What utter nonsense. Mereen was nothing but opposition. It was a long, difficult slog to try and create some level of peace and eliminate an evil economy and an entire class of wicked, evil men. She has suffered and struggled so much that nobody can ever use the word “spoiled” where she’s concerned. She earned…

I would argue the execution of the Tarlys was the right thing. By standing strong in that moment, she may prevent a lot of other deaths as people are now aware it isn’t worth trying to test her or count on her being some weak little girl they can manipulate. Sometimes a display of strength early prevents having to use…

Nnnnope. Theon was taking over Winterfell to prove he was a big man and make his father love him. His father ordered the invasion for power and his own pride. Daenerys is trying to take the seven kingdoms to end tyrannical rulership and destroy an unjust, cruel system. She is justified, he was not. She executes people…

Being an outsider with a bad family history doesn’t require you to be a tyrant. It is why she has to hit the enemy army so hard and fierce; to prove herself. That isn’t tyrannical behavior, it’s commanding the respect of your opponent. She can earn the faith and trust of the people after she defeats her enemies, but…

SPOILED?! She was raised a slave, sold into sexual servitude, and treated like property most of her life. She had literally nothing. She endured abuse after abuse for at least 17 years until she began finding ways to claw some semblance of control back for herself.

Except it is. She gave them every opportunity not to get executed and they refused. It was their choice. By following through, she sent a message that she means business, and will likely prevent scores more deaths.

The comparison with TWD is perfect. I loved this show for the ways it avoided doing things every other show would do. Now, every decision they make is the same old tired, dumb TV logic. It’s conflict for its own sake to serve the whims of the writers, not drawn from character to serve the story. I’m so exhausted by it.

Last episode broke me. I’ve been a defender of the show for so long, standing up when people shat on the writing, finding excuses and justifications and a silver lining. But that last episode... It was so contrived; nobody did anything that made sense for their character, it was all just the hand of the writers moving…

“Not yet” is a polite “No” you reserve for someone you don’t want to throw out of your life. Women don’t always feel like they have the safety to say a blunt “No” to men; often guys turn into belligerent a-holes when they get rejected. Not yet is safer than no, but it means the same thing. If it didn’t, then she’d…

Very, very well said.

It’s what makes that such a perfect jumping-on point for the story of an Imperial trying to hold onto their belief in what they thought the Empire represented. You can be far enough down the chain that you don’t see the atrocities, but after something that big you get to see a character who has no choice but to…

Look, Boys definitely got bogged down by excesses that were very hard to get through. Pointless doucherry and mean-spiritedness abounded. BUT! There was a genuinely good core at the heart of the story that shone through when Ennis came out of his funks. The last stretch of the book was legitimately great. If a TV…

Thank you. That was my thought as well. Where’s God’s grace when all those other people are shot and killed every day?

They don’t have time to mince words, here. There’s, what, six episodes? Seven, maybe? And in that time we have to defeat the white walker army, kill the Night King, deal with Circe, decide the throne, and resolve the arcs for a dozen major characters. I don’t think a single episode will spare any time this season, and…

Easy star for the D reference.

Yeah, it’s driven far more by the crazy people who DON’T live in border states, just like the people most afraid of terrorism are the ones who live in places that would never be a target in a million years - oh, but they’re happy to sell out the freedom, privacy, and dignity of all the people who DO live in those…

Oh, wait, because it actually gets worse: issues of the comic “Flash” are listed under F, while the comic “THE Flash” is listed under T. So you might, as a casual observer, get to Flash under F, see the scant handful of comics there, and assume “I guess this is all the Flash comics they have.” You’d give up long before…

That actually makes it worse because it means nobody looked at the competitor and spent time iterating on how to improve the user experience. For god’s sake, you can’t even search for stories by character! This is basic stuff!

I found DCU to be extraordinarily bad. It’s unintuitive, clunky, and (worst of all) extremely poorly organized. If you want to read Flash comics, you have to scroll all the way down to “T” for “THE Flash.” Every time you select a book then push the back button, you’re allll the way at the top of the list again with no…