Was it? I think that's still ambiguous. And I think that thing is 100 percent stabbing Littlefinger.

Jaime isn't dead, but…I kind of wish he were. Not because I don't like him (I do) or because I think the character is played out (I don't — I think he's still fairly complex), but because what a *moment* for it: Burned to death charging a dragon as the knight in shining armor in a last-ditch effort to win for the…

That makes sense logically, but narratively, it's a non-starter. He's an incredibly major character. If/when he dies, it's not going to happen in a slow, ambiguous fade to black that has the audience wondering what happened, and it's *certainly* not going to happen that way immediately after he narrowly avoided a…

There is a zero percent chance they left one of the five biggest characters left to die an ambiguous drowning death immediately after being saved from a dragon.

(hastily scratches out "JS" monogram)

Nah, if Jaime fucking Lannister has a death scene, we'll know it. They're not going to head-fake you on what would have been an incredibly appropriate and bad-ass death for Jaime (I think it would have been an amazing to kill him, but that's neither here nor there) to have him drown in a lake ambiguously off-screen.

You can burn his daughter but not his legacy.

This is a crazy thing to say, but I thought it was pretty fair! Ellaria murdered her innocent daughter in cold blood, presumably with Tyene's knowledge and perhaps even help. Tyene helped murder a fair number of innocent people, including Doran and Trystane. As far as Cersei goes, this sentence was on the level!

"February 23, 2018 release date" is a bit of a red flag, isn't it?

I thought we were talking about speculative fiction.

People have a really really really hard time with this concept, in spite of just about every tennis great peaking in their early- to mid-20s.

Take away grass and clay, and you’ve got one guy with 11 majors and another with three.

So take away all of Federer’s Wimbledons and and all Nadal’s Frenchs, and what do you have?

It’s really odd to penalize Federer for not going through Nadal to win a French Open final that Nadal didn’t qualify for. This is the fundamental problem with the head-to-head stuff: Federer gets dinged for going deep and losing, while Rafa and Novak get off Scot-free for losing to randos in the first week of majors.

Federer’s prime was 2004-2007 — like most tennis players, he peaked in his early- to mid-20's. His record against Djokovic is middling because Federer kept making finals into his 30s when Novak was peaking instead of fading away.

This, this, this. Federer always get penalized for losing to his top rivals deep in majors rather than losing early. He would be so much better off in the H2H if he had flamed out at the French during Nadal’s prime, or started collapsing in the second or third round instead of losing semis and finals to Djokovic when…

This is absolutely true once you discount the fact that he shared the field with two of the four most prolific champions in men’s history, who are also two of five men in the Open era with career Grand Slams.

The amount of Tony Stark in the movie was fine for me (and that’s coming from someone who thinks the MCU is incredibly oversaturated with Stark). It did bother me (and I really liked the movie) how criminally irresponsible Tony was, especially given the parenting role he was explicitly trying to play. Like, the…

I think what’s going on is the dissonance between what people think of as a sport (clear winner, objective outcome, won or lost on the field, etc) and subjective elements subverting that expectation, which I think actually strengthens the OP’s argument. I’d take it further and argue that if a fighting sport requires a…

It’s not that $890 million isn’t a huge sum. It’s that $2.1 billion is a huger one, and $3.3 billion (the Knicks) is huger still. If values reflect revenue streams at all (I don’t know how strong the correlation is, but I’m fairly confident the Knicks are pulling in more than my Timberwolves), the difference in what a…