I literally did my dissertation on White Bear (and almost Shut up and Dance) and massively agree with you. They’re perhaps the most confrontational and complex episodes of the series - and that’s why they work. Saying that they have no moral centre is absolutely ridiculous - just because it doesn’t exist in the world…

I was quite enjoying it, but this is the episode that put me into the really enjoying it camp. It’s structures and general pacing feel really weird and stretched across 6 hours... but this episode is what the entire show should have been. I know that that’s the book’s structure, multiple narratives running alongside…

Calling it now - Guillermo will kill one of the original New Zealand three or four vampires next year.

It just occurred to me... Tyrion spent a while formulating the plan in his cell, and Bran can see across the realm. Of course that’s why he knows Tyrion’s idea before he arrived - not because he can see the future, but because he can see Tyrion. 

I think a lot of the criticism for the “execution” isn’t really about this season - but the show in general. The entire series has framed Dany as the perfect american fantasy hero - a badass bitch who takes no shit, and brutally kills her obviously evil enemies, and if some people who don’t deserve it get hurt in the…

God I find contemporary fandom to be the worst. Just try to like the thing! Obviously you can’t make yourself like something, but don’t try and ruin it on the rest of us! They’re just so unkind to the text and to the people making the work... It’s so frustrating. There are too many bad fans these days, and it makes me…

I mean... the break the wheel talk was always just talk. Stopping the cycle of rulers is like, exactly what Emperor Palpatine wanted to do in Star Wars - it’s just as wrong as the alternative, if not worse.
Dany’s always wanted to rule - it’s there since the start. She didn’t want to break the wheel for the people -…

I don’t think this was a turn for Daenerys, rather a reveal of who she really truly is. It was always her advisors that held her back - she even recognised this. Her instincts were always towards spreading fear, “burning cities to the ground”. That was her choice for King’s Landing from last episode, but she waited…

Do we think Guillermo is headed down the path of the Vampire Hunter? There’s a 2 vampire kill count now!

On that final note; doesn’t that mean that they’ll actually be less sadness?? She won’t have lived five years unsure of what happened to Peter, living in the aftermath of her almost-son being snapped...

It’s not a speech specifically about her suffering from Ramsay - it’s about all her suffering, from Joff to Littlefinger to Cersei herself. It’s weird how our cultural conversation allows for the implication that your trials make you stronger, but that it’s a conversation not allowed around issues of sexual assault. I…

One thing I have to say, that every outlet is getting wrong - Wights don’t shatter! They utterly collapse, as if the forces inhabiting their bodies go out in a blink. And all wights change eye colour too! 

And I very much hope that no one did.

“The decision is all the more confounding when you consider that it’s likely meant to motivate Daenerys’ shift into unrepentant monster, but by robbing Dany of another one of her few loved ones—especially in such a short time span—D&D have actually made her more tragic.”
She’s not meant to be an unrepentant monster,…

It was an incredibly public Parlay - even evil queens have their limits, especially with half the mainlands of Westeros in the Red Keep. Remember, Cersei’s second biggest threat is a riot...

That “The Night’s King” sounds an awful lot like the Westworld score...

I mean... it was a horror episode. You’re not SUPPOSED to see everything in a horror. It’s disorientating and terrifying. I loved the opening where the army of the dead was just... dark. 

*2024 cap ;)

No, I think it’s them searching for the 2014, pre-character development Gamora

Doctor Strange is the opposite of most MCU films, in that the second half is noticeably better than it’s first. It takes way too long to get into the swing of it, but once the world is established, it’s a film that keeps getting better.