Thank you. There’s a difference between white-washing and taking an idea and giving it a local spin. We pick up Japanese stories and the Japanese pick up both American and European stories and motifs. Neon Genesis Evangelion is full of weird spins on western myths and I never hear anyone bitch about cultural…

California has the budget to pay for its own defense—remember 5th largest economy in the world.

Printing money didn’t work so well for 1920s Germany.

Those agricultural areas have plenty of people opposing Trump—they’re not voting, but the rural poor is far from lily-white. The farmers might be red, but the people…

You’re not thinking this through. California is the largest chunk of the national economy. Trash the state (and its economy) and then who’s paying for that large military? And the military may be loyal to the country, but it’s one thing to kill Afghanis, it’s another to kill your neighbors—remember Californians count…

The Wall’s going to fall—the narrative demands it, at which point, everyone’s watch is over.

Sorry when did Dany burn her child at the stake in exchange for magical powers?

GRRM has said the ending will be bittersweet, so a few people will get some peace and there will be a chance that someone will be around to rebuild things.

In other words, Sam and Gilly will inherit the Westeros.

Yeah, I don’t know what’s going to happen with Arya, she doesn’t seem like she’ll be able to stay in a civilized world. If she survives, I wonder if she’ll go north of the Wall—well, what’s left of the Wall, since there’s no way at least part of it’s not coming down.

Ooh, I like that. Don’t know that the plot’s heading that way, but I like it.

To be fair, Cameron did write some interesting women characters—not just Sarah Connor. On the other hand, in a Hollywood that’s become all about tentpole movies, Wonder Women is a step forward.

This is how tokenism works—if there’s only one female-centered action film, so it has to be way better or it’s not good enough.

Yep. This last episode just kind of jumped the shark for me. Sansa/Arya storyline is clunky and feels forced. (Oh Bran, where are you?). The lack or warging ability on Jon’s part means all sorts of whacky stuff with the timeline. (Plus, Ghost, where are you?) Beric Dondarrian’s dead in the books and we don’t actually…

More thant that, if they’d given Jon his book warg powers they could have done it. He’d have sent his own ravens. In fact, if Martin does do something similar in the books, that’s how he’ll do it.

Though the whole let’s go find a wight thing was really clunky. At this point, I can watch and think—-DD writing and then,…

Nope. Not nearly the diversity of industry and agriculture. Texas relies on military money for a chunk of its economy. Much harder border to defend as well.

But Californians account for a large percentage of the armed forces (even larger than its population would dictate.) And if we’re starving, the rest of the country is as well since it’s the American vegetable and fruit basket—and the inland needs ports.

Occupation’s a challenge. California has mountains circling most of it. You could roll tanks through the southland. The north would be harder.

Yep, given the ending, I’ll be very curious how there’s a sequel.

Voice work in WoT is amazing—weird, but just right.

Well, only if you don’t understand what she was doing.

Wimps. No wonder they identify with history’s losers. Thing is, they’re so damn dumb that they don’t even realize that.

Well, I cut D&D some slack because last week was really awesome and the earlier episodes this season have been good.

But, yes, this episode mostly suck—just felt like they were moving around chess pieces and the scenes that should have been more than that were just kind of eh.

I figure the Gang of Seven was assembled so…

Could be a reference to Drogon, I suppose.

Really? Because I hear a hell of a lot of whining from Bernie Bros. Guess it depends which side you’re on. But the argument’s hardly been one-sided.