Indeed, peace under an indifferent king would have been better than all that destruction. But Robert only cared just enough not to run off to become a sellsword, and not enough to try and keep himself alive.

Tormund was already in Castle Black with a bunch of wildlings, and it’s common for Nights Watchmen to range beyond the Wall. I think he’s acting on behalf of the Watch rather than going AWOL.

I wasn’t sure that was Robin Arryn rather than another unnamed Prince of Dorne situation. Is it the same actor?

Most of the Starks got fairly happy endings, but Jon isn’t where he chose to be (he’d previously chosen to leave it), just where he’s sentenced to be.

There was actually an episode when Sam criticized the title the maester was using for his history.

They’d used singing before. I think it might have been in the season 4 finale, when Arya got on a boat to Braavos.

But the series ended with some quite significant changes: the Iron Throne was destroyed (admittedly, that’s mostly a matter of symbolism) and the monarch became an elected position, while the north became independent.

The only one of those first three shows I watched to the end was Battlestar Galactica, and that had a much worse ending. At least GRRM had an ending in mind rather than throwing out “I dunno, angels or something”.

I didn’t think that was necessarily the case. He might not have control of his lower body, but they could still function. The woman would just have to do more work.

I was a little annoyed that it was Sam who suggested it rather than Yara, since electing a king is actually something of an Ironborn tradition. I know the Nights Watch elects a Lord Commander, but that’s not a king and he’s spent most of his life outside of the Nights Watch and in an aristocratic family.

2019 - 2011 = 8, not 11. And before you say that’s actually 9 years, Game of Thrones didn’t air in 2018.

He reported the first & last place films in a survey. That seems fair enough to me.

Without dragons, the Targaryen crownlands would not be enough to take on, say, the Reach.

“Feudalism” refers to a relationship between a lord & vassal. Each owes the other and has their own rights. It’s a barrier for absolute monarchy. It is not required to have a written constitution to prevent a monarchy from being absolute. Mere custom is sufficient. Most kings begin as a sort of “first among equals” in…

“And maybe a movie like The Longest Day, a popular myth about American military supremacy, inadvertently helped convince Americans that a military adventure like Vietnam was a good idea.”

When I was younger I spend an unreasonable amount of time reading strategies for “Illuminati: New World Order” without ever even seeing a physical card (and I still haven’t played the collectible version). I’ve never played the Call of the Cthulhu RPG, though I was given one of its rulebooks as a parting gift from a…

Never seen either version or read the book.

I only watched the first two episodes, but I wasn’t impressed.

Aegon was able to do such things because he had dragons and nobody else did.

Yosarian?