As long as we're talking the onset timepoint - the demographics support a year of 1978; there's a clear trough right there in births in the United States. It's conceivable that it's not an uncommon demographic dip throughout the world, seeing as how World War II is a synchronizing event that's clearly shared by…

I don't think you're wrong - certainly insofar as we can treat The Public as sort of a monolithic Other for our heroes to contend with. Or the soft firewall that's kept the X-Men segregated from the Marvel Universe for so long.

I've still not wholly forgiven the Marvel editorial team for not having run with the incredibly necessary vitality and immediacy that Morrison's run introduced.

So, could you perhaps more accurately describe her powerset as "Convenient Plotdevice"?

I'm with you.

Even the Children seemed to be pretty tired of putting up with him.

I give it 45% odds he's gonna try and sell the story rights at some point in the future, and it winds up becoming one of those umpteen-billion coming-of-age twink romances that seem to occupy 80% of LGBT cinema these days.

The mind reels at the surfeit of femmeslashfic opportunities that's surely floating around.

I was under the impression the whole point of a Dothraki cavalry attack was that even the swiftest scouts would have difficulty substantively outpacing them enough for the Lannisters to mount much more than even a token defense.

Chaos is a hot tub, filled with Arbor wine, in use by a team of Volantine bikini priestesses.

What, no points for Sansa Stark as Jean Grey?

For such a clear, unambiguous symbol of Targaryen might, the show has been remarkably sparing in depicting them in action. On a cinematic level, it helps maintain the shock and awe of their power for the audience. But it also helps the narrative of Dany's compassion blending with her strategic acumen.

With Dickon Tarly kvetching about the smell of dead bodies, one wonders how he was doing with all the smells of burnt hair, barbecued Lannister, and possibly some bacon.

Oh, mostly that we know he's doubting his allegiance and trust in Cersei.

I prefer not to think of it as a cliffhanger. Even if presented with the possibility, I don't think Benioff and Weiss think so poorly of their audience to not recognize metatextual symbolism at work with the final images of Jaime sinking.

On other shows, maybe I'd be using the same 'Fanservice' tag.

I'd probably place it square at this being the battle with the greatest anticipation - essentially six seasons of leading up to Dany's forces engaging the Lannisters. There's clear, unambiguous catharsis watching Dany ride into battle astride one of her children with the extensive mythologizing of the Targaryen legacy.

I'm not saying it's perfectly dichotomous; engineers still need intellectual curiosity and there are creative solutions to addressing questions in science. But I'd argue the central identities that distinguish engineering from scientific disciplines revolve around making questions central, or solutions moreso.

Social sciences are certainly on the continuum. But they're also not the same as deploying those tools to create in the way engineers do.

That's not my claim - they're thinkers, and scientists also use mechanistics routinely.