Fair enough. But the White Walker curveball was pretty extreme- Euron was asking legit questions and doing pretty good improv. If I were Cersei, I’d still want to just double check with Euron that that was definitely totally an act and everything is still on track.

Yea- that Euron/Cersei ruse was a nitpick for me.

The First Order is fun and all, and I’ll withhold judgement until they flesh out post-Return of the Jedi years more, but how on earth did the New Republic manage to screw it up this badly?

This explains GRR Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire mythos most completely:

What to the books say about the origin of dragons? Because of the Dothraki idea that the moon cracked and then there were dragons, I have always imagined they were some form of alien life somehow.

Munsters, whatever their faults may be, had one of the best TV theme songs ever IMO. Hope that comes back.

TBH I don’t really remember many Princess Leia or Vader costumes in 1990, but YMMV.

I would say popular awareness of Avatar today is roughly akin to where Star Wars stood in 1990, prior to the Zahn books or the EU, years after a film, no real merchandising presence, and vague-but-not-yet credible rumors that someday we would see the prequels. Lucas was then known for “Willow”, and Batman/Indiana…

The Dothraki were just to the south in Dorne, and moving faster than the Lannisters being entirely on horseback. That aspect didn’t bother me so much- it was one of the few times when travel-time seemed semi-plausible.

Exactly. It is embarassingly on-the-nose, but yes. Which is why they became comic foils instead of the big bad they were supposed to be. (remember Picard’s line about Ferengis “eating their business partners” at Farpoint and the almost Locutus-level mental scars he had from a Ferengi mental telepathy device?)

According to Andrew Probert, they were Gordon Gekko, Assyrian, and Scrooge McDuck- which sounds about right...

Oh ffs. Kirk and company would beam down, turn the Potato God into french fries, seduce the Lunchlady, and claim this was all allowable within the Prime Directive because Spock determined that potato spores actually survive in the vacuum of space and odds are 75641 to 1 they floated there after the destruction of an…

The biggest casualty to all the secret siblings is the Spock/Sarek dynamic.

True, though I’d distinguish between “not allowed to say because Roddenberry was...” in the unenlightened sense coming from a script doctor, vs “no one in the Federation *would* say that because it’s an anachronism” which I think is the case they’re trying to make (but which isn’t actually true given the McCoy…

noted without comment, just point being, McCoy at least was probably the biggest violator of Roddenberry’s vision.

McCOY: Chancellor Gorkon!
KIRK: My God, what has happened here?
CHANG: You dare to feign ignorance?
KIRK: What happened?
CHANG: With a direct torpedo hit you crippled our entire gravitational field, and two of your Starfleet crew beamed aboard wearing magnetic boots and did this.
McCOY: Aren’t you carrying a surgeon?
CHANG:…

Maybe he could just say “Zounds!” instead of “By God’s Wounds!”?

I think Jon would have to be pretty thick not to get it, (but I do feel like in the last year or two Westeros has gotten way to into this weird “bend the knee” language when I feel like “swear allegiance” seemed to suffice in Seasons 1 and 2). I mean, clearly we’re talking Targaryen restoration here and replacing the…

Yes. That was idiotic. I was hoping for some line like “During the Dance of Dragons, the Targaryen’s discovered a dragon could be lanced with a ballista tipped with high grade valyrian steel” or somesuch. But “big ass ballista” is not a mark of Qybrun’s diabolical genius, it’s what any Westerosi would have wanted…

Looks great, but can we get some clarification on the descriptor, er, “Islamic” for this alien vessel in that second image? I think they might want to elaborate on that one.