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Kanner

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  1. 1 minute ago, SimoneS said:

    Nope, the attack on Highgarden was all Cersei and Jaime. Cersei wanted to steal the Tyrell gold to repay the Iron Bank. Cersei got Tarly on side using his ambition, but Jaime was right there with Tarly leading the Lannister bannerman. 

    In addition, Jaime clearly states that he learned from the war with Robb and used that strategy. Part of a good commander is learning from past mistakes and using great ideas from others. 

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  2. 1 hour ago, StarBrand said:

    I believe the first test of Dany's character, at least in the eyes of the skeptical northerners, would be how she deals with Jamie Lannister. If she were to say something to him along the lines of"you killed my father-and that was actually the right thing to do. You ended a reign of tyranny.  You should have been praised for your bravery, not given the Kingslayer label". That would make people believe this Targareon is, in fact, not her father. That kind of response would floor Jamie (which might account for how his look goes from afraid to puzzled during the promo.)

    I would like to think you are right about the response to her potentially pardoning him but the North hates the Lannisters too. I could easily see them thinking it is a betrayal also. She might be in a lose-lose situation here. 

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  3. I’m baffled by the notion that Jon is just doing what Dany wants. In reality, SHE is doing what HE wants. This has been his goal for so long and she has paused her goal to help. Granted it should have been a great PR move but those Northern Lords and Ladies are just too stuck in the actions of others in the past. 

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  4. 18 minutes ago, Growsonwalls said:

    Dany's not presenting herself as a guest though. She's presenting herself as the Queen of the North, no and's if's or but's.

    Correct me if I am wrong. Sansa may not like it, even I may not like it but the King bent the knee to her. That means she is the Queen, right? Isn't that how this world works? Why would she be expected to act differently? Either way, it is still a silly way for Sansa to act.  I am completely fine with her not being happy about the situation but to openly antagonistic doesn't smart to me.

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  5. When they started with the having children storyline I was disappointed in B99. I was like my show is better than this. It is definitely One of my least liked tv tropes. But they turned it around so well. They had discussed it. And every thing was gold after that.

    One nitpick- I need to SEE Kevin. 

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  6. I have been doing a another re-watch and am now in the dreaded Season 8.  I should a modified re-watch in that I am only really watching the Dean scenes (don't judge me). It is amazing how better Sam comes off if I watch the show this way. lol If you had asked me before this re-watch I would have said my thoughts on Sam per season were 1 - liked, 2 - loved, 3 - loved, 4 - hated, 5 - disliked, 6 - meh, 7 - meh, 8 - hated, 9 - hated, 10 - present - liked.  In the re-watch I am seeing that Season 6 and 7 Sam is not so bad with some specific story line exceptions (Amy).  My Dean ratings per season were 1 - liked, 2 - loved, 3 - present - obsessed. Which haven't changed so far.

    But here I am with 8 and even with fast forwarded the non-Dean scenes, Sam is a total ass. I have't even gotten to Citizen Fang yet (up next).  Part of that is his irrational reaction to Benny. The character of Benny was just fire when he was introduced and the chemistry between him and Dean was off the charts. (I miss Benny). Dean didn't help by not explaining Purgatory but once Sam said Benny was the same as Amy (The situations are not the same. She had just proven she was willing to kill humans.) and he equated Dean not mentioning a friend to Sam as the same as Sam not looking for Dean I knew he wasn't being rational. 

    The other thing I realized is the recency bias I had toward Crowley.  I had totally forgotten how EVIL he is. Shame on me.

    One of the other things that has popped out on re-watches is how the nature of the boys switches in regards to friends. Sam was all about having friends and Dean was no friends at any time.  But when you watch you see Dean making the connections with longer term characters and Sam not so much or only after Dean has invited these people in.  This is not say Sam has none but the majority of "long-term" friends have a greater connection with Dean.

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  7. This was not a traditional finale. So it did suffer from finale episode expectations. I liked it though as an episode. Some great interactions and I liked the navigation of the snow.  It gave us a different look.  I did like this season a lot, though I don't like what it looks like they are trying to do with Negan.  I will never forget.

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  8. 9 minutes ago, nodorothyparker said:

    Without seeing it, we only have Carol's word for it that he does.  It sounds like it might be a lot of projection or misdirection of blame.  Grief is funny like that.  

    I hope that is it. As I said, I will wait to see how it plays out. I also meant to say that if this this true that I probably answered my own question when I said emotions are not logical. You are probably right with the misplaced blame. As I definitely can see it played that since Zeke can’t blame Henry (or Carol) and it looks like at the moment Alpha is out of reach, Daryl is a person closer to home he can place the blame on. 

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  9. How can Ezekiel blame Daryl or Carol for Henry’s death? What am I missing? I know emotions are not logical but come on. Alpha is to blame but if you don’t want to blame her then Henry is next. 

    I will wait to see how it plays out but that is annoying. 

    With Daryl going to Alexandria, I am interested in (nervous) how the writers handle interactions between him and Negan. 

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  10. 10 minutes ago, Lamima said:

    Yeah, I don't think it's like that. I think it was Alpha. It was odd but I don't think Sadiq pulled a Shane.

    Oh, I agree it was Alpha. I meant was that really why Siddiq is alive. Or did he have some other part in it? Maybe to save himself. 

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  11. 2 minutes ago, 2FarGone said:

    Is Gabe the leader of Alexandria? Why is he signing shit? 

    When Gabriel spokento Rosita a few episodes ago he mentioned that he was the leader of a Council with no power. Talking about how Michonne was vetoing everything. 

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  12. As others have mentioned, not having Dean Winchester anymore is just a bummer. Little did I know when I started watching this show that his character would take the number 1 spot of TV or movies characters that I “love”. 

    While I want the show to end strong, I NEED the end to do justice to Dean. He deserves it after all this time. 

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  13. Negan can’t be redeemed for me either. So if they ever have Daryl say a chummy word to him I will throw up. At least Judith is a child and was too young to really remember firsthand what he did. Stories can never top reality. 

    On another note, it took be a while to realize when Daryl came out of the school he had new blood spatter on his face and two bloody knifes. Are we to assume he did some killing of his own off camera?

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  14. 2 hours ago, sigmaforce86 said:

    Yes!  We're just left with a   "that was it?"   sort of feeling.  All this build up to some super bad betrayal falling out between everyone and the story this whole time was the kids got kidnapped and the world is bad - the governor, the termites, the claimers, the hospital group, the wolves, the saviors apparently didn't teach her that or because it wasn't kids and a former bff involved those groups just weren't as terrible.  But this was the big story that we're supposed to believe made her the closed off person she is today?  And Daryl helped!  He saved Michonne, her baby and the kidnapped kids and had her back the whole time and for that she now barely acknowledges him because................ he's not part of Alexandria I guess?  

    Michonne needs to ask; if the gates are watched all the time and the sewers are barred down how does Judith keep getting out of Alexandria?  Does Michonne know she was out wasting bullets and hanging around with Neegan already?  Guess not since she was able to steal the gun and wander off yet again - there's a kid sized hole in that wall somewhere.   Seems like Judith takes after her brother in the "nobody knows where he/she is" area!

    Michonne's belly and Alexandria is less built up were pretty much the only clues.  Really subtle and not easy to see all the time which made it a bit of a pain because it seemed like we wasted the first 15-30 seconds of each scene looking for the clues on which time it was in.  Would have been less annoying to have a really simplistic but helpful "then" "now" tag at the bottom of the screen.

    Actually, the only one she seemed to consistently acknowledge (besides Alexandrians) was Daryl.  They were fine and even close when they captured Lydia.  He seemed to have an open invitation to Alexandria.  Michonne was surprised when Aaron told her he was not automatically let in and she let them in because of her trust for Daryl.  But I do agree, this story lends more to explaining why Alexandria shut its doors to outsiders and not the other communities.  It was too big of a leap from other people bad to all our friends and loved ones are bad.

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  15. 1 hour ago, ShelleySue said:

      I guess that what we found out in this show is that Amy is nudging Sheldon into wanting children, 

    17 minutes ago, Lady J said:

    I love the way Amy manages Sheldon !

    I like when the show highlights that Amy understands Sheldon and is able to work within his boundaries to open him up to "new" or different ways of doing things.  As much as I enjoyed that, Sheldon has notably been shown to want children.  Yes, it was more about not depriving the world of his advanced genes but it was still about having children.  So I probably would have rather it had been played for Amy moving Sheldon from reproduction only reasons to more "cuddlely" reasons for having children.  Though we were left with the notion that Sheldon "learned" kids could be "fun".

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  16. Am I the only one who just wants to punch Biddel in the face? There is just a smugness to him that just grates for me.  Critiquing your fellow contestants is part of the show and I don't generally mind it but when he does it it just comes off as "holier than though".  I can see he is not a "safe" designer and I should appreciate that but I find myself actually rooting against him now even more than Michelle. Yikes! I am in trouble!

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  17. 2 hours ago, millennium said:

    Now where did I write down my shopping list?   Oh that's right.   I wrote it on my back.

    My favorite line of the night was Dimitry talking about another designer's creation.  "But looking at it intellectually, like, what the fuck?"

    Though I have no problem with him, I thought the same thing about the shopping list.

    I know I shouldn't like when the designers are bitchy and get on another contestants design but for some reason when Dimitry does it just tickles me and makes me laugh.  

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  18. 5 hours ago, BabySpinach said:

    I do wonder if Dean's going to start displaying angelic powers, 

    I was wondering the same thing. Even though his consciousness is locked up, Michael's grace is still inside of Dean. How does that work? I would be surprised if they went into it though.

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  19. 15 hours ago, CherryAmes said:

    Not sure if this is what Kanner is referencing but I remembered that Sheldon claimed that Howard started everything in the episode where the two guys are flying to Texas together but couldn't remember what happened so off to google  and found this:

    https://bigbangtheory.fandom.com/wiki/The_Friendship_Turbulence

    Bernie then wants to know why Sheldon is also so mean to her husband.[...]Sheldon then gives Bernadette details of ten years of his torture by Howard. When they first met, he said that Sheldon looked like a cross between C3P0 and Pee-Wee Herman, C3-Pee Wee Herman. Since then, he has also messed up his lecture slide presentations and subscribed Sheldon to inappropriate magazines. 

    Thanks for the assist.  That is what I was referring to.

  20. I liked this one.  I was worried when it started for both the Sheldon/Howard story line and the Penny/Leonard story line but I really like where they ended.

    Regarding Penny and Leonard, I am open that I don't like them as a couple and I thought it was going to be another episode where Leonard looks desperate and Penny seems not that into their relationship. But that pay off was great (I still don't like them as a coup;e though, lol). 

    Regarding Sheldon/Howard, I thought it was going to be a rehash of "Sheldon is a meanie and poor victim Howard". But it wasn't. As we know from Season 7, Howard was the instigator of the "adversarial" relationship he and Sheldon have. He wasn't upset at the "revenge" from Sheldon and Amy. Plus the joy the outsiders got from the impersonations, it has always been clear that all of them "give it" to each other. (Though some people like to think Sheldon is the only one who does this). I did like that Sheldon wasn't really mad about the impersonation but the realization  that his friends have been making fun of him all this time.  And by the end, even though Bernie had zero legs to stand on, Sheldon was willing to go and smooth things over with her just because his friend Howard asked him to. Yes indeed, "Let the Wookie win".

    Lastly, I really liked the "couple support" you saw in this episode.  Even from Raj and his lady.

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