I’ve just finished Numero Zero by Umberto Eco.

Honestly? A bit disappointed. His weakest work by far. For the record, my personal favorites are The Island of the Day Before, which is simply a novel that is beyond astounding and Baudolino, again, a great novel imaginative about the early schisms of Christianity and the…

You don’t even realize that your square pegs and round holes come from pre-packaged sets called the Hollywood narrative that has next to nothing to do with reality. The fact you can’t even the acknowledge the importance of stories unambigoulsy demonstrates that this show is not for you. For season upon season, we’ve…

‘Bran wasn’t even in the ‘fight’ and was just handed the Throne. He didn’t even want the damn thing. So yeah, I’ll focus on that.’

That’s because for 8 seasons until the very end, the Throne was treated as a PRIZE, something you DESERVE, whether by conquest, or heritage or simply for being an awesome person who wants…

‘And if the show had actually built up any of that, prepared the way for it at all in any fashion whatsoever, it wouldn’t have been so jarring to so many people.’

It was built up. You just weren’t paying attention because you were looking at the superficial stuff rather than the overall themes of the show. Anyone with…

‘There’s a difference between what makes sense on paper and what’s actually conveyed on the screen—and in fact that’s what everyone’s issue with the final season is.’

Everyone’s issue is that GOT skillfully made millions of people worship a merciless tyrant just by dressing her in ‘good guy’ tropes and giving her a…

Yeah, I guess the smartest thing for Bran to do would have been to show his cards while a tyrannical dragon lady was still around who definitely would have enjoyed to hear that yet another Stark was gunning for the Iron Throne. /s

Bran is a swing and a miss? Yeah, I guess we live in an era where quiet and understated wisdom is looked down upon. I can assure you there will come a time when GOT is far more appreciated than in this era of insta-fulfillment.

Dad from Kramer vs Kramer. His wife straight up abandons him, he has to learn the ropes of raising a kid on his own, and ultimately the wife comes back to take the kid away from him, using the fact he had to downsize his career to take care of his child as ammunition in the custody battle. Even though he gets to live…

I honestly can’t believe some commenters out here.

As far as DV trials go, this was a slam dunk. Not every abused man has millions of dollars of disposal to hire the best lawyer team, not every abused man has tapes of his spouse literally admitting to hitting him and berating him for trying to extricate himself in…

Yes, any case of pointing out that females CAN be abusive and CAN lie about being abused for various reasons, including vengeance or monetary gain, is ‘totally’ an ‘undoing’ of MeToo.

I’m sorry, but if the ‘legacy’ of MeToo is that abuse claims should not be investigated, that people should not be protected against…

That a blatant lying and abusive narcissist will never be called out by the woke media as long as she is female. 

No one is seriously entertaining the idea that some rando would be on equal footing with a celebrity millionaire, but it’s a start. A high profile case where a man accused of being an abuser was instead revealed to be abused would do quite a bit for men who are victims of domestic violence just on the basis of public…

Of course physical violence is sometimes justified as a response to a joke.

Let’s say hypothetically some a-hole overhears you talking with your wife about your daughter’s first period and chimes in with a ‘joke’: ‘’If they’re old enough to bleed, they’re old enough to breed.’’

If something like that happened to me,…

All I can say is there are places on ths planet where joking about the medical condition of someone’s family member would garner you far worse things than a mild slap. Will Smith was ABSOLUTELY right to do what he did. 

Yeah, why stop at stripping him of his Oscar? We should rip his nails apart and boil him alive.

Seriously, every time something like this happens there is always a slew of self-righteous pricks demanding punishments way out of proportion with respect to the offence. 

but what’s missing is the connective tissue between these moments.

Well, you keep harping on this whole ‘execution’ thing which you never even bother explaining, i.e. what was it about S8 execution that was so wrong it justifies this level of hatred.

You said things in S8 were done perfunctory, I gave you several examples and can give you numerous more why this is not the case, i.e.…

‘GRRM and HBO both wanted 10 seasons, it was B&W that decided to stop at 8.’

‘Why should Arya have been the one to kill the Night King? She’s never even met the dude?’

And they got bored with the show by putting in one more season than was originally planned and spending two years rather than one on it??? Not to mention, the easiest thing they could have done of they were ‘bored’ was give out a fan service ending that would give the ‘loyal fans’ what they want but ruin just about…