Thanks, man!

Go back to the first season of GoT & the hair is almost as bad, especially the Lannisters. Fortunately, they seemed to figure that out pretty quickly, & soon Cersei, Jaime, & Tyrion started to look like actual human blondes.

Not two more seasons—just regular-length seasons at the end. Seasons 7 & 8 should have been 20 episodes (two 10-episode seasons) rather than...I think it was 7 & 6? (Too lazy to check) 13 episodes wasn’t enough to make for a satisfying conclusion (even if some episodes were longer than an hour), but I think 20…

My read is that it’s not so much about Dany’s heel turn as the abruptness of it. Why they didn’t just do two more 10-episode seasons I can’t imagine—GoT was just a money-making machine at that point, & the story needed time to get where it was going to do it well. GRRM has two more giant-ass novels to build to The Mad…

Yeah, you can’t lay that on HBO—it’s a well-established fact of House Targaryan from GRRM’s source material.

I don’t see how it could--GoT was a legit phenomenon.  That said, apparently this was HBO’s most-watched premiere ever, so who knows?  I’ll be curious to see if people stick with it.  I’m in for at least this first season.  Not as good as GoT (at least not yet), but I enjoy spending time in Westeros, & HotD is off to…

Hmmmm. I think Ned’s sleuthery was also mostly about the bastards, too? Anyways, the theory’s the same. (And not for nothing, it got Ned killed, too.)

Case in point: I’m here two days after the premiere, wasting my time making comments nobody will read. The good ol’ AV Club was the first online community I ever got involved with, so I had no basis for comparison, but I loved it then. Smart writers & smart commenters, & I swear it really did feel like a community. We…

Not quite—it was about all of Robert Baratheon’s bastards, like Gendry, having black hair. Robert’s Hand (Jon Arryn) was suspicious about those blond “Baratheon” kids, so he was doing some snooping around, which is why he was murdered (the precipitating event in the series’ opening episode that led to Ned Stark…

Back in the day, the AV Club split the “Game of Thrones” recaps/reviews into “newbies” & “experts” pieces, so that those who had read the books could chat without spoiling things for those who hadn’t. There’s enough existing material* (references from the 5 GoT novels, that “World of Ice & Fire” fake history book, the…

I wonder if they considered subtitling it “A Benoit Blanc Mystery”.  That would have been more Agatha Christie-ish, IMO--associating the stories with the particular detective.

I’m not even convinced that it actually IS Christensen—at least not all the time. The credits list Dmitrious Bistrevsky as “Performance Artist - Darth Vader”. That specific phrasing makes it sound like he’s more than just a stunt performer (especially as there is also a Vader “Stunt Double” listed).

I get why shows do this—to make it clear to the audience that she’s lying & so we can all be in on it. But as you say, it does take one out of the scene. And frankly it’s insulting to the audience, like we would be confused if she lied convincingly, as people do, all the time, in real life.

Why is your comment in quotes? You make it sound like Fischer or Kinsey said that. Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see anything in this piece that suggests they’re unhappy with their situation.  In fact, they seem like they’re really embracing it.  Is that not OK?

I was thinking this, too, as I was watching (late to the party—stupid adult life getting in the way of my show watchin’), so I watched closely & there’s very little on-screen gore. Even the organs you see him putting in the jars you only glimpse briefly, & they don’t look like much of anything. You hit it, though,…

So many coments here saying the article *wasn’t* shitting on MMB. The whole piece is very snide, if not overtly derogatory. Implying that we should all be surprised they didn’t break up 20 years ago—”(And not 20 years ago, like you might credibly have assumed.)“—is pretty obviously insulting.

Personally, I don’t think…

Officially, he was listed as “Band Dancer”, so theoretically he could find another venue for dancing. With a fairly limited repertoire of moves, though, he’d still need some updated training for his résumé.

Well, “Clueless” came out in 1995, & they appeared in that after already having a hit or two--which the article mentions--so we’re already pushing 30 years.  Maybe they’re subtracting the hiatus years?

Good questions--I honestly don’t know.  I’ll still take an edited version over nothing, though.

I suspect he’s full of shit, but if any flight attendants actually *did* seem to support him, it was probably out of fear for what this guy might do. This stunt doesn’t suggest he’s the smartest or kindest person—I could totally see them playing along just so he wouldn’t throw a hissy fit.