That 'article' must have either had a line break after every sentence or been paired with a fucking ginormous picture.

I'm not arguing that there's flawless logic behind him being bulletproof, so much as I'm arguing that being bulletproof and smooshproof are two entirely different categories of -proofness.

If the truck had hit him and he went flying, like someone punting a football, I'd shrug it off. But that truck ran him over, which kills you in an entirely different way.

I dunno. The impact of a bullet, absent its piercing power, is going to hurt like hell and bruise you, but that's mostly it.

Given that Scott Buck didn't think showing us that fight was worthwhile, I'm choosing to stick with the comic story and say he actually hugged Shou Lao to death.

To be fair, if Colleen is any indication, there's a good chance 90% of those infiltrators don't even know they're in the Hand to begin with. Or if they do, they don't know the Hand are bad guys.

The truck thing annoyed me. JJ set up this wonderful compromise regarding Luke's abilities: his skin is unbreakable, but he's still susceptible to internal injuries, and when he does suffer them, the consequences are even worse than for a normal person. LC tried to go along with that, but only after creating a magic…

"You know he's gonna do something! And you know it's gonna be good."

Maybe - emphasis on maybe - what makes a Black Sky special is that only they can be resurrected as soulless killing machines? We've seen or heard about the Hand bringing a lot of people back - Nobu, Bakuto, Meachum, Beric, Alexandra a few times - and while they consistently agreed that they lost a little humanity with…

Color-coding the heroes was a neat idea, but when Jessica stepped out onto that balcony to fight Murakami, and the lights were mostly red with some blue scattered around, I said to myself "Oh, Daredevil's gonna show up."

"The Hand has threatened to kill our loved ones."
"What should we do?"
"Let's put them all together in a single location full of armed redshirts who can go down fighting as part of an action scene."
"I love it."

"Ugh. This asshole."
- Me, upon hearing his first 'Hello, Cahleen.'

This is fantastic! And it works! I am legitimately, like, 50 or even 60% less upset about the change now.

Goodbye everybody, goodbye!

Okay, fair. I get what you're saying, and I agree. (I still see a lot of people who are under the impression that Martin, in his early books, literally killed characters at random, as if he were throwing darts at a wall, so I thought you were suggesting something along those lines. Maybe that better reflects OP's…

I'd push back against the idea that this show (or rather, A Song of Ice and Fire) doesn't do meaningful deaths.

My friend texted me about Jon's plot armor, but what happened at the end there… that wasn't even plot armor. Plot armor is all the nameless characters dying, while all but one of the named characters survive. The heroes have to be in at least nominal danger, so you kill off some redshirts. All fiction does that.

Alexandra: "Tell your wife she makes it even better than in Constantinople."
Restaurant Owner: "Istanbul, madam. Constantinople was its ancient name."
Alexandra: "That's nobody's business but the Turks."

I didn't want him to be a murderer, but the dude's 91 years old, looks like he weighs about fifty pounds, and talks slower than the average one-handed person can type, so the idea of him trying to murder someone made me chuckle.

When I saw that headline, I said to myself "How funny would it be if it was Harry Dean Stanton?"