You raise a good point about the direction generally continuing to be quite good, although I (and others) would disagree about Sunday night’s show being included among that list. I actually don’t think it’s a coincidence that it’s remained so since the source material ran out; when you’re guessing, interpreting, and…

“Very much like a typical TV show.”

...the leaders of the army of the living whipped up in 30 seconds of planning conducted a couple hours before the battle began...

It’s up.

Victoria and Albert’s modern, respectable love

Naw, if that was supposed to be the holy crap moment I’m positive we’d have heard about it in the post-episode rundown.

I’m very much looking forward to Angry Staff Officer’s lambasting of the battle plan here - I bust out laughing when I went to his Twitter feed and discovered it’s already on the way.

With the comment in the behind the scenes about Arya being D&D’s choice to kill the Night King three years ago - along with others like the dagger being plunged into where the Children transformed him - among other things it suggests that that we are probably going to not get much more about him.

The highlight of the episode for me was actually the confirmation in the behind the scenes that Arya-killing-the-Night-King was completely and entirely a D&D decision made 3 years ago.

Not his corpse; I was more thinking 3ER style.

The White Walkers via the dead of Winterfell.

in a worldview that doesn’t seem to allow much space for men to be emotionally complex human beings

Foxtrot Alpha alum Tyler Rogoway has been hinting of a piece on this for a while, and he finally published it today.

If they were in Nashville rather than Metlife the food would be better and about 1/5th the price.

It’s Northern New Jersey on a spring Thursday night. Other entertainment options in the region don’t offer the ability to participate in the routine agony of defeat as effectively.

This is why kicking out the scouts was dumb. Not because they would have changed anything about the pick, but their leaks about it would have been met with such disbelief that the whole thing would have been viewed as a smokescreen. The Raiders almost certainly would have got an offer or three for the pick because…

Eddie was a indeed a disaster as Prince of Wales, where among other things he brought back a medieval tradition of lengthy visits to the estates of various gentry and with his cronies routinely would nearly bankrupt them.

Yep, I’ve heard that one of Kim Ng’s main selling points is that she is widely regarded as the single best person in baseball when it comes to the whole Byzantine mess of roster and contract rules. It’s a shame no one has offered her a front office job.

The 5 year service rule applies to all minor league assignments for everything but those magical IT band rehab stays, when you don’t need that consent for up to 30 days.

Bit more of an explanation from a longer article by someone who is at the forefront of marine safety.