The nobles weren’t big fans, generally, but the peasants were.  And Cersei killed tons of other important people at the Sept.

The Sept explosion is a great sequence, but the show completely flubs the aftermath, namely, there basically isn’t one. GRRM’s storytelling is all about how there are consequences to every action, but Cersei experiences none of the logical consequences of such an extreme action. If a medieval monarch had blown up…

The Red Skull is adequate, no more or less.

I don’t think we’re ever told if Peggy and Daniel had kids, but yes, I think it’s wrongheaded to rewrite the long life that Peggy had just to give Steve a happy ending (and that would also completely disrupt the timeline anyway).

The trainwreck that was the 2011 Oscar nominations for Original Song (that was the time they had only two nominees) was most egregious in that song being omitted.

I wouldn’t have wanted more solo movies in the 1940s, much as I like the setting. Steve’s main story since 1964 has been that he’s a man out of time, and that’s something that can only be meaningfully explored in his own films.

Though as a historian I’d note that Brubaker’s idealized France where everybody was in la resistance isn’t any more accurate.

The thing about Ultimate Cap is that he’s not really meant to be about World War II, he’s Mark Millar’s parody of Bush-era foreign policy.  There’s a reason Ultimates 2 ends with a villain group that is basically the “Axis of Evil” (plus France) and the moral Cap learns is no more preemptive strikes.

The Red Skull being an underwhelming villain is the only thing that slightly holds this film back.  It has maybe the best first half of any MCU entry, with terrific character work with Steve, as well as a few choice supporting characters— I think the converse with Erskine may be my favourite MCU scene.

That’s nonsense. Not even Sansa herself (or any of the show’s creators) ever claims she was withholding the army for that reason.

Show Jon isn’t 17, he’s in his twenties by this point.

Stannis was in the North and had to march on Winterfell to secure his power there. That’s a simple strategic reality. And as Littlefinger noted, he was the superior soldier and had the ability to lay siege to Winterfell. He got bushwhacked by plot contrivance.

Which, again, has nothing to do with the subject being discussed.

Littlefinger’s plan was indeed to marry Ramsay Bolton’s widow, after being ordered to because Ramsay+Sansa=a rival center of power in the north. His problem was Sansa escaped and got Jon to support her.

Neither of the examples I cite have anything to do with the rationality of the characters’ actions. They pertain to how the show itself presents those actions.

He had already appeared in three movies by that point, and never reacted that way to people swearing.  He was in the army in World War II.

That remains easily one of the most irritating jokes in an MCU film.

Littlefinger hopes to rule through Sansa, yes.

Everything to do with the Northern story beginning in Season 5 is a plot, character and thematic mess, and Ramsay’s downfall is no exception.

Whether Wakandan isolationism is morally justifiable is the whole damn point of the movie, with T’Challa deciding that it wasn’t. Which is why he changes Wakandan policy. And they do not enter the world stage to enforce the status quo — hence, the symbolic starting things in Oakland.