I thought Tommen's death was really satisfying. It was a little funny to some, but here he was, just a kid with the burden of rule placed over him, without his grandfather Tywin to guide him (which, if we're being honest, is the best possible outcome for who 'wins'). It was quick and silent and it really showed how…

For me, what made the Red Wedding is that the effects were felt everywhere in a realistic and consistent way. I can't say the same for Cersei's wildfire bomb. She blew up the Sept of Baelor - I would think every noble would flee to their holds and every peasant would be up in arms, especially after they got behind the…

Then why did he do the same with Jon Snow? Because that definitely lessened the stakes.

Isn't the point of a large ensemble show to… have lots of characters?

Does Darkseid strike you as the kind of person to care about the consequences to space-time?

They were still enemy combatants, and therefore fair game. Whereas the Doctor was not.

That was necessary. WW isn't a pacifist, but she's not an executioner, either.

That's pretty contrived. Why not just do a terminator and kill infant Diana, then? Better yet, kill infant Hippolyta.

But whenever I see people talk about it online, it's always about how the ending is heartwarming and optimistic, when I saw it as anything but.

'Just accept the fact that your life will be unhappy and deal with it. It's not that hard.'

I know I only saw Eternal Sunshine once, a long time ago, but I always thought they were headed for disaster again, and I saw the ending as underlining our tragic tendency to knowingly self-destruct.

What? She hated him. Learning to forgive someone you hate is not romantic chemistry, and the tendency of rom coms to do this is one of their worst aspects, as it creates this weird idea that people who hurt you really love you. Maybe Aang + Katara didn't really work, but there are a lot of other relationships that…

You do realise that they wrote those two to have more moments together because they were HarryxHermione shippers, right? It's kind of circular to say 'they should have ended up together as the ron romance was poorly developed', when the writers underdeveloped it on purpose.

Exactly. People don't realise that, in places like Nazi Germany, so many people ratted out neighbours to Secret Police. I guess they were distanced from the consequences of their deeds, when a person they informed on was spirited away, which made it easier, but the truth is when it comes to people like this and awful…

I don't want to get too into it as I haven't read the book and don't plan to, but that's the exact kind of myopic nonsense I'd expect from privileged 'liberals' or Trump apologists. May as well start off the book detailing all the ways both sides are just as bad as each other.

I suppose it would surprise anyone who has spent their lives convincing themselves that bad people aren't bad people because they can be courteous or even likeable at times, but at that point you basically just want to believe that your family and friends deserve a pass for what you rightly criticise those you don't…

Well, no, the selective ignorance and hypocrisy of bigots does not surprise me at all.

Same. That penultimate paragraph, especially the whole 'politically correct people are virtue signallers' took me from 'this sounds interesting' to 'Nope!'

Shakycam is just a tool. Like any tool, it can be used well, or misused, and it's often been misused. IMO Bourne used it well, it's kinda hard to argue that shakycam is bad in things like the Dogme 95 movement, or even in the other film which popularised it, Saving Private Ryan.

It's weird that shakycam, which was actually praised by many at Bourne's release, has retroactively become unbearable to many because of its frequent misuse. Kind of like the Inception horns, or pretty much any aspect of cinema which was novel and interesting but has since been overplayed. But you can't hold that…