Of course it’s all scripted drama and the wrestlers are paid performers, not competitive athletes.

I think exposure plays a role, back in the day the WWF was a prominent feature of either “cheap” commercial tv stations or hip and trendy channels in Europe. It only lasted a few years until viewership figures dropped and they picked up on other stuff. Wrestling has never made a comeback since.  As long as it is out…

You know the guy who is quite smart, has genuine out-of-the-box ideas and has a workshop full of amazing inventions that promise to change the world, except that none of them really work and he’s constantly tweaking and redesigning them, being incredibly ingenious, but actually getting nowhere ?

He’d rather pull a Tommen, than sit on any throne, after all he has seen and done ...

It’s easy to be the cynical player in the lap of luxury knowing the fallout will never get near you.  That idea quickly melts in the knowledge that any guy with a sword will murder you for the clothes on your back ...

A SILENT, omniscient cripple godly ruler.

He fucked up his time at the Night’s Watch, just like everybody else fucked up.  He got an extra life to fix it.

“Some day son, this patch of snow will be yours.”

I think that armed with GRRM’s notes and halfway through the series D+D had their “George Lucas talking episodes 7-9" moment and thought they could effortlessly make it all epic and awesome and by the 6th and 7th season they figured “Damn this shit is hard ! Let’s just bulletpoint it with six episodes, sign that damn…

You can be sincere in saying you are doing good to the point of clenching your teeth so hard together they shatter, but there is zero guarantee that all the “good” you do even includes one iota of “certified textbook definition good”.

The biggest mistake is to assume the classic tropes of Fantasy apply to Game of Thrones. It’s natural after the line of Kings from Tolkien, Lewis’ Tetrarchy of Kings/Queens in Narnia, King Arthur, King Richard in most Robin Hood stories to expect the rightful monarch to set things straight and lead the land to a…

How horrible for GRRM to claim beforehand he doesn’t believe in the rightful king trope and see him do it in his own work and expect him to do it absolutely sincerely straight in a series where everyone else with an arc or “nothing but unstoppable destiny” gets killed ignominiously or royally fucks it up.

Dany was aware of the problems, but she was not able to translate them into meaningful actions. Remember the road to hell is paved with good intentions. You can mean to do good so sincerely you are shaking and convulsing, and still end up doing nothing but evil.

They turned every sentence of the notebook GRRM left with them in an episode with a ton of filler.  I doubt he never had more than a few paragraphs at best to highlight whatever he had in mind for the series.

Being aware of mistakes doesn’t make you immune to them.  You can tell yourself you do nothing but good and still do great harm.

Because GRRM has repeatedly said he doesn’t believe in the “Rightful king, ordained to rule against all odds and will do so wisely, beloved by all until the end of his days ...”

Oh, but then they would say that GRRM was paid or forced to say that because the series is now so much more important than the books.

I’ve said it a few times in the past that Dany was not so much a character as a plot device, she was doomed to either die dramatically or become the big bad.

A friend of mine does a very similar job to that of the hosts and the big difference is that she’s self employed with her own company.

1200 of those were passers-by who were asked to describe the most awesome car in the world and tried to take the piss out of the asshole bothering them on the way to the store to get vodka.