My suspicion is some kind of stalemate, because there’s simply no way for Team Good Guy to outright lose and still have anything much to carry on with. They’re surrounded by the tireless Army of the Dead in the middle of the North, and the Night King has a dragon.  There’s no plausible retreat from their current…

If Winterfell falls everything is lost.

They can’t evacuate the entire North.  There isn’t time for that.

The corpses in the crypts would be decayed to the point of uselessness at this point. 

There were a lot of nicely-written character interactions here, on the whole. Brienne being knighted was a real high point for the character.

In a weird coincidence, the local independent cinema is showing Spartacus a few times this weekend.

While there are certainly signs of Kubrick’s style here (how could there not be?), I would agree that the film is tonally very different from Kubrick’s other work.  Indeed, for people (like myself) who often struggle to like Kubrick’s more detached auteur style, the contrast is pretty striking.

Betty:  “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.”

I was skeptical of bringing Michael back and reviving the love triangle in this manner, but I admit, if nothing else, I really have no idea where the writers are going to take this, and that’s an exciting feeling as we head toward the finale.

Veronica can only resist the lure of those abs for so long.

Betty did the only humane thing she could do with her mom. She chained her in a bunker like an animal and fed her a bucket of fish heads once a week.

I have the exact same problem with Ragnarok.

That distribution deal with the other studio is probably going to keep Hulk solo projects off the table.

Nadia is really a comic book counterpart to Hope only in the sense that with the movie out somebody at Marvel said that they should introduce a younger Wasp with a vaguely similar haircut.

Yeah, that Luis is very good at his trade (even to the point of being able to one-punch the security guard, which in most films would have been ludicrous boasting) is one of the ways they avoid making comedy sidekicks annoying.

Hope was in the movie, but in a noticeably smaller role.

Bobby Cannavale’s character is an even more drastic revamp of Blake, his book equivalent, who is introduced as a guy who hates superheroes, derides the deceased Scott, and gives Cassie a hard slap to the face.

At the time this debuted a lot of people assumed Luis’ spiels were leftovers from Edgar Wright’s version of the film, but in fact it was the new creative team that came up with them.

I’m not sure what that has to do with anything, but in any case: literally all she did was say “yes” belatedly when Littlefinger offered her an army, and then lie about it for no reason, getting huge numbers of her own side killed in the process.

The writers themselves have admitted GRRM only gave them broad contours for the ending and some key plot points and they had to make up the rest themselves.