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“springing the big bucks on throwbacks like Andy Carroll”

This is true. Complete failure to control traffic if your only stop point is immediately before the intersection. Proved by second bicyclist who obviously just cruised up unknowingly, as well.

This makes sense. Can’t see Vardy working for anything other than a dedicated counter-attacking team, and that is not Wenger’s style.

He had one good season. This article’s ridiculous claim that he is a big name striker notwithstanding. There are many strikers who have had better single seasons and then gone bust. Not denigrating him, but he is neither elite nor big name.

No. There isn’t another school out there whose graduates consider the reputation of one old man to be more important than that of the school itself or the welfare of children he knew were being raped. So, no.

It is a superhero movie. It is made for the “mass audience.” What do you think it is, La Jetée?

Yes, but at the same time, what actual self-respecting WASP would be caught dead in clothing with a logo that large on the breast? Some kind of negative dimension WASP where the entire point of WASPishness ISN’T entirely subtle and/or invisible signaling designed to exclude?

I’ve been ranting about this elsewhere: This entire story is built on the importance of a bloodline, legitimacy, alliances with powerful families as the foundation of effective and stable rule, and then Ellaria and the Sand Snakes supposedly execute a coup in an afternoon. Just getting the guards in the Water Garden…

This part of the response is so ... embarrassing for humankind? I mean really that’s how bad I think it is. I dropped out of the show awhile ago and I accidentally caught some of this episode, including this scene, and I thought it was epic. The weight of centuries on that woman, all she must have done, what it means,…

I guess they’re just making it up moment to moment with Dorne at this point. It’s been said elsewhere, but that’s not the kind of thing you do out of the blue. Killing a king takes time and preparation. This is an entire storyline that devotes immense amounts of material to building up the significance of house and…

Speaking of Dorne ...

No. You are a dumb person.

Thank you for making the case in such detail. It’s been too long since I last paid attention. A real opportunity was lost there with Renly/Loras.

And some think the show is bad for a constellation of reasons, and the sexposition is just one of them, and for me probably the least. I’m not offended by the nudity; what bothers me about it is what it subsitutes for and how it is such a lazy, lazy way to tell a story. I’m bothered equally by it as I would be by…

I didn’t even get to mentioning Dorne. An embarassment. And you’re right: They flattened the story in many places to introduce nastiness that was either not present in the source material or was there specifically to draw attention to itself in a laudable way.

I am surprised there aren’t more people who feel this way. I felt things had gone bad from the depiction of Loras/Renly, both together and individually, but they ruined Renly and the romance of his appeal, the Knights of Summer etc. Then there was the way they changed Daenerys’ wedding night. The last straw for me was…

Nah, let’s break this down:

He violated your ethical code? Dude, you’re fucking nuts. Not even going to bother with the rest of your nonsensical post. Stop saying stuff. You’re wrong.

There is nothing wrong with what Jason wrote, in an ethics/journalism sense. He is a journalist. It’s not a priesthood. And I say this as someone who has contempt for games journalism and all brands of entertainment journalism, like sports, for example. But it’s still journalism — just time-sensitive non-fiction. He…