Without getting into any details of the show (if you don’t want to watch you don’t need to), “the North remembers” is an oft-repeated phrase, almost a mantra, used to signify that the people (of “the North”) are still loyal to their king (or queen) after they have been betrayed or killed or dethroned or otherwise…

lead singer Jay Kay, who glides through the video, dancing on a series of imperceptible moving sidewalks.

Correct. Even if you don’t buy that it was gender-based violence (I’m sure it was), this guy has “weak little coward” written all over him. He will piss himself in prison.

Not diverged, passed. The show ran out of book material to adapt after season 5. They had already diverged in many ways by the end of that season, but everything from seasons 6 through 8 covers events Martin hasn’t written yet (and probably never will). We know that the show runners had inside knowledge of some stuff…

I feel very sorry for your friends and family if you don’t understand why.

I’ve been to a few coworkers’ weddings, and I invited a few to my first wedding, but those were all coworkers from the bar/restaurant we all spent years working at. The thing about the work we did was that because we worked together until after midnight every night, our social lives intersected by necessity - that is,…

I like Bobby too, but I can easily see him rubbing some people the wrong way. Tan’s the sort of guy where if you don’t like him the problem is with you.

You must not have ever paused that thing.

At the time the movie was being filmed, most people didn’t have VCRs in their homes, so no, they definitely weren’t thinking about people pausing. Also, you’ve clearly never paused a VHS in an attempt to get a clear look at something.

I grew up in the Canadian equivalent of a midwestern flyover state, and can confirm the part about not realizing if you’ve met a Jewish person. I have many stories about this phenomenon, but the first one happened to me: in high school we were discussing The Merchant of Venice and antisemitism, and I said something…

I can’t believe what I just read. Absolutely baffling.

She’s like an idea for a character, one whose personality and traits are told to us rather than shown.

Right? Harry was Hermione’s best friend. They are an all-too-rare example of genuine platonic love between friends of opposite genders. Sticking them together would have been trite and disappointing.

I’m opposed to the death penalty on principle, but I think I’m willing to make 434 exceptions. The world would absolutely be a better place if we crammed Tate and his “war room” into a building and burned it down.

There was a Spiderwick Chronicles movie released in 2008. It wasn’t bad, either, but it wasn’t a big enough success to justify sequels.

They weren’t going to have to pay residuals (at least not in any remotely significant way) under the current contracts. This is a big part of what the current strikes are about. If they are scuttling this over residuals, they’re openly signaling that they’re about to cave on that. I don’t think that’s the case.

They’ve been shot, but that is a vastly different thing from being completed, especially for something as effects-heavy as Spiderwick Chronicles.

And also their race.

He misunderstood, as most people have, what the attraction to Trump was all about. Yes, Trump has drawn in the racist crowd, but it wasn’t the racism that made his cult so feverishly devoted to him. If it was just racism and other forms of bigotry, 99.999999999% of Republican politicians fit that bill nicely. The…

These “artists” you know “who can’t catch a break”: if their personalities are anything like yours, it might not be a lack of connections holding them back.