I don’t really see any hostility in his remark. I think he’s just noting the novelty of supposedly non-superhero movie during a time when every blockbuster being made seems to be a superhero movie. I love how much comic book content is being produced these days, and even I still want to see some more variety.

Not sure if it was an intentional affect or not, but I really enjoyed how confused the Stranger was about how fire burns paper, in contrast to his fire which is just prestidigitation or whatever. The dude always looks completely befuddled by everything though, so it might have been incidental. I’m definitely even less…

For a Neil LaBute movie this doesn’t sound THAT unbearable

Don’t forget that it’s ableist to prefer not to have your leg amputated!

Also, since books are from Claire’s perspective, she didn’t see any outright queer people. They couldn’t be out. So, no. Claire didn’t see any Pride Parades in the town square.

right now it’s 85-percent courtly machinations

Calling the original subtle in comparison to this is a little reductive. I mean, this show directly deals with a woman taking the throne. The original didn’t, as the women who took power in the original stayed in their lanes the entire time (I can’t remember what happened after Tommen killed himself, I think Cersei…

I *do* think Hightower wanted Alicent to fuck the king - I just don’t think she had it in her to try and do so (which, in the long run, was the right move even if she didn’t intend it as such). 

My fave (not fave) was when the Outlander reviewer incessantly complained that a historical romance series for middle-aged women that dates from 1990 didn’t have enough queer representation.

“It’s been half a year since Viserys named his daughter Rhaenyra his heir, but she’s still only a cupbearer at the Small Council meetings. I’m pretty sure a male heir to the Iron Throne wouldn’t be forced to serve as a glorified waiter, but, again, Westeros gonna Westeros.”

Her father has her as his cupbearer so she’s…

I got into this episode more than the first one. It was refreshing for this type of show to eschew action and violence and tell a character-based story. Sure, you could say they didn’t do anything new with the story and dialogue, but I was involved because of the actors, especially Paddy Considine, and the breakout…

Even so, people can eye fuck each other and not end up consummating their relationship for any number of reasons. Like that he’s her uncle.

If you look at it as a TV adaptation, the ur-text for it might be the many, many, BBC/Masterpiece histories of British royalty, whose factual outlines are very well-known but whose details are not uppermost in even UK viewers’ minds.

I always loved Cersei since day one. Her rage was palpable and justified, and you didn’t need to see inside her pathos to understand where it was stemming from (Blackwater is when she lays out her cards for us). To me she became cartoonish much later in the series (along with everyone else).

To me he looks like the Doctor in a knowingly shit disguise.  I’m going to go into every episode half expecting him to punch a cyberman in the dick or whatever and then run away giggling while ripping his wig off.

In the first couple of episodes noone gave a shit about Robb, Jon or Daenerys but you just knew Arya was going to turn into a pocket badass and Tyrion was an absolute joy whereas his siblings were total pantomime villains - cartoonish but entertaining. The intro with the White Walkers and the sheer size of the Wall als…

Yet, for the next 3,000 years after they were built, almost nothing changed in Egypt except for the “huge pyramids are too expensive, so let’s not build them anymore” thinking.

Yeah there's a notable difference in the century directly after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and the era of Charles Martel, but you know, it's not as stark as say, the Viking Age vs the War of the Roses.

Bogosian’s abused/abuser commentary is pretty heavy-handed, but IIRC Lestat was manipulative as hell and Louis didn’t help his situation by being such a mope.

That Louis’s self-pitying version of events was very one-sided was the whole charm of the subsequent books. I don’t know why “retcon” has become a synonym for simply writing.