union negotiators.

I know the masks get people tangled, but it's for a point, people.

Wait, was that a Ronin reference?

I think that's right. Also, can wights and walkers swim? I remember discussions in the books of zombie sea animals…

Yeah, you know man, after Ginsburg, Kerouac, and Burroughs, it's all kinda the same deal.

I have a son and a daughter. They will not see Grease. I was at a showing of the Little Mermaid (staged) and some kids were doing a revue of Grease outside - of course they did Summer Nights. Of course the hateful "did she put up a fight?" line was somehow in. Sung by ten year olds. It was gross as hell.

That's so Dowd!