She had already taken what was hers through fire and blood. The city surrendered. Then she pointlessly roasted a few hundred peasants.

Then why have her army in position at all? It’s like mustering your mobile divisions and infantry to invade Hiroshima, then nuking it anyway as they advance. Why have her torch the city precisely at the point where the conventional forces have it under control? She is basically just torching her own capital and all…

3, 4, and 5 - It would have been completely in character for her if, even after the surrender bells, she went and just unleashed holy hell on Cersei in the Red Keep. It would have shown that, though the city surrendered, Dani’s enemy Cersei hadn’t, and there would be punishment for disobedience.

Ser Barristan and Jorah were the ones who really tempered Daenerys.  

Dany volunteered to fight a brutal war to save humanity. 2 episodes later she murders a million innocent people. You don’t think that was kind of a fast turn?

Upon reflection, I can see the validity of this. I would’ve liked 10 episodes of each season too, give a little more time. I’m going to remove the word “rushed.” Thank you for your thoughts. 

Thank you for this, Beth.

Stolen from Twitter:
“Some folks really don’t understand that *foreshadowing is not the same as character development*. Like, just because you hint that something can happen in the future doesn’t mean you don’t have to do the leg work in the story to show how we arrive to that destination.”

This is all very apt, and well and good, but it still felt rushed, as has everything from Seasons 7-8. If they had been able to play out the back half of her arc with the pacing and subtlety that they applied to the front half, I suspect less people would be complaining.

Still the best ‘Transformers’ movie ever made - in fact I think it’s the only ‘Transformers’ movie ever made....

YOU GOT THE POWER!

I wonder if Transformers: The Movie is one of the reasons why I don’t get upset or horrified at main characters dying in the stuff I enjoy? Joss Whedon or George RR Martin don’t have anything on 6 year old me seeing Prime get blasted.

i will always love that shitty coronation of star scream where he finally bit the dust. hail galvatron and the penis cannon.

30 years on and i still have wounds from this movie.

The difference is that a) FoTR is an adaptation of existing material and b) the sequels were already in the can when it came out in 2001. (In fact, LotR was never meant to be published as a trilogy, it’s just that there was no market for thousand-page epic fantasy novels back in 1954.)

Darth Maul looked cool, but he doesn’t do much. Much like the rest of the movie, some style and little substance.

It gave us Darth Maul as well, who should’ve been the main villain of the prequels.

A New Hope just did it’s worldbuilding in a “show, not tell” sort of way - it did a really good job of implying there was a whole complex world out there without needing to explain it all to us. It helped that our main character, Luke, didn’t know much more about the world than we did - there was an empire, there were…

The difference being that Star Wars universe had already existed for 22 years prior to The Phantom Menace as opposed to being set-up for a new franchise. Not to mention the villain was about the only thing Phantom Menace had going for it.

Sure, our movie is kinda lame. But hey, it’s setting up a whole cinematic universe! There’s so much cool stuff to come, you guys! We promise the villain won’t be so lame next time.