haha Yeah, I remembered that not long after I posted, while in a zen-like state of laundry folding, but I figured it barely matters when I’m going the least interesting of 800+ comments by the time the sun comes up. The books have been on hiatus so long now (the entire run of the show!), I’ll have to re-read/re-listen…

So grateful to Arya right now. I was pretty certain we’d be stuck with those boring as hell zombies for the rest of the show. I’m sure GRRM does know what to do with the Night King. Clearly his tv counterparts did not. I’m very happy that whole dumb plotline is over, and now we can get back to all the stuff I actually…

I just watched the four Crisis on Earth-X episodes, and I really, really liked the old man and the kid who combined into the fire guy, and thought, ok, I’m going to start watching Legends of Tomorrow...

I think it’s a problem with the zombie genre, on the whole. Zombies are so predictable that the only way for them to be consistently dangerous is to have characters who are dinks.

We started with Endgame, because the husband unit is into all the MCU stuff. It was fine. What can I say that’s not a spoiler... ummm, I liked the parts involving Captain America. I moved on to Chambers and then we regrouped to watch two Conan movies from the early 80s, because I like this Conan game but know nothing…

Game of Thrones has always been a battle royale. A complex, convoluted battle royale, compared to dropping a bunch of high school students on an island, but a battle royale nonetheless. It’s the DNA of this whole series.

You have some people sacrifice themselves to hold the white walkers off while everyone else escapes. I mean, realistically, I have no idea, but from a storytelling standpoint, that’s what you do. Especially now, when you’ve got eight hours of time left in your show, and roughly 2300 named characters still running…

I’m so with you on this one. It didn’t help that GoT just happened to coincide with television’s maximum zombie saturation point, but the white walkers are boring, and I don’t care about this battle with them at all. Let’s get back to the Machiavellian power schemes and the throne.

There is literally no one on the show I want to live. I hope some of my favorites, like Jaime and Brienne, get good deaths, but I’ll be happiest if there are three or fewer named characters still alive by the end of the series.

I loved John from Cincinnati. It’s how I learned to spell Cincinnati!

Now I’m starting to have the same kind of feelings about Netflix that I did about HBO in the old days, when they decided to cancel everything they were doing right. Like I need to start weighing the cool premise of a new Netflix show against the chances of it being killed early, before I jump in.

That’s a solid guess! But we live in New Mexico, surrounded by Indian reservations. I interact with Native Americans practically every time I leave the house. No one ever has any trouble understanding anything. It’s more the audio mix. I can understand Sasha if I turn the volume way up, but then everything else is…

I wish she were a little more likable or easier to identify with. And I wish they’d hired actors with diction so I didn’t have to watch a show in my native language with the subtitles on. But it’s ok. At least it’s not a ten hour zombie series that’s completely dependent on no one in the world ever thinking to shut a…

I’m always hoping to see Allison Tolman show up in more stuff. I really like her.

That’s solemn Dan Dority throwing dirt in that grave. That offers a pretty short list of possible corpses.

When they made a Deadwood movie, I finally forgave them for Deadwood.

They were saying Milch helped with the whole season, when really he helped write the fourth episode, and that was all kind of weird, but then this announcement came and now, yeah, it’s pretty clear he inspired that story arc. I don’t think any detective from True Detective would buy “coincidence” on this one.

I can’t wait to read the autobiography. Judging by the stuff he mentions in passing during interviews and lectures, it seems like Milch has led a much wilder life than most of his characters. Like I saw him make a joke once about burying bodies in the desert in Mexico that clearly had some kernel of truth behind it.

I wish King would sign a single deal with someone like Netflix. His sprawling multiverse could fulfill the (mostly empty) promise of the lost Marvel Netflix shows, in terms of being able to cross over and tell a larger story. Like a Gunslinger series would make a lot more sense if it had a handful of other series with…

I like how she zooms rather than just leaning towards the camera.