I am not sure either and you make a good point. It does seem somewhat absurd but then again,...:)

I am so very sorry to hear of this human rights violation in your life and wish you all the best in the world.

Huh, my mistake. I should have known that! Thank you for pointing that out.

I appreciate some of the points you are making as hopefully most reasonably well-read people appreciate the importance of good writing in any medium but the example you have given seems more about your inability to suspend disbelief in a context which includes magic, sorcery and other yet or perhaps never fully…

Good luck with your graduate program! The world needs many more good and progressive academics.

I agree completely and find it appalling. I am sorry that this abomination and his administration exist but it is difficult not to recognise that someone like Trump was an inevitability in the US political landscape given the multitude of factors intersecting to produce a horror like him.

Dear Miles,

Myles, I am not sure you are interested in etymology of names but I always find it really interesting including re the GOT names so am repeating myself here but there is a reason which I will add to the end. Anyway, this is what I tacked on to a comment to which you kindly responded:

Thank you BA for taking the time to reply. That does make sense.

And adding to this number, the global viewing audience who watched it on paid streaming platforms and you will have millions more for a less insular accounting. And given that NK has fired a missile over Japan and that the Idiot-in-Chief and his administration continue to exist (as opposed to, being such a terrible…

How about getting one more star for being a profane but honest whinger (I am using the Anglo-Australian equivalent to whiner as it does not have the same sting in my view) :).

Thank you DP. I had forgotten about the magic runes and this makes more canonic sense to me now.

Thank you kindly Myles!

Myles or anyone else, I have two questions for which I would love to hear some answers: (1) If the white walkers are created by the touch of the other white walkers or the Night King, then wouldn’t the zombie Viserion be a ‘dragon Walker’ rather than a ‘Dragon wight’ and hence not be controlled as the wights are? And…

People as brutal as him don’t die easily. Like you, I have abandoned the better angels of my nature in this and a few other well-deserving instances and have wished the parasites total and other obliteration.

It is extraordinary to me that she gets away with this snake oilery and does not get called out more often by the scientific community. I realise there are so many lies and distortions that are peddled by charlatans but I find her odious as given her wealth and lifestyle, she is the archetypal harmful and parasitic…

He is such a pathetic abomination. I feel I have a relatively good gaydar so people don’t get mad at what I am about to say but watching this hateful creep I had a feeling that given his misogyny, he might be a closet case.

This is not a new or profound observation but I am continually disappointed even though I know better than to be but it strikes me every time I engage with many of these fantasy worlds portrayed in writing and/or on TV that largely only lip service is paid to diversity as well as to the visibility and empowered…