I don’t think there is a good Western equivalent for a shinigami though. A grim reaper? But I don’t know, Ryuk is too iconic. Also that was the best part of that shitty movie, Willem Dafoe did great in that role.

Hey, I’m all for being super petty and difficult about the actual major shortcomings in GoT! Like the fact the Waif became the terminator at the end of that stupid Braavos arc. By comparison, mechanics of undead dragon flight seems like a pretty esoteric hill to die on.

I mean if you want to be petty, zombie dragons are almost always depicted in D&D with their wings in tatters, and they retain their fly ability unless they’re skeletons. Another work-around is: the holes didn’t occur after zombification. :)

I mean, I appreciate that you’re looking for internal consistency in the magic. That’s an important facet of good fantasy. All I’m saying is that the heavily-decayed wights moving around makes the undead dragon flying with holes in its wings a pretty easy sell for me. The parameters of what reanimation can and can’t…

Again, you seem to have no problem with the tendonless, muscle-decayed wights walking around and swinging swords. This is also “physics-breaking.” At the end of the day it’s fantasy we’re talking about, dude.

I agree with you. That entire arc left a bad taste in my mouth, because it just felt like a very amateurish fake-out of the audience. Like, a really old-fashioned bait and switch.

One thing that I do hope for is that they explain how the Night’s King knew to begin marching and predict correctly that he would get an ice dragon to cross the Wall. Was he a greenseer? Was it fated? Otherwise, the entire “bring home a wight” nonsense is like the worst plan of all time, because it literally sets the…

I think it’s reasonable to say that the reanimation amplifies their natural movements. Maybe the wights can jump high and hit hard, but they won’t sprout wings.

The Bran “I know everything except when I don’t” thing actually does make some sense though— he can see everything, but that doesn’t mean he knows what’s important in context and what he should focus on. That’s why it’s important, for eg., for Sam to nudge him in the direction of Rhaegar and Lyanna’s wedding. He could…

“Low-budget” is becoming less and less of an excuse to produce a good movie these days. And Death Note in particular is a story that doesn’t need to rely on flashy effects to be successful. Generating Ryuk should be the most expensive part of the movie.

They had a great opportunity to play with the concept of Light’s character as a privileged, popular teen, since it doesn’t really translate well as-is from Japan’s “straight-A, straight-laced bishonen high school student.”

As a Latino person, I always preach up and down about the lingering effects of European colonialism on Latin America. It’s a fucking disease. The standard of beauty throughout Central and South America is extremely European-oriented,. Indigenous features and brown skin are generally regarded as ugly or socially…

I suppose the Shivering Sea drops off in depth extremely rapidly (hence the walkers not chasing after Jon at Hardhome) and if the wights sink like stones for a couple leagues, they’re effectively gone for good. Bit of a different scenario from being able to clamber out of a shallow frozen pond.

Without spoiling it, they do explain it in a way that, in a much much better movie, would have actually been kind of clever.

Westerosi legends tell of ice dragons whose cold breath freezes men as quickly as dragonflame melts them

It does mean not being completely in the dark once in a while.

I wasn’t talking about Sansa staying alive or not, I’m talking about Sansa knowing what’s going on.

It would be a pity if Sansa still doesn’t have any agency after all this time, as her entire arc has been paying with blood and tears to become better at “the game.” There has to be some satisfying poetic justice of Sansa finally outfoxing LF after seasons of mentorship.

I don’t think there were ulterior motives at the time— Kim K just seems like the kind of person who’s savvy enough to record a convo b/w Kanye and a huge recording artist like T Swift. Say what you want about that family, but they live and breathe the media game.

Let’s call it like it is. Most Swifties are basic white girls who took it personally that someone who looks like Kim K, with a black husband, buried their alabaster princess. And for the longest time they couldn’t say SHIT, they just had to take it. They really only needed the barest glimmer of a T-Swift comeback to…