I’m late to this party but I’ll take Pegasus and the two Resurrection Ship episodes as the peak of BSG.

Agreed. Thought it was fantastic on release, but when I watched it recently for the first time in decades was kinda like...eh. Wasn’t bad, but not nearly the revolutionary film for a generation that young me thought at the time.

He found that all three produced wills that are better than having no will at all

Since the district’s threat got pulled today, the dueling letters by counsel are worth a read.

Even though the last two are a mess, I’d urge you to keep going for the nuance; I was reminded why when I reread Jon’s death scene recently. Unlike the show, the book makes it pretty clear a good deal of the motivation behind the murder was because he really had overstepped his authority as Commander and was putting…

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.