No doubt. He accomplished the perfect form of a truly unsympathetic character.

I was glad to watch the character die. I was sad to see the actor go.

Here’s the most salient question:

Does Jon Snow know something?

Unless you’re Joffrey, in which case everyone will clap. A lot.

Then Jack Gleeson has to spend forever being tormented in public by people who can’t tell the difference between an actor and a fictional character.

Poor guy. He did a great job.

I probably don’t need to explain she’s a character in Game of Thrones and what that means.

I get the feeling they aren’t really trying to kill each other. More than likely, the weapons are dulled.

That’s kind of interesting from a historical perspective, because Gladiators would fight with dulled weapons to increase the surviveability of the matches.

As someone who has done a few martial arts, it’s interesting to see what happens in situations were one person is outnumbered. Inevitably it’s very easy to drag that person to the ground and finish them off.

There are a few martial arts that promise the abilty to fight multiple people. I generally don’t have a lot of…

Generally things like this are interesting in the short term. I’ve watched some of this and a few of the multiple opponent MMA matches that are done in Russia.

Typically what you find is once one person from either side is eliminated, things get very lopsided in favor of the team with more people. Once one person is…

Typically fight sports tend to be very diverse. I would be surprised if this is actually comprised of mostly white dues, and I would be even more surprised if it stayed that way.

Several people have already brought this up. That was poor choice of an example on my part.

I am flattered by your reply and impressed by the quality of your choice of GIFs.

Oh I agree Tilda Swinton will be great, and I see the point about the China/Tibet thing.

Yeah, I agree. China is a big market right now.

I was mostly speaking about diversity in American films.

Others have pointed out the problems. I kinda pulled her out as one example.

I remember there was controversy when they cast Zhang Ziyi in a Japanese role, even though she is not Japanese.

In retrospect we’ve sort of went in a weird direction. Originally things were bad because Hollywood treated all Asians as…

What I’m saying is, Sam Jackson can play Nick Fury even if Nick Fury was never retconned to be black, and vice versa, but there is this notion that it’s ok one way and not the other. It HAS TO go both ways or it’s not equality.

Most of the Marvel characters you talk about were made during a time when even the African American community were striving for civil rights. It doesn’t matter if there are 90% of roles for whites and hardly any for Asians, etc. if the intention of the casting CHANGE is at the expense of the any other race, including…

It’s not about casting for ethnicity. It’s about the fact that the vast majority of leading roles go to white people in Hollywood.

There’s no one to one comparison here. If you recast a white character as another race, there are still MANY roles up for grabs for white actors. Casting Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury…

I’m glad you brought that up. Marvel films and Michael Bay Transformer films are films where the properties are bigger than the actors. People go see the Avengers because it’s an Avengers movie first. Michael Bay swapped out the entire human cast of the Transformers movies and the newest movie did better than the…

You actually make a decent point. Not all Asians are the same. We aren’t speaking of some monolithic culture. Asia comprises many different ethnic groups, religions, and cultures with a long and diverse history.

As for casting a Chinese/Malaysian actress as more offensive, I think we are speaking on different topics. I…

I’ll miss you, Charlie Jane Anders. Well, I’ll miss your articles here. I’m sure you have a few things left to write, and I look forward to them.

May I nerd out? Live long and Prosper.