Oh, come on. Throwing a slave master to a dragon and burning thousands of civilians to death are not equally bad. 

Totally. The show needed a dozen or so more episodes before that finale.

Yeah, it’s a story that kicks off with the sympathetic protagonist of the first book/season beheading a terrified man for desertion, when we know that running away was a pretty rational thing to do. Executing people for failing to obey or to do their duty doesn’t make you unhinged or a villain in this culture.

“increasingly unhinged punishments”

Foreshadowing plot points does not equal character development. While Dany going full fascist might be her natural endpoint, the show hadn’t earned it because the arc was incomplete. Hell, the final episode has Tyrion stop the plot to monologue to the audience to tell us how we should feel about Dany. It’s not the…

I know, European films have a different pace, much more languorous than your typical American short-attention-span offerings.

I don’t know anything about this dude but the glasses alone are enough to throw him in jail SANS TRIAL

I saw Randy Rainbow in Ft. Lauderdale in November and while he can sing, adequately, and he has an abundance of charm (plus an awesome mom who was seated right behind me) he still fell victim to the same trap of being an Internet Star in the wrong setting. We basically paid to watch him sing along to his YouTube…

From what I’ve heard the tour was not even close to being sold out. I think parents of his primarily tween audience refused to spend money on the tickets. It is one thing to buy a crappy $40 palette and another to spend hundreds for your kid to watch an influencer do whatever.

He’s totally turning it around and trying to deflect it from what he knows he did.

“We had nearly 8 full seasons of seeing how devastating and inevitable the threat of the White Walkers was.”

The difference is that she is getting paid to be inconvenienced while everyone else paid for the pleasure.

If you don’t want to deal with annoyed customers, don’t take a job where your primary duty is dealing with customers in an industry where they are often annoyed.

No, this is like going to your job as a flight attendant, being delayed - as is common in your job, and dealing with people making shit jokes as part of your job. Because it’s your job.

The difference being she’s getting paid while the passengers are paying for the experience of not getting to their destination on time.

“but federal regulations forbid me from giving free alcohol for any reason”

This broadly speaks to one of my pet peeves in life: Don’t talk to me the first time like you’ve already told me three times. In any situation. The flight attendant should start off with a polite but firm “I understand that you’re joking, but federal regulations forbid me from giving free alcohol for any reason, so…

Ageism my ass. I was a young person once and if present (old) me met past (young) me, present me would slap some goddamned sense into past me. It comes with the territory.

I just had an an encounter not unlike this one. Only it was with a nurse, over the phone, trying to get my THREE DAY LATE chemo drug sent to the pharmacy. She is very young too, and I’m sick of these ‘children’ getting all ‘extra’ when they aren’t in complete control of a situation. They don’t know how to handle even…

I agree that Dany’s plot was built up over many seasons, and it’s in character with consideration of the long arc... but the writers failed to effectively show her transition from rationalizing her acts of violence with rhetoric of being a champion of the oppressed, to just burning a city for funsies that had just…