“the final season aggressively thumbed its nose at almost every major fan theory”

Of course I would like to have seen a longer, better composed final season.

Daenerys burning King’s Landing to the ground. How the show got there didn’t make a whole lot of sense, but it feels like a Martin-like twist that fits his story,

You play the Game of Thrones and you win, or you die.

Very well put. I certainly understand people venting a bit when their favorite shows go off the rails to some extent, but if you ask me GOT’s crime isn’t being horrible, but being a bit less than perfect, and that’s not cause for the vitriol that’s been aimed its way the last few months. First of all, as good a show…

Sam is a strong contender for MVP. He started out as the joke of the Night’s Watch, the one dude everyone (but Jon) made fun of. Guess what? Now all the assholes who laughed at Sam are dead, and he’s Grand Maester of the entire kingdom, plus he’s got a loving wife and family, on a show where no other character…

If it was the latter, uh, he’s super evil. With that ability couldn’t he have stopped Daenerys before she murdered all those innocent people? Or maybe did more to prevent the Night King from killing so many at Winterfell? If so, the only reason not to mention any of this beforehand was that he was playing the long…

‘And that’s the problem with him telling Tyrion he traveled all that way to King’s Landing to become king. Why? How? Was he a 17-level-chess genius who anticipated that exact sequence of events would happen? Or did Bran know everything that was going to happen before it did?’

This seems like a good place to meditate on something that I haven’t been able to find the right words to address: bitterness. I’ve tried before, and I’ll try again.

I’d argue that she made no heel-turn from liberator to tyrant.  She was the same consistent, obsessed zealot she’d always been.  The only thing that changed was that we agreed with her zealotry previously.  Her logic was always deeply flawed--she wanted to liberate the world, but only under her mastery.

If there’s one thing that Game of Thrones did better than any show before it, it’s subverting expectations, so it’s weird to hear so many people complaining when the rightful heir to the throne doesn’t become king.

I’ll say it before and I’ll say it again: Much like Stannis burning Shireen, Dany burninating Kings Landing makes thematic sense since one of the series’ major themes is that questing for the Iron Throne, no matter your reasons for doing so, is inherently corruptible and the only way to win The Game of Thrones is not…

I wish they’d replace Hardwick. I kind of miss Talking, but not enough to watch him.

Bob had such a penned-in childhood (working at his Dad’s diner, where his only friends were anthropomorphic garbage) that it’s no wonder his life’s ambitions are so modest.

Aye. There’s every bit as much room for epic space adventure on a show like this as there is time to slow down and examine ourselves.

It also reminded me of Picard’s experience with the probe from the dead civilization where he lives a whole lifetime in an hour.

This. We need to remember that most of the parents and many people around them really believe they are doing something good for their children. They are willing to do anything to make the situation better. Many of them double down because they still believe or because they do not want to admit to themselfs they were…

As a nurse and cancer survivor you should see my reaction to hearing people saying things like all of oncology is pure profiteering quackery and that you just need a supplement that matches the electron spin of the atoms in a cancer cell to cure it(wrong on so many levels). I can literally almost feel my adrenalin…

Still salty about one of my favourite bookshops becoming Book Marc.