Thanks for letting us all how grandly elevated your sensibilities are.
We’re all pretty impressed and are now going to take your well articulated pearls of wisdom to heart.

I... fear not. The sunglasses look to be in the next episode. And he pointedly said he was over screwdrivers a few times. “Now I’m into wearables.” Geez... that was just so tonedeaf about what makes the sonic great.

“nothing bad would ever really happen to any of them?”

Really? You don’t think that the arcs of Brienne, Jaime, Arya, or Daenerys “leaves room for the inspirationally fantastical and emotionally uplifting”?

If you acknowledge that Nolan’s work has merit outside of its grimdarkness, why call it after him? Surely if you’re not going to use the already established “grimdark” term, there’s someone more worthy than Nolan or Martin of being saddled with the responsibility.

Aside from that explanation explaining nothing, I think I got it from context.
If you’re blaming GRRM Martin for making genre Dark’n’Gritty (tm), you might as well call pop music “Swiftized.” This has been going on since before the first ASoIaF book was even published in 1996.

My point was that in Europe, where the market is more regulated, customers have it better. The Magic Hand (tm) somehow didn’t sort it all out in everyone’s best interest.

If you’re going to count MCU TV awesome fight scenes, I’m unsure how you missed Daredevil.

I agree with the sentiment entirely, but “Martining?”

I really just want to pay for what I use, and not anything else. No $20/for calls & texts, just a flat fee per MB that crosses their airwaves.
The only reason I can see that no one provides this is that, as with cable channel bundling and other services, the payment model is built to milk customers rather than pay for…

That’s the magic of a free market without co much pesky government interference!

Yeah, this was really one of the remarkable fights I’ve seen on TV.

Is that ridiculous looking thing wielding a Super Star Destroyer as a sword?

Jae Lee helped.
Jae Lee helps everything.

#5, I think, is the tip of a much larger iceberg, which is “Are the writers paying attention to the results?” Not just are they writing to the characters with the most chemistry, but are they writing to the most interesting characters, situations, ideas, and conflicts that actually appear on the screen. Does it look…

Yeah. Watched it all the time when I was a kid. Watched the first movies as a kid, too, and have rewatched as an adult.

Sounds kinda like that’s what they’re trying to do now.

Is that an Alcoholics Anonymous joke, or an African American joke?

They’re called “groupies.”
And it ain’t about relationships.

I’ll add one really basic one:
Threat assessment.