Isn’t the Far Harad a little further south of Cornwall?

Hmmm

Is this entirely set in Ye Olde England? Because there’s an elephant in there.

Dude: Legend of the Phallic Supplement

OK

Think about it, if they put VR goggles in a Vader helmet AND THEN have the VR put you inside Vader’s mask — META-VADER.

A rampaging wampa?

If they don’t market this by selling VR goggles built into a Vader helmet, they’re missing a trick

Plot armor is way better than motif mail or a theme shield.

I did. I was a little familiar with it before — kind of a precursor to the Voyage of Saint Brendan, and even has some echoes of The Odyssey.

“Alas, poor FN-1182! I knew him, FN-3143, a fellow of infinite
discipline, of most excellent conformity. He hath marched beside me a
thousand times, and now how abhorr’d in the Force it is!
My gorge rises at it.”

Thank you?

Bran trippin.

Kurt Vonnegut used to give lectures on the shapes of stories, and his favorite (or the one I remember the most vividly) was Hamlet. It was interesting to him because he’d show how the action didn’t end up rising or falling, but by the end evened out. It was his “Which Way Is Up?” story form.

"But, as the title of the review suggests, to what end?"

I know a lot of people seem to think this was all cheap, lazy and unearned, and the writing is just bad. But there are some tells here that the showrunners are giving this stuff more thought than some commenters.

I bet you say that to all the shows.

Since Bran was able to warg back to Hodor's youth and affect the present, it's conceivable he could have gone to some other time in the past when he saw the Night King. The Night King touches Bran, gets a bead on his consciousness/location, and then that guy knows where and when to be to get the drop on The Bran Gang.

More reason to have GRRM at least give the scripts a once-over.