As usual, Al Swearengen on Deadwood says it best: “I don’t like the Pinkertons. They’re muscle, for the bosses. As if the bosses ain’t got enough.” And then later, “Pinkerton himself that cocksucker, I hate that bastard.”

They killed a lot of industrial workers. Not as many as state militias but they fucking sucker. Cornwall would totally be Fick. 

Not to mention in MODERN US history...

I was going to say “BASICALLY”?
They were literal strikebreakers and antiunion Wild West Blackwater.

The books are the books. But the show has already dropped the anvils about being trapped in the past. And “hold the door” showed us what happened to Aegon. The wildfire in King’s Landing is a Chekhov’s gun, it has to fire.

That was actually on their business cards.

Well, there’s the last element I needed for my dystopian cyberpunk/Wild West mashup. To Hollywood!

Bloody peasant!

If you made the Pinkertons into cyborgs, they’d basically be perfect cyberpunk villains. It’s not like the goodwill they enjoy among Henry Frick’s descendants could be challenged by RDR2.

Yeah, because when I’m playing RDR2 I link it directly to those guys in riot helmets picking up today’s take from H&M...

Given that they’ve combined the Sword-in-the-Stone sword with Excalibur, they seem to have avoided that particular problem.

This is the best thing I’ve read on this site in a long damn while.

It’s actually “bint”, not “bink”, but otherwise excellent!

Studios: Please stop trying to make the Arthur a thing.  

...just because some watery tart threw a sword at you

or just nestled up next to the active septic system

Thanks, internet stranger!

So, I’m reading Fire & Blood right now, and the scribe-narrator explicitly says that the notion of dragons being hermaphrodites is preposterous. I’ll admit GRRM loves himself an unreliable narrator, but that seems pertinent, as well as the fact that dragons are gendered throughout the book.

Not just one, a whole clutch! Ice dragons for days. :)

Wait, really? How are they coming to that conclusion?