No, I'm just taking you at your word. If California needs to worry about it, then we all do. If they don't, then none of us do.

I didn't say the smallfolk would be better off. I said that they would unify behind the Targaryen restoration, because Daenerys is about to go down in Westorosi history as the savior queen who rode to the rescue against the Night That Never Ends astride firebreathing dragons, turning back hordes of zombies, zombie…

If people in California need to worry about it, so do you. Democrats are not in a position to lose any seats, let alone bulwark seats like California.

I'm not sure there is anything else to do. I believe that the show runners are doing their best to tie up the show as best as they can, and embrace the fact that they are no longer constrained by the books (though, honestly, they started departing from the books in not strictly necessary ways pretty early on). But,…

The Hound is supposed to do it and he's supposed to do it with fire, which is the only way to kill a wight anyway. It's telegraphed from the moment the Hound tells the story about how his older brother held his face in a brazier and the Hound overcoming his fear of fire is a parallel to the Hound redeeming himself…

Which is especially wrong for Tyrion, since he has platinum streaks in his hair, strongly suggesting (along with a bunch of other stuff) that he's a goddamn Targaryen.

If CleganeBowl is off, and that appears to be the case because the High Sparrow is dead and Sandor is heading north, then the only way for the Maegi's prophecy about "a brother" killing her is if either Tyrion or Jaime does it. Who seems more likely at this point?

Definitely not Kingslanders—they hated Kings Landing. They're Westerners, probably from near Lannisport, which is a smaller but much cleaner and better administered city than Kings Landing. Makes sense they'd find Kings Landing repulsive.

No, she's definitely more Batman than Robin. She stays in black and grey. I can't tell if it's intentional or unintentionally appropriate that the show is dressing everyone in black and white now, instead of the panoply of colors that distinguished the regions and houses before.

No, they're a metaphor for disaster, not characters with motivation. You can think of them as the threat of nuclear war, or global warming, or a meteor hurtling towards the planet. The show has actually made them much more human-like than they are in the books.

Finally got around to this, and I'm afraid this show is now basically GoT fan fiction. Everything moves in much straighter lines, the grey is quickly separating out into black and white, plot threads are being cut or ignored into atrophy and the entire thrust of the series seems to be towards two or three more…

MAX Imprint Cinematic Universe, actually.

No, that's "abetting sexual assault, one headshot at a time."

Man, if there's one property that cries out for a Game of Thrones-style effects-driven prestige series instead of movies, it's Fantastic Four. I would watch the living shit out of that show if they got the right show runner.

If you think you're going to trap the right wing into needing to take one stand on Trump in order to be consistent with another stand they're simultaneously taking, then you fundamentally misunderstand the nature of your political opponents.

I do, right here.

If I remember right, he was high on crack and had been pulled over on several simultaneous traffic infractions at JFK and then tried to bluff his way out of it by claiming he was an undercover Fed. Though, to be fair, he may actually have believed himself to be an FBI Agent at that point, since he had assaulted a car…

Not sure why everyone is acting like you need to Rosetta Stone to understand this. I agree, it's nice that a male celebrity has married a woman old enough that she could not possibly be his daughter or granddaughter, unlike some other celebrities that one could think of including the President.

So fucking dumb it's practically performance art.

True story I used to think "hot take" was slang for one of those shits that gives you a flaming asshole. Seems relevant here somehow.