Just the small ones. That's safer.

In the show that's on screen, there are no laws of magic. And if there are no divinities of some sort, then what's on screen is incomprehensible. That may not bother the uncritical viewer. But if somebody notices, that is not a bizarre hang-up. It's just consciousness. The idea that Thoros of Myr can raise one…

Melisandre raised Jon Snow from the dead *by accident*

Copying the illiteracy of the scaly monkey…Ironic mockery? Or is it just, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?

That's "Nice guys finish last, and they're a drag on their friends every step of the way!"

That remark is so stupid, no one could take it seriously enough to be offended.

Rough Night is the one movie here that goes somewhere different from the formula the article is criticizing, but it's also the one it criticizes most harshly. It really is impossible to take stuff like this at fave value. It really has to be read symptomatically.

The famous White/Leachman law of casting tells us that there is no role that can't be successfully filled by another actor.* It is amusing to think what Game of Thrones would have been like with different actors.

Yes, it's just like glaciers touching the sea.

Zero Dark Thirty, The Debt, Interstellar are badly flawed. I didn't find her performance in any to be a saving grace in the movie. The only performance in The Martian that matters was Matt Damon's and I forgot she was in that. Haven't seen the others. Maybe it's a fluke , but as of now I just don't associate Jessica…

Being the hero is about the audience investing in the character. Agency is incredibly important to that, but being moral and noble, is not. Skyler did cheat on Walter. People did genuinely hate Skyler. And nobody loved Hank, even those who respected him. By your notion of what a hero is, this is inexplicable. Or most…

They've showed Bran seeing many things very rapidly. The Mad King was one of them. After his creation of Hodor, I'm projecting the worst. After all, the Three-Eyed Raven was careful to make sure Bran had no idea he could be attacked, as opposed to getting too stoned or whatever. After all, the dude made sure Bran knew…

The woman was too scrawny for me to think Sansa was actually in danger, but yeah, attempted murder of the attractive by the unattractive, however feeble, always merits capital punishment .

Sansa perjured herself to save Littlefinger. I've forgotten why, except that since the older, unattractive Lysa slapped sexy young Sansa, plainly she deserved to die. But I count that as joining in, even if afterwards.

The Long Night and the coldest winter in a thousand years are not as visual as a wall falling down. God knows why they've wasted their time talking about this. It's true that the White Walkers waiting until it's actually, for once in an eon, cold enough to freeze the seas by the wall would actually explain why they…

It's hard to say. All fantasy refer to books, movies, plays, nothing real. In real life, once people stop breathing, they don't generally start up again without someone else doing something like CPR. So, yeah, that would be miraculous. But in movies etc., people not breathing just to whip up fake suspense is very…

Edmure Tully is the titular head of the Riverlands and the Freys. He's a wuss, counts for nothing plot-wise.

I'd be more impressed if I'd ever seen Jessica Chastain in a good movie.

Villains are the antagonists of the hero. But yes, heroism is about winning. That's why so many fans gloried in Walter White's badassdom. In particular, that's why it was so infuriating that Skyler cheated on the hero. Being a cuckold is not being a winner. This was an offense by the show against its own premise of…

Winning is a traditional heroic quality. Cowardice is antiheroic. Walter White has power, which is magnificent, i.e., "heroic." The definition of Walter White as the antihero leaves us with nothing to call Hank Schrader but the…"hero?" Pardon, but that seems entirely misleading. Which I suppose is the point of an…