I picture more of an Of Mice and Men treatment.

in the year 2000...IN THE YEAR 2000!!!!!!!!!!

Science fiction is for nerds, and there are no nerds reading the AV Club.

I saw it in the theater and thought it was a much better version of Armageddon. The Chinese are beating us in the apocalyptic, science-fiction melodrama race.

Now I really want to see a spinoff sitcom where the Three Eyed Raven is always talking his friends into various crazy schemes that never really work out.

Why lose your focus if Bran was secretly one of them already?

“no one knew that Cersei’s side had not only managed to get their hands on magical super-ballistas”

I’m very interested in hearing your thoughts on the use of the third walker behind the Night King as a metaphor for the gig economy. 

Unfortunately for Dany, in the show the scorpions are not only incredibly accurate and inconceivably powerful, but they’re rapid-loading too.

Um, I thought the symbolism was actually pretty obvious around the White Walkers-global warming conclusion:

You’d think that losing one dragon and almost losing another would make the “Dragon Queen” super careful about her military flying assets. So she went for a joyride above enemy territory of course. Drogon should just eat her and fly away back to Essos.

If this were the books it’d make perfect sense for Dany to torch the Iron Fleet then and there since it’s made explicitly that outside of literally chaining one to the ground or having one of your own it’s very hard to kill a dragon.

All that matters is who your daddy is. That’s the moral of the story.

What bothered me about it was how they played up Bran’s connection to the night king more and more leading up to that episode and then...NOTHING. He’s warging for no discernible reason; I figured that had to be leading to something. I was hoping…

The weirdest part about Rhaegal was that it wasn’t clear if he was dead or alive at the end of the previous episode... so they were like “oh, he somehow survived that shit last episode...” to just kill him in the dumbest way possible.

I’ve read all the books (and don’t have much hope GRRM will ever finish) and watched the show. Up until now, I’ve been still (mostly) engaged, finding enough to entertain to make up for a lot of the meandering and odd writing. But the main, the only thing that really hooked me to books and show was the dragons. They…

Except it is. She gave them every opportunity not to get executed and they refused. It was their choice. By following through, she sent a message that she means business, and will likely prevent scores more deaths.

Last episode broke me. I’ve been a defender of the show for so long, standing up when people shat on the writing, finding excuses and justifications and a silver lining. But that last episode... It was so contrived; nobody did anything that made sense for their character, it was all just the hand of the writers moving…