all that remains is for Jon to resign his gig as Lord Commander via legal technicality, i.e., death

And shows boobs.

It totally felt like the script was just based of a quick interview D&D had with Martin years ago, when GRR started disclosing ideas on how everything wraps up in case he dies before he finishes

High Sparrow's speech about populist anger reminded me, as every TV show does, of Trump.

Jon's father is his half brother, from the way the kid was looking at his aunt in the dream.

The methodology was very underwhelming. I expected roaring fires and the jewel glowing fiercely, etc.

FINALLY!

I sent my stepkid to Catholic school for grades 5 thru 8, and I object to this phrase "the corrosive influence of Catholic primary-school education". Catholic primary ed seems pretty high quality today. I'm willing to believe it was different in the 50s-60s; but then O'Neil should say that.

I love seeing these occasional odes to trippy 1970s Marvel comics. It was an exciting era, or seems that way in youth-colored memory. Another possible candidate for "most cosmic story" is Steve Englehart's & Frank Brunner's run on Doctor Strange. (And a lot of Steve Gerber stuff.) But Starlin's story was "bigger"…

Tovy.

The WW podcast with Josh Malina is coming along nicely too.

CJ and Tony share MVP status on that show.

Boo! Donna was the loveliest, most terrific.

I love CJ
SO.
MUCH.

I saw Basic Instinct at a late night show with a rowdy crowd. Wow, what an experience. The reaction from the audience to everything from Sharon Stone's upskirt shot to Michael Douglas basically raping Jeanne Tripplehorn in her office, really elevated the whole move — emphasized all the thrills and chills. At the…

Isn't the only reason Dorne is important is because they were unconquerable by dragons? I just hope there's an end game to spending time with their point of view.

Any points for sheer stupidity and incomprehensibility of the plot? To avenge her lover, Ellaria killed – her lover's brother, who was mourning roughly as much as she was, was the dead brother's ally, and had nothing whatever to do with the lover's murder. What?

book Dorne is still better

I think there are some scenes where Jamie talks about standing outside their door while Robert brutalized her the same way that he stood outside of Aerys's door when he raped his wife.

You can rape someone by forcing them to blow you, for example, even if they "choose" to blow you so that you don't have penetrative sex.