It was gratuitous after a while. I was fine with her being the audience’s conduit into the suffering of the common folk via Dany’s death from above, but it went on for 15 minutes over multiple different scenes, all showing the exact same experience. At one point, I literally yelled at the screen “WE GET IT!!!!” when…

Can someone explain to me why he and Euron immediately got into a duel? I mean, the improbability of Euron happening to wash ashore right where next to the secret entrance to King’s Landing (when he was blasted into the water out in harbor) was insane enough, but to have him then, in the middle of Dany destroying the…

Exactly. They had him grow and learn and EXPLICITLY reject Cersei at the end of season 7, only to have him turn his back on the man he had painstakingly become (at great personal sacrifice and cost) in all of five minutes so that they could have him die with Cersei in his arms. The fact that people are celebrating…

Agreed. I agree with folks who are saying that they’ve hinted at the Mad Queen transformation for a while, but not like this. Dany was shown to be brutal to those who wouldn’t subjugate themselves to her will, or to people she deemed to have been evil and beyond redemption (slave masters for example). NOTHING about…

I don’t think he gets gassed at all. I think he chokes. He doesn’t even look involved in the action frequently when a high pressure playoff game gets close- he doesn’t seem to want the ball, turns it over via lazy passes, etc. If he was jacking up threes and driving to the hole and just didn’t seem to  have legs…

I’m with 100%. I despise this team, but for some reason last night I realized I was rooting for them to mop the floor with Houston. I haven’t rooted for them in YEARS, but without KD and going against this brutally bad to watch Rockets team (led by my probably my least favorite NBA superstar in James “Jack Up Nonsense…

Who wants to get wet, stand around soaking in the tub while it fills up (or waste an extra towel to dry off while you wait for the tub to fill up? Or, perhaps worst of all, stand soaking wet outside the tub while it fills just dripping water all over the floor?!?!) after your pre-shower? Jesus folks, you’ve spent all…

Sure. I do heavy strength training at the gym. A day or two after a particularly hard workout my muscles can be sore as hell. A hot bath can be a great way to help relieve the soreness.

I literally looked at every showing in my area. The very first showings in the morning were all sold out long before the opening friday. Literally the only seats available for any showings, at any time, in any theater within 40 miles of downtown DC were front row seats. 

If she dies before giving birth the prophecy is still true. And remember, she’s asking Euron and Jamie and Tyrion to believe something that will be very obviously not true after a few months. Despite GoT completely tossing aside any semblance of realistic timelines, it’s still absurd to make long term plans that will…

How long ago did you see it? You’re claiming the theater was empty, but every showing of Endgame I looked up (even the 3:00 AM ones) were either completely sold out or only had a few seats left in the front rows for the first week that movie was out. This story doesn’t hold up. 

What kind of nonsense is this? The shower is still dirty- do you recommend disinfecting the tub beforehand as well? And who wants to stand around wet and cold from the shower while the tub fills up? That sure as shit ain’t a great way to prepare for a relaxing soak.

4 for 4 on the nearly impossible shots on the dragon that Dany isn’t riding, then 0 for 24/36/48 on the much closer, much lower, much easier to hit dragon that is swooping directly into their lines of sight. When no main character is in danger Euron’s guys have better aim than Hawkeye, but when it’s Dany all of the…

This is just a weird thing to debate. The director SHOWED us Dany’s view of the ships after the dragon was hit. They weren’t miniscule dots waaaaayyyyy off in the distance. They were clearly visible as enemy ships bearing down on her fleet. It’d be one thing if she had seen them and lost her dragon when she swooped in…

I’m good with that argument. I think it’s a mix of all of the above, but I think a lot of people pretend like he doesn’t have a history of generally playing demonstrably worse in the playoffs, which becomes even more pronounced and obvious as the pressure mounts in the biggest games of the most challenging matchups. I…

Yeah, I’ve seen folks defending Benioff and Weiss by claiming it’s all the top brass at HBO’s fault for rushing them to the end of the series, which makes exactly zero sense to me. The savvy business minded, dollar-and-cents focused executive would bleed this cash cow forever if possible. There’s no way HBO has been…

Most of those outcomes are entirely predictable though. Steph, Klay, Harden, and ESPECIALLY Lowry have always gone stretches in the playoffs where they don’t play well and seem to disappear (hence my favorite annual recurring special on all the sports talk shows: “Is Steph Curry hurt? What’s going?!”). Westbrook…

Ehh, the one constant that I’ve noticed is that Harden only looks gassed in the big moments of big playoff games. I’m not sure if he’s tired so much as shrinking from the spotlight. Durant and Lillard were also both guys that played in the top 10 most minutes this season, and neither one of them have gone significant…

That’s been my perception of him for years. He just disappears in the big moments of big games. It’s almost as if when the defenses ratchet up their intensity in the playoffs he can’t figure out how to deal with it, so instead he just becomes incredibly passive. He always seems to just hang back behind the 3 point…

Ehh, this doesn’t seem that shocking or appalling. It costs money to have lawyers file briefs and make arguments. The Globe rightly recognizes that if any one intervenor is successful then all the media groups get access to it, so they can freeload on the litigation and reap the benefits with none of the costs. And…