Ben Solo isn’t a Skywalker tho. It would be The Rise of Solo if that was how the title was meant to be read. His mom was raised with the last name Organa, so he isn’t even a Skywalker in that sense. 

At some point Sansa and Arya and maybe Bran had an offscreen conversation about “Maybe that creepy guy Littlefinger who’s always lurking in the shadows isn’t entirely on the level,” right? Like, there’s no way Arya thought she was really on trial before Sansa did her heel turn, right?

My issue is, how was the Night King planning to get across the Wall if there hadn’t been any dragons within javelin-throwing distance? Did he have a plan B, or was this threat entirely contained unless someone flew overhead with a dragon? Because it seems like kind of a long shot.

What would it even mean if they did a smash cut from Lyanna’s baby (whom Ned has agreed to raise in secret) to an adult Jon Snow? Like, this would only even be explainable if a later flashback showed Ned handing off the baby to someone else and then having an affair with a tavern wench on the way back from Dorne.

After the earlier standoff between the Faith Militant and the Mountain, maybe Lancel is scurred and looking for any excuse to avoid trying to kidnap Cersei by force when, you know, the Mountain is there.

I kind of like how the Starks “easily” take back Winterfell after four full seasons of being without their ancestral home. From the first episode onward, nothing has gone right for the Starks, who get beheaded, stabbed, kidnapped, exiled, blinded, killed and resurrected, raped, kidnapped by tree people, and so on.…

Maybe the private equity firm is run by a guy who greatly prefers Discqus!

We tend not to discuss this post-2012-Avengers, but the first slate of MCU movies is kind of weak. Iron Man and Cap are both great, and then you’ve got three of the worst MCU entries in Hulk, Thor and Iron Man 2. Makes sense that the early articles in this series would be so critical. The MCU doesn’t really hit its…

This is an issue with nearly every Tony Stark appearance. Loki literally stands around and watches him take off a broken suit and mix a drink before a new suit is ready. It continues up through Infinity War when Tony does a lot of monologuing with alien invaders before putting the suit on. I get that they want as much…

Nah. Sweetrobin has barely appeared on the show for years. He would have accompanied Littlefinger to Winterfell if he was going to be a major player in the endgame.

It would seem that Jon’s trueborn/bastard status is much less important than the biological fact of R+L=J.

It seems to be a common saying in Westeros. Mance says it to Jon before he’s burned, and Jon says it to Daenerys before going off on the wight hunt.

One amazing thing about this column was watching us go from 1989, in which the runner-up to Burton’s Batman is Dolph Lundgren’s unwatchable Punisher movie and there was no real #3, to 2018, in which there are half a dozen different movies that would have made a 1989 comic book fan’s head explode.

But as far as the show is concerned, he lays on a slab for two episodes and then he’s running around executing traitors and leading armies. There appear to be no lasting consequences for Jon, except now he has a badass scar where he was stabbed in the heart. I think they actually could have done something to show that…

I think Qyburn has a certain underdog element, as with all of the social climbers on the show who aren’t born into great houses and therefore have to cheat to ascend in the very narrow Westerosi social hierarchy. This is a society with almost no upward mobility for 99% of the population, so it’s hard to judge these cli…

She’s so much more powerful than Iron Man tho.  Why would she need a metal suit when she can fly in outer space without a spaceship?

What’s weird is that they keep implying that Show-Hizdahr is the secret mastermind of the Sons of the Harpy. He’s given tons of motivation to hate Dany and they keep giving him suspicious reaction shots, to the point that on a recent rewatch I forgot he was loyal and thought he had been revealed to be in on it. It’s…

The character logic is rushed (it should take more than a two minute scene to convince someone as strong-willed as Stannis to burn his daughter), but Melisandre lays out the case for sacrificing Shireen. In her visions, Stannis must sit on the Iron Throne before the Long Night starts. The Long Night is about to start.…

He sacrifices his relationship by accident, when he wishes away the mentor figure who encouraged his girlfriend to become a lawyer. From his point of view, he’s wishing away a nuisance who sexually threatened him. He isn’t trying to harm his girlfriend.

Yeah I get that he’s being overly literal, and it bothers me. It’s a monastic order. All members take the vows to renounce any allegiance to family past, present and future in service of the greater good of watching the Wall. The clear intent of the vows is that once you take the black, there’s no rejoining your past…