and while snow's performance during both the kraster seminar and the wildling conference were commanding and effective, we should not overlook the fact that several executives within northern division coordinated to lure snow to a fabricated off-site meeting and repeatedly puncture his midsection until his watch was…

so slavery exists in the world today, yet it should not be depicted in pop culture or fantasy fiction?

"gentlemen, please! this is the war room — you can't fight in here!"

"…even the showrunners seem to be aware that, for an alarming number of Americans, putting black people back in chains reads less like a nightmare than a daydream."

"we" are not making this show. benioff and weiss are. and "they" can do whatever they want.

but as of now, this "show" is a non-existent nobody nothingfest.

this savage, sanctimonious shaming is swaddled in just enough reasoned, thought-provoking supposition to throw some readers off the scent of its core fallacy; the fucking show does not yet fucking exist.

why in the world would that comment be flagged? it seems like a fair and intellectual disagreement with the thrust of the article — which is more than o'neal's presumptive shaming of a show that does not yet exist probably deserves.

what if john conner was never born?

there better not be a confederate ramsey bolton.

yes. yes. yes.

the article has many well reasoned points about why this might make for lousy entertainment with negative cultural consequences, but o'neal has DEFINITELY framed it with the currently en vogue narrative device of "can't so and so STOP doing such and such…" — which is an entirely different positioning than "i do not…

or maybe they can just make whatever show they want, because they are individuals with free will, and you can decide whether you want to watch it or not?

oh i see — that makes more sense to me (not that you are under any obligation there). i can definitely see how the "brief check-in with character X or location Y" segments—especially if an episode has too many of them—might make the story feel shallow, or scattershot, or reliant on over-dramatization.

well this video can just fuck right off

yup. martin seems to reward the players who are the most flexible and strategic in their tactics, but no decisions or philosophies are ever foolproof on this show — you can play the game close to perfectly, and still end up a charred wildfire carcass smoldering in the rubble of the sept (RIP margaery).

there's a fine line between vicious and naive on this show, and that's the very narrow place where the best, most effective leaders seem to live.

i loved sansa's "last word" zinger with littlefinger, but i am also terrified to discover what she may become. she is perched on a knife's edge, and littlefinger is right there to give her a nudge.

i disagree with this criticism. the early season slow GOT pacing is true for every season, including the first. it's a very deliberate strategy and a very effective one. it gives the show tremendous dynamic range — if every episode was cranked up to maximum drama and carnage, it would be exhausting. the "slow"…

Dude, Where's My Karstarks?