As a gay man who worked in the Valley but live in SF (well, Fremont), absolutely the two are not the same in regards to their attitudes to the LGBTQ community. Lip service, maybe…

…and the soon to be revealed irony that the fridge is the backdoor Dinesh's hacker ex uses to own Anton, and then the new company.

A lot of the revisionist "fuck them" I hear lately is a result of their 4 year 'retirement'.

So, not really seeing the stats, maybe I missed them. How many d6 is crucio? And what kind of save is avada kedavra?

It's all about where you are. Yeah, it's gonna be harder in NYC than OKC. Which is pretty much true of any profession - like real estate, location is the key factor setting the job market.

I don't think there is a "both ways", just a rhetorical device to "win". The classic purposeful obfuscation evoking the notion of equality without considering equity (c.f. "You'd call me racist if I said White Lives Matter!" or "Men can be victims of domestic violence!" or any number of popular false equivalencies).

Because your "having it both ways" point is disingenuous, facile bullshit? And it will always lead back to that, right or wrong, because you've decided that's the 'logical' gotcha of the argument that guarantees Zod's victory.

Why do you think so many of them are set in pre-cell eras? It's not nostalgia (Stranger Things aside), because set design and props for the proper vintage look aren't cheap.

Oberyn and Jon Snow, I think.

For sure. The High Sparrow was the Dagobah Cave of characters.

Darth Vader

Doesn't matter when they were born. He's a man.

Well, for all we know that scene could have happened before the Battle of the Bastards since there's no reference point (other than the linear scene chronology)

And it would fit in with the show's Cersei as Richard III vibe.

This was written before Jaime was removed from the Kingsguard and returned to being the heir of House Lannister. Technically, he is next in line (assuming the rest of the logic holds true)

and his corpse was probably in pretty bad shape

I think the twist is he survives the battle; everyone is pissed, but it re-twists and Sansa kills him in episode 10

I completely agree with the structure change part of that - that is, moving to a conventional narrative. There are some comments about GRRM's writing and subverting fantasy tropes and whatever, but at some point…he has to end the series. I can't imagine it ending on "everyone you liked dies" or having the story be…

Overall, I agree, they loved to milk it, but I imagine there was (and maybe is) still some desire to do so in deference to the books. But I don't it's 'continuing' - they've done a lot less of it this season than before (we see the Waif's face, characters tell us Stannis and the Blackfish are dead). I mean, if…

Stannis wasn't given a death scene because they were under the impression that the next book would be out, and they figured they'd leave it to GRRM. However, the next book didn't come out (and may never), so they just moved on.