Eh, it's pretty impressive when you consider it will wrap up filming for over 8 years in multiple countries. Actors have to follow the jobs. I think the first Mountain left after he was cast as Azog, only to be recast and redesigned late in production, so it's always a gamble.

I read that actor Richard Brake was unavailable to reprise the role. Now they have a stuntman playing the role (who also played the dude the Children hella stabbed), who is probably cheaper.

Alt Night King.

"Is he the man Bran saw the Children Of The Forest turn into the first White Walker when they put dragonglass in his heart?"

"Looks like those clowns in Westeros did it again…"

Yeah, at least establish that they are there and not just fodder. At least a grunt or two while they're snow shoeing.

I used to watch IT, but then they changed what ‘IT’ was, and now what I watch isn’t IT. And what’s ‘IT’ seems weird and scary to me.

I grew up in Madison, WI, birthplace of The Onion and The Onion AV Club, so it's been a constant for me since the mid-1990s. In college, I had a weekly lunch date with the latest issue and was super proud to see it first make its way to kiosks on the streets of NYC. It's been pretty cool to witness the AV Club gain…

It's such a leap backwards, AV Club will be reverting to just the V Club!

Discans! He hates DisCANS!

Fear not, everyone's profiles will smoothly transition to C.H.U.D.qus.

When I say "meaningful deaths", I don't mean that they don't mean anything to the story. Obviously that's quite the opposite in this show. I was speaking of cathartic or satisfying deaths, that are dramatic and satisfying to viewers. People don't like to see their favorite characters go down without guns a
blazing or…

It cracked as soon as the search party of 7 or 8 people got on the ice. Ice fisherman in WI and MN safely drive in cars or snowmobiles to their shacks on frozen lakes in March.

It definitely feels like a different, less imaginative show since it passed the books. I've always felt the talk about "meaningful deaths" for characters is kind of lame, because that kind of "earned" catharsis is not the same show I've been watching. Traditionally in your average movie or TV show, main characters…

Exactly, if Winter has come, that ice would be pretty solid. That didn't make any sense.

Everyone gets a movie! You get a movie and YOU get a movie!

I enjoy it. It's an odd one, but much more loose, with a nice impromptu "Cinnamon Girl. I've read that Dr John just happened to be down the hall from the studio so he sat in, which makes it a cool moment between 2 of my favorite musicians you normally wouldn't associate together. Like a cross-over episode or when your…

The acoustic version is an interesting take, but there's a big gulf between screaming "you got me on my knees!" and mellowly mentioning so. Plus, the coda is such a big part of that song, Clapton had Chuck Leavell right there on keys, not sure why he didn't tease a little of it.

"sit down on a stool and perform a thrillingly revelatory/annoyingly masturbatory acoustic set of some of their biggest hits"

So this show was on Seeso I take it?