Even so, he’s inside Winterfell and she’s outside—it’s a huge castle and there’s a big wall in the way, not to mention the zombie horde.

Well they could write a story in which their death *is* the culmination of their arc—for example, Dany could realize that protecting the living is more important than claiming the throne and sacrifice herself to take out NK. That’s not the story we have but that’s the showrunners’ choice.

This is a trend in the show ranging from frustrating to infuriating, especially since the source material is so diligent about setting up its “twists” (to the point that, on reread, it’s hard to even call them twists—see the death imagery following Ned in AGOT, repeated foreshadowing of the Red Wedding, the little…

Not to mention Jorah’s “Teleport to Dany” button.

Cersei is a more compelling villain because the showrunners wrote her that way and invested resources in propping her up at the expense of upping the drama in the northern story. The white walkers are not an inherently dull villain, they’re an inexorable force of nature bringing winter and death to the living—that’s th…

Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango.

I’ll refer you to this:

The show hasn’t portrayed a battle that made sense in a long time (exhibit A: battle of bastards, which include Jon & his cavalry somehow getting encircled by infantry in the middle of an open field)

Considering the Starks passed those words down for thousands of years (at least since the building of the wall after the first long night) and have all that time lived in a castle literally designed to fight white walkers, “Winter is coming” very much is a warning about the army of the dead even when that literal truth…

It’s not “subverting expectations” that everyone liked, it’s that characters experienced genuine consequences for their situation without being casually written out of danger using stale tropes. Ned’s execution is shocking because the hero never dies like that, but it’s entirely consistent with what we should expect…

Smaller budget and more adherence to the novels in early season resulted in fewer showstopping episodes/moments, plus a lot of things set up in earlier seasons that could only pay off later. Ranking the seasons as a whole would be a very different study—you can really tell when the showrunners got overextended (really…

Put on a fire, make a bowl of popcorn, and gather the family ‘round, for ‘tis Dead Letter Eve once more!

My gay friends are miserable, depressed and have shared with me, that they know their lifestyle is wrong.it’s partly my fault for being an intolerant prick.

It literally comes across like stereotypical caveman/trained gorilla talk. Manages to use two verbs in five sentences.

That “not a racist bone in her body” comment is rich. That is what they all say, without fail. And they’re always full of shit.

Aha, but that would take time, knowledge, and hard work, all of which are beneath the super-rich assholes. Why invest all that labor when you can just buy the tech up and take any credit for it?

I’m shocked. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

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