I still think one or more of the cast refused to sign on past season 8

Exactly!

Especially counter-intuitive since it came out that HBO wanted them to do at least 10 episodes of the last season and basically gave Benioff and Weis carte blanche to end it however they wanted. I think those guys got distracted by the prospect of doing a Star Wars trilogy which, I think, went up in flames b/c GOT…

Hubris, I think. They were white-hot at the time and wanted to move on to other projects (HBO even offered to throw god knows how much money at them if they stayed). I’ll grant that there were many who didn’t like the ending, but I agree that the seeds were planted and it wasn’t totally out of the blue— my sense is…

He has said its the same ending, a broadly similar ending with variations for some characters, and now it mostly won't be similar.  Pick one George.  Oh whatever it doesn't matter he'll never finish the series.  Its like asking for the meaning of life at this point. 

Another item to add to the “Things R R Martin says that won’t be followed through on” me thinks.

I was a huge fan of the first 3 books when they came out, and even enjoyed the parts of A Feast for Crows where it really delved deep into how fucked the common people were because of the war (even if it was kind of a retread of the Jamie chapters of Storm of Swords), but Dance with Dragons pretty much solidified my…

If the books never come out then they cant end the same way as the show.

and was replaced with another left leaning judge. Is this person fucking crazy, or just being intentionally stupid to serve his own purp--oh, right, nevermind.

“Not wrong, though.”

Alright, the tankies have weighed in.

I don’t know where these people get the idea that they can peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances.

He’s kinda being religious while in the “wrong” group. If you’re accepting an award at the CMAs, it’s okay to thank God. If you’re black and accepting an award (that’s statistically pretty rare, I know), it’s okay to thank God. But Pratt is a young white guy in Hollywood who’s probably religious despite what he says,…

i’ve never really understood this critique of him? Are there many churches who’s stances on LGBTQ+ people are not super behind the times? Is he the only actor in hollywood who goes to church? Because going to church and cosigning all the backwards beliefs of christianity are two very different things, and pretending…

I never understood the group consensus that Chris Pratt represents some specific Evangelical evil. It sounds like his church operates that way at an organizational level, but HE strikes me as a kind of “apolitical centrist” type: complacent with his privilege (which certainly sucks, to be fair), but not actively…

The past 6 days are all you really need to digest in order to know about the future of the US. It’s finished. It’s done. First, we have a liberty taken away from us (yes, all of us), and we didn’t revolt, as we should, as that’s the only appropriate response. Second, we learn that the former president really did want…

The movie has been lambasted (both when it came out and throughout the years), mostly because it insinuates that CIA agents or similar deep state thugs killed America’s president.

Nice list! Although the original Manchurian Candidate was great and should have been on the list instead of the remake.

We had an actual civil war and managed to survive it.

Unless Democrats go full nuclear now? They don’t have the ability to remove the filibuster. They need more votes in the Senate and greater voter turnout for 10-15 years to undo a lot of this bullshit. But who wants to talk reality? let’s pretend they have some magic ability to “go nuclear” and refuse to do it because…