She’s already like 15 years older than the real Cleopatra was when she died tho.

Now you’ve got me all depressed because Jason Biggs is now 41, and if he got married in  2003 (the year American Wedding came out), he could plausibly have a 16-year-son who’s just exploring pies.

Yeah Gilliam is another what-happened? case — his filmography was at one point uniformly excellent, 12 Monkeys is one of my all-time favorite films, but he followed it up with a pretty good Hunter S. Thompson adaptation, and then five straight aggressively unpleasant and unwatchable train wrecks. I’ve tried to watch…

So I know that at some point in 2014, I paid good money to watch a Godzilla movie in a theater. I stayed awake the whole time, even. But I kind of tuned out after Bryan Cranston died and have absolutely no memory of there being another monster for Godzilla to fight.

So people only bear responsibility for supporting fascism if they personally cast the deciding vote, got it.

But Alec’s bad behavior is mostly limited to screaming at / occasionally punching photographers and bike messengers who clip his car. They get a nice settlement and move on with their lives.

Technically Tywin was Hand during the events of Season 2, and Tyrion was wearing the pin in his stead — it’s a significant plot point that Tyrion receives no credit for his successful defense of King’s Landing at Blackwater, even though Varys knows. The ASOIF history likely credits Tywin’s assault for turning the tide…

My issue is that if Drogon spared Jon because he understood on some level that Dany couldn’t be allowed to rule after laying waste to the city and that Jon had made a heroic sacrifice... then why did Drogon breathe fire on all those civilians?

This shot is a poor example (it’s just a cartoon dragon flapping its wings behind a plate of an actress walking against green screen), but we’re now in an era of cinema in which every element of every shot can be tweaked in post. Orson Welles was pushed to the edge of madness trying to capture the opening shot of…

Nah, she was crazy.

But what does Yara get in exchange for supporting Bran’s claim?  Under Dany, she was a queen sitting on the Salt Throne. Under Bran, she’s just another middle manager.  Sansa was granted independence with a simple head nod. They should have just dissolved the Seven Kingdoms.

Yeah, Yara’s support of Dany was contingent on Dany recognizing the Iron Islands as an independent kingdom. What made her drop that demand?

I kind of like how he’s so irrelevant to the series beyond one key moment (i.e. as the groom in the Red Wedding) that hardly anyone ever bothers to mention him. Including his relatives. He’s Arya’s biological uncle and it’s not clear that she bothers to free him from Walder Frey’s dungeon while she’s magically…

So I guess they’re never doing anything with Bran’s ability to time travel, other than that Hodor payoff, huh?

I really liked the closeup of Sansa smirking at Sam’s suggestion of democracy. If Sansa thinks it’s ridiculous, it’s not going to happen.

That was about as good as the finale could have been given the damage to the overall story that had already been done over the last few episodes. All of the loose threads and dead ends had already been proven irrelevant. The scenes between Tyrion and Jon, and Jon and Dany, were beautifully acted, and I liked the way…

Why would Varys choose a slow-acting poison? It’s established that poisons in the GoT universe are quite developed, with widely available options for a quick painless death (Olenna), a prolonged agonizing death (Oberyn/The Mountain), or anything in between (Myrcella, Joffrey).

This.

This is the issue with nearly every long-running narrative arc on the show that’s ended in the last few episodes. In the end, the Hound vs. Mountain feud didn’t amount to anything more than “they’re brothers and they hate each other.” CleganeBowl has no thematic significance to the show and basically zero …

I liked it. And this is coming from someone who thinks the fact that the Long Night ended with so little payoff to the Night King storyline retroactively ruined the entire series.