Story wise, Marvel could bring these characters back, but I think they made a purposeful decision to cut them from Avengers stories going forwards (as they also did with Cap). They’d gotten really expensive as actors, and it was more dramatically interesting to give a conclusion to their stories, then to keep running…

Don’t forget they also had the fight at the wall. This is the retreat from the wall. How many times can you really lose and retreat against this enemy? It was kill or be killed. I think it would’ve felt contrived to drag it out. It was always going to be deus ex machina to wipe out an army this big, and this…

But among those 5 people are the brains of the operation, Sansa, Tyrion and Varys. We’ve seen a battle of the swords, and I think now we get to see a battle of wits.

Writer #1 to the room: “Guys, Melisandre can’t survive this episode. She incinerated a beloved child, and she’s just a complication once the NK threat is over.”

To each his or her own, but I wouldn’t call the Night King the series-long archenemy. It took at least a couple seasons before he was even identified as a character (I don’t recall exactly when - I know they did lay some seeds with the baby stealing stuff early on). And he’s not a well-developed character by any…

This accords with what I saw on screen. I don’t recall seeing Grey Worm in the final moments, when they were panning around other characters. Missy either, for that matter. I could have missed it because the final montage blew by pretty quick and there are a lot of characters to keep track of.

The darkness purposefully conveyed the sensation, “I can’t see anything, what the fuck is going on”, but if you’re the director with an outlandish budget, you have stop and think whether that’s really a good objective to reach for, in the medium of TV.

I think Randall hits the nail on the head with Benioff and Weiss not having the same stones as Martin to kill off beloved characters (but then, even Martin had a habit of bringing them back, as he did with Caitlin, and as he’s going to do with Jon). I stand to be surprised, but I think this season my have fewer…

Except that Cap went back to those alternate timelines to return the stones, and when he stayed there, still somehow wound up in our timeline.

Sadly, 34 is a “ripe old age” for an actress in Hollywood.

Let’s say the pilots didn’t get dusted. Where do the dusted passengers come back?

It was hilarious, though knowing it was a paid Fortnite sponsorship ruined that moment for me a little bit (concurrent with the movie’s release, Fortnite has a bunch of Avengers branded loot).

Yes, I’m pretty sure that was the theory of time travel they laid down. Though without a unified timeline, how would the team be able to go back and return the stones all in the *same* timeline, and how would Cap be able to take the long way ‘round and still be in the same timeline as everyone else?

This was not a good Captain Marvel movie. But her standalone film earned so much goodwill from me that I was still happy every time she came on screen.

Everyone is scratching their heads that Natalie Portman is apparently in another Marvel movie, but what my theory supposes is, what if she had no idea it was a Marvel movie?

Yeah, if he’s meta-quipping the whole movie, that will grow tired very quickly. Agree that the “perfectly done” didn’t need to be there.

When I saw the screen cap at the top of the article, I thought, “no way is that cutesy little CGI shit ‘stealing scenes’”. But then I watched the trailer, and sure enough, Kumail is crushing it.

Cercei isn’t exactly neck-deep in assassins who could get close to her brothers. It does make perfect sense that she’d give the task to someone who was close to them, personally, and sociopathically unscrupulous about what he’ll do for money.

I think the show is purposefully making us question whether we were right to be supportive of her pursuit of the throne. Everyone in the North is skeptical of her in a way that we haven’t been conditioned to be skeptical, up to now. Sam is reminding us of how she treats those who don’t bend the knee, just as Sansa is…

They may have boxed themselves into a bit of a corner, still, with the Short Trek episode that saw the Discovery ship abandoned in the future in a nebula. If that is still our crew’s ship, where did they go? Is it possible they find their way home after a multi-episode arc, as they did from the mirror-verse?