I can’t deny critiquing the first half as slow, because I literally dozed off for a sec myself.(It was a long night, and the Bucs were losing.) But the second half I can honestly say is the best material the show has offered so far. OLIVIA COOKE SLAYS!

When Rhaenyra proposes to Daemon, she tells him that she “cannot face the Greens alone.” You’d be forgiven for not knowing what that means, because like so much other plot-pivotal knowledge, the show hasn’t told us about it.

Gurl, just say that you don’t like the show enough to pay attention.

Palpable chemistry? I spent the whole scene thinking “This is framed like it’s supposed to be erotic, but... it’s totally not.”

what about piracy? a cursory glance on one of the main trackers shows 2,790 seeders for the first episode of ROP while HOD has 7,200.

The show removed his one notable fight from the book, in which Criston Cole broke his collarbone. There are some people who even try to argue that Rhaenyra’s first kid wasn’t fathered by him because of that injury.

Hmm. I don’t see it. Like, we got almost a whole season to spend with Oberyn, and he gets that big fight with the Mountain at the end. This guy, I don’t even think I realized he was a character until the episode he died in.

Noah is a fascist that’s why he platformed so many. Hia family is rich, he has conservative views under a liberal veneer.

Now is the time for Paul F Tompkins and the panel from No, You Shut Up! to shine.

That was before they started getting those sweet, sweet guerrilla marketing dollars from Cameron and Co. I find it hard to believe this article is anything more than a paid advertorial. 

Superbad has a bigger cultural imprint than Avatar. You may not like it, you may not have even seen it, but you know the name McLovin.

The only reason it’s enduring is somebody will inevitably point out “Hey, remember how much money Avatar made? Crazy, right?” So of course the reaction is “Oh yeah, the derivative movie with blue cats” Because there isn’t another reaction, because it’s the only thing people remember about the movie

One of the many very stupid aspects of this age is that everyone has decided that products they have purchased or consumed are part of their personal identities — something which should horrify everyone when they think about it.

Since attacking those products feels like an attack on their identity, folks feel compelled…

This article is frankly insane. It seems to make three arguments to support its premise, and none of them pass muster.

This reads like someone justifying getting a N’aavi tattoo to impress a girl.

I mean, I don’t know a single person that really likes Avatar. I know some that kind of like it, but I don’t know any that love it. Nor do I know any with strong opinions about it.

“Never mind that an enduring meme is itself a validation of its impact.”

Others in this thread have already laid out this article’s flaws, so I will add that I am not sure why it even exists. Avatar, while financially successful and technologically innovative, just did not resonate with a lot of people and that is okay. It seems like some people feel the need to defend it, which I sort of…

Oh, cool, now we’re going to get all the hot take articles about how Avatar was so amazing and important and influential. Just great.

My favorite argument is “yah, but it was so influential in behind the scenes CGI technology that is such a HUGE part in the movies that we shit on for using too much CGI.”