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  1. 38 minutes ago, ulkis said:

    That scene seemed to be a lowlight for a lot of people, and while I'm tempted to say they should of cut it too they probably should have kept a little of it in because that was probably the apex of the Jon/Dany relationship before it they encounter (even more) conflicts. Maybe they could have shaved a teensy bit of it off though.

    5 seconds less of the joyride could have given us at least 30 second of Ghost. 

    I am outraged about the fact that Ghost was not there, Jon hasn't asked about him or seemed to care, they used to be what Daenerys and her dragons are, connected by some kind of strange link. 

    I know this season had to prioritize many scenes but I do think that D&D have made Ghost a disservice by making him expendable. 

    I would have loved to see the reaction of Ghost to Dany's dragons, his reaction to Daenerys. They better not bring him back only on episode 3 to have him killed, that would piss me off. 

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  2. 35 minutes ago, GodsBeloved said:

    Me too. I don't care who sits on the throne. All I want is for the remaining Starks to still be breathing and I'd love for the North to be independent, something I've wanted since Robb was crowned KITN.

    Ditto 

    If anything good comes off the revelation of Jon's birth IMO would be the fact that (even though he doesn't want the Iron Throne) he could negotiate several things before he renounces his claim and marries Daenerys, one of those things should definitely be the North's independence. Rob died for it and it would be a great thing that would redeem Jon in my eyes. 

    With an independent north, but allied with the Iron Throne via Jon's half Stark origins, the Starks for sure could have a much better relationship with Daenerys, provided that she is a fair queen and doesn't uses her dragons to burn more people. Maybe with enough time maybe they will become close to her as well. 

    I also can care less about Jon and what he does in KL, I think he would be miserable but hey you get what you get. Other than that, Sansa at Lady of WF and Arya as Lady Baratheon, all the while with Bran as the 3ER. They would remain a pack and that is all that matters. 

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  3. 5 hours ago, Bryce Lynch said:

    She is doing it for the North and the entire realm.  She could easily hop on Drogon and fly back to Meereen and hang out there until the whatever happens in Westeros is over.

    I don't get where people get the idea that Dany is so selfish.  She could have taken the Iron Throne years ago, but she hung around in Esos to make sure the slaves she freed stayed free and held off attacking King's Landing because she didn't want to kill hundreds of thousands of people and be the Queen of the Ashes.   

    She couldn't take the Iron Throne years ago because her dragons were not fully grown, she didn't have the ships to transport her army. She had to bid her time.  If she had the ships she would have sailed to Westeros, Jorah had to talk her out of it on several occasions  because they weren't ready. 

    During that time she could have made herself familiar with the families and traditions of Westeros but that didn't happened. If it wasn't because Tyrion and Varys arrived looking for her, I am not sure what she would have done being that she had exiled Jorah and Barristan was dead. 

    Unless it was behind doors, she didn't even know that  Tyrion had to send Varys incognito to sweet talk Highgarden and Dorne into joining Daenerys, yet as of to date Daenerys has not (besides the North now) any other allied in the whole of Westeros. She is not really good into keeping allies, at least not in Westeros. 

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  4. 11 hours ago, Wendy said:

    Jon will be better off by not telling her a thing, let the battle against the AOTD be over and he will either die and the point will be mute or he will marry her and will be king consort. Either way he doesn't want to rule so at this point I don't think it matters much. 

    I know this doesn't matter at all unless they defeat the AOTD but I do wonder if Jon marries Daenerys is he will ever be truly happy in KL, in the middle of that viper nest that his the Red Keep.  Somehow I just can't see it but maybe he will do it for love. 

  5. 11 hours ago, Bryce Lynch said:

    Of course, maybe the Northerners could be a bit more appreciative of her marching North to save them from the Army of the Dead.l

    If she ever intends to be the Queen of Westeros then she needs to face the AOTD, sooner better than later. 

    If it unfortunate that the North is first on the NK pathway, but without resistance, he eventually will conquer every place is Westeros collecting more dead bodies on his wake. 

    I am sure this concept is hard for Dany to grasp but I hope that at least Tyrion has made her see this.

    At least Jon understood this and that is why he brought the wildings south of the wall. Imagine if Jon would have Daenerys attitude and would have try to force the wildings to bend the knee to secure passage through the wall? As a Lord Commander it was in his power to do this  but he understood that he would just be making the AOTD stronger and much more difficult to defeat. 

    I thought Jon's speech at the dragon pit was great, talking about how the dead are coming for everybody and not just the north. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, Greta said:

    I would love for Cersei to live, not triumph, but live to see everything stripped away from her as she slowly withers and dies.  I think there's a bit of foreshadowing in the books, when Cersei repeatedly thinks with horror about the Maidenvault, where Baelor kept his sisters imprisoned.  There's also the Melara in the well story in the books, which is somewhat echoed in the show with Ellaria in the dungeon. I could see an ending where Cersei is imprisoned, either in KL or at Casterly Rock by Tyrion or Jaime, and left to grow old while knowing the world and all the power games she loved are going on just outside her cell.

    That's a really slow choking the life out of her by a little brother.

    I always thought that Tyrion was the little brother but now I am more inclined to believe that it will be Jaime the one who will end up killing Cersei 

    I know they are twins but does anyone know who was born first? If Cersei was then technically Jaime could be consider a younger brother. 

    I would love for her to be jailed and have to witness the reign of another one "younger and prettier" but unfortunately Cersei will never give up, she will fight until her last breath to cause problems for the new ruler, in this case her death is the only possible way.  

  7. 2 hours ago, glowbug said:

    I think it’s pretty clear that Jon, the father of her child, is Dany’s true love. There’s some foreshadowing of their relationship in the books too. I think it’s telling that both in the show and the books Dany doesn’t really mourn or mention Drogo too much after the first book/season. If he’s meant to be her true love shouldn’t she bring him up more? Shouldn’t she be mourning longer over his death?

    And it isn’t Dany who promises Drogo that they will be together again. Mirri Maz Duur prophecizes that Drogo will return to Dany when certain, seemingly impossible, things come to pass, including her womb quickening and bearing a living child. Dany and, I suspect, MMD both think the conditions of the prophecy can never be met and so they both believe Drogo will never return to Dany. In the books the prophecy is coming to pass, just not literally, so it’s likely Drogo will return to Dany in some way but it’s not clear how. They changed the prophecy in significant ways in the show. Dany asks when Drogo will be as he was rather than when he will return to her, and MMD says her prophecy but leaves out the part about her womb quickening and having a living child, and in the show the prophecy isn’t coming true. I do wonder why TPTB decided to leave out the parts they did and why they changed the end result of the prophecy from Drogo returning to Dany to Drogo being what he was. Is it because they didn’t know what was going to happen or because they thought it was giving too much of the plot away or some other reason. It’s mainly because of MMD’s prophecy in the books that I fear Dany will die in the end but her dying is only one possible way Drogo can be returned to her so it’s far from certain. One thing we can be pretty certain of is that Dany will have a child and the show has confirmed the father is Jon and I think that child will be significant in some way. 

     

    I do agree, IMO their child is the song of Ice and Fire. 

    I am reading the books back from the first one so maybe my perception is based on the book that I just finished but in that first book Dany does promise Drago that they will be together again and that is why it stroke me hard seeing all the predictions that Dany will finally have a child. 

    I don't think that Jon wants to rule the Iron Throne and honestly I think that he will for a very short while while he splits the kingdoms apart. Another possibility is that he rules as a regent until his son/daughter can became the ruler. Another one of the predictions on the house of the undying has Dany getting close to the Iron Throne but not sitting there so that is why I think that her demise/death will put and end to her claim. 

    I never particularly thought of GOT as a romantic story. what always fascinated me was the politics involved in it and how wonderful George RR Martin is at creating all the AU that surrounds it, for me it was always about about how the small folk get dragged into this stupid wars and suffer the most no matter who rules. IMO based on the book and the TV series Danny is and will always be a conqueror not a ruler and I doubt that George RR Martin will put her in the throne at the end. 

    Jon has never wanted power and that is why he would be the chosen ruler, the one who will put and end to all of this by splitting the kingdoms apart and retiring to live a simple life in some small place raising his child and just being happy to be a simple man.  In an ideal world probably Jon and Danny will end up together ruling the Sven kingdoms with their children and happily ever after but I will be very surprised if that is that case because there are no happy endings in George RR Martin stories, just cautionary tales about power and greediness and the unintended consequences where no one is ever good or bad. 

  8. 13 hours ago, lorfor said:

    I'm not ignoring the betting odds. Its way too big a jump to ignore. Insider betting is  a real thing in Hollywood and often plagues film and television if you pay attention to it.

    When season 7 ended Bran was 15/1. Dany was 3/1. He is now 6/4 and Dany 12/1. A massive jump for Bran and a massive fall for Dany, all in one offseason with no leaks, no pictures, limited interviews, nothing to go on. This is too much to ignore. Nobody is putting their hard earned money on random Bran for no reason.

    It's not just Bovada either. Here's a list of all the odds and betting parlors As you can see Bran tops all of them. Dany has fallen through the floor on all of them. To be honest with you, the fact she has fallen so much while Jon has remained steady is an interesting thing. I'm not ready to say he lives and she dies, but it's an interesting thing to keep an eye on.

     

    I am almost sure that Dany dies.  I am tempted to place a bet on it on that site. 

    In preparation for the last season I started rereading since book 1 because several interviews from various characters have mention things like "back to the beginnings" and Arya in an interview mentioned how everything was related back to season 1, so it was very interesting to read again about the children of the forest and how the Starks relate to them and also to the Night King but what actually caught my eye more than once is how Dany at different times promises Drogo (IMO the love of her life) that "when the sun sets...... and when her womb quickens and she has a living g child, they will be back together" , she mentions this at least three times and promises it to him before she puts the pillow on his face and also as she is lightning up his funeral pyre. 

    I have read so many theories were it is almost a given that next season she will be pregnant with Jon's baby and she will actually have a baby that I couldn't but help to think that there was a reason why George RR Martin has put so much emphasis on her promise to Drogo. I am not sure how she is going to die but I think she will fulfill her promise to Drogo and reunite with him in the afterlife.  I won't actually be upset about this ending because I honestly believe that they were a perfect couple and she knows that her baby will be loved and well taken care of by Jon. I figure this is the bittersweet ending that all of them have talked about. YMMV. 

  9. 2 hours ago, AnnaL said:

    Dorinda has been lucky so far. Dorinda is nice and level headed when she is sober but she is s nasty drunk. Dorinda's outburst one day will get her in a lot of trouble, not sure if legal trouble, but trouble nonetheless. Dorinda has gotten away with very foul behavior, even worse than Luann, on the show IMO.

    The difference is that somehow Dorinda is still on the honeymoon phase where lots of things are overlooked and forgiven but one day she will go too far. Dorinda by her own admission gets very nasty with even her loved ones. It is great that she recognizes and admits this, now she has to do the hard work about it, she has to slow down her drinking because she knows that she goes for the jugular and one day her mouth is going to get her in trouble. 

    I have this feeling that Dorinda not only has a nasty mouth but she can also get physical, not sure why, I just have that feeling. 

    One against the other,  my money is on Dorinda rather than Luann , lol 

     

    I like sober Dorinda, I like Dorinda when she bonds with Carole over the memories of their dead husbands, I like her when she is hosting at her house, I like her when she is not with John. 

    I do not like drunk Dorinda, her vulgar hand gestures, her loudness and her confrontational way. Cutting her hand on the Mexico trip put it all in perspective, she needs to lay down the booze.

    I do have faith that Dorinda after watching herself on the show and realizing how alcohol affects her interactions, that she will try to control her drinking, and then she can be nice Dorinda again.  I have faith that it might happen. 

    The problem that Luann faces is not just her drinking, not at all. The problem that Luann has is her arrogance to recognize when she is being patronizing and condescending. I am not sure at all that rehab can take care of that. I am also not sure that Luann think that is a problem at all. 

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  10. 5 hours ago, Celia Rubenstein said:

    Wait, what?  I haven't heard about this. Lu can't afford rehab? 

     

    The centers that her insurance can cover are probably not up to her Countess standards.

    I can't even imagine Luann socializing with the "plebe" 

    The rehab center that Luann would go would be in the likes of the very expensive ones so if she wants those she will have to pay out of pocket. Not sure about her financial situation but I am assuming that for her children's sake the Count might be footing the bill. 

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  11. 16 hours ago, Normades said:

    The courts give people, especially those with clean records opportunities to go to rehab.  I think it’s a good thing to give people a chance to get help and turn their lives around if possible.  Locking everyone up over every infraction may feed the rabid need for retribution, but it really doesn’t serve society as a whole.  I’m sure LuAnn would have an advantage over a non-famous, non-rich, white woman with no record, but I don’t believe either of them would do jail time and both would have the opportunity to go to rehab, just not the same one.

    I don’t think LuAnn should be applauded, but I think she may benefit from therapy if she works hard and takes it seriously.  It is an opportunity and I hope she makes the most of it.  It concerns me that there is a condescending and demeaning attitude toward rehab and addiction.  Some people think it’s a fun vacation or addiction as a disease does not exist.  Those who need help may not always go in with the right intention, but if they work hard, lives can really change.  We’ll see what happens next with her, but I can’t condemn her for actually going to rehab.  I also thought her apology seemed sincere, so I hope the best for her and her family. 

     

    This is one of the realities of life that is one of the hardest to swallow. 

    In the last days I have read a lot about this case on social media and there seems to be a general agreement that if Luann was not wealthy, famous,  or white she would have been tasered. ,maybe even shot . Definitely a regular person would not have been let off without a hefty bail and a judge even warning her not to say a word as to not to incriminate herself. 

    It is nice to be privileged like Luann likes to brag about , so much that she made it one of her tag lines for the first seasons, but to gloat about your privilege and then a situation like this happens and make it very obvious that there is indeed another set of rules for the haves and the have nots it is unnerving. 

    Yes, we all know that life is not fair but some of this situations make it pretty apparent that the "We are all equal and no one is above the law" is really just a fairy tale. 

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  12. 43 minutes ago, film noire said:

    Good for her - and any woman with similar desires - as long as she's safe and happy while doing so, she can screw a Roman legion as far as I'm concerned. 

     

    She can screw anything and she does, good for her.  There is a moment and a place, that is what separates us from animals. 

    If she want to scream out of her lungs and swing from a chandelier then she needs to use her own place, that kind of behavior will get her kick out of any place as the noise complains will come on cue.  

    Luann is not in this predicament for having sex with an "ex-boyfriend" aka ONS, nobody complained about that, the maid tried to warn her that she was in the wrong room and Luann couldn't care less, she still got down to business as if nothing happened, when the security guy came, exactly the same, by this I am assuming she has already had her sexual appetite satisfied but she still refused to listen to the security guy. Her lover listened and left and he never got arrested. 

    It is not having sex what got Luann arrested , it is her complete disregard for these two hotel workers who tried to get her to leave on her own will before even calling the police. These two hotel workers did everything they could to allow her an exit where no police was involved. I bet she now wishes she would have listened to them but Luann listens to no one, specially if she considers them of lower rank. 

    Luann and only Luann in her stupid arrogance is guilty of her arrest.  

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  13. On ‎12‎/‎27‎/‎2017 at 0:08 PM, bosawks said:

    I wonder if the housekeeper rolled  her eyes and muttered, "This behavior is so West Palm Beach."

     

    Coming late to the party as I just stumble upon this news on my timeline

    This is exactly the thing that I found more abhorrent of this whole incident. 

    Luann had to deal with the housekeeper first, then with the hotel security guy, way before the police. 

    If Luann was not such a snobby B*&^5 and had listen to the maid when she explained her that she was in the wrong room, it takes 2 seconds to look around and realize that none of your belongings are there and you have made a mistake. She screwed that poor lady, God knows how she spoke to her, Luann can be pretty belittling when she wants to be, at the end the housekeeper had to choice but to call the hotel security. She had to waste time out of her tight schedule to deal with Luann drunken rant. 

    Then the hotel security come and in the height of her arrogance, Luann still refuses to leave, all the while her ONS has already left the room to call the friend, how many minutes passed until the police arrived?  Every single second was an opportunity for Luann to admit her mistake, apologize and quickly leave the room. 

    But not Luann De Lesseps, how dare this unimportant people try to tell her what to do? how dare they demand that she leaves a room that is not hers? 

    Well, dear Luann, that is how karma works, if you would have listen to the housekeeper and left the room, or the hotel security when he tried to explain to you and left like your ONS did , none of this would have happen to you, you would not have been arrested and arraigned with several felonies, you would have been laughing at this whole fiasco. 

    Yes, Luann , you made your bed and now you have to lie in it.  It couldn't have happened to a better person. 

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  14. JMO

    Why Luann married Tom?  she likes to be married to a wealthy man, she likes to feel as if she was the chosen one, she likes to lord it over the other ones who were not chosen, she secured her position on the franchise and secure her income from the show, etc, etc, etc. 

    But why did Tom marry Luann? 

    Some viewers have speculated that there might be some inheritance with some specific conditions in place, that very well could be, but IMO there are more simple reasons about it. Tom recognized a "free spirit" in Luann, someone who basically could be a good partner to him in the sense that they could be married but still have their own personal affairs. Luann is nice looking, can carry a conversation and could maybe give some publicity to his company, simple things that could make them a perfect couple. 

    Tom might have wanted some publicity for his business but I don't think he was ready for the intense scrutiny that he was under, it was mentioned at the reunion that Tom tried to break up with Luann before the wedding because he found out that Luann was giving constant information to the media and he wasn't happy about it. 

    Even though Luann has denied it, IMO Tom was more inclined to have an "open marriage" with Luann, being that she had one with her first husband for many years it is not crazy to speculate that Luann knows how to keep appearances and Tom is incapable of being faithful to just one person. I think during the course of their brief marriage Luann tried to change the rules of the game, she wanted for Tom to be more discrete, she wanted Tom to stop seeing other ladies, Luann basically wanted him to become a more traditional husband but that is not what Tom agreed to and that is why he filed for divorce.  That is the only reasonable explanation that I can find about why he is the one who filed for divorce and not Luann. 

    Tom is a cheater and a consummated womanizer but I do happen to believe that he was honest with Luann about the conditions of their marriage, once he was forced to tried to behave in a more conventional way, he had enough and just cut his losses and filed for divorce. 

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  15. I might be alone in this but there is something about Luann and Tom that never rang true to me. 

    They had zero chemistry, he is not handsome or has a great personality, he is not even as rich as we might have thought at the beginning. 

    He is also a known philanderer to make matters worse. Anybody with common sense knew this marriage was doomed. Luann strikes me as a very smart woman who is also very calculated. 

     

    I don't feel sorry for Luann because I don't think any of this is real. I think Luann thought her apple was at risk and concocted this big romance as her way to secure her apple and income, the fact that next season it will be all about her divorce also secures her another season. 

    I mean, Luann's alimony ran out this year so it is not too far fetched to think that she would be financially in trouble if she didn't secure her job with Bravo. Yes, she does have her home in the Hamptons but I just can't see her selling it  It has been very lucrative for Luann, one season of romance, one season of marriage and one season of divorce. 

     

    Knowing that he was a womanizer just played perfectly into her hands because she is now the victim who got cheated on which makes a sympathetic character. 

    As I have said before, Luann is very calculating and opportunistic. 

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  16. 8 minutes ago, ghoulina said:

    You hit the nail on the head. Ramona is exhausting, but sometimes it's easier to just give her what she wants. Or leave. B couldn't exactly leave this time. Look how much effort Ramona put into "auditioning" for a part on the Tequila excursion. You know KNOW she'd put even more effort in the after-drama of not being able to go. 

     

    Absolutely! 

    Even more so because knowing how vindictive Ramona is, it would have given her the perfect opportunity to speak ill of SGC. 

    Not that she really needs an incentive for it.  She would have done it gladly just to get revenge. 

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  17. 4 hours ago, NYCNJbear06 said:

    See, this is why Ramona will never improve or change her behavior.  I was so pissed when Ramona said Beth did the right thing by inviting her to the tequila trip.  NOOOOO  the RIGHT thing would have been for Beth to stick to her guns and not invite Ramona on the tequila trip for her  1st day heinous room selection behavior alone not to mention all of the past examples of why Beth doesn’t want to be friends.  Even in that moment Ramona feels that SHE is the victim and Beth is at fault and in the wrong.  NO YOU WERE WRONG RAMONA! She is insufferable and the ass kissing was sad.

     

    It kinda suck but I do get it. 

    Bethenny wanted the trip to be about the Tequila and the production of her SGC, if she actually left Ramona in the house by herself, the trip would have been about Ramona being left out.

    Sonja would have talked about it relentlessly and it would have distract of the actual purpose of it.

    I would have enjoyed the scenes of Ramona alone in the house moaning and bitching about being left out, but in her mind she would have been the victim and milk it for all it is worth. 

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  18. 12 hours ago, F. M. said:

    But she did make it sound like this HUGE trip, with very important people. It was basically the same tour everyone gets, along with the tastings. LOL!

    Skinny girl manipulation..?

     

    It is possible that the executives from Beam were there  but  didn't want to be filmed. 

    Can you blame them? 

    The helmets has SGC logos and so did the table also had SGC logos. 

    As a promotional opportunity IMO it hit the mark. 

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  19. Thanks for the link Wendy

    IMO Luann waited a couple of days to "sort of" deny it just in the event that there was pictures or videos of the incident. 

    In case there was a picture, she now calls it a "love pat" - hmmm very transparent. 

    The cherry on top? "We are having a lot of makeup sex"  - code for whoever skank is messing with Tom gets the message that they are still having sex. 

     

    Luann knows how to play the game like a pro. 

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  20. Just watching this episode 

    Is Ramona auditioning for Days of Our Lives? that was a poor histrionic performance. 

    The difference between Ramona and Bethenny is that Bethenny doesn't want anything to do with Ramona and is willing to be civil with her for the sake of the show. Bethenny will move on in due time just like she did with Sonja.  

    Ramona OTOH refuses to acknowledge all the nasty things she has said (her prerogative) but she wants to act as if nothing ever happened and Bethenny should just move on. Ramona is not interested one iota in Bethenny, her friendship, none of that. If Bethenny would be the same poor girl of season 1, Ramona would not be interested in her at all and would not give a crap about making up.

    Ramona is only interested in going to the events that Bethenny hosts, she is even pretending that she was invited when she knows she wasn't. She doesn't have anything else going on so she needs to be in as many episodes as possible, so much that she is now inviting herself and throwing shame out the window. 

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