I’m sorry 😞

Ted Lasso sucks 

My problem with that reading is that Downey's talking specifically about his grasp of English, not his country's history.

Thanks but I'll just wait for the Flop House episode.

The funniest part of your reply is that I'm almost certainly NOT distracting him from that, haha 

I guess the issue I would take with the “out of context” defense is not so much that I disagree overall that there is a context to that joke which validates it somewhat (I don’t disagree, and I don’t think that the context is hard to discern at all either), it’s just that it fails to consider whether or not the…

Samantha Morton is an achingly good, heart-rendingly truthful actor.  I have never felt as though she wasn't reaching deep into herself to deliver authentic work, regardless of the part or the film.

“some of whom it seemed like we were supposed to know even though they were never actually introduce”

I feel this way too. I think it’s just a question of how comfortable you are with the author being so centred in their own work.

Oh so what you're saying is that some people don't like to read long things on the internet.  Ok I'm with you now.  Thanks for letting me know.

Yeah but are you telling me that dog breeds are identical in Game Of Thrones land?  I can accept the dragons but I can't accept the existence of pugs in two universes.

Good on you Lucy.  Great point, well made.

The misreading of the final battle is very interesting to me because as I stated in my initial comment in this thread, I found it very odd that the reviewer thought that the episode’s central thesis was that Viserys has become even more ineffectual as a king.

Well for what it’s worth, I don’t particularly see it as my job to facilitate change, but I also think that one way or another, good writing is good writing. I’m not sure I want to see the site die the way you do, I am simply expressing my feelings about the writing to any interested readers, I’m not proposing to…

Cold take: white upper-middle class people who were raised by extremely media-savvy parents, and who have entered filmmaking largely through the portal of “basically being a bankable actor”, don’t often make insightful art of their own.

I can still do this on my phone (chrome/Android).

I dunno, I don't think it's sad.  I'm not out here trying to fit in or anything.  I just see other people enjoying themselves and I thought I'd give it a go too, to see if I would also enjoy myself.  Certainly I'm having more fun talking about the show with others than watching it, that's alright isn't it?

The time jump was the worst kind. It shunted the characters as they existed at the end of episode 2 forward in time, but did not give them 3 years of character development. It glossed over the things the writers wanted to jettison, and it progressed the things they wanted to retain, all without putting the work in.…

I really don’t understand Game Of Thrones’ appeal either, and I’m only getting into this new series because everyone in my workplace is talking about it. I put up with years of people talking about Game Of Thrones and I just was unable, despite repeated attempts, to find anything meaningful or moving in that show. It…

It’s a challenge, you know: one doesn’t want to respond to a review with “you just don’t get it man” because the whole purpose of a program like this is to invite discussion: the ambiguities and uncertainties are explicitly designed to position different audiences differently. Its not overly prescriptive about where…