Thor restarting the forge at Nidavellir was quite possibly the most metal thing he’s done in the MCU and it’s the sort of big, mythic action that feels right at home in one of Jason Aaron’s Thor books and can only be properly depicted airbrushed onto the side of a van.

I’ve said this before, but I much rather prefer Thanos’ portrayal in the comics where he was basically an Incel on God Mode who wanted the personification of Death to sleep with him rather than as the universe’s biggest Malthusian.

There’s nothing “stealth” about Anson Mount’s MVP status this season. He’s been knocking everything he’s been given out of the park. He’s been able to sell everything that’s happened to his character without lapsing into goofiness or rote technobabble.

BAT!

Ok, but the ending song was amazing. Overall a solid episode. Not as great as the pilot but still a decent go. 

Cue the Sealab references.

Oh, fuck off. Literally everyone has skeletons. 

I love GnR, but they were already starting to disappear up their own asses long before Nirvana charted.

The fact that he basically killed of hair metal single-handedly might have something to do with it...God bless him. 

Don’t forget Ghost unleashed! I’m with you all the way. Every battle episode in GoT feels essentially like an underdog fight, so I love them all, but where Blackwater was more novel for being the first of its kind for this show, Watchers is more impressive technically imo. I think mileage may vary, depending on how…

The first scene in the next episode deepens this episode, and could have been in it. Jon meets Mance, and Mance lays out a very compelling case for letting the Wildlings through, and how the heroism in the preceding episode was all in defense of the shitty guiding principle of ostracizing the Wildlings. Mance and Jon…

Alliser Thorne was a huge asshole, but that’s what made him a good member of the Night’s Watch. 

It’s a nice comparison to the show’s prologue, which unceremoniously dispatched Waymar Royce, barely even letting him know the enemy was there. Royce was arrogant and stupid and an asshole to the men under his little command, in both the book and the show, but when his moment comes, he meets it the way he was trained…

I really wish people didn’t have to make multiple apologies for committing the heinous sin of having human frailties resulting in thought crimes 40 fucking years ago.

I am sure the folks who willfully misinterpreted his initial comments, who are addicted to outrage, will receive this sensitive and insightful statement with the nuance, empathy, and enlightenment that is their trademark.

This. This hit me much, much harder than the Red Wedding did, mainly because Oberyn quickly became my favorite character on the show. The agency he had over the world around him, particularly his interactions with the Lannisters, and the amount of charisma that Pedro Pascal played him with made him very, very easy to…

I haven’t read the books but I remember the consensus from book readers at the time that this version was even more vicious and sickening than what was written. 

Having read the books (I’m one of those guys) I knew exactly how it was gonna go down.  That being said I was still on the edge of my seat the whole time. The scene was incredibly well done.

For a vegetarian he’s a fucking evil shot.

TL:DR version
Eva Green is a phenomenal talent that elevates the otherwise lackluster late-stage career of Tim Burton. In other words, she’s too good for this shit.

I love early-career Burton as much as anyone, but what was once his signature style and biggest strengths are now a broken crutch held together with duct…