Yeah my brother became a standup a few years ago and I can relate a bit to what Evan is saying. But if that was the writer’s intent, the episode isn’t structured properly to make this point. The Nanjiani character’s personal life is barely fleshed out except for his girlfriend, and her mentor who may or may not be…

I thought it was interesting that the original Twilight Zone, despite being totally groundbreaking and like nothing that had aired on TV before, generally trusted audiences to get the premise in a very short period of time. Usually before Rod Serling showed up a few minutes in. In almost every way television has…

You can kind of see what they’re trying to do by giving Jon the same fatal character flaw as Ned and Robb (i.e. a basic inability to predict the actions of dishonorable people), but the point should be that unlike his dad/uncle and brother/cousin, Jon *learns*. At some point after Thorne and Olly conspired to stab…

There’s no way Snyder turned in a releasable final cut with finished effects work. On most tentpole movies the effects houses are still turning in finished effects shots up until a few weeks before release, and we know from the Cavill-stache debacle that Whedon reworked most of the third act. Snyder likely assembled a…

In hindsight I find it extremely annoying that so much of Jon Snow’s subsequent arc revolves around his highly legalistic interpretation of the Night’s Watch vows.

My reading is that Shae actually did love Tyrion, and gradually realized that he was more in love with his status as a powerful highborn insider (operating alongside other insiders who largely mock and despise him), which is something she can’t respect or understand. She viewed his marriage to Sansa as a betrayal and…

The problem with the Battle of Castle Black getting the full-episode Helms Deep treatment is that very little of the series status quo changes as a result of this battle. The Nights Watch supposedly drops in numbers from about 100 to about 50, but since there are fewer than a dozen Crow characters to start with, most…

My understanding was that Qyburn healed the Mountain using unnatural methods, and the result of those methods is that he looks and acts like a zombie, but that the Mountain never actually died from the poison. I don’t think he’s a Beric or Jon Snow risen-from-the-dead type person, meaning that Tyrion definitively lost…

And at this point Jamie has barely begun to spar left-handed with Bronn. He doesn’t actually get into a real swordfight until he sneaks into Dorne in the following season, and even then he looks really shaky fighting (taking forever to dispatch one redshirt guard while Bronn cuts down like five of them).

I’ve completely tuned out of The Walking Dead, mostly because right around Negan’s introduction, it becomes clear that there’s no point to any of this, because there’s no endgame — new survivors are introduced, they struggle, they die a horrible death. The zombies can never just go away. Even if they did, the…

The rules seem to be:

Yeah it’s kind of bunk — the odds of tossing a coin six times in a row and having it land heads every time is 1.56%. So those were the odds of all six OG Avengers surviving the snap.

The weird thing about Season 6 is that every major character has a huge transformative journey (especially in the case of Jon Snow — he starts the season dead, gets better, and finishes the season as King in the North), but the characters essentially teleport from their beginning point to end point without any logical…

That’s kind of the genius of Ned’s plan. On the show, it’s made clear that many noblemen suspect that Jon isn’t really Ned’s bastard (Stannis tells Melisandre that Jon can’t be the son of some tavern wench because “it wasn’t Ned’s way,” and Littlefinger has a similar comment). The story is always a little flimsy…

In Seinfeld they didn’t really separate or move away — Jerry, George and Kramer all served their year in jail together, and I think the four of them will be right back where they started after their release. 

I do think it’s an issue that the attack at the Fist of the First Men mostly happens off-screen between seasons due to budgetary issues. As much as it’s reasonable to complain about the plot/logic issues around the execution of the Battle of the Bastards and the Wight Hunt, at least they show it all onscreen.

Like Snow and Dany’s pointless and foolhardy incursion into the north which wound up costing them a dragon.

The real issue seems to be that as the series got more popular, HBO started lavishing Lord of the Rings-money for more CGI and extras and bigger sets, but for whatever reason they weren’t comfortable with the longer episode orders that would have been needed to draw the show to a stronger conclusion.

I get that, but it’s only relevant if Dany ends up on the Iron Throne at the end of the last episode. In any other scenario, it kind of won’t matter how she learned to rule in Essos.

Binging through the whole series, it’s pretty remarkable how much time Daenerys spends sitting around on silly irrelevant side quests. When you’re watching that stuff through the first time, it seems like maybe the Essos plotlines will introduce new characters and situations that will impact everyone back on Westeros.…