I agree that the extortion plot didn’t ring true at all.

I find it tough to believe that Larry would actually face any significant liability from a burglar dying on his property by drowning in a pool that lacks code compliant fencing. And Larry could presumably figure that out if he has a quick discussion with an…

An Occam’s Razor hypothesis here is that he understands that his daughter has a, let’s say, significantly less than 100% level of veracity.

Expanding on Robot_Jox’s point: applying a bit of realism, the hack as depicted wouldn’t get more than a small fraction (something like single digit percent) of even the net worth of Deus Group members.

Well, I think the concern - or trend being discussed - is total baseball attendance being down about 9% from 2015, plus a relatively old fanbase by certain measures (e.g., median age of TV viewers). I don’t think it’s about trying to get near 100% of seats filled on average at baseball stadiums, which has never really…

With all due respect, that promotion/relegation idea would be a hot mess for baseball.

The attendance by team stats don’t back up point (1). Just under half of the teams (14 out of 30) have average home attendance over 30,000 this year ( http://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance ).

“This hasn’t been Game Of Thrones’ finest season by any metric, yet it’s far from the disaster some make it out to be.”

I agree with your second point.

IIRC, we’ve heard close to nothing about the Riverlands since Arya killed Walder Frey and all of his adult sons at the end of Season 6 / beginning of Season 7. I think that Cersei and Jaime mentioned these deaths once in the first or second episode of Season 7, but they’ve never been discussed at all at Winterfell.…

Those are fair points, and I agree with your complaint about Cersei. As I think about it, it points out something of a problem in Seasons 7 and 8. This

Enlighten me then. What was he doing?

That is also a very fair question, particularly since Bronn is walking around with a crossbow.

I’m really waiting for her to get Euron. He’s at sea, at the helm of his ship. Suddenly Arya flies from the sky and stabs him.

Legitimizing Gendry is also an odd decision because it doesn’t merely make him Lord of the Stormlands. He’s Robert Baratheon’s son, so it also gives him a claim to the Iron Throne.

Cersei has been presented as *exactly* the sort of person who would ignore the rules governing a parlay when she has the ability right in front of her to take out Daenerys and her advisors, including Tyrion.

Well, clearly Cersei is restrained by honor. She’s only the woman who blew up the Great Sept of Baelor - killing thousands - and who later reneged on her promise to send her army north.

And did you watch the “Inside the Episode” at the end? Benioff actually said “Dany sort of forgot about the Iron Fleet.”

“Bronn is the canniest of all the menfolk, successfully bargaining his way to lording over Highgarden, assuming Cersei is defeated.”

It’s a massive problem for the whole lore of this world.

You make good points, but it’s sadly not a new one as Benioff and Weiss struggle through the ending of this show.