[S01.E03: Second Of His Name]

8 minutes ago, WatchrTina said:

(BTW, we know they call birthdays "name-days" in Westeros which, to my mind, means that baby Aegon should NOT have been named UNTIL his first birthday but, hey, I didn't get to write the script.)

Well read sir or madam...I'm going to hide it because it might be "book" spoiler-ish even though it has literally nothing to do with any plot and I'm not even sure it's correct, but I'm pretty certain...

Spoiler

...in the books you don't get a name until TWO years have passed, and he'd have simply been referred to as the prince. But don't quote me. 

[S01.E03: Second Of His Name]

37 minutes ago, Colorado David said:

oh my gosh, did NOT notice this!!!

I noticed it, but tried not to because it will send me down another rabbit hole. I got the whole idea of the Sons of the Harpy in the GoT timeline (Danerys very publicly tearing down the statue and all it stood for atop the pyramid giving rise to this group makes sense), but I'm not exactly sure what the Sons would be doing (a) this far west and (b) what ideology would drive them 180ish years before Danerys is ever born. I'm not saying there's no explanation, but this seemed too cute by half to me. Give him another mask and I have zero questions and far less mental explaining to do!

Also why give him greyscale then expect me to believe people would be cool with huddling up in a cave with this dude for an extended period of time. All in all, this was not a villain worthy of being featured in both the opening of the episode and the last person seen in episode 2 (if I recall). He's basically a nobody as it turns out. 

[S01.E03: Second Of His Name]

5 hours ago, Raachel2008 said:

You know what else was ridiculous? That with two dragons they couldn't just destroy these caves. This is why Idetest most of the dragons related war/battle stuff: in order to drag plots people it doesn't make sense. Daenerys could have taken King's Landing waaaay before she did - and without commiting mass murderer -; the final battle against the NIght King was extremely poorly executed and the dragons used the wrong way so our heros could suffer more, etc, etc. Just give me the wolves any day.

Puh-REACH. It's no small problem for the show. In the 100 + years since the Conquest, only one society has managed to resist dragons in a military sense, Dorne, and they were in the mountains of their home land basically doing guerilla warfare. I'm still not sure that makes perfect sense (supply lines are still required), but these are the Stepstones, and a band of pirates. It's like in order to ride a dragon you have to be a strategic idiot, and once you as the viewer recognize it, you can't unsee it. This very fact, as you point out, ruined 2 entire seasons of Game of Thrones. 

[S01.E03: Second Of His Name]

I'm with anyone else who thinks "Wait, THREE YEARS this Stepstones nonsense has been going on AND you have two dragons???" Good grief. Why isn't the dragons thing an actual like 'division' of the army? Subject to strategies and asset deployment sort of thing? Instead it seems like "I own a dragon, I ride a dragon, therefore I'm going to just go battle wherever, whenever." I don't understand. If the enemy is hiding in the caves, AND for whatever reason you don't just want to station a dragon at the mouth of the cave and have it blast fiery death down the tunnels (seems easiest to me, but what do I know), couldn't you have dragons stationed above the caves, basically just sitting there waiting to roast any and all who emerge? What exactly are they DOING with the dragons? I'd think basically you'd arrive and the first thing you'd do is burn every ship to the water line. Then burn everyone on the beach. THEN you'd have a dragon patrolling the skies for reinforcements (see: burn to the water line) and a dragon waiting to toast pirates when they inevitably have to emerge. And do it all at night! Honestly that this has taken any longer than a month is puzzling...if there were a master of dragons or the Captain of the Dragonforce or whatever on the small council, maybe these things could be discussed!

[S01.E02: The Rogue Prince]

5 minutes ago, Hanahope said:

Who is Daemon's (first) wife?  have we seen her?  

She's an Arryn, I forget her first name, I believe she is in the Vale. I think! I'm not trying to look it up and get spoiled. 

[S01.E02: The Rogue Prince]

52 minutes ago, tennisgurl said:

 A bunch of guys in boats should not be showing up people with giant winged flame throwers at their disposal. 

Rest in power, Rhaegal. It still makes me mad how they did you. 

[S01.E02: The Rogue Prince]

Can someone PLEASE help me understand why every small council meeting doesn't start like this:

"First up on the agenda, just to get it out of the way, the list of problems we can solve with one dragon and no pushback. Let's see...small band of pirates making life in the stepstones difficult, yep, that one we can handle. Which dragon in the dragon pit hasn't been out in a while? I think the standard "Descent from above at night, rain fire on the ships first, then incinerate the pirates to a man should do it." Anyone object? No? Moving on, the issue of succession...again."

[S07.E07: For Tooth's Sake]

I know it's too much to ask, but just ONCE can I see something get screwed up badly enough to really be a problem? Besides this piece of shit boat's stabilizers going off line. ANd not "Oops, I bumped into a dolphin but it's not even enough to scuff the hull." I mean fuck, they fake most of this shit anyway right? How much more fun is a show if you can see:

• Hunt for the saboteur who keeps fucking with the stabilizers...high stakes drama that ends with someone locked in the garbage compartment until the charter's over.
• Captain Sandy: Didn't put the jet skis in the water??? KEEL HAUL YOUR ASS.
• Stowaway who tricks the whole crew into thinking the boat is haunted.
• Hijacking by the primary.  
• Yacht seized under sanction for being owned by a Russian oligarch.

I have more but they get less tasteful.  

[S07.E07: For Tooth's Sake]

1 hour ago, heatherchandler said:

I was wondering this too, since the kerfuffle with Malia and Maritime LAW!  

I'm not sure if you've received the latest Maritime Law Journal this quarter, but the world of maritime law is exciting and constantly changing. 

Sincerely,

Chareth Cutestory, ESQ

[S07.E07: For Tooth's Sake]

That male steward...

#notmyjosiah

[Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage]

16 hours ago, Crashcourse said:

I can't stand this woman and that bowl of chicken scraps with mac and cheese just looks nasty. 

THat picture makes me want to wretch. Not unlike the Velveeta commercial where the old woman rides a lawnmower while holding a martinit glass full of said cheese sludge. Vile. 

8 hours ago, GaT said:

This pizza hut commercial has me in an absolute rage. They play it multiple times a day & I do mean multiple. Sometimes it gets played, then another commercial comes on, then it plays again. I've even seen it played right after it's played. I see it played all over the place, I can't get away from it. I just saw it 7 times during a one hour show I watched, & that's not the worst. I HATE IT.

Craig Robinson absolutely should be a huge star by now. He's better than this. So much better than this and sniffing a stranger's Gain washed drawers. 

[S04.E04: LAL: Most Wanted]

Is there anyone her who does not get MAJOR stranger danger vibes whenever Chance is around those girls? Something about him in an Easter bunny outfit really, really made my skin crawl. I'm surprised he got a pickup truck and not a windowless van. Also, loved him having to have a realish conversation with his future father in law, for the first time, while wearing a bunny suit below the neck. Everyone on this show is an asshole, and the real entertainment is the game I've invented for debate with the wife: if you have to pick ONE, is person X stupid, evil, or gross? You can only pick one. 

[Farrah]

On 8/18/2022 at 3:28 PM, Faceplant said:

Farrah, influencing waxers, changing the world. Pretty sure this interaction did not happen or the waxer was smart enough to know what she needed to say to get a good tip. Those hashtags, oof. 

So, I'm supposed to believe that someone was talking about Roe V. Wade, and all of the nuance in such a discussion, WHILE THEY WERE SMEARING HOT WAX ON THE HAIRS AROUND HER ASSHOLE? What fucking planet is this? WHO on earth would engage in this discussion at that particular moment? And I'm to believe Farah made a persuasive argument from an informed position while propped up on hands and knees with her butt cheeks pried open?

Sorry about the double post. 

[Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage]

I saw a commercial yesterday where a young woman opens the commercial by proclaiming "I had 8 UTI's in one year." In my best Robin Thede: "GIRL." Please figure out your life. Wash your hands or something. Stop fucking around with boxcar hobos. SOMETHING YOU ARE DOING IS WRONG. Also, not sure I'd want to be the face of serial UTI's. Can you even tell your family you're IN a commercial if that's the commercial? Reminds me of the old "This is the face of erectile dysfunction" ads from the late 90's. I always imagined they never told those guys what the commercial was actually FOR when they were filming it, then they watched it and were all like "MY DICK TOTALLY WORKS! WHAT THE FUCK!" [calls agent]

Also the Frank Thomas / Doug Flutie commercial for Eugenix Total T, where they always make sure to mention "And fellas...she'll like it too." I always add "by it, we mean your freshly stiffened dick" or something along those lines, much to my wife's continued dismay. :)

[S07.E07: For Tooth's Sake]

2 minutes ago, Baltimore Betty said:

In reality if you were on a boat for six weeks would you even be interested in trying to have a relationship or just sex?  The chances of a relationship lasting a day after the last day of the charter season are slim to none so why do these people try so hard?  Do they really think they are forming a long lasting relationship?   

YES. They are all dealing with significantly malformed images of relationships, and are probably given to over-romanticizing based on the incredible surroundings. Much like the 90-Day Other Way folks, as you seem to imply, these people would be better off just saying "You know what, I find crewmember X really attractive, she / he is into me too, so we're probably just going to fuck whenever we can while we're on the boat, and we'll see where it goes from there, Probably nowhere though." The girl on Down Under, for example, can't figure out that it's an absolute shit idea to plan to do a life in a van trip with someone you've known for six weeks or less. Same deal. Just fuck, no one's going to hate you over it, you're young, single, when will it be a better time to have those adventures? Trying to figure out how to marry vacation dick / [impolite vagina name] is a real bad idea.  

[S07.E07: For Tooth's Sake]

21 hours ago, MyMaui said:

I'm glad I am not alone in thinking that.  I think she is doing it on purpose.  I think on her WWHL appearance a while back she was trying to cover herself saying Dave got the better edit than her.  I can see why now after this.

On 8/18/2022 at 11:22 AM, iMonrey said:

That's what I was thinking too. And why on earth is she telling Dave she's getting back with her ex? After everything she's been through, knowing how possessive he got with her, trying to ghost him, it's like she's deliberately baiting him. What is wrong with her? 

Exactly what my wife and I both said: WHY DOES HE NEED TO KNOW? I was completely on Team Tash when Douchey Dave went ballistic a couple of episodes ago. COmpletely inappropriate reaction (but isn't that why we watch? These are almost all invariably emotionally damaged people living in close quarters, isn't this shit inevitable?). Now, she absolutely tells him for zero reason at all, and he gets all upset about it again, except SHE's in the wrong. I do not understand why these people cannot land, and quickly, on the solution that "You know, it's probably best for us to just communicate professionally, about work stuff." 

As far as Storm and Natalya go, I think she's just looking for someone to charm her knickers off, and it seemed to me Storm's not very charming. He's nice, he's probably sort of funny, but dude had no game at all. 

[S09.E13: Unfinished Business]

10 minutes ago, TexasGal said:

...Hamilton obsessed guests...

Really don't care that we can see the seams on this production-driven stupidity, I guess. Who the fuck goes on a cruise and headlines with "We love Hamilton the play!"? Good grief. 

God, I wish it were Cats instead. 

[S05.E05: False Starts And False Promises]

10 hours ago, b2H said:

Yours was clearly not a ‘conversational’ foreign language education.  Conversational usually includes all the words one does not use in polite company.   😂 

Missed opportunity to see if the gesture for blowing loads really IS international.

[S01.E01: Chapter One - Stranger In A Strange Land]

On 12/31/2021 at 1:08 PM, tennisgurl said:

You can definitely tell this is a Mandalorian spin-off, its still got that very space western sort of vibe, dusty frontier towns with aliens and ray guns and such. It didn't grab me as much as The Mandalorian, and I have in general never been a huge Boba fan, but I always like spending time exploring the Star Wars universe, especially its outskirts. Exploring Tattooine has promise, and I really like the cast, so I will be sticking around. 

This might be my main problem with the show right now, one episode deep. I'm going to give it time, not for Fett's sake (agree: totally overrated character whose appeal was basically non-canonical for decades, and disagree with @paigow on his clone wars arc, I didn't find it so, but YMMV), but because there are always cool little characters hanging around to discover. Anyway, back to my bolded part there: this can't be another western in space, that lane is taken. This should develop into something closer to Space Sopranos if you want to distinguish your properties. And Obi Wan / Ahsoka better be more classical samurai films. 

[90 Day Fiancé: Pillow Talk]

3 hours ago, IvySpice said:

In America, I'm totally down with this. "Not in my house" is ridiculous. Engaging in a stupid game where we pretend that adults don't, or shouldn't, have sex is pointless. Teach your child to make decisions around sex that are safe, consensual, kind, etc. But unless you're Amish, the morality/decorum ship sailed in the '60s.

In a Muslim country in North Africa, it's a different story. That's a whole different set of legal and social boundaries. We don't know if Mother Hamza is going to be shamed, arrested, told she's running a brothel... Much as I would want to share a room with my fiancé, I'm not breaking those rules in Tunisia. And to then sneak around in such a lazy, sloppy way that you get caught, and on TV no less -- no. That's wrong.

THIS is the big problem. There are plenty of people in Tunisia 'disrespecting' their parents house in a similar fashion, right now at this very second, biology is biology... they're just not doing it on TV. 

[S09.E10: The Smell of Sweat and Desperation]

3 minutes ago, gaPeach said:

I don't know what is worse.  Heather saying the word or Rayna using it as a tool to squash any criticism of her or her work.

It's this one :). 

[90 Day Fiancé: Pillow Talk]

On 1/2/2022 at 11:56 PM, Frozendiva said:

Hamza and Memphis do need to respect that the home is his mother's.

I hear what you're saying, but this has always bugged me. Like is he disrespecting his mom's house if he jerks off in it? Or just because she didn't specifically say "Don't jerk off in my house," it's okay? And when has this ever worked for more than 24 hours, respecting someone's house as some sort of sex inhibitor? So if he goes down on her but doesn't fuck her, is he still disrespecting the house? Sorry guys, but the bad news is if your son or daughter's partner is coming over to your house and is going to sleep there, you can be sure than they're going to disrespect your house. 

My mom tried this with me when I was eighteen, so my girlfriend and I just went out to my car in the driveway and did it. And of course my mom caught us, to which I said "I'm NOT IN THE HOUSE" and she said "animals." I was kind of a dick as a teenager, I think. 

[90 Day Fiancé: Pillow Talk]

13 minutes ago, Welshman in Ca said:

I don't mind a joke at my expense but I do like to understand it.

Wasn't at your expense, I'm sorry! That meme is the idiom "right on the nose," in other words, I think you've hit the nail on the head with your "maybe he likes a gummy" theory. My wife and I are absolutely convinced he's stoned as hell when he's watching. I see you're a Welshman, but is there a UK equivalent to this idiom" "Spot on" or "Bang on" perhaps (I get most of my English idioms from Premier League broadcasts, so I don't have a wide array, but my favorite so far is "under the kosh," as well as "all hands to the [defensive / offensive] pump!"). 

[90 Day Fiancé: Pillow Talk]

21 hours ago, Welshman in Ca said:

 

I do love a gummy while watching this so maybe he does too.

[S09.E10: The Smell of Sweat and Desperation]

12 minutes ago, Mr. Miner said:

It's probably sinking in to Heather's dumb ass that she is one and done, and we won't be seeing her on TV anymore. Who does a guy have to fuck to get an eggs benedict smoked salmon smoothie around here? 

She can take comfort knowing there's still an entire non-TV yacht industry that I'm preeeettttttttttyyyyy sure is totally comfortable with many variations on the offending word, sadly.