Macaques are very intelligent creatures. Off the top of my head while teaching in Delhi:

This is the Rocketeer reboot we’ve always wanted.

I love this shot so much...

You might have loved it.

Ewwwww, they used Papyrus on the call sheet!

I had said this earlier to some friends.. I like television and movies where the only reasonable outcome of the current situation is what you see happen on screen. Anything else is sloppy writing. And this episode had tons of it, even in just the end King’s LAnding scene.

Ballista had a range of around 4-500M. If the dragons were higher than that they’re good to go, and for the boats, the bolts would have bounced off like nerf darts or fell into the ocean unless they were right on top of each other or raining them down from above like artillery.

They must be taking notes from J.J. Abrams. 

Ballistas in this show might as well be magic though the way they’re portrayed. They’re impossibly precise, can be reloaded at will, and apparently can tear through entire ships over extremely long distance. 

The level of annoying coincidences just continues to grow. Apparently the ships were able to hide from not only the fleet, but also the dragons soaring a few hundred feet above? And not only where they able to hide, but then they were able to swing around the coast, aim their magic crossbows that don’t lose speed and…

It is also INCREDIBLY difficult to hit a flying, moving target with such accuracy. The first three bolts we saw all hit the dragon. Even with today’s advanced targeting systems with computers worth millions of dollars, that would be impressive. Let’s not forget that, since nothing in GoT flies EXCEPT for dragons, it’s…

I saw this as an indication that technology was gradually improving in the post-dragon era. You can see this with Qyburn, who’s basically a mad scientist, using applied knowledge to create Darth Gregor and blow up Baelor’s Sept.

To be fair, between losing no speed over distance (well over a mile) and coming from completely different angles (even though the ships were all in the same place) the scorpion bolts defiance over the laws of space and physics were probably not on Dany’s mind?
(I mean I know they’re shooting at magical creatures)
Also,…

It’s just so military-brain to immediately assume they’d be here to nuke us. Says so much about us.

I would like to thank Gotg for providing me this golden message to the people who got Mr. Gunn fired:

I wonder to what extent the total failure of review-bombing on Captain Marvel’s box office played a role. If it wasn’t already clear that nobody gives a shit what online trolls think about Marvel movies, it’s blindingly obvious now. 

This is excellent news for two reasons:

The First Order is so smart that they couldn’t figure out how to intercept 3 ships traveling in a straight line other than to slowly chase them.

observations made from telescopes in Argentina suggested it was ovular or cigar-shaped