Genuine question that is not in any way meant to be snarky: how does a black man’s sexual preference for women (or men) of another race make them less able to understand/speak about/engage with topics of race and blackness?

This I agree with about 1000% percent.

I don’t know that I agree that Bioshock: Infinite feel from the beginning like it’s gonna end badly, but I think the difference is the writing in Bioshock doesn’t give as much of an illusion of choice, so it doesn’t feel unfair when it all falls apart.

I know the upfront question of “how much damage can an ending do?” is kind of rhetorical but...does it even bare asking in a post-Mass Effect world?

I get where you’re coming form here, but as someone who has had a hand in helping to distribute public school funds...this is pretty much how the people in the trenches of this fight feel.

I’m done with GoT. But without the current executive producers (that are clearly done with the property and checked out) and the need to follow material that isn’t written yet, I think HBO could still do something cool with Westeros.

Well, if they do something original or based of a time period that’s pretty much know you shouldn’t have to do the stalling, running in place they did in season 5 (or the brutal slashing of storylines they did in Season 6).

Yeah, but what else could it be?

I would bet good money that at least one of those shows will be about The Dance. It’s the only thing I can think of other than the Conquest that has the same kind of visual splendor of the later seasons of GoT (which HBO seems to want for no reason that I can understand).

Genuine question—considering you basically know in advance that every possible thing that could go wrong for all of the half-way “decent”, not terrible characters WILL go wrong...wouldn’t that just be kind of a depressing slog to watch?

I would call the lack of Dragons an upside, personally. The show was just better in the early seasons when the drama was derived primarily from people talking to eachother.

I have mixed feeling on a Dunk and Egg series.

To be clear, I never said Smith should have done anything differently.

Why?

But tv shows just don’t contract actors that way. Unless you’re saying that Foy should have bounced on her contract (and I’m sure THAT would have helped her in the industry) or the producers should have just decided to giver her a raise (increasing the expense of the show) for no reasons...I’m not sure what anyone did…

Not a great idea to try and publicly breach your contract in this kind of situation. Take your awards and go into the next negotiation in a better bargaining position.

Which she almost certainly did since they knew they wanted to do 2-season rotations.

Well, we can assume she had a 2 season contract as that would be most typical in this kind of situation.

^^This^^

Sure, but at time of casting and contracting, Matt Smith was the much more bankable lead.