Yes! They’re lightweight felt or leather cubes, like you might see at a children’s play area. They can be moved or even thrown around easily, but a big weapon like Cloud’s isn’t well suited to cutting or smashing them. They push back, as they’re made to take abuse frok children and not hurt them. Soft but durable.…

Boaty McFloaty would clearly have been the superior name.

It’s not a historical drama in that it’s not strictly speaking historical, but Martin intentionally modeled his books off of historical fiction. (Not saying it IS historical fiction - it obviously isn’t). He’s a huge fan of historical fiction, especially set in the Middle Ages, and of the fantasy genre. He wanted to…

No. Nor were they the only Valryian house in the Westeros. There’s also the Celtigars of Claw Isle and the Velaryons of Driftmark. The Targaryens were a minor Valyrian house that only managed to escape the Doom because one of them, Daenys the Dreamer, had a prophetic dream about it. So they fled to Dragonstone.

No they weren’t. They were wiped out in a mysterious “Doom” 114 years before Aegon’s conquest of the Seven Kingdom. By the time of Robert’s Rebellion, the Valyrians had been gone for almost 400 years.

The valonqar prophecy is a book only prophecy anyway. They left it off the show.

My theory: Melisandre was The Prince That Was Promised. She was around salt and smoke constantly during her burnings, and it was ultimately the burning of Shireen that lost her favor and eventually forced her to leave to focus on a new strategy for the Great War (what this was, who knows). She arrived and pulled the…

My friend’s theory: Cersei isn’t the final boss. Cersei will be dealt with quickly like the Night King was. The big finale is going to be a war between Jon’s forces and Daenerys, with Jon caught in the middle, culminating in another Dance of Dragons. After all, there’s conveniently two dragons left, and Jon has one of…

I feel like they’ve been around forever in the books (or at least that their origin will be very different), for two reasons. One, GRRM says that his idea or them was basically “the sidhe made of ice”.
Two, the existence of the Five Forts in Yi Ti. The Five Forts are massive fortifications made from black stone that…

He didn’t even kill for four or five years. He killed for less than a year.

So we can deal with a storyline where they’re being reincarnated, which also allows for recasts. Norse mythology is cyclical, and the set-up for the Ultimate version of Thor was that Ragnarok has happened and the gods are being reincarnated on Earth. Admittedly, Ultimate Thor only got one miniseries, so they didn’t do…

The movie is set in Punete Antiguo, New Mexico. 

Word is Zack was going to kill off Wonder Woman and Aquaman instead (and Shazam didn’t figure into it at all).

Yeah, he was going to kill off the superheroes people liked to focus on another conflict between his Batman and Superman (that would then be undone by Flash time travelling, resulting in a reset). 

The fate of the Direwolves corresponds to the characters’ Stark identities. Lady is killed as Sansa turns her back on her family’s methods and becomes more Southron. Summer is killed as Bran stops being Bran and becomes the Three-eyed Raven. Nymeria runs away, as Arya eventually goes on the run and adopts a number of…

This is way better than the asinine “Bran is the Night King” theories, even though it directly contradicts the books. One of my biggest gripes with the the show’s depiction of the 3ER is that we didn’t learn anything about him or why he’s important.

It does raise the question of where the powers came from in the…

I’d say The X-Files started it - although in that case it was a series-wide myth arc rather than a new arc each season. Buffy is kind of what pioneered the structure of a network genre show for sure. Tere are probably earlier examples that are slipping my mind.

In the comics, since the ‘80s, Billy Batson has lived in Fawcett City, a nod to the publisher that owned the character before DC bought them out (before that, he was from New York).

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was probably originally planned for May 2020, but then they took that date off the calendar after Gunn was fired. 

Is she funny or something?

Seasons 3 and 4 are the high water mark of the show. The first four seasons in their entirety are great, but just so much happens in 3 and 4. It’s moment after moment after moment, the plotlines all seem at their most interesting points, and the show hasn’t thrown pacing or logic to the wind yet (the way it did after…