A company’s only fealty is to its shareholders. And really, comparative advantage increases profits. It runs down more to predicting trends in consumer buying. If you’re right then you’re making money, if you’re wrong then depending on your product lines and supply chains, you could easily go under.

Those aren’t Deus Ex Machina, though, they were pretty well set up if you were paying attention.

Book Euron is a force to be reckoned with, and for being evil is kinda cool. At the very least, for introducing him so late in the game, the showrunners at least have gotten some semblance of that.

I think you mean “Bush II is besties with Michelle now, so half a million dead Iraqis don’t matter anymore. “

Found the neo-Imperialist that doesn’t care about policy outcomes if the person has a (D) after their name.

C’mon, Paul is the Liefeld of Christianity.

Jesus preferred downers anyway.

Really cool of Madonna to allow gun-control advocates use her music royalty-free.

I mean if he ends up being good in the producing aspect he could probably take over for Lorne Michaels after a plucky group of adventurers finally raid the latter’s dungeon and claim his lich treasure..

Uh, you okay buddy?

Hot Pie...  Azor Ahai, see they even rhyme!

I like it better than Bran was showing some of his humanity in getting revenge on the guy that sold him out, caused his brother to die and his sister to get raped.

Honestly it’s really more the showrunner’s fault for not adequately selling Arya’s story in Bravos. All the pieces fit at the meta-storytelling perspective for Arya’s journey, but showing it on screen was just really poorly done. Especially when we had so much time those two seasons wasted on Bolton bullshit.

If there’s a media conglomerate to mine our nostalgia glands, it’d be Disney. And hell, if they production values are good and the shows are decent then I can’t even blame them. I’m not subscribing to Disney+ expecting ‘art’ from brand extensions, I’m expecting to be entertained.

The first two movies still fuck.

Seems like a trade only a Targ would make, really.

My disdain for nationalism aside, “You suck. Get out of my country—maybe they’ll let you back in when your k/d’s over 1.” is pretty funny.

Tagline: Just one of the Polter-guys

I’ve found socialness with profs being pretty common in small upper-level labs where the prof is actually teaching, and you’re spending 4-6 hours at a time together in a room with maybe 12 other people. And in grad school there’s candidness about it since profs, especially in your department, start mentoring and…

And honestly, if they did put it in theaters, the CGI would look like crap.