Okay, you aced the recovery there.

It's like "well we don't want Godzilla stomping our city flat, but I guess if it's him or Mothra…"

I also didn't say boring :-)

Three answers:

I didn't say "all," or even "a lot."

Oh that makes sense - Robert Jordan was never really on my radar, except as a name on some particularly wide paperbacks.

Because I already know enough history and it's a depressing cycle of people forgetting simple lessons and making the same mistakes over and over again with general misery as the result? Also no dragons.

And the song is Jon Snow's sweet guitar ballad!

On the other hand, while reading the extant ASOIF books, there are lots of details, one-offs and asides that feel like things which in a Tolkien work, you could go look up somewhere and get the exhaustive backstory and etymology on. The fact that there was no backstory, and the actual only "existence" of these things…

I'm not necessarily taking issue with you here, but why does every discussion about Martin eventually bring up his imminent demise? He's 68, which is old, but not that old. He's younger than Trump, and nobody seems to worry about him dying. Possibly a bad example.

The one clip I saw from that movie certainly seemed promising.

"Hey Vern, why you called 'Vern' in town and 'Ernest' in the country?"

Could he be any more cursed?

She did this really sad appearance on the relatively early days of Conan O'Brien's late night show on NBC where she complained that no one was calling to hire her, and literally screeched "I'm still here!"

I'll agree only because I'm sure that after remembering he was the Master, Derek Jacobi would have grown a goatee if he'd had time.

Oh okay, I didn't recall that she needed him to avoid blowing up.

I'm not a big Cloak & Dagger fan, but I think at least one version of the characters, her light feeds his dark cloak-thing, and without her he had to kill people to feed it.

It was always kind of the standard.

The interview I saw, he said "I would not be interested in a role," and looked meaningfully into the camera. Which made it pretty clear that he might be interested in the role.

Considering they had a ratings drop when they finally stopped picking progressively younger Doctors, I'm guessing the next one will be Harry Styles.