While Tyrion made some objections to marrying her initially, as he does in the show, he was also attracted to being Lord of Winterfell. He didn’t tell her about it in advance, like he does on the show. The news was sprung on her like fifteen minutes before the wedding by Cersei, who was dressing her up under the…

Completely disagree.  The show’s handling of Sansa’s marriage to Tyrion is complete and utter betrayal of the character, reducing her to a supporting character/object in what is supposed to be her own storyline, and taking away basically all of her narrative agency in the books from around this period.  As well as…

Well, there wasn’t really much the North could do after the Starks were gone

I hate that scene.  It’s a complete betrayal of the character on the part of the showrunners, pandering to people who hate the book character for not loving Jon.

The movie forecloses on that possibility in two different ways.

They actually did include one of those two.

I generally find the Thor stories about him hanging around doing regular superhero stuff to be less interesting and less unique than the ones that focus on Asgard. The Surtur arc in Simonson’s run, for instance.

At that distance (and with the weapons they had) they wouldn’t really be “aiming” for any specific body part.

I’ve always been in the minority on Thor: Ragnarok because, while in many respects it’s successful at what it’s trying to be, what it’s trying to be is not at all what I want from a Thor film. And it especially annoyed me because a lot of reviews, etc. basically say “of course the best thing to do with Thor is make…

Wonder Woman being sent to Man’s World to defeat Ares is her classic origin story, retold numerous times since.  I doubt there was ever any intention to depart from that.

A twist and an ironic connection to a part of Westeros’ history that GRRM has clearly spent a lot of time on.

GRRM said that ASOS revealed who sent the assassin, and subsequent materials, notably the original script drafts for the Purple Wedding episode by GRRM, back the Joffrey theory up.

Fat Spice Guy was a very fun character, admittedly.

The Jon/Ygritte scenes in Season 2 are very charming, and make the most of Harington and Leslie’s real-life chemistry (which seems at least to be getting a much happier ending than the show’s version). However, the writers scrapped some of Jon’s richest character material to make those scenes happen, and made him…

It’s an oath of celibacy. In a society where premarital sex isn’t considered moral and in many senses is technically illegal, vowing to take no wife is understood as such.  That’s why everyone refers to it as an oath of celibacy.

Deadline specifically cited ST as an exception since it’s such a big hit.

I don’t think there are any classical “Blackfyre loyalists” involved in the fAegon scheme. Illyrio’s investment would presumably be just that it’s his wife’s heritage.

Whether it was originally with an eye to restoring Serra or something along those lines, Varys worked to first bring the Targaryen dynasty down from the inside before any further could be done. That ended up being fAegon.

A+ music choice.

I don’t know if Varys is himself a Blackfyre in the books.  Illyrio’s wife presumably was, which is Illyrio’s motivation for the plot -- in Varys’ case, I don’t think he necessarily needs to be personally invested in the Blackfyre dynasty, as his speech to Kevan makes it sound like his goal is the big political…