Try telling that to the guys living it up (down?) in the Virgin Islands.

I definitely agree with you that receiving an ending matters. I follow countless serialized works that have been ongoing for years-even decades- and that would devastate me if they were suddenly truncated. Some have. But unless the book you bought had its pages ripped off at the near (physical) end (of the book), then…

I can certainly agree with all that. I wrote the prior response with a more general perspective on writing/artwork because I actually had no idea what OP meant when they said GRRM has been acting begrudgingly towards his fans. I personally haven't come across one publication of news of him being so, as opposed to the…

Like it matters if you spent the money on the belief that it would be a complete story? What you actually paid for was the book you bought with the content inside it. If you paid for a service, then it was the service of him already writing the book you got. If you paid money for any kind of artist to personally…

I think the moment you liken his writing to a service, you've got the wrong idea. Just because the masses made a success out of his works when they got published, doesn't mean he automatically switched from writing to tell a story to writing to please fans.

Well, because I meant that it's valid enough depending on your standards for the respective character and even the type of show it is. Saying Gavin is that cartoonishly out of touch simply because he's been the top dog for too long, sure, that kind of makes sense, if you factor it in with a bunch of other…

Well, I mean that's valid enough reasoning but also pretty darn generous, you don't become that cartoonishly dense and self-absorbed because you've been No.1 for so long; a majority of why he's that cartoonish is simply because it makes his character funny.
It's interesting that you should mention that though, I could…

That's way too much of a game-changer at this point for me personally to believe (unless there's some narrative establishment that even then, just one person like Bran can only do so much to alter an entire history—something only so influential as, say, bringing back to life/saving one person), especially given the…

Except they are not and never did concurrently exist. He completely stopped playing the kind-hearted senior right after he got the job with Richard as his CTO, so yeah, that counts as an outright personality switch.
Whether that is a believable about-face is another topic, which is what I was getting more at in my…

It's kind of hard to imagine a scenario right now where Brienne would be breaking her oath though. On the other hand, it's been long due for Jon Snow to leave Castle Black.
Would you have suspected it to be more inline with the Night's Watch if there was a space between "oath" and "breaker"?

Yeah, that seems to be the thing. I'm of the agreeing opinion that that scene was virtually useless; but at the same time, doing the utmost efficient story-telling and having him just walk into a scene and saying he did something every time lacks the showmanship that support his character's capabilities.

So what are people's interpretations of Ned apparently actually being able to hear Bran? I doubt it's anything as monumental as Bran literally being able to change the past at this point in the story, so I guess it's more like Bran could potentially get trapped there living out a false redacted history if he stays too…

Right on then. I can understand the fine line about becoming a hard-ass when it comes to work, but I guess it's all these bits about him skimping out on work/any true interaction with his employees at all in order to care for his aquarium and watch his horses fuck that provides the non-correlation with that initial…

More than the scheming businessman, I thought of it more as an overly cartoonish character for the comedy's sake (pretty in line with Gavin). But yeah, judging from the other replies, looks like I was in the deep minority with that interpretation.

Did he really need/want the CEO position though? Seems like his greatest joy from the job is just fucking with Richard with his horse fucking and fish dying antics. And just out of curiosity, does this mean you're interpreting that whole cancer research for his deceased wife thing a facet of some fabricated…

Note sure why, but I'm surprised to be hearing so many natural Django Unchained references in shows/pop culture four years after its release. Maybe it just has that pun-factor.
I can't even begin to imagine the scenario for Jared's viewing experience of it though.

Digested the ending more for its comedy than tragedy but only because I'm used to the fact that the damn entirety of this show has just been fucking these guys over. Like holy shit, they just cannot get a break, can they? Has there even been a plausible explanation as to Jack's complete 180 personality switch from his…

Also disagree with an A- rating (probably a flat B from me), but skimming through your points, I feel like you're being too critical of everything that doesn't drive the plot heavily forward for you. Sometimes things are written in stories—stories are conceived, even—because of the fun pertaining to a certain part.…

I think the fact that you're concerned about how she'll turn it is what made the premise of this arc of hers so potentially compelling at first. But yeah, the fact that it has dragged on this much with every single scene being so damn repetitive and failing to present the substance of that conflict just makes me want…

Shouldn't that ambiguity be enough to not qualify this as retconning? I mean, it's not like there aren't other established, subversive literary devices like the unreliable narrator.