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It always struck me that there's no mention of the Red Comet in the show. Its the appearance of the comet that heralds the return of serious magic to the world and seems to portend the coming apocalypse.

It does bum me out that the last few Children died protecting a kid whose powers are, basically, being the most creeptastic peeping Tom ever. "Yeah I can toss fireballs at will and performed ritual magic that created this problem in the first place... but its more important that you be able to...

I've said for awhile that Tywin was actually pissed off that Tyrion was a Targ bastard and so killed his wife rather than admit the shame of being cuckolded like that. He's probably the illegitimate son of King Aemon, which brings balance to the whole original discussion between him and Jon...

To the extent that the Night King and his ilk truly are the 'Ice' in the Song of Ice and Fire we really have very little information or reference points for him/them. We have his origin as a WMD created by the Children to deal with the human problem and a few segments each season showing them...

I know they have very few episodes left in which to cover a ton of stuff... but last night felt like fan fic in places. Not only are people teleporting around the continent now, but the various plot threads are coagulating as we slam whole plot lines together. I will say seeing the Tarlys get...

He has to ditch the armor to get out of the water and in the process, with heavy-handed baptism allegory, becomes reborn after being reunited with Tyrion. He's now armed with 'proof' that Tyrion was indeed railroaded and is only truly guilty of killing Tywin who, really, deserved it. Given...

Well if you are going to create / identify a massive stockpile of the weapons designed to be used in a future apocalypse it makes sense to leave behind an instruction manual

From a storytelling standpoint Dany had to swing back to winning at this point. Having the Dothraki AND Drogon involved to eliminate the Lannister force was a pretty serious blow. Significant in that this was an army on the march and thus a purely military target. If I'm a smaller house on...

Buddy of mine who has cracked the shell of 'social media influencer' got a press kit with preview episodes to review. The series definitely has been updated to express more 2017 sensibilities but these are modest changes and done very well. Having Donald around is really quite jarring at first...

The JJ Abrams reboot likely started out as an attempt to do just that.... but then quickly ran down the time travel + future Spock + Enterprise legacy rabbit hole. Part of it was to justify the new futuristic aesthetic, but that really didn't need to be justified.

The more I see of this the less I want to see if it... TNG was inspired in that it made a big leap forward in time and this allowed the stories to reflect the very different society that existed in the late 80s as compared to the 60s. A argument could be made that it need only be a 20 year...

The level of magic and acceptance of such in the series is highly variable. They seem to be very aware that things like Warlocks and Alchemists exist and obviously various people, not westerosi, are aware that the faceless men can make use of magical shapeshifting, but ever since the Children...

This is what I'm starting with (the Fridge and Stove will be replaced). The walls are much more yellow than they appear in this photo, in fact the whole house is that same color of yellow which I am not globally a fan of. Thoughts? I feel I should do something with the space over the one row...

Yeah. A buddy of mine said to me 'oh, why not rent for awhile and save up...?' Rent prices in Boston are insanely high for even a 1 bedroom place anywhere near a T stop. The only way you are getting under $1600 a month is if you move out to the burbs and take the commuter rail in... well if...

I wonder if the new ethereal models in PTR for Argus stuff is a precursor to having them as a new neutral race in the next obviously Void-ish expansion.

If only someone knew a person that had omniscient powers to see all things... By the way, do we really know how old Varys is? That whole scene between ancient woman Melisandre and Varys seemed loaded with extra subtext. Is it possible that the whole sacrifice of his genitals by warlocks is...

I actually thought it was a joke post at first... Methinks they read too much into a story about a bitch and her dragons.

I assumed that the treatment took many weeks, but then I recalled the whole 'since you are a knight you can have until the morning...' business.

Welp...gotta go to MickeyDs now. I feel good use of marketing campaign should be rewarded.

The confusion arises because the 'modern' great houses do not actually align with the '7 Kingdoms' that existed prior to Aegon's conquest of Westeros. At the time of Robert's Rebellion there are 9 distinct main districts that are led by a great house. The biggest confusion comes from the...

Rationally I know the political Game of Thrones needs to be over so we can get to the Ice and Fire bit for next season, but even still the whole notion of super army Lanister and naval genius Euron is a bit much. The Lannister army had been pretty fucked up when we last saw them after all the...

Anthony Rapp is lookin old in that cover shoot... I was semi-okay with the setting, despite disdain for continually mining the past instead of actually moving the story forward, but this whole 'secret daughter of Sarek' bullshit is just too much. Then again Star Trek never has been able to...

So much strife has been caused by the incredibly terrible licensing of 'macross' to Harmony Gold. Not only for Battletech, but also for the release of any 'macross' sequel series in the U.S.

We have entered the era of the Jock Nerd. Normal well-adjusted people can be seen at PAX and playing D&D on streams. Board game night is now Scythe and Tera Mystica rather than Scrabble or Pictionary.

Having been the exact age that these kids are supposed to be in 1983 AND having lived in a smallish city in Illinois I can attest that the portrayal of the 'time period' and general culture for Hawkins Indiana is pretty darn accurate.

The Kes story-arc was primed to be a full life cycle of a person within the duration of a 7 year series... and they totally fucked it up, turned the character into Nurse Chapel and then booted her off da boat only to return as a guest star villain of the week.

I do wonder if the McDs are really gonna be ready for a nationwide roll-out of online ordering in the near term as they have said they are. Even the corporate owned McDs around here don't have the capability yet and I can't imagine the franchises being excited at the infrastructure / workflow...

Are people aware of / using the McDonalds app? I installed the thing on my phone ages ago and since its tied into the notifications I end up tapping on it idly now and then but I've only ever used it once. I've noticed a steady increase in the value of the offers that the thing serves up...

Well they didn't sell the TV rights to CBS... CBS owns Paramount. The history of the two is complicated by Viacom having owned Paramount yet was itself spun off from CBS back in the early 70s and then purchased CBS in the 90s etc. Regardless CBS has the rights and is not likely to let go of...

What kind of HR software has sexual orientation as a field?

I dont much care for these new Klingons. Why do they have to keep monkeying around with how they look anyway? This CBS All-Access thing is about the dumbest thing ever. It would be one thing if it was only available via that method, but if its available on Netflix from all other parts of...

They got nods for Title Sequence and Visual Effects. They submitted a ton for consideration and only got those two : ‘American Gods’: Starz to submit 16 performers on Emmy ballot including Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Gillian Anderson

I just now realized, while watching clips on the You Tubes, that American Gods got not one single Emmy nomination for acting. How the fuck is that possible?

Eh... the set bonuses are really the saving grace for the gear that is otherwise just +gooder. That was the genius aspect of Diablo 3, and to a much lesser degree Destiny, that through sometimes subtle interaction of special properties you could radically reinvent a whole playstyle. The...

Painting oak cabinets. I'm trying to consider if I dislike the generic light stain oak cabinets in the kitchen to bother with the process of taking all the doors off and deglossing / priming / painting them. Has anyone done this? I found a few blogs / videos of people who took on this task...

110 N.F.L Brains New York Times article on the research of Dr. Ann McKee. Obvious selection bias since the families involved offered the posthumous opportunity to examine their loved ones based on a suspicion they suffered from a degenerative brain disorder. Even still it is fairly...

So Nessus is Venus 2.0

Could be a racist too...

I would agree that renting should be a viable option... except that in many cases renting is just as bad as buying without any gain of equity and no control over your own home. Look at who is buying 'rental' properties -- increasingly these are foreign investors who then hire bargain-basement...

Well we know that Olenna Tyrell is going to have at least one more major scene / sequence of scenes in this series. One does not get Dame Diana Rigg, the original kickass woman action hero, to come in for a single day of shooting.