So Clinton became secretary of state and everybody immediately forgot who she was and why they hated her so darn much? Sure bro.

*theme from The Odd Couple*

Magnets.

Helter skelter.

She consistently had a national approval rating in the mid-60s as Secretary of State, it only plummeted when she ran for office (wonder why?).

Clinton is not reliably unlikeable. Her approval rating nationwide was consistently above 60% when she was Secretary of State (2009-13). Her approval only plummeted when she began to run for office (for some reason-who knows?)

No, they’re telling you that if you have to argue about order of operations the notation is inadequate to begin with.

Fair enough.

The fact that telling that story, that way requires a completely incoherent plot and character line is the problem. “We want everyone to turn against Dany, so we’ll just have her roast civilians for no reason and completely inconsistent with her previous restraint.”

I’m pretty sure the books are moving in exactly this direction considering no one knows about all the secret wildfire caches except for Jaime, who hasn’t told anybody else. Context & execution matters; I can easily imagine Dany loosing some targeted fire in a blind fury only to watch in horror as the entire city blows…

Those dragons were also chained in a pit so they couldn’t take to the air, and were pretty much suffocated to death under the thousands of corpses they roasted. Only one dragon was ever taken down in actual combat, which is obviously the situation Dany & Jon would be facing.

His excuse is that the racial implications did not spring to mind, but given the ubiquity of that particular line of racial abuse in Europe particularly there is literally no reasonable way for someone in the news industry to not be aware of it. So either a) he is aware of it, knew exactly what he was posting, and…

“Keep the gubmint’s hands off of our balls!” -Sent from my rapidly dwindling sense of security in a world that is inexorably passing me by.

Let’s do it your way but correctly. You apply the division first then the multiplication, it doesn’t matter if the x or * is there or not without additional parentheses to indicate priority. What you solved is 6/(2(1+2)).

Dany’s fleet getting ambushed and completely destroyed by Teleporting Euron, who then of all the bodies floating around somehow managed to fish out Dany’s friend just so they could kill her to piss Dany off, is cheap as hell.

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.