Piggybacking off of wsvon, I’d say those two albums are probably the ones whose influence you’ll hear the most on this album, but that her third album, Strange Mercy, still stands as her best, for my money. Surgeon, the title track, Cheerleader, Cruel, Champagne Year, Year of the Tiger ... so many killer songs.

That’s a shame. I love them both but there’s no question which of them has improved the most in the time the podcast has been going, who puts more work into her stories, and who generally keeps it all afloat. Karen is funnier but it doesn’t happen without Georgia.

I’ve reached a point in my life where I have a little room for at least a couple films that I can lovely purely on the basis of visuals and spectacle. I was hopping this would be one, and it sounds like, for all its flaws, that’s exactly what it is, so I’m still in.

Then again, I had a similar stance regarding Aquaman…

... holy shit I can’t wait to see HK in mainstream pop culture. He and Jolee Bindo and Mission could be so great if they do them right (or ya know, at all).

Yeah here’s hoping a woman writing the screenplay will do Bastila a little more justice. And here’s hoping it’s still somehow Jennifer Hale’s voice coming out of whatever actress (Tatiana Maslany) plays her.

And if we’re lucky, we’ll get a sequel starring the best damn character in the Star Wars cannon, the Jedi Exile.

I won’t dispute that it’s heavy-handed, but is it a white horse for the hero, or a pale horse symbolizing death/carrying away the foot soldier of death? I thought it was supposed to call to mind both of those, but maybe it’s just me.

I don’t think that quote implies they were made to view those things, just that, in the quest to animate those things more realistically, those developers ended up going to that sort of dark imagery.

Huh, go figure. She was always the only part of the show I ever really enjoyed. 

There are people who don’t enjoy Gina?

God I’ve been waiting for her to announce a second album for years. To me, she was one of the most interesting and multi-talented musical acts to come out of this decade, and I was starting to worry she was going to move on to fashion or something before we got another album from her.

Beautiful song, beautiful video.…

I feel that. I think she strikes the right tone to make calculated/cliche feel authentic on most of the album, Like a Girl just felt off that balance to me, but it’s not something I feel strongly about.

I liked the album the first time I went through it this morning and I like it more with each listen. Crybaby is definitely my favorite.

The only song that feels like filler to me is Like a Girl — great sound and sentiments but wall-to-wall cliches. But I’m not a woman, so what I feel are cliches may not feel as such to…

Oh for sure, she’s a secondary and expendable character. Not much use for the wars to come, etc.

Sure, but as long as that results in her actually doing things to make the lives of people better, or at least make them feel better -- that’s better than pretty much anyone else we’ve seen close to the throne so far. I think she also exhibited enough moments of human-to-human compassion in the show that I think she…

Yep, and Margaery knew her well too, which is why they went tit for tat so well. Cersei had to cross an inconceivable line with the wildfire plot for Margaery to not be able to see it coming.

An amazing sequence that still makes me sad because it killed the character most worthy of actually sitting on the Iron Throne — Margaery. Just the idea that she was the only one there who could see what was happening, trapped by the idiocy of everyone around her. She combined concern for other people with political…

May you never have an immunodeficient child who cannot get vaccinated. If you do, you’d probably learn very quickly how dumb the argument you just made is.

Aight Scarlet was robbed. That’s certainly no excuse for the sort of vitriol being directed at Ra’jah on social media, it was Ru’s decision not hers, but Scarlet was more compelling in the lip sync and I’m confident she has more to show than Ra’jah on the show at this point.

I didn’t expect to like her after the first…

Eva Green is a truly special performer and she deserves to be in better projects than Burton’s. I imagine her choosiness when it comes to roles has a lot to do with personal comfort/preferences as well as good working relationships with frequent collaborators like Burton, however, so it may be that she’s doing exactly…

God that monologue should have been a star-making turn for Piper. It was Green’s show but that monologue is a top 5 moment from it.