Westeros was never a polity before and without Targaryen kings. So Westerosis don’t know any different. The reason why kings area always Targaryens is because... monarchy is hereditary. The dragon thing was important for the conquest.

I wouldn’t mind that if they at least lasted the entire season. It’s another function of aging up and de-aging the characters- Rhaenrya starts the events of the show at age 8 and Allicent is 18 - they weren’t really friends, and Viserys was only 29. But, Laena was still 12 when her marriage was proposed, and I believe…

True that nobody on GoT dies of a nice, simple, heart attack, but the content criticism seems more due to a generational shift. The same problem is going on over on The Gilded Age. Not so much the “Kill Your Gays” issue, but that the gay characters are too frequently portrayed as shifty schemers. GoT and Gilded Age…

Gonna need a citation thats not Fox News on that claim bud.

Reggie Jackson said you’re next, Georgie.

My parents were big Tolkien heads.

They used to follow the Fellowship around the country on tour, selling cheese and lembas sandwiches in the parking lots and bootlegging tapes of the Song of Durin.

FBI: “Reports say they monkey around, but they’re too busy singing to put anybody down.”

I think there’s an interesting contrast to the most popular genre of ‘10s golden age television: the man who can get away with anything. Walter White and Don Draper had their entire empires crumble at their feet but in the end they still got some kind of a “win,” sticking with their pride and going out with either a…

Hit and run troll job by a greyed account.

There’s already been a gritty reboot:

gene is the worst parts of both sides of him.

Avatar 3 and Sonic 3 Blue Each Other

Goddamnit, is Shatner gonna outlive all of them? Everyone form a human shield around George Takei.

RIP Nichelle Nichols.

I originally watched Seasons 1 and 2 back-to-back and found very little, if any, difference in their quality. If anything, I found the ending sequence of S2 to be maybe the most powerful scene in the two (I’ve certainly rewatched it the most).

Yep. Either hard hitting death of a loved character, or don’t do it at all. This show needs to be more aggressively PG-13. Hunger Games had no problem with being dark as fuck and was targeted at the same audience. 

Hard agree with both. My wife and I rewatched S2 and S3 (we saw S1 enough) and were surprised that we enjoyed S2 more the second time around and S3 a bit less. Memories regress to the mean over time, I suppose.

As long as we agree that the Loser is Will Byers’ barber

I just meant that she’d be doing a lot of hopping now with that broken leg

I only need two minutes.