The most savage murder will be when Becky tells Regina, “I love that you feel brave enough to wear anything!”

My thing is that when the show starts to rely too much on the audience filling in these ambiguous logical gaps with their “head-canon”, it’s a fundamental failure of the show.

Can you add “white The Root readers” and “white women who make sure to let you know they watch Insecure” to the Reba archetypes? Just to really set things ablaze.

Ok the chains I’m 100% with you on. Where did they come from?!

It would be hilarious if they replaced him with straight-up Chris Hemsworth for the final stretch. “Here’s your handsome Rhaegar, nerds!!!”

He kinda weirded me out as Daario, to be honest. That weird Amish girl wig was not doing him any favors. Replacing him with a generic beardy fuccboi (no offense to Michiel Huisman) felt about right.

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.