Glad to see the commentariat here isn’t on the Irrationally Hate Pete Express. It’s so bizarre to me. 

I get that hardcore lefties got scared by Buttigieg and how his campaign aimed for the center so successfully, but it doesn’t make the smear campaign against him look any less unmotivated and ridiculous. It’s like MAGA, only more intellectually insufferable.

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Even by AVC standards, this one is just pure bile. Yeesh.

What an unnecessarily pissy article.

This whole season has been like that with people.

She’s also a lot more brutally honest about torture. I feel like there’s this tendency in American storytelling at large where it’s become noble to endure torture and just be able to shake it off. But Hobb suggests torture never leaves you, and how you cope with it does a lot to define you.

Nighteyes: The Ultimate Good Boy. 100/10

Your point is reminding me that I need to crack into book 3 of the orig-trige. Book 2 ended on... well let’s call it a cliffhanger.

There is since I’m a fan of both GRRM and Gaiman. I also read a lot of stuff outside of fantasy/sci fi.

I don’t think we’ve seen a single woman lose her virginity in a scene that wasn’t rape. It was honestly nice to see Arya have an experience on her own terms. 

hehe, Stark contrast.

It wasn’t a sex scene. The camera cuts away before they have sex. Gendry was half naked when Arya starts to disrobe. Williams chose how much nudity there would be--it’s her agency as well as Arya’s in that scene. Plus Gendry still having his pants on gives us the set-up for one of the greatest one-liners from a queen…

Yep! And going back to Arya’s defiant statement to Ned in season 1 (“I’m not going to be a lady”), there’s the fact that she chooses to have sex before marriage despite this world’s insistence that ladies do not if they hope to wed well (and be wed to someone of their parent’s choosing), reflected most grotesquely in R…

I’d highly recommend that Entertainment Weekly interview to any fan of the show, but especially anyone who had an issue (for whatever reason) with the Arya/Gendry scene. Williams talks about how, yes, it was her on screen, no she didn’t feel pressured to do it (Benioff and Weiss told her that the scene would have only…

To paraphrase Lisa Simpson, “You really can see into the . . . past.”

That is just not true. Unless you are counting the LITERAL Deux ex Machina that they decided on as a blanket answer. A capricious, not-very-bright God is a pretty easy out.

There’s a huge difference, though, between “Religion is a key throughline” and “A divine being is actively directing the major events of the series in a way that is essentially magic.” After all, religious belief of one kind or another is a key throughline for a lot of people in the real world as well, but we don’t…

The characters on Lost were more often than not puppets in service to the plot, so retroactively claiming it was all about the characters has never been credible.

The final season of Lost was sort of like the Star Wars Prequels, where the creators seemingly had no idea what it was that people enjoyed about there creation. The entire series of Lost was about the mystery, the happy ending with all the characters going into the beyond together felt unearned and completely out of…