Sometimes, a disgraced suicidal spurned lover taking out his frustrations on a readily available scapegoat who happens to be his exalted lover’s husband’s lover until said exalted lover’s husband’s lover is a deceased bloody pulp is just a cigar.

I have seen both Spartacus and Schitt’s Creek and immediately thought of Schitt’s creek. I don’t think it’s a crime against recapping to think of a more current show that was almost word for word like the dialogue in the current show.

I would also enter into evidence that in GoT we saw a straight character castrated and tortured to the point of losing their complete self and trauma so significant he became another person in Reek. Parts Stockholm syndrome, parts severe, severe torture and trauma.

I am gonna rant about the biggest issue with GoT tv show because no one else in my life cares. lol

“The DCEU and DC Arrowverse were - and are - wa-ay ahead of the the curve here”

That gossip boy with the cane could get fun. 

It doesn’t help that all of those socially maladjusted weirdos keep bleating about how “realistic” this world is, mostly because it’s darker and edgier than other fantasy worlds.

Ain’t that the truth. As soon as I saw the word “problematic” in the sub-heading I knew that’s what this review would be about. Not the episode, which the reviewer doesn’t seem to understand (her comments about the show being boring are testament to that), but just because a gay character died.

Yara Greyjoy as well, who took over the Iron Islands. Not just a woman too, but also LGBTQ.

Also, for all that the justified criticism that the end of Game of Thrones got, one bit that really impressed me was how it neatly sidestepped all the potential for Dany’s ending to come off as a message of “women should never have power” by also having Sansa end up in charge of the North, which is presented…

I think some of the “backlash against criticism about representation” is about the fact that it sometimes feels like it’s the only subject critics are interested in. This was, by far, the best episode of House of the Dragon. It managed to create a tension the show has been lacking, and ended with a scene where all the…

Non-book person here too, my impression is that he is less neither Littlefinger nor Varys because even when Otto is plotting, he seems to color inside the lines. Sure throwing his daughter in front of the king is manipulative and self-serving, but it is also parasitic. He doesn’t seem to make the same kind of big…

I’m not even sure what you’re being a prude about. It is quite common for viewers and commentators to reduce show and movie titles to acronyms based upon their titles when other abbreviations and shortcuts won’t work. Game of Thrones was regularly reduced to “GOT” or “GoT” in the same way that Lord of the Rings is…

I didn’t read it that way at all.  Yes, he was hesitant and apprehensive, but I think that was simply because he was foresaking his vows.  That’s why they lingered on his cloak as he put it down.  You could tell from their outing in the woods in last week’s episode that he viewed their relationship as far more than…

I think this can only be read as a rape scene. Cole cannot meaningfully consent because the power imbalance is so great — if he rejects the princess / heiress to the Iron Throne, she can make up any story she wants and have him killed. But if he begins an affair with her, he risks death. Cole calculates that there is…

Came down here to say exactly this. We’d already seen the weapon (looks to me like a hatchet-cum-hammer) wielded several times by the Crabfeeder, & never by Daemon, who has a named sword (Dark Sister) we’ve seen him use repeatedly. Also, the line “Add it to the throne” makes it obvious that it’s not Daemon’s. The…

I felt for him. The actor did a good job there of showing how he doesn’t just jump on this as soon as she kisses him- there’s some real danger to it and he knows it.

I got the impression the kid was a regular informant of Otto’s, like Varys will later have.

Pretty sure that was the Crab Feeder’s axe (was more of a maul as he used the hammer end to nail people to wood for his crab buddies), not his.

in almost all cases, women were objects for men’s lust, subjugation, or both.