In a way, this is one area where the show shot itself in the foot for the ending by making the Tarlys a moral flashpoint.
While he wasn’t exactly a pleasant character in the books to begin with, the show REALLY leans into making Randyll Tarly an unlikable guy. Right down to replacing his scene with Brienne with a…

I do hope we eventually get a moment acknowledging that in one of the later movies.

“And where the Hell have you been all this time?”
“Saving your planet from the Kree.”
“There’s never been a Kree invasion of Earth!”
“And you’re welcome for that.”

Something along those lines.

I think your second point is the thing that makes it so that your criticism of TLJ comes off as just that, criticism. It’s the people who act like Rian Johnson is personally responsible for the death of their family that brings out that response.

You know what? Given this is discussing an MCU film, what say we do this response to the guy proper:

“Take offense at the customs of the backwards natives, display your physical dominance over them and take their stuff.” —
Except the image of the Kree over the course of the film tracks pretty hard with that.
Remember, this is the same movie that established Ronan’s role before palling up with Thanos was to carpet bomb…

The fanbase didn’t exactly do them favors with the running joke of ‘DC’s afraid to do a movie with a woman as a lead. Here’s an MCU film with a talking raccoon and a tree!’

Which was funny at the time, but again, hindsight did NOT do that any favors.

In a surprise play, they pull a Tropic Thunder, slap a gut and a bald cap on him, and now he’s a foreign executive playing off the chaos for profits, codenamed Nezu.

All these names dropped and not one mention of Tom Cruise?

Lettin’ me down, AV Club.
He even went and did it twice!

Personally, I’m looking at it less as ‘secret gay’ more as part of a larger all around high-end sexual insecurity of all sorts.
His recent shift from pick up artist to Bible thumper just throwing a few more coals into that furnace

To this end - let’s remember, one of their regular thought leaders, Roosh, is the same guy who was arguing too much fixation on women’s butts would turn men gay.

The people have spoken and the world isn’t ready for a chubby, pompous eunuch!

Sadly, this.

It’s easy for trolls to get pissed off at pop culture. It’s like getting a dog to bark in a kennel.

Getting them to give a shit about politics - now THAT needs an extra kick in the ass to get going.

Also, as this entire argument plays out, I keep remembering the last time the implication of foreign…

He might not be surprised, but he’d still be hurt by it. The man served in her father’s court and saw the madness firsthand. He was doing his best to try and steer her away from that fate by encouraging her to not hunger for the vengeance her brother did.
Even if he saw it coming, he’d still take it hard as an ‘I’ve…

While I see the case for this on its own, he also has a record that could go against him once Dany is in full-blown BURN THEM ALL mode.

Fact is, even if he’s loyal now, in that state she might still see it as “I remember how you betrayed me before.”

Granted, the idea that that distrust leads her to kill him even as he’s…

This article actually gave me a thought I hadn’t considered before - how much good grace does Arya really have as a rogue agent in the eyes of the Faceless Men.
Yeah, the operative known to audiences as Jaqen kind of gave her a pass for killing the Waif. But then for an encore, she went and exterminated an entire…

...no more drugs for that man!

If they do a version of Blue Velvet that declares “BABY WANTS TO FUUUUCK!” I might be persuaded to upgrade.

Just gonna remind - the first Empire suffered a pretty embarrassing defeat at the hands of a bunch of child sized aliens armed with stone-tipped arrows, spears, rocks, and logs.

This kind of shit has a precedent in SW.

I wasn’t talking about the rape scene. I’m not even sure HOW you got that was in reference to the rape scene given it was at the end of the list of references to Snyder’s ‘common man beats god’ scenes in his comic book movies.

The better part of that book’s relationship to cinema -
Another director previously sought it out as a passion project.
The director - Michael Cimino. When UA declined that offer, he went on to make Heaven’s Gate for them, a movie whose rise and fall are an unintentionally brilliant meta-punchline to the Rand idea that…