To be fair, Stark also sounds like York.

Also, for all that the justified criticism that the end of Game of Thrones got, one bit that really impressed me was how it neatly sidestepped all the potential for Dany’s ending to come off as a message of “women should never have power” by also having Sansa end up in charge of the North, which is presented…

I think some of the “backlash against criticism about representation” is about the fact that it sometimes feels like it’s the only subject critics are interested in. This was, by far, the best episode of House of the Dragon. It managed to create a tension the show has been lacking, and ended with a scene where all the…

This writter is probably young. I always try to do older movie references and alot of people don’t get it. The only one they get is when I say this looks like the ending to Scarface everytime I see spilled surger or flour at work. I know people that don’t know about Paul Newman and just know him as the dude on the…

Shocking that a wedding on this show ends badly. At this point it would be more shocking if a wedding goes as planned. 

Tell me again which one of John Gaunt’s descendants became a faceless assassin

It’s pretty rich to insist on historical verisimilitude when it comes to diversity and women’s subjugation, but not when it comes to dragons, ice zombies, resurrection magic, warging, or shapeshifting assassins.

The death actually makes sense from a plot perspective considering how Criston’s jaw was working all episode you could see how close he was to snapping. He took his honor very seriously (also shown about how he was gonna commit seppuku), was heartbroken that Rhaenyra wouldn’t leave with him, and Joffrey gleefully…

It’s an ignominious ending for a character we’ve only just met, and it’s part of a persistent problem on modern television.

“Rhaenyra and Laenor’s coded conversation about their sexual preferences (“roast duck” versus “roast goose”) feels like a Westerosi homage to the Schitt’s Creek scene in which David Rose uses wine varietals as a metaphor for pansexuality.”

And also, the country that elected Donald fucking Trump president and George W Bush twice can fuck right off from thinking they have any kind of high moral ground.

The Queen is dead, long live the Queen

Welcome to what it feels like for the rest of the world having to hear about...well, whatever bullshit America’s chosen to engage in. For example...

Exactly; their caricatures of Irish Travelers, a minority ethnic group in the UK.

They just kissed some and then Daemon ran away

“you got to see an uncle and niece have sex”

The reviewer knows that. It’s just her attempt to sound young and flippant, when it just comes off as juvenile and try-too-hard.

That’s how I saw it too, that it was a bit like rape. He clearly knew how much trouble he could get in and he clearly did not want to have sex with her but also knew he didn’t really have a choice.

I find it refreshing that the stakes are so low. I thought the best part of GoT was all the petty squabbling among nobles about who gets to sit on a pointy chair. It really lost its way whenever they had to cut back to the ice zombies and Chosen One prophecies, particularly because as we now know, none of that stuff…

I think this can only be read as a rape scene. Cole cannot meaningfully consent because the power imbalance is so great — if he rejects the princess / heiress to the Iron Throne, she can make up any story she wants and have him killed. But if he begins an affair with her, he risks death. Cole calculates that there is…