A much better episode than the first two. And Daenerys is succeeding in losing an unlosable war.

According to Jewish history, they are complete strangers who just replaced the former Israelites deported by the Assyrians.
According to Samaritan history, they are the real Israelites who never left.
According to archeology and genetics, the reality is in the middle, they are a mix between Israelites and the people who…

No, the Samaritans are a mix between the Israelites that were not deported and other people who were deported to Samaria. In fact many maybe most Israelites from the Northern Kingdom just fled to the South and became Jews. The lost tribes, mainly the elites from the northern kingdom, probably disappeared or were…

I agree that they are among the lamest and most uninteresting characters and the actors are really bad and have no charisma. Grey Worm really does not look at all like a professional soldier even less like someone groomed from childhood to be a killer.

I have read the book and it is not suggested at all but in the imaginations of a few fans.

Tyrion is not a Targaryen. There is not a chance in the world. That's the most stupid theories of them all and that's not an easy feat.

The same way you can train to be a Jedi, leave before the end and retain all the powers without being a Jedi.

Yes I am Israeli. Jews are a people with its religion. Like ancient Greeks or ancient Egyptians. But even American Jews do not always understand that.

"Judaism had, for a while, three main branches, and now four: Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, and Orthodox"

Does the movie explains the difference between hasidim and other ultra-orthodox non-hasidim ashkenazi Jews - what they call yeshivist I think or in Israel "Lithuanian"? The hasidim are very very weird even for other ultra-orthodox Jews, they can even be considered as cults, each hasidic "court" and his ways and…

The Lady Stoneheart ship sailed a few seasons ago already.

I have no love for the MCU and do not watch these movies, but I just saw the trailer and the "I know him from work" line was hilarious.

The relationship between them was entirely created by the actors and not the writers, at least originally.

Yes that's exactly what I am saying.

"imagining an America where black people are still slaves is really only an exaggerated deviation from the present"

The Prestige, by far.

Of course the typical pseudo-cinephile has to be condescendant and patronizing. Puting Apichatpong Weerasethakul who appears to be an obscur Thai director among a list of world famous directors really gives us an idea of the kind of guy you are.
Anyway, first I was speaking of *today*, not the last 50 years, people who…

The Prestige is a masterpiece of genius and one of the few adaptations that is much better than the book.

He is one of the best directors today. And The Prestige is one of the best movies of the last 20 years.

Yes it is.
Now what really happened: a Lannister force on Dragonstone would have necessitated to stage a siege and they did not want to do that in the first episode of the season, they wanted to show the return of Daenerys to Dragonstone as a coming back home, it was visually powerful and that ultimately trumps any…