Jaime knighting Brienne, Jenny of Oldstones, the Dothraki charge (talk ‘military strategy’ all you want, I dare you say it wasn’t badass), Lyanna going out like a boss, Arya’s ninja moves, Arya in the library, the dragon fight with the NK, NK raising the dead instead of allowing Jon to get near him, Jorah’s death,…

There are people celebrating S8. It’s one of the best TV seasons in history.

Yeah, the amount of hate against D&D from toxic ‘fans’ is pathetic and shameful. These people made GOT into what it is today. And the fact of the matter is, GOT S8 is one of the most complex and ambitious seasons in television history. Even IF you think it was a failure, it was still leagues beyond the ‘success’ of…

It seems to me that the hate for Don’t Look Up comes most from the places and people that see themselves in the movie. The movie certainly does have it’s flaws, but the way it mocks and ridicules the current culture is fantastically spot on, one of the most ruthless and merciless bits of satire ever since the first…

Guybrush Threepwood and Elaine Marley?
A romance for the ages.

Naah! It’s not that. I know many episodes of early South Park where I vehemently disagreed with an issue and still laughed my ass off. Being from the Balkans, I very much disagreed with their position that ‘all crime is hate’ and hate crimes shouldn’t be prosecuted as a special category. I disagreed with their stance…

As a scientist, we’re used to it by now. Nothing surprises me anymore. We’re all just a bunch of incompetent blowhards who have no idea what they’re talking about. I believe an extremely memorable rant in a far superior movie on the same topic just about sums it up.

‘Thankfully we don’t let Nazis,and other bigots define race and power structures. So what they thought is irrelevant.’

You’re right! Woke people like you shouldn’t get to define race and power structures.

I found a brilliant quote that perfectly sums up everything about this incident:

‘’Imagine wanting to be a victim so bad that you have to claim the holocaust wasn’t racist so you can say racism only happens to you.’’

It’s a breathtakingly insulting trivialization of Nazism at the hands of Goldberg. To dismiss what Hitler did as just some internal affair between white people is simply shocking. Ironically, it is pretty much the persisting societal outrage over what Hitler did that ultimately, half a century or so later, allowed…

For the love of god, can the woke people of America and other western countries please stop making idiotic comments about cultures and situations they know little about and care about even less?

Here are some other gems:
-The Ottoman Empire was a multiethnic paradise.
-Tito was a ‘good’ dictator who kept Yugoslavia…

I think the movie’s biggest mistake is that it fundamentally misjudges human nature by basing the movie on a 1-to-1 analogy with COVID and global warming. These are all risks that can be managed in various ways, as human beings have managed and evaluated risks throughout history. You can’t manage certainty. I don’t…

... and that kids is how I met our maker.

-Cruelty should NEVER be applauded or celebrated, even when violent action is 100% justified (e.g. self-defense, killing Hitler or Dany and so on)

-Good intentions mean nothing if you’re operating within a harmful moral system.

-Reason and duty are the prime drivers of moral action, not feelings or emotions.

-Positions…

‘’it’s just about planting a land mine in season 1 that blows up in season 8. That’s substantially less rewarding than following a character step by step through his or her degeneration.’’

Oh, I’d totally beg to differ! It all depends on which people are standing on the mine when it blows up, and judging from the…

To put the focus on the story itself (SPOILER ALERT) I find the Death on the Nile to be perhaps the most preposterous detective story ever written.  

‘’O, how do we get an alibi? I know! We will stage a shooting confrontation in which I will PRETEND to be injured and then count on people rushing to help the crying lady…

I’ll skip over the side-discussions or we’ll be here all day and get to the meat of things:

1) ‘Yes, Dany would absolutely be willing to burn an entire city... if not doing so would damage her ambition/self-image.’

2) ‘[F]or this moment to work, she needs to be forced to choose between taking the moral high ground at a…

‘Try as you might, trying to argue that rightfully killing slavers somehow leads to the mass murder of smallfolk is not a good justification for a heel turn.’

Yeah, because people who are cruel totally have a switch to make sure they’re only ever cruel towards the ‘right’ kind of people. All revolutions started by…

‘So while you and I can at least appreciate what GoT was trying to do, if the emotional/instinctual through-line isn’t there, those people are gonna end up feeling cheated (see also: HIMYM). Which is why it’s gotta be done well if you’re gonna do it - you can’t really take any shortcuts with deconstruction, which I…

Okay, let me make an addendum. I wasn’t talking about the recent spade of woke remakes where the anger primarily comes from lazily trashing an established francise while shoehorning in an extremely sanctimonious ideology in the process. This is a new, specific and easily identifiable phenomenon to which Game of Thrones…