As someone who doesn't particularly care for Stormlight, I unreservedly endorse this idea. (Besides, I don't think it actually would slow him down much.)

Maybe they just didn't travel well. Which I do not think is an excuse Chelsea Handler can get away with.

Nope, you're probably getting Zoolander.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was never as much fun as it wanted to be. You can't mash up a comedy of manners with a total breakdown of society scenario unless you're either willing to completely toss the manners, or have the characters steadfastly ignore the undead shambling about while they pursue the…

I'd say there's nothing curious about Point #2 if we accept the premise that the whole setup is basically authorial wish-fulfillment.

It does suck when people who like a thing get involved in that thing and proceed to throw out any and all evolution since they imprinted on that thing so the thing will stay exactly the way they remember it. See: history of comic books.

YouTube. "Skip in 5 seconds…4…3…"

Just looking at that trailer, I cannot fathom how anyone growing up in a world like that could idolize the 80s unless they learned literally nothing else about the decade.

In-universe references are usually fun Easter eggs. If you've got a work that's nothing but Easter eggs, though, or that treats them like just including them is enough of a clever punchline on its own, that gets old fast.

No, that was Ser Animal Trainer Doesn't Want to Work with Cats on a Regular Basis.

As long as people keep buying the books that are out and all the tie-ins, they've only got so much incentive to tell him to focus on the main thing.

The lesson is either one of two things: there are no lessons and life is just arbitrarily unfair in certain people's favor, or the fairy tale shit will in fact save you as long as you're not the red herring protagonist.

He'd have to pretend to comply temporarily, unless he was prepared to just go "fuck it" and stage an outright coup. Which he probably is.

Because the politically savvy move is totally always going to be Jon's first consideration.

They're hipsters. They'll be going with stuff like Zechariah and Hesper.

Nah, he'd just be doing all the press briefings himself in Tweet form if that were the case.

It's cute that you think he understands hypocrisy or self-reflection.

Nah, the future's fightable. It's the past that refuses to give up.

That's only going to last until the sponsorship deal with Dippin Dots comes through.

This is not the bloviating conservative Sean story I came here looking for. :(