If you ever hear that a ghost writer is writing the story of Stephen King's creation of this show you should send them this joke. Because you know he smoked a bad of something at some point and made the exact sound Annalee just transcribed and about this exact point.

It's Stephen King and they're not gunslingers. You know what's going to happen.

Yes but the legend of a crafting is often a simplification of the actual event. Even if after you've sifted through all the layers of credibility the underlying truth seems to be that Balerion forged the throne all by himself the minor craftsmen, perhaps with the aid of alchemists, who did some basic work with the…

Yes but the secret rules of magic could be something so basic there don't even need to be rules of magic. For instance the known rule that rich people's psychological wellness depends on the happiness of the poor places certain constraints on what a stable, non-mad society's magic might be; similarly, exclusionary…

She must have awesome bum calluses by now though. Now I want to imagine Khal Drogo ripping off his pants to prove he's tougher than any civilized brat and sitting on the throne.

Remember when they used to have those? Back then the words actually made sense...

Yeah, that image really brings out the euphemism inherent in these names. I mean Iron Throne? I keep wanting to imagine its street name is Iron Trombone.

This has always been one of the potent images in sci fi for me, so potent I frankly hate thinking about it. It evokes the kantian sublime like a condensed tsunami— it doesn't encourage terror, it engages other hormonal responses, to face or run with logic because reflex will not save you, with logic itself reduced to…

I disagree about the magic-needs-rules thing, for the same reason that jokes occurring within the context of a larger story can make the story entertaining and emphasize certain morals, and with the same obvious constraints.

I think the swords were just placed in a rough, steep triangle. Possibly the dragon was encouraged to hollow out a space at the top, and the rough control explains the weird bend in the column from the force of that flame, but some sort of fine work, and perhaps hammering, perhaps involving younger dragons or…

This. Process is a very deep thing. Most authors are smart enough that they know what they're working towards in writing a text the way you have a sense of what the other guy probably thinks you mean when you're just having a regular conversation. They're a lot more stubborn, not dumb. So if you see something that…

I agree with you. I don't think people have been trained to make these particular sorts of sick associations nowadays.

Edit for tone: There were a lot of people writing a lot of crap back then, and TS Eliot, to be fair, played more with that sort of racist stuff than some. But if he is an "unredeemable asshole" than so were a lot of others. I guess it's not surprising, people aren't really that awesome without sufficient cause. And…

I think you're right. The real problem lies in other places, like there just not being enough different in this new movie, or coherently different. I agree with your reading but more threads needed to be woven in somehow.

Yeah its not in the culture anymore. But even T S Eliot sort of alluded to the idea in trolling his friends with porn rhymes.

As an ethnic Indian I have no problems with this. It's just a name. You just need to take a few uni courses and consider the guy of your ethnicity of choice at a bus stop to just get really tired about it. You might as well own the terms people use on you, and thereby arm and justify your own anger if they should use…

But you guys just literally pointed out all it takes is a point-by-point sensification of the plot. the giant black ape isn't a problem — I mean come on, nobody thinks "black person" when they see a gorilla anymore, right? (To be fair I don't know how crazy the US is, I don't live there.) So you just fix the other…

I have no idea what this picture is but I approve.

Then you should either be a corporate person with lobby cash or incarcerated

I'm not sure if my ears work.