No: they are. The first two books were nearly a beat-for-beat rehash of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back.

This is the only image I can think of every time I see Smith in that stupid wig. He looks so godawful in it. The hairstyle does nothing for him.

For real. It would only have taken a line or two to change the scene from horrific to horribly tragic, which I expect it was supposed to read as. Honestly, after watching the episode, I’m pissed off at how the scene was handled, but I wouldn’t put it past GRRM for the set-up to be how he intended it to be. The reality…

Seriously? That’s total B.S. Poxviruses spread through contact.

I've never heard of it, either, and I was in middle/high school in the early aughts.

Wait, how is wanting to use a condom to prevent HIV transmission a negative thing? Obviously, PrEP prevents transmission to someone HIV negative and ART prevents transmission from someone HIV positive (depending on the individual’s regimen and viral loads etc.), but I can’t see why someone bemoaning a lack of condom…

Hey, uh, you’re throwing stones from a glass house a bit, considering Parliament. Like, expecting there to be less infighting in the Democratic Party than a collective composed of Sinn Féin, the SDLP, SNP, Labour, the Greens, and Plaid Cymru, is genuinely a bit nonsense. ‘Cause the US Democratic Party is actually 50…

Someone should fucking challenge Marbury vs. Madison just to fuck with them. Love to see if Thomas is enough of a shithead to try to undo the purpose of the Supreme Court.

Wait, really? They’re upset about the show because of the fringe group? It doesn’t exactly make mainline LDS look stellar, either. I mean, Jesus Christ. Talk about projection.

Yeah, seriously. Has Jezebel completely forgotten the terminology for the Pro-Choice movement?

I know! Heard had to prove in the UK courts that she was telling the truth. So what if she has had bizarre and/or violent behavior as well? That doesn’t invalidate what was done to her. Like, I have no horse in this race, but this shit is bonkers.

I know, right?

It looks okay from the front, but from the side, it makes me anxious just looking at it. The shape itself is great, but, as you said, it looks unfinished. The hem in the front looks a little off, and the inner placket poking out under the hem of the top one doesn’t help. The shirt probably could have stood to have…

China claimed it invented kimchi and the hanbok...? Jesus Christ.

Except that, in the original Star Wars, Obi-Wan looks like he wandered in off the set of Seven Samurai? Aside from being Alec Guinness, I mean.

You’re joking, but the general set-up of the Galaxy Team moving to Hisui is strongly evocative of how Japan colonized Hokkaido, which is the area Hisui/Sinnoh is based on. The native peoples of Hisui in the game take design elements from the Ainu, too.

The hell does that have to do with anything?

Uhh, when I was un eighth grade, we read Night. I’m sure Maus is fine for that age, too.

I’m stunned that the Prime Minister of Finland was able to go to a club let alone actually wanted to.

It’s science fiction in the same way that On The Beach and 1984 are science fiction. I love Station Eleven. It’s an excellent novel. As a connoisseur of dreck, I understand why the author might not want to be associated with pulp fiction. However, as a scientist who works on an infectious disease, the book is…