Forcing a player to cooperate with a criminal investigation or face a ban from the NFL doesn’t subvert the Fifth Amendment any more than a business firing an employee for using racial slurs on social media subverts the First Amendment.

Follow-up question: how does Hill not playing in the NFL make him less of an abusive dick? If people are saying that was how he was raised, wouldn’t he act like that irrespective of his employer?

New York disclosed the co-author’s affiliation in a press release

I don’t get the vociferous bitching, seemingly more prevalent over on the “Experts” thread. The episode is made to be seen (from now on until the end of time) as part of a binge. Why did so many main characters live? Because they’re the main characters... or why else would we have been following them all this time?…

I honestly have no idea why anyone was expecting some big grand reveal about the Night King. I’ll say the same thing I said about Snoke: if you were okay with Return of the Jedi not having some huge reveal about Palpatine’s backstory, there’s no reason you shouldn’t be okay with this. The show never once indicated…

Completely agree.  The more magic in GoT, the less I care.  

The Night King doesn’t feel like a villain.  He’s more like a natural disaster, or Godzilla.  I like that he didn’t start explaining himself in a pleasant baritone.

I guess the show has lost a lot of steam with how anticlimactic the end of the battle ended up being and most deaths were entirely gratuitous, with Cersei as the next Big Bad feeling like a step down...

I agree, the Starks seem “too well buried”, and we haven’t gotten that great of a visual of the extent of the Night King’s powers, but if there’s anywhere you don’t want to be in GoT, it’s the place that gets mentioned a 100 times in the previous episode.

I have to assume we will see a lot of novel tactics nobody hinted at before.  Because it’s not needed to set them up, and because they will be crowd-pleasing “Whoa!” moments.  Think of the Scythe scene during the Wildling attack on the Wall.  That came out of nowhere and everyone loved it.

They brought in Sheeran for Maisie Williams but now that she is tired of him they burned his face and eyelids off.

this is a really weird “The Secret of My Success” remake

Yes, my comment to my husband last night was that they have all the chemistry of a Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen.  The dragon riding was very much a prequels moment for me.  I don’t like Dany as a character/ruler either, so that plus incest makes it difficult for me to root for them.  I just think Emilia is…

That wasn’t part of the deal, Greyjoy!

BRAN: Why did Roose Bolton say, “Jaime Lannister sends his regards” as he was stabbing Robb Stark through the heart?

“...I’m curious if anyone can figure out how he could reasonably get from Point A to Point B with all of those threads.” i think that’s the problem at the heart of why we haven’t seen another book in the series -Martin can’t figure it out, either.

Hold me, like you did by the lake near Winterfell.

Remember that movie that had that extremely romantic scene where the guy with the laser sword frolicked on CGI grass along with a girl dressed like a confused geisha?  Now THAT was how you do couple’s bonding.

lol. As if there’s gonna be a book...

that’s okay. we live in THIS timeline, so Kevin J. Anderson will finish them off in a six-volume saga published over the course of 14 months.