I wanted you to know that I saw your last line and I appreciated it.

Ladies and gentlemen, Jenny Nicholson:

There’s a very good reason why that waterfall date felt as hollow as a lakeside date in Naboo...

Hopefully once this is over, they can get to one of my favorite single comic images of all time:

Which is the real post tho? You’ll just have to wait for Kinja: SQLDatabaseCleanUp to find out.

I felt better about that lovemaking sneakiness after rewatching Season 7. I think there’s a good chance it ties into his desire for Dany to have an heir, or at least the appearance of one. Tywin wanted evidence of Sansa and Tyrion makin’ babies, and Tyrion sure is his father’s son. 

Reading GoT discussions reminds me of LOST fan discussions as the series approached the end. Its a mixture of nostalgia over the early seasons, disappointment over growing plot confusion, clinging to obscure details, and fear it may all end in an extravagant absurdist mess on par with a Peter Jackson film.

Nice job. Both insightful (quite so), and you kept it under 20 minutes! Brevity in podcasts is underrated!

No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative! It gets the people GOING!

I just finished The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrasco, and can’t recommend it enough.  Historical fiction about an undercover Pinkerton agent investigating illicit opium trafficking in the Pacific Northwest.  Just a lot of fun, I’d call it a high-quality beach read.

I started Charles Cross’ biography of Kurt Cobain, Heavier Than Heaven, coincidentally on the 25th anniversary of his death. Or not totally coincidentally; I bought it a couple of months ago and decided to hang onto it for a while, but I certainly hadn’t planned to start it that night. It was good, but it made me feel…

This was my least favorite MCU movie... partly because of the title. It should have been called 3 Days of Ultron or something.

So I’m reading Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman and Winner Takes All by Anand Giridharadas.

Well, per Goodreads, I’ve already had a pretty varied April, with these being the ones that I’ve finished:-

They were both shown in the crowd briefly, though it didn’t look like they were standing together.

(FWIW, kinja no longer will let me be “Clueless Neophyte”, which had been my AVC handle since 2008.  I used to be on here a lot, but that tapered off a while ago, & with the switch to kinja pretty much petered out…

John Bradley was far and away the acting standout for this episode. Terrific work from him in the scene with Daenerys and Jorah.

Thanos to Sheeran: “Wait, I Snapped half the universe and you survived? Man, I dropped the ball there.”

All in all, I thought it was a decent if workmanlike episode, but I’m again frustrated that the writers insist on doubling down on their dumbest creative decisions. The main example this week: Euron Greyjoy. He is the absolute worst, most tedious villain the series has ever attempted, with a characterization that’s…

There’s an Irish movie called “The Guard” that he’s in which he actually gets to be an interesting bad guy..

Europe in the middle ages, and or medieval styled fantasy is just something I could never get into. Compared with the renaissance, age of discovery, enlightenment, Napoleonic wars, etc., it just seemed kind of dull and depressing. I suspect that 90% of the romance behind it is people reading/role playing and imagining…