The counter-argument to your “never could be any other way” argument is that it absolutely could have been another way. And that this way was only an acceptable outcome so that the whole thing could be wrapped up neatly in the middle of a rushed final season. After all, if the Night King was sophisticated enough to…

Were they eloquent or were they articulate?

If you didn’t know who he was before and you “want him to go away” and feel that his existence is an impediment to us all moving on... that’s... probably a you thing, Taylor Swift!

I don’t play this game or understand how it is played. I don’t even know what platform or helmet or artillery shells would be required to start playing it. And not only do I know exactly which piece you’re talking about, I feel like we feel the same way! Every time I come across anything about this shit, I read it…

TL;DR: Old men that find you attractive aren’t thinking about the younger men that find you attractive, or the fact that you have more appealing options. They’re not thinking much beyond the fact that they find you attractive and they want you to think of them as your best available option.

[To the extent that a male…

Everybody needs to stop with the “this will only energize his base” bullshit. His base is fully energized... They’re energized by the stolen SCOTUS seat, their ghoulish RBG deathwatch,, all the judges he’s getting through Schumer’s rubber stamp party, and everything he does to “pwn the libs.” His base is a plurality…

The Night King really was the third head!

You can also just as easily say that if Drogon didn’t witness the actual killing then Drogon had no reason to interpret Jon’s reaction as anything other than what it sure was:  A very emotional reaction to a very painful moment. From Drogon’s POV, anyone could have killed Dany and Jon just arrived to find her body.

One thing I LOVE about the Internet:

My brain immediately thought “This is a cool idea!” followed immediately by “We’re here for that fart poem too, though, right?” and by the time I scrolled down to ask for it, multiple people already had! 20 years ago, maybe I would’ve felt weird about wanting to read the fart…

Tyrion reminded them of their convoluted loyalty. They refused to bend the knee. Who would you want watching over them as POWs, the soldiers she also needed to continue fighting the war? The soldiers they were just commanding? Prisoners get executed on this show with some regularity. The method is much more…

I have no problem with “taking the ride” or “suspending disbelief,” and sometimes I genuinely don’t care how much time has passed. But not knowing how much time has passed still has a meaningful impact on viewers’ understanding of the events they’re watching and how plausible what they’re seeing actually is. Another…

I’m not so sure. Do any voters need further evidence that the Republican Party is full of anti-LGBTQ shitsacks? This wouldn’t exactly be the first brick in that foundation and anyone who has an opinion on it either way is already supporting people on the side of their own conscience. Meanwhile, there are plenty of…

I have no doubt that this is a perfectly natural reaction to the loss of a parent at a young age (or any age, for that matter). I guess I’m also an asshole, though, because I read the response to your initial post and wondered why this was newsworthy outside of the “famous grandparent/parent/child” dynamic. People I…

“The Green Album is packed with solid jams.”

Such as?
And isn’t there a pretty wide gulf between “solid jams” and “Best of”-worthy tracks? 

The Brienne/Jaime storyline was similarly rushed and chaotic... He went from “Let me fight beside you” to “I will make you a knight!” to “We should’ve fucked a long time ago” to “Just kidding, I’m a terrible person and I’m still in love with my sister!” in less time than it took for Hot Pie to brown butter... And all…

You hit the nail on the head for me in terms of the biggest issues with the last two seasons: They could have arrived at the exact seam beats with more successful execution of the structural elements of storytelling. And so much of it is down to the truncated seasons.

One of the biggest complaints is that the timeline…

I don’t mean to be a dick, but... THAT’S NOT THE BAR. If the standard for television or film began and ended with whether or not something was visually stunning, Avatar and the Transformers movies would be among the greatest feats of cinema of all time. You’re not wrong that they’re visually stunning but plot and…

I’m not even sure that the Tarly burning would even be used as an example if she’d just beheaded them... She gave Randyll the chance to bend the knee; he refused because he thought it was the honorable choice. Dickon was a papa’s boy who wouldn’t even listen to his papa when it counted. And their honorable choice…

Sure, she alluded to it in the dialogue...
And sure, it has historical precedents...

But acknowledging those things without accepting that the obvious implication of “Breaker of Chains/Future Breaker of Wheels” isn’t “mass slaughter of innocents who have submitted” is also problematic within the context of her own…

Eight cars. One house in Ireland. Sing it.

My love >[by volume and surface area than] your love.

Destination:  Hell. Express. No stops.