I can’t believe nobody has stated this, but the Langley Schools Music Project actually did inspire a movie starring Jack Black: School of Rock. Sure, it changes the ‘70s setting to the early 2000s, but Black plays a musician who has no teaching credentials, but becomes a teacher and teaches his students how to play a…

Also, actual history is not particularly relevant to the details of this fictional fantasy world.

Slavers are universally despised.

Surprisingly, if you’d seen the program the “pantsuit” would make more sense to you. The Middle Ages didn’t only happen in Europe.

I love her music, but she probably needs to get away from Elon musk, who's old and weird enough to be her creepy uncle.

I gotta defend her on this point. While I find her art student schtick tiresome, and her past coziness with Elon Musk outright offensive, I still think her music so far has been pretty great. Whether I’m willing to dig in from this point on, however, is going to necessitate the new work being far better than just…

The real issue seems to be that as the series got more popular, HBO started lavishing Lord of the Rings-money for more CGI and extras and bigger sets, but for whatever reason they weren’t comfortable with the longer episode orders that would have been needed to draw the show to a stronger conclusion.

Baelor was an episode from the first season. What are you referring to as “some later moments”?

In Grimes’ case, it’s the success of her music that has allowed her to become this weird public persona that I now know too much about. I can’t speak for others, but I loved the music before I knew anything about the artist behind the music.

This. The joy of the books/earlier seasons was that they didn’t feel like they were trying to be crowd-pleasing or pander to the usual fantasy tropes (even when they did). The recent seasons don’t just feel like a different show, they feel like the writers trying to please the fans and keep things moving with various…

That's fine. Dorne is weak in both mediums.

“That suggests something of a reversal: Game Of Thrones isn’t just telling the rest of Martin’s story before he can finish it himself; the show is doing it better than he could.”

Same. Kill V Maim and Venus Fly are bangers, and I have to stop there because she’s got a lot of great songs, but... please go back to being someone I didn’t know anything about personally, Grimey?

I love her music, but it’s a love increasingly challenged by her public persona.

Liz Holmes and I were freshman dormmates at Stanford in 02-03 (Junipero, in Wilbur Hall) and she was totally unremarkable. Obviously the voice is fake but she never talked about biotech or starting a company or anything like that. She was a Human Biology major, but that was more a pre-med track than research science.…

I didn’t make it up, dude. It’s a fact.

When I was young (junior high? early high school?), and therefore shallow, I feel in like with a girl after about 5 seconds of hearing her speak in a really low voice. It was outside of my experience up to that point, and hit me like a ton of bricks.

I know these articles are churned out at a great rate, but would it really have been that difficult to find out what the editor himself had in mind with his editing choices, such as they are? From the Washington Post:

I can actually see Jeff Bezos believing that the Wall Street Journal is basically his receptionist.

The use of the fisheye lens really works in The Favourite; presenting the world around the monarch as subtly distorted comes off as a competently expressed visual theme in the film, at least IMO