I happened to see this extremely bad take. It was incredibly frustrating and disturbing. I want to quote a different commenter, who has some academic experience in these matters. This is from Arnheim:

More than that, we need people to do these jobs. Whether it’s these warehouse jobs or working as janitors or making fast food, someone’s gotta do it. So how about making them at least a little bit appealing and a little rewarding? Instead we sneer at the “unskilled” even as there’s this expectation that everyone in…

You are a sheltered fucking moron.

I think Jennifer Lawrence is the only truly great actor on the list. I don’t know why the backlash has happened, but your train is extremely full.

She’s amazing in Winter’s Bone, Silver Linings and American Hustle and is good in Hunger Games and most everything else she has been in. I get that people don’t seem to…

Death penalty isn’t even the most glaring hypocrisy. That award goes to: infant mortality. Alabama and other radical right states have some of the worst outcomes in the country. They literally don’t care about dead babies, they just want bitches to suffer.

Okay, but imagine that they’d blown up the Death Star with, like, forty minutes left in the movie, and the rest of it was Leia arguing with General Dodonna about who should be in charge of the Rebel Alliance. It would feel weird and anticlimactic, right?

I’ve never thought the “what about the death penalty?” retort was particularly effective. It’s ironic, sure, that a group that labels itself as “Pro-life” also tends to favor State-sanctioned murder of convicted criminals, and as ethically problematic as support for the death penalty is, I just don’t think it’s a…

I don’t think it’s because other services are charging too much for too little. Well, they do, but I don’t think it’s the main reason why people won’t subscribe.

Yeah, a few different people have made this point, but I think it’s slightly off-base. The key thing in my version of events is that Dany’s actions are still completely and utterly unforgivable and make her, in effect, a monster; if it played out the way I wrote it, by the end of “The Bells” she’d still be the enemy…

Agreed entirely. They failed completely to sell the notion that she’s changed from being someone who operates based on internal logic, however ruthless it may be, to someone who’s just flat out insane. She killed people before for a reason, and while she might have tolerated collateral casualties, she was never the…

Yes, but so much of what you describe as pushing her to the brink is contrived and unearned. Rhaegal’s death last episode was bogus — the scorpions are all-powerful last episode and useless this. Jon Snow didn’t have to immediately rat his secret out to his whole family, nor did Sansa have to immediately rat it out.…

I was saying last week that although Cersei is evil interpersonally, she’s likely the best ruler Westeros has had in decades - she paid off the kingdom’s debts, brought in a huge supply of food for the city just in time for winter, ramped up military protections against a foreign threat AND the Northerners (who had a…

I appreciate your bringing in some evidence from Dany’s past to show why she always had some of these tendencies (so much has happened, it’s easy to forget!) ... but as brutal as she’s been, she’s also been someone who listened to her advisors and, when guided in the direction of compromises that would help establish…

I just wish they hadn’t gone full “Crazy Lady.” That the final piece of kindling on the crazy fire was that the boy won’t love her back elicited some loud groans in my house. Looking at your list of reasons why she did what she did could also be looked at as very logical reasons why she needed to go house on King’s…

Everything you’ve said is totally fair and reasonable, but it’s the out-of-character actions of characters who have been long established as being a certain way that really gets to me. In particular, even as a dude, I’m pretty miffed by what they’ve done to their female characters. Look what Season 8 has given us in…

I think a lot of folks need to stop patting themselves on the back for “having seen this coming a mile away”.

I agree that Dany’s plot was built up over many seasons, and it’s in character with consideration of the long arc... but the writers failed to effectively show her transition from rationalizing her acts of violence with rhetoric of being a champion of the oppressed, to just burning a city for funsies that had just…

But if I didn’t get it, then I don’t want anyone else to get it.  [paraphrasing selfish assholes]

omg that was what I kept cry-repeating to my husband last night (who couldn’t believe I was tearing up). I was like, honestly I get why she likes Jaime but Tormund GETS HER and just like 10000% supports who she is. Come on Brienne look at Tormund!!