No, I got all that. Thanks though...

I actually found that to be contrived as hell. Hodor’s been a part of the show since the very beginning, and his defining characteristic is that he just says Hodor, but nobody ever mentions that that behavior appeared out of nowhere one day and that he used to be just a regular guy? Not to mention that when he’s…

“What all of the crimes have in common is that they reek not of inherent rampant criminality but of a hustler’s utter desperation.”

I agree with you on that front, but I suppose what I’m saying is that seasons 1, 2, and 3 was when the show’s quality was at its highest, in large part because of where the focus was (character and plot rather than spectacle and grandeur). And I don’t think the absence of characters doing flashy things in season 1…

I’ll be forever confused as to why that is a bad thing in people’s mind. The first few seasons had to rely on storytelling and character development to be interesting, whereas the past few seasons have just relied on huge action spectacles and special fx to gin up interest. It’s like saying that Transformers is better…

Not to mention a complete rejection of the kind of storytelling that made the show interesting in the beginning. The showrunners don’t know how to do anything besides standard fantasy storytelling and tropes, but because they have the budget to do big action set pieces and lots more dragon scenes everyone pretends…

It’s funny- the whole reason the show was recognized as great television was because it focused on real characters who engaged in behaviors that didn’t conform to standard fantasy tropes while rejecting the sort of simplistic grandeur that dominates lesser fantasy shows/movies. But then the past two seasons went all…

“They’re taking less than they would have made on the open market 5 years ago to ensure that they don’t have to actually put up with the volatility of that market.”

Was this guy forced to sign the contract at gunpoint or something? The article is clearly written in such a way to make the reader outraged at this unfair atrocity, but for the life of me I cannot figure out why I should be so upset about a guy voluntarily signing a contract. If he wanted to push for more money, or…

I do appreciate the irony of GMG attacking others for coming to uncharitable interpretations of comments by folks like AOC or Omar when pretty much the whole purpose of the websites on GMG is to attack people in exactly this way. I’m completely fine with Omar’s comments because I understand the context and what she…

Deadspin still has credibility with some readers? I like the site just fine for aggregating highlights and horrible hot takes, but the last thing I view this place as is a credible sports blog with accurate analyses and thoughtful takes.

Pretty sure he’s saying Magic’s out barely 9 months after getting Lebron. As in, he took the job and just counted down the days until he could get Lebron, and when that didn’t immediately translate into a championship caliber team he bailed.

One follow-up question: really?

That’s an odd thing to cite to when the whole point of the discussion is that the rules are dumb and should be drastically changed. Yes, I understand WHY they didn’t review the foul calls. Everyone understands that. The point is that the purpose of the review doesn’t address the underlying fairness of the sport and…

“ Most sports fans around the world were totally willing to accept human error in return for fluidity and poetry in motion, but now we’re heading down the road of your joyless persnicketyofficiating that treats sport calls with greater consideration than a murder trial.”

The correct call on that particular possession would have been Moretti going to the line to shoot two free throws because Guy fouled him multiple times. Limiting the review to getting the technically correct call on the out of bounds play doesn’t actually address the fundamental fairness of the play or get to the…

“like awarding Virginia possession for knocking the ball out of bounds because it lingered on the fingertips of the Texas Tech player’s hands 0.000001 seconds longer.”

“And sure, the number of total blown calls evens out over time, but not the big ones. It’s not like Auburn is going to end up the finals next year as the beneficiary of a missed double-dribble or some other blown call.”

“Do you really think fans would accept a world in which demonstrably blown calls are just part of the game, when there exists technology to get them right?”

If fans need to accept anything, why not tell them to accept that sometimes super close, impossible to tell without a hundred cameras and super slo-mo calls will sometimes be wrong? We literally tell fans that for the entire rest of the game and they accept it just fine. 3-4 replay reviews taking ten minutes of…