I took an unplanned break from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms due to leaving my Kindle at a friend's. So I read Catherine Lacey's The Answers, which was a very compelling story, but didn't quite have the oomph to make it great, because I think the denouement unfolded a little too quickly. Then I read the smartish…

Well I also think Ecbert sees potential value in his "I would sooner destroy a stained glass window than an artist such as yourself" act, positioning himself as the only man who understands Ragnar, as his only equal. Not only does that fit his self-mythogizing, romantic view of his actions, but it potentially also…

Oh I totally think the sons will go after Aelle. We've seen how Ivar's brothers don't really take him seriously. Not yet.

The Outsider:
So do you think the title refers to Ragnar or Ivar? I too was surprised by Ivar becoming our new focus character. But it works much better than I ever would have anticipated. Part of why, I think, is that it brings us back to some of the strangeness of S1 of this show. Ivar is a compelling main…

I don't feel any heat.

The heat? Uh OK. Whatever.

You are taking this shit way too seriously. I'm not a staunch anything when it comes to these movies. They are just silly summer fun. Sometimes exceptionally well made fun, but popcorn nevertheless.

In my opinion, deeply deeply wrong.

My point is that I watch the movies. I like them. Sometimes I even love them a little bit. And movie Tony, the version of the character with whom I am familiar, makes gross rape jokes and is not a very admirable person, so far as I can tell. I'm glad you "know" a different version of the character, but defending movie…

I don't know shit about comic Tony Stark, nor should I be expected to.

I don't really either. But the prima nocta joke made it hard not to.

Eyeroll. Losers.

Would anyone be surprised if Tony Stark were a rapist?

She doesn't need a diaphragm. She's been sterilized.

Fuck yeah. Good for her. I've been thinking about this since The Bridge so thoroughly wasted the wife and female children.

I mean, I don't disagree with that, but the minute that first trailer hit the internet, friends of mine who haven't seen a blockbuster movie in more than a decade were falling all over themselves arranging for opening night watch parties and such. Not ten minutes ago a woman who sits by me at work said she goes to one…

I don't think anyone is falling over themselves calling DC progressive. I mean they only just recently made Suicide Squad, for godssakes, which was super racist and sexist. But I do wish Marvel had been gutsier with the idea of a female led film and hadn't waited for someone else to do it first. After all, if they can…

Hahahaha!

I mean I hate that movie and think it shouldn't exist. But at least Rockwell is entertaining in his hamminess.

I mean I can only speak for myself, but while I was aware that there was a comic book hero named Captain America pre The First Avenger, I could not have told you anything whatsoever about him. If really pressed, I probably would have guessed that he was really fast at running (essentially The Flash by another name).…