I have never watched this show or read any of your other recaps (Sorry!) but now i get why america loves this show. They all want to be Sheldon. Criticize everyone around them while never paying the price while eventually becoming rich and famous. I’m gonna go jump out a window BYE!!!!

Woo! Nerd-blackface is over! Until someone else repackages and shovels this shit on us again!

I suspect that the draft is like democracy, in Churchill’s formulation: a terrible system that’s superior to all the alternatives. In most industries, competition is what separates good businesses from bad and results in better products. In the NBA, NFL, and MLB, competition *is* the product, and you need…

Yeah, i’ve seen several people claim that a white dude would have been congratulated for this, but I can think of several white dudes at her level of starpower who have gotten flack for being “difficult” and biting the hand that feeds. women of color can be dickwads too. we don’t have to “but white guys!” every time…

Wait. We’re doing Sam as Roger?

Fine. We’re fucking doing this.

Commodity enough to lead a Honey I Shrunk The Kids reboot that nobody wants, yes.

I’m sorry, but unless you work a *record needle scratch* in there somewhere, we’re going to have to cut back your cocaine rations.

Martin, meanwhile, laments the foreshadowing and clues layered into early storylines that, when rejiggered, turn into nothing more “dead ends.”

It’s not; Succession is just dumber than Billions

My guess is that they got burned out. The show was a huge production spanning several countries plus it was extremely popular so lots of pressure on them every year to deliver. And I imagine they also wanted to move on to different projects. This isn’t the first show where the showrunners got sloppy on the race to the…

They’ve got deals with HBO for more TV shows and are rumored to be getting a Star Wars trilogy. Game of Thrones is their old shit they don’t care about any more because it’s already delivered the future projects they’d rather be working on. 

Dude! You are being logical! You have to get out.

That sorta raises the problem that you can’t *just* subvert things. You have to actually have something to say yourself. 

I’ve decided that the best explanation is that when they surpassed George’s books, they realized they had no idea how to build out his world, and completely panicked. That’s why everything is rushed — they’re making desperate leaps from one bullet point to the next, struggling to understand how any of it makes any…

Everyone please stop giving the benefit of the doubt to GRRM. This is absolutely his (initial) ideas come to life. When he comes in later and rights the wrongs the show to did to these stories - it’s all preplanned bullshit.

Not bad, we’re missing a lot of connective tissues to make this work. D&D once again rushing to a conclusion. Thoughts:

Yeah, Dude, she was like a Brett Easton Ellis character. “There is a dragon systematically dismantling my keep, murdering my Citizen-hostages, and killing my soldiers, and I can’t be bothered to give a fuck. There is a sign over my privy that reads: This too shall pass, and I cannot tell if I am laughing or crying as…

The scorpions were only as accurate and powerful as the plot needed them to be.

And yet Dane Cook still walks our streets with impunity.

I haven’t seen the legal briefs in the case, but the claim wouldn’t be for “plagiarism” (which is an academic rule, not grounds for a civil claim) but for copyright infringement. And there is no intent requirement with copyright infringement. If you parallel write the same joke someone else already wrote, you’re…