My suspicion is that he was indeed scripted to respond there, but because he doesn’t, Daemon’s silence reads as “You’d better find him”, not “Hmm... give me a second and I’ll come up with an alternative for you”.

I didn’t think it made sense for one random soldier and a rat catcher to be sent to assassinate Aemond, one of the best swordsmen around at the time. What would their odds of success be?

You are absolutely correct. Maybe Sabina Graves got confused by all similar sounding names in the show.

To be honest, I thought it was a bit of a mess.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Helaena is Aegon’s wife and not Aemond’s.  She’s not married to both her brothers, is she?  I guess it’s not out of the question for Targaryens.

I thought the whole sequence was very entertaining.

This just looks (and sounds) like an animated version of the Snyder movie. Why go for a generic style phone game when Gibbons’ art already looked like animation?

I like how the AV Club acts like it was disappointed to get Shane instead of Ariana Grande, instead of dancing in the hallways over the chance to publish yet another Shane Gillis clickbait piece (assuming the AV Club still has hallways?  I don’t know how this stuff works now)

I want to see Bill Hader and John Mulaney’s James L. Brooks samurai movie, “But What If You’re Wrong?”

I don’t like or support Shane Gillis, for the same reasons as hinted at here, and I still think this article is absolutely embarrassing. I would truly guess this was an amateur Tumblr post if it were stripped of context & formatting. 

Jesus Christ. Don’t get me wrong, Shane Gillis is very much not to my taste and I find his loudest fans on the internet to be obnoxious but I don’t know that he’s done anything to deserve this much vitriol.

It was actually a healthy gender dynamic that was trying to cope with an unhealthy societal expectation of women. The man and women in the song are taking part in an intentional verbal dance due to the expectations of society as a whole.

People have a hard time articulating why the song has aged poorly. The woman can’t say “yes” or “no,” so the man (and the listeners) interpret her excuses as coyness. The social expectation that women won’t say “yes,” and men have to pursue them over their (fake) objections, relies on men correctly distinguishing fake…

Put some pants on your blue freak!!

something new

It is October 2019. I am reading a news story about how “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is bad. They say there is a new version by John Legend and Kelly Clarkson.

I wonder if anyone actually is dim enough to genuinely believe that’s what the song is about?

It’s a song about, as our Britt Hayes put it, “a woman being held hostage by some guy who may or may not have drugged her adult beverage.”

On point. The song is a time capsule of the way adults used to flirt. Within the context of the song there is no rapey vibe at all. People of that time probably just thought it was a cute way to demonstrate the playfulness of dating in a more reserved society.

‘It’s a song about, as our Britt Hayes put it, “a woman being held hostage by some guy who may or may not have drugged her adult beverage.”’