I… I'm torn on Looper. Like, it's a very slick, clever sci-fi noir, but the actual story about the kid Superman felt a little too derivative for my tastes. It didn't help that Remender's run on X-Force had just finished(?) when it came out, and that had a much more involved exploration of the same idea.

When in doubt with aliens, just assume cloaca and/or reproduction by budding.

Chewie's pretty young, we try not to sexualize him.

Is DiCaprio kicked out of the US because his visa expired and the whole thing is actually an examination of the interests that should be balanced when determining immigration policy?

Whether being more timely would be an improvement is in itself highly dubious, but if that were the goal, doing an actual straight adaptation of Neuromancer - with Russians and hacking and all that - rather than 'Neuromancer but with dreams', might be the way to go.

Decided to go back and finally finish Agents of Empire by Noel Malcolm, which was a very good decision because once you get past the Battle of Lepanto, the book suddenly becomes this Dumas-esque adventure story of historically minor characters getting swept up in the fate of nations. Like, if this hasn't been optioned…

M&M is nuts in the best way, you're in for a treat.

He 100% owns the Umbers and Karstarks now, though. Even if they weren't being run by people younger than him, they know he's the only reason they're not totally fucked. Nobody's got time for musical chairs - and the massive endeavor that would require, considering the number of people involved - when there's a zombie…

Exactly, yeah. I get why they did it, but I honestly would have preferred half a season of going 'where the hell is Arya?' and then have one episode of 'oh, shit.'

I just want to point out how nice it was to watch a scene featuring certain characters, only to have it followed by… another scene with those same characters. I'm sure it probably worked out to the same amount of screentime for everyone, but not constantly jumping back and forth definitely helped avoid the drip-feed…

Given the extent of her abilities it's likely to be a moral dilemma over a practical one. Thus, the scene with the Lannister soldiers.

Flashback to Stannis and Davos as they're sailing away:

That's the true magic of dragon glass!

I like how on top of the kids already taking over in the main story, there's also just this YA novel running in the background where a bunch of teenagers are put in charge of their own holds to fight zombies.

The 100 had some pop singer cameo in the premiere of the previous season, which was another 'not really bothered' situation but then it ended with him getting punched in the face, so. There's a high bar to these things.

I'm just going to assume that in any given scene, Sansa is hiding her goblet under that giant cloak.

Ladies, please! You're both horrifying on an intense, existential level.

Honestly I'm just super happy for Rian Johnson. Brick was huge for me.

That's interesting. It does make total sense that Besson would have a good grasp on how to do his thing in a way that doesn't lose money. I've never been able to predict audience reaction for movies well, though. Like, Valerian could do decently here, or people could look at it and go "eh, we saw GOTG2 already, let's…

No one is going to want to invade/bomb us because we make all the movies they want to watch. Foreign policy at its finest!