Telling your own jokes is 1000x easier than trying to tell someone else's joke as if it's your own.

Rationales like this always bother me because they smack of people who now have their heads shoved firmly up their own asses.

Yeah, I don't think Weiss and Benioff are really interested in political or philosophical revolutions either, so we might end up with something that looks vaguely like a Democratic government, no matter how ludicrous that end result is.

I have no idea what breaking the wheel really looks like. Is is a republic? Because, I mean, Essos is full of republics and Essos seems, if anything, even more of a miserable place to live for the majority of the people than Westeros.

None of them really seem to be catching on though.

Since they measure traffic solely by clicks, that doesn't matter to them. To them, someone who spends 10 seconds scanning a headline is just as valuable as someone who spends a couple of hours here talking about the show or whatnot.

I typically don't comment on Ryan Murphy shows. Like I said somewhere else recently, I think it's pretty much a waste of my time to comment on things I just absolutely don't like. I still comment on Game of Thrones because 6 seasons have invested me in these characters, but that doesn't mean I like the direction…

Yes, that is correct, but it is based on incomplete, partial information.

Well, we're moving into the area of book theory versus show theory. I will say that those theories are dubious at best, because there's never been any established evidence in the books that any Targs ever married any Lannisters. If we were to try to go down the matrilneal path, there would be people with much…

I agree that Ellaria Sand's takeover of Dorne was even more ludicrous than Cersei's. I mean, if they'd made it clear that Cersei was just imposing her will through nothing but sheer force of arms instead of undercutting with scenes of people cheering for her, I might have bought it, but they didn't. However, Dorne…

That's not true. Primogeniture confers no claim to a title to the mother of a sitting ruler.

Yeah, that's still stupid. They've consistently characterized Arya as being a bull-in-a-china-shop. Why would she stop now? Nobody likes Littlefinger. If she wanted to off him, just do the Faceless routine and off him. No one would be the wiser and after a week or so, no one would even mourn. That's the…

The fact that they all found the fast travel button at the same time isn't the thing that's the most preposterous for me. The thing that is most preposterous for me is that the fact that someone straight up murdered the equivalent of the pope, the entire university of cardinals, most of the higher nobility of the…

Well, Beric could be wrong. I doubt he would be wrong, because they've reached the point in the narrative where suddenly most of the speculation by the characters inexplicably suddenly become right, but he could still be wrong.

Well, given the time frame on how these things works, you'd be looking at the next threat coming after a time period rivaling that of all recorded human history, so it wouldn't exactly be an exigent threat in the way it might be in other types of stories.

He didn't used to be. I haven't see anything he's done since probably the Bush re-election cycle, but his persona used to mainly just be 'smug dick,' meaning he occasionally did say things that were dryly amusing, even if the majority of it was dickish.

-shrugs-

Their crimes really aren't petty when you think about them, but the shows have done a seriously dreadful job of demonstrating what the real ramifications of those crimes have been on a large scale. Only with Madame Gao have they tried and even with her, they soft-pedaled the real human toll her super-heroin would…

I suppose so, but the Netflix Marvel shows have had a habit since the very beginning of making people out to be a lot more powerful than they really turn out to be.

Yeah, the writing in the Defenders also seriously managed to undercut The Chaste, who were built up in a sort of mysterious way in the Daredevil series, but then all died ignominious off-screen deaths in this series and the last of whom served to be only props for the subsequently-quickly-resolved 'Luke Cage speaking…