I saw this yesterday and liked it a lot, despite have gone into it pretty skeptical of whether anything interesting could be done with that character. The biggest strengths of the movie to me are 1. managing to make Ingrid not exactly sympathetic, but at least sort of understandable on her own terms— she's trying to…

This wasn't 100% clear to me but: I think basically everyone Arya just killed, all the upper ranks of Frey heirs, were at the Red Wedding—it was a huge political deal so they would've been expected as guests, but also Walder would've wanted to make sure as many of his people were directly implicated as possible, as a…

There are lots and lots of non-ordinary settings in the book. They spend half of it on other worlds. The second book takes place partly in a microscopic world populated by fantasy creatures inside a human body.

It's kind of inevitable these days that if any colors resembling blue and orange appear anywhere in a thing, someone will complain about the oppressive orange-and-teal color grading, even if it was a shot of things that really are those colors - a sunset over the ocean, a basketball surrounded by Smurfs, etc. - and…

The only mention of an abridged version I can find online is a thing that was supposed to be for a 4th-grade reading level, which came with a teacher's activity guide, and it doesn't seem to be in print. So I don't know what it was that you found, but it doesn't seem to have caught on at all. The 2007 box set has the…

No, and are you serious? This was distant prehistory - Vikings didn't exist when mammoths were still around. Not to mention that the very first scene in the first episode of the show makes it clear that Vikings didn't get here first.

Eye of the beholder, I guess; what you saw as "cool, & will survive no matter what," I saw as "physically & mentally maimed & traumatized, almost too fearful to interact with anyone, doesn't want much from life except to kill Ferdinand."

"Sam's dating profile ('80s!) is the type of '80s sitcom plot contrivance that the show doesn’t really need to make a habit it [sic] …. it reads of the tainted power of the period piece. In 2017, you can't really do this bit."

No, it would be anachronistic to have a character who used the word "otherkin", or who had a community of like-minded people.

Well sort of. It wasn't hard to find 50-year-olds a hundred years ago who looked just as good as a lot of 50-year-olds today; they were in the upper classes. You're not going to look good at 50 if you have to spend most of your time doing manual labor and you can't afford decent food or medical care or dentistry and…

"obviously everything is just going to get shittier and more painful as the decades pass"

The dynamic between her and her husband reminds me uncomfortably much of two people in my family. One of them has gotten heavily into the most far-out kind of environmental fear on the Internet in the last few years - chemtrails, plus every kind of catastrophe that doesn't have any scientific support, plus of course…

"tentative performance mixed with … blunt force writing … feeling less like a human being and more like a random generator of woke thought"

I've only seen the first episode but got the feeling that the older lady with hippie tendencies was going to fill part of that role, just substituting "Nature" for "God" in her apocalyptic obsession. I think that's potentially a smart way to approach it… and so is the idea that she wasn't necessarily that bad up till…

Exactly. I've worked with plenty of doctors, and when they look a little nervous and aren't giving clear explanations of what they're doing, that just means they're doctors. Especially if they can see that the patient is weird and shifty.

For what it's worth, I haven't read the comics and that's still how the character always came across to me on the show. Between the burn scars and the sort of wide-eyed but depressed affect, I think they've always portrayed her as someone who didn't entirely survive that past trauma, and has had this self-protective…

Yeah, I think they succeeded pretty well at coming up with an effect that's the opposite of "ethereal" - it's like audio static that's made out of solid matter, it doesn't glow or flicker, it seethes. You really wouldn't want to see that happening in front of you.

I mean… of course I can't argue you into thinking it was clear, but to me it was very clear, not obscure at all.

I think Technical Boy's personality prevents him from getting older or wiser no matter how much chronological age he has. The producers and the actor have talked about this, I think: he represents the aspect of technology that's always throwing out the previous model, seeing no reason to retain anything from his own…

My understanding of that sequence was:
1. Mammoth god: "For your people to survive, you'll have to sacrifice yourself."
2. Buffalo god: "To me." (Shaman does so)
3. American leader: "You seem to be cool with the buffalo - come join us."
4. Siberian leader: "You killed our shaman - fuck you!"
5. American leader: "Sigh.…