Remember how that passionate song, sung by Steven Tyler, was played over top of Ben Affleck boning down on Tyler’s daughter, Liv. Weird shit, man.

How sure are you that’s true? Because I looked around once at how royalties work for actors on streamed shows, and under the SAG contract it was totally dictated by how many subscribers the streaming site had (not the number of views). And we also know that none of the streaming sites like to disclose their viewership…

JustWatch also has an app, which I check in on occasionally, especially if there’s a movie or TV show I’m specifically interested in watching, and I don’t know where I can find it. The app will identify if it’s available for streaming on any of my subscribed services and the pricing to rent or buy from places like…

Bingo.

I haven’t seen the legal briefs in the case, but the claim wouldn’t be for “plagiarism” (which is an academic rule, not grounds for a civil claim) but for copyright infringement. And there is no intent requirement with copyright infringement. If you parallel write the same joke someone else already wrote, you’re…

Fair enough, I just re-watched the scene because I was so sure I remembered him caving to her pressure. But he definitely doesn’t, you’re right. He says “they are my family, we can live together” and Dany says “We can. I’ve just told you how”. I think the subtext that stuck with me was that Dany was basically saying…

Counterpoint: Look at the replies to any popular tweet, and you will see different people (not even professional comedians!) repeating the same obvious jokes over and over again, with minimal variation.

I take the point that this isn’t the first time Cersei has passed up a clear and present opportunity to slaughter a brother, but this is some pretty elaborate head canon with Bronn. I think it’s a fair reading that Cersei is not keen to pull the trigger herself, but I’d not go further than that. I don’t think you can…

Theorizing what will happen next remains one of the great joys of watching this show. It’s easy to be critical of the decisions of the show makes after the fact, but the anticipation and speculation leading up to an episode, and the tension that the different possibilities create in every scene, is a lot of fun. It…

I’m starting to think that this entire season was plotted around saving money on CGI. 

I’m as big of a fan of Tyrion as anyone, but he should have been pin cushioned in the last scene of last week’s episode. He got to have a big acting moment with his speech to Cersei, and it made no story sense that Cersei would spare his life.

I want a “real physics” re-cut of the scene on the ocean where they shoot the crossbow volleys. The bolts are big and heavy, and the crossbow is wound with so little tension that it can be reset in a matter of seconds with the arm strength of 1 or 2 soldiers. Plus you have ocean winds, and these chunky sticks aren’t…

Poppycock. 

For those wondering (like I was) about Kyle MacLachlan being in a bad movie (how could it be bad, it has Kyle MacLachlan in it?) that movie is Showgirls. Which is also directed by Paul Verhoeven, who equally isn’t known for outputting clunkers.

With TV and film productions that have so many creative voices pulling things in different directions, it’s hard for an outside observer to really know how much any one person—particularly a producer—is to blame, or to credit, for what we like or don’t like about the production.

Did you say, NBC’s: THE CAPE?

Did you say, NBC’s: THE CAPE?

It’s not “whataboutism” at all. There isn’t anything I’m trying to defend as okay because it isn’t as bad as someone else. Let’s go back to the beginning here: Game of Thrones is headed in a direction right now that sidelines its female characters and paints incompetent white guys as the “less emotional” saviors. My…

I totally agree the Sansa line was troubling and unnecessary. But the notion that our suffering makes us stronger is not specifically a “look on the bright side of rape” message. It’s kind of a central tenet of Catholicism. It’s a world view that all bad things happen for a reason. I think it’s a problematic sentiment…

Fair enough, I cited TV shows when GRRM wrote books. But all the authors you cited (save for Leo Tolstoy, who I never knew to have a reputation for three-dimensional female characters) are women. The problems that Hollywood has are symptomatic of Hollywood being run by old white guys. When old white guys write books,…