For people interested in Nelisse’s prior career, her best work before this show was in the Canadian film Monsieur Lazhar, for which she won the Genie (Canadian Oscar) at age 11.

3) The actual books (if you pick one up now) seem badly dated in terms of the various references. Also the nastiness of Dahl himself really stands out in a number of ways. Both in terms of some of the bigger plots and the descriptions of individuals etc.

I saw this at TIFF. There are a lot of nice aspects, but after listening to Mendes’ panel discussion afterward I came away thinking it might have been more interesting if it had been more expressly autobiographical. Colman’s character’s struggle with mental illness is based on Mendes’ mother, but he talked a lot about…

Calling it now: The Fablemans. Its both a love letter to movies and directed by Spielberg.

The series’ all-around aversion to anything resembling a sense of humor doesn’t help.

I’m attending the first five days of the festival and have tickets for the premieres of Empire of Light and The Son on the 12th, as well as the second Glass Onion screening on the 11th.

Rhaenyra mentions that Jason has a twin named Tyland who’s on the king’s council. Fingers crossed he’s less of an asshat than his brother.

Like the Hand going to confront Daemon, and oh yea, his dragon will roast us, so what was the plan, exactly?

There’s a palpable tension between Viserys and Alicent, who has probably been sleeping with the king in the six months since the queen died and who, I cannot emphasize enough, is 15 years old.

Mysaria was really pregnant, but she did not die in childbirth.

Sansa slowly accepted that, like her father, she was in the best position to keep the north safe, even if she didn’t really want the responsibility.

No, Sansa very openly wanted power in the later seasons. And on a basic level she and all the other Starks believe it is their birthright to rule the North and have everybody else do what they say (she says as much on multiple occasions).

Okay, but that’s not how the show presents it, the show gives those other characters the hero edit with triumphant music.

The problem there is that, again, “seeking power” and “murdering people out of revenge” and “feudal monarchy” all describe numerous other protagonists in the series, none of whom are given the same treatment as Daenerys. Sansa, for instance, does all of those things, and ends the series getting a glamourous coronation…

I mean, GOT already abandoned this in its third season with blonde Shireen.

-Watched and did nothing as molten gold was poured over her brothers head

The internet really transformed how pop culture works.

I don’t think she’s a bad writer (or wasn’t, at her best, with the HP series). The series was conceived of and developed as whimsical children’s fiction; hence why so many of the individual setpieces have become pop culture touchstones, because they’re so individually memorable. As the expectations for genre fiction…

The argument goes: If Batman has enough money to fight crime with Batarangs, then he must have enough money to use philanthropy to achieve the same results, right?

This is going to be a challenge for logging on Goodreads.