I wondered why Yara didn’t speak up at the time, considering that the Iron Islanders pick their kings / queens through a vote. But there she was, laughing at Sam with the rest of them. I guess she wanted to fit in. 

She lost the election. To a fucking nincompoop. She WASN’T inspiring enough.

Dany was a less-crazy version of Cersei and then suddenly she was Joffrey-with-a-dragon-crazy.

Right but weren’t those sickly lil’ chicken-dragons? I’m talking about big Balerion/Drogon-sized dragons.

None of these people look very tragically ludicrous or ludicrously tragic. Where are the bowling shirts?

I swear I am not trying to fat shame...I just think it’s interesting that for the movie they cast a conventionally attractive thin woman to play her.

Amanda Marcotte wrote about her earlier in the week.. The woman was on performance probation at PP and was going to be axed. She got revenge and made a shitload of cash.

It’s funny because if you look closely, this is actually a movie about someone realizing they can make a shit ton more money tricking dumbass Christians into buying terrible books and seeing even worse movies. 

Alas, I have been outvoted. But for posterity.

I know I’ve said this many times over the years, but as it still amazes me, I’ll say it again:

Fact: Soda takes years off your life.

My guess is that the story is going to gently get Carol out of the way somewhere so the original six can have their appropriate thematic final battle and/or sacrifice.  She’ll be important in some way, no doubt, but if the end doesn’t come down to Tony and Steve then Marvel will have completely blown it.

I could argue Ant-Man & the Wasp was even better.

Am I being cynical or was this kind of a meh year for movies? Sure, there were some fun and often great ones but nothing really stood out and looking at the list it looks like there are no real frontrunners for Best Picture.

It was a fun movie... but it wasn’t even the best comic book movie last year, let alone one of the five best movies period.

I like Black Panther as much as the next comic book nerd, but a “Best Picture”? Come on, fellow geeks: you know it’s not. You can love it and still have some critical distance.

See also, Tony Stark creating Ultron. It’s internally consistent.

Nothing grounds a movie like having a bag of chips that’s plain gray with only the word CHIPS on it.