Dorne was indeed season 5. The casting looked great except that several book-important characters were not cast and the book fans started to worry that the show was going to distill the complexity of Dorne into something lesser that made no sense.

Now that some of the quotes from the actors preseason can be viewed in context...yeah, I feel bad for everyone involved.

I felt like it was very obvious when the show ran out of source material from the books... the quality of the story/writing took a dive. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t as good as those first several seasons were. 

Maybe but it really just had a lot of bad television after it diverged so much from the source material in s5 and ran out of it by 6.

As a die-hard fan of Lost (who enjoyed it through the end), this is not the first time I’ve heard this.

The infamous Dorne plot from S5(?) was my personal low point — even worse than S8. And in retrospect that may have been the canary in the coal mine.

I really enjoyed the behind-the-scenes doc that played a week after the finale. It made me feel bad for all of the cast and crew (especially the crew) who worked so hard on the show. (I seem to recall some guys basically raking the snow to make it look perfect.)

I never watched it when it was on (nor did I read the books) - somehow throughout all eight seasons I avoided it (it helped that I didn’t already have HBO except when I did for Westworld). Eventually it got so popular that it almost felt like an accomplishment to have not seen it (it wasn’t). There were a few spoilers…

Monkey Ward’s.

Sally Field was (and is) cute AF.

The best part of the movie, despite garnering almost no mention here, is Gleason’s Sheriff Buford T. Justice. He apparently ad-libbed just about every one of his lines. A brilliant performance.

Smokey and the Bandit is an American classic and deserves a spot among the best films ever made. I’ll fight you on that. It never takes itself too seriously and is all the better for it. I’ve nothing against the F&F movies, but they just seem too wrapped up in appearing maximum badass and cool all the time, while…

If it helps, I had a friend just straight up ghost me with no explanation too. I thought we were super close, my kid called her “auntie Beth”, etc. It was my birthday, we had plans, and she just... never showed up. Never answered my calls again. We were both in the same performance troupe and she quit without a word.…

I just wanted to point out the plus side, which is - you seem to recognize you learned some things from this woman about business and work life. In a way, by taking some of her time, you benefitted, even though it was not meant to be a long term friendship. I have a lot of people I think may go on to be good friends,…

She was one of my freshman year roommates. I adored her right off the bat, as did everyone else it seemed. She was effortlessly cool, yet relatable and kind. The type of person you instantly feel comfortable divulging secrets to. We hung out a lot the first few months of college. I felt more connected to her than I…

Respectfully disagree; the friend knows what she did. Laying out how somebody fucked up is good when the ex-friend has their head firmly up their ass, but here, BowlofCherries is probably best off just blocking this woman’s email and moving on. Ex-friend here is just looking to feel like a good person for not writing…

Dude most of the stories here are so childish and silly buy your is a real mystery. 

My former best friend and I met when we were 11. We were best friends for many years. I was the maid of honor at her first wedding and she was my maid of honor. She was in the room when my Daughter was born. I helped her move out in haste when she came out to her family, and they didn’t take it well. We were roommates…

Um, okay. Mine isn’t a fireworks blowout, but just sort of sad. Friend and I met as freshman roommates, and we remained roommates throughout college. Went to each other’s homes for vacations, etc. Really close friends. After college, friend moved overseas for a job, and I stayed for grad school, but we saw each other…

Oh, my God. A few years ago when Husband and I were buying a new couch we ordered one online from Sears. Sears, who literally invented the first iteration of remote shopping, the Sears Catalogue.