She doesn’t get to it until the 3rd movie, but the most shockingly bad aspect of the film is how it allowed Warner Brothers to swoop into NZ to exploit the labor dispute and change the laws of a sovereign nation, worsening conditions for thousands of film actors and crew.

Just wondering, but why is the review being posted on Monday if its being released Friday? Great review.

That my friends is what they call in the movie business, “a stretch.”

pretty serious failure of the Betchel test. like, an almost spiteful failure of the Betchel test.

Honestly, i’m a big fan of the series, but i can’t get super excited about the show, because a) i doubt they’ll reproduce the nihilism at the heart of almost every plot point, and b) Wes Craig’s art is by far the best thing about it. Amazing kinetic compositions, inventive framing, minimal but perfect colors.

I think I agree with your ethic, but you really seem to be seeing this battle from a pro-Jon perspective. But he’s fallible like everyone else in the show. Jon pushes his army into a battle they’re unprepared for, so the “thousand of dead people” are on him. Sansa is being the better ruler, and part of that means…

The point is that he doesn’t respect her as a person of power, and she can recognize this lack in him. Because he doesn’t respect her, he would take the information about the Knights of the Vale and use it as he sees fit, irregardless of her position. She knows her actions w/r/t the KoV wouldn’t be taken seriously,…

I think this is really the only purpose behind Rickon’s death: to show viewers how impotent Jon’s way of going about things can be. At first I felt that the death wasn’t earned by the show—we already know Ramsay is a madman, and we don’t need to see a child get murdered to tell us that. But it is consistent with what…

I was struck with the similarities of Jon and his (presumed) father, Ned Stark.

I think a lot of people got taken up with the boneheaded carnage-as-spectacle theme the show has been pushing lately, and assumed more awesome destruction than actually happened.

The dragon’s didn’t take out “an entire fleet of warships”, right? They just concentrated on one ship to scare the crap out of the rest. Everyone keeps writing about it as if it was this massive dragon reckoning, but it was much more about intimidation than decimation, n’est ce pas? I mean maybe they took our a couple…

Genuine empathic sadness.

its a modern sand painting! brilliant! so buddhist of him not to get attached to his sculpture.

Rob Bricken not liking things is so much more fun to read than Rob Bricken liking things.

Fundamentally the show is really good at depicting the arbitrary morality of medieval life, but it adds the Starks as a moral center that just didn’t exist. And I think that’s one of the show’s main questions for itself—are we going to allow the Starks to be moral heroes, or are we going to show how ruthless the…

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Sometimes I think the reason we devour these write-ups so ravenously is that what we see on a weekly basis is so stretched out and incomplete, that we need more exposition to make it make sense.

Unfortunately the casting info suggests no Clive Mantle (GreatJon) appearance this season, but I agree that his death deserves more explanation.

it immediately recalls the season one premiere where Ned Stark executes the original oathbreaker, the man who fled the Watch after seeing the first White Walkers

Hopin’ and a wishin’ that Rickon is a Trojan horse, that ShaggyDog and GreatJon are alive, and that all is right in the world. Oh, wait.