People keep saying Robert’s Rebellion would be a great area to cover but I agree that it’s just a little too close to the present. The only example of a prequel I can think of that was really, really good was the second season of Spartacus. They had season 1 and the main actor came down with cancer so they said shit,…

I’m onboard with that. You can even reuse actors as distant relations season to season.

There’s likely to be room for a good sequel unless the white walkers win completely. Westeros should be utterly devastated and just trying to survive would be a challenge.

Yes and no. You could tell a good story about Bismarck uniting Germany even if you know wwii is in the future. But generally prequels do suck because they aren’t telling a story that will stand on its own sufficiently. It’s already starting from a place of going back to the well for lack of good new ideas.

It’s not that they can’t do a good dragon story it’s just that they ran out of good novels to adapt at that point. But yes seasons 1 to 4 were the best. The story has become too predictable and the show runners aren’t good writers, just good adapters.

The problem is trying to capture lightning in a bottle. Babylon 5 had an unlikely successful run and then several attempts at follow-on series that never worked.

You mean how like there’s an FM radio receiver on all cell phones that the carriers refuse to enable? This gets to the separate issue of the customer not really owning whatever they purchase. They simply license the right to use it which goes against all common sense. Video game console makers didn’t want their…

I wouldn’t have a problem if the base battery pack had 50 cells and the more expensive pack had 100 cells. That’s perfectly Fair. The 8 ounce steak is cheaper than the 14 ounce steak. It feels really hinky though when they Nerf or product that has the ability already in there and you have to pay to unlock it. The old…

It all seems like a terrible waste. I have a completely unscientific and baseless assumption that there must be something more but zero proof. Why have this giant universe and why develop consciousness and have all this stuff going on around us to no point?

That’s where I’m at. I can’t say for 100% there are no gods but none I’ve been presented with are worth believing in. There’s enough weird shit I’ve been in proximity to to have a sense that there is “something,” what and how much I have no idea, but we tend to conflate it with the major religions which I believe are…

I have no idea but there’s a verifiable mortality after major life events, usually children and grandchildren. There’s a birth, a christening, a marriage, a bar/bat mitzvah. After that goal has been reached there’s an uptick in old age deaths, as if people were holding on for something and, once it had passed, they…

Americans are always more skittish about sex. I saw Starship Troopers in the theater and a woman took her young kids to see it. She was fine with impalement and decapitation but there was no way she’d let her kids see boobies in the shower. Made them cover their eyes.

The power imbalance makes it dicey. I roofie you and do stuff when you are unconscious, rape. If you are won over by my good looks and charming personality, that’s consensual. If you want a role in my film and I nod my head towards the casting couch, it may not be “legitimate rape” as the Republicans say but it’s…

It wasn’t just one cheat but many cheats taking advantage of his professional position. Roofies do make it worse so Cosby for the win.

Anyone driving slower than me is an idiot slowpoke and anyone driving faster than me is a maniac.

The pace right now is like the rick and Morty quick mysteries. Here’s a body! Killer walks in and confesses a second later.

That’s exactly it. They let the story grow larger than the runtime allowed. Grrm shares some of the blame.

Nope. Wrong. Realistic doesn’t have to mean burning.

The best shows are like life because the explanations remain internal to the story. I know this real life guy did what he did because x. True crime stories work because even if actions by some people are illogical it all did still happen. Maybe the killer was nuts but the police found him because logic and maybe a…

This is what kills it for me. They have all the right parts and pieces and are assembling them incorrectly. It’s painful to see.