Tea is only good if you can taste it. I was once a receptionist at a hair salon and one of my jobs was to serve beverages to waiting clients. We had a wide variety of teas available but 80% of clients asked for peppermint tea. I could not understand why so many people ordered a beverage that turned hot water into a…

Read this on my phone and booted up my laptop just so I could comment and say I have always felt this way. I do not understand tea, I never have, and I have never ever had tea that didn’t taste like all other bland water. I have many sophisticated tea friends who have given me their cool tea and I have tried it and…

Incest baby will be had- but it in the ensuing battle, Dany or Jon or both will die (money on Dany). Whoever lives, if one lives, refuses to rule (Jon has no desire to be king) and takes the black (if it still exists, which I’m guessing it will in some form) or goes off to live in obscurity, unaware that his/her child…

This list pretty much hews to a simple pattern: Honorable tough guys will die (short of Davos and Jorah), as will villains and morally grey opportunists. Mysterious Neutral Good and Pure of Heart characters will live. (I’m counting Brienne as an Honorable Tough Guy here. She may be pure of heart, but her morality is…

I get that this was a fun little exercise but, someone should redo this list, rewritten seriously, informed by theories and past events and backstories, likely better done with odds than a simple ‘dead or alive’ label, and not based on the whims of the writer (of the list). There are obvious deaths, like Cersei and…

tearing up, over here. this column has been my favorite io9 holdover from the old days. i was excited to see it return. i will miss it. thank you for your tireless efforts, rob.

Waaaaait I thought the whole point was that it was going to be the last season. It’s been renewed?

GOP/NRA/GunLobby: Widespread human death resulting from mass shootings does not make Gun Control an issue of public health, it is an issue of American Freedom- DOCTORS, stay in your lane.

But Liiiiike....so Rick survived, is healed. Wouldnt he want to go back to his family and community? He would just like...not go back? Let them go on thinking he is dead? That’s kinda fucked up or at least out of character but, whatevs. 

I do not understand the allure of James Wan. Y’all have a real low bar for horror if this is our current gold standard. Its just goulish make up on goulish female stock characters and jump scares. It’s so *easy*. The Conjuring, Annabelle, now this? These are so dumb. I really thought had passed this era of horror but…

Ugggh we feel differently about these issues. I’m fine with that. You can relax. Your side wins these movies anyways. You get your historical accuracy and small women roles and lack of people of color. So obviously, the powers that be agree with you. I’m just talking about storytelling. This type of storytelling bores…

Fair points- I don’t see these “Great Man” movies for the same reason I don’t eat at Italian restaurants - I can’t turn a corner without seeing one, they are all the same, and they are never doing anything that’s interesting to me. So yeah, I guess these movies are fine by genre standards - but I’d care more about…

Meh. I guess. But, again, I refer you to the first line of my comment - this is about storytelling, not your life, or her life, or his life. Rich wishes that the movie elevated the role of the wife. I don’t think that’s a crazy request. If we only told the stories of THE GREATS from history, it would be largely…

I’m sorry but what is this douche “really going through”? Why are we like....wishing him well? Why does everyone give this guy a pass? Why are we framing this as “Twitter consuming” him? When Trump spews his shit on Twitter, we blame the asshole spewing it, not the platform. “None of my love songs were about Mandy…

Ryan Adams is insane and a piece of shit, and framing Mandy Moore like this is fucked up. Also, ew at the bros bonding over talking shit about a girl who isn’t cool enough. Ew at Ryan Adams for taking a comment that wasn’t even a jab at him and using it as an opportunity to bag on his less successful ex. Ew at this…

This quote is about storytelling, not historical achievement. If the two characters are presented as equally important, their arcs and conflicts should have equal weight. Giving the man the task of going to the moon and the woman the task of raising the kids while listening to the radio about her husband’s adventure re…

This article is ridiculous. your argument basically amounts to “It exists in the canon now so you can’t ignore it! It’s JK Approved! And stage magic is cool! All the stuff people complain about? Solved by the play. Convinced? IT’S CANON (Even if it’s the Gofather III of HP).”

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I FULL on reject this. I hate it. The moment Dany named Tyrion hand he looked so overjoyed and I assumed it was because he finally found a leader he could believe in and support with his considerable skills. But no, of course, he has to be in love with her. He cant just respect her as a professional.

WOW this looks terrible. Wowowow. I am blown away at how low-quality this is. The worst being Raven. That hair! Those lines! Youch. I was very into this idea and daaaaamn does it look crappy.