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S07.E07: The Dragon And The Wolf
RobertDeSneero replied to Meredith Quill's topic in Game Of Thrones
They didn't tell you, but three months passed between getting the dragon and the wall tumbling down. -
S07.E07: The Dragon And The Wolf
RobertDeSneero replied to Meredith Quill's topic in Game Of Thrones
Brandon Stark was arrested for treason after protesting that Rhaegar had abducted his sister. Rickard was summoned and made the mistake of being a Stark who went south. Then, we had some dead Starks and a war. So, their relationship set things in motion. If they hadn't conducted it in a way that could be construed a a kidnapping, then things would have been different. -
S07.E07: The Dragon And The Wolf
RobertDeSneero replied to Meredith Quill's topic in Game Of Thrones
It was a lord's kiss. -
It is standard military strategy to try to destroy your enemy's supply lines, so the wagons should be a target. Should Dany know that those wagons contain food from the Reach? We may be coming upon a situation where there is only enough food to get through a normal winter, but a long winter is coming. Then, it is discovered that defeating the Night King will end the long winter and Dany must head north to save everyone. Will doing so be more important than continuing her quest for the Iron Throne? What kind of chemistry are people looking for between Dany and Jon? Sexual chemistry? The standard trope might be to depict them as an inevitable pairing, but what if the show goes in a different direction, as GRRM sometimes does? What if we end up in a situation where Dany determines that she loves Jorah but must marry Jon to unite the realm, while Jon must get over whatever psychological hangups he might have about marrying someone who may be his aunt and having to consummate the marriage?
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Jon Snow should offer to bend the knee after the White Walkers are defeated, just like Cersei told Euron he would marry her after she wins the war. Jon and Dany should bone before finding out they are related. Then, Dany can be "whatever, it's just sex" and Jon can feel super guilty and brood about it. Then, go back and have more sex. Davos is a married man who never had a daughter. He seems the sort who would latch on to a potentially vulnerable young female because he imagines what it would be like to have someone like her as a daughter. Who kills Littlefinger? You'd think Arya or Sansa. Maybe even Jon Snow. I could see them pushing Bran as having died at the cave but eventually showing the three-eyed raven still has a little Bran in him by having him kill Littlefinger, despite having given up the dagger. Or, I could see the White Walkers coming to Winterfell and LF trying to bargain with them, only to be killed/converted.
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I like Zeph. She's the character who most resembles how I think. She seems a bit OCD about needing to prove her theories right. This character trait may lead to issues with her mission to test the Remnant, either because she disobeys an order to not test a theory or because she doesn't consult with the rest before doing so. I found it rather endearing when she was walking in a circle repeating something that I couldn't hear clearly and Johnny asked her if she was praying. Something about a circle.
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The lesson really is that the Doctor sometimes goes around acting like an entitled snot. I very much enjoyed the concept of their interaction as a codependent relationship that needed to end. The right way to do that is for the Doctor to do an examination of the new body, count the correct number of appendages and digits, feel the chest area, pull a strand of hair in front of the eyes, then sigh and proclaim, "Still not ginger." The decision to have a female Doctor is not an impediment to a good show, so it will come down to acting and writing. From a creative perspective, this isn't necessarily a decision based on PR or PC. There have certainly been complaints about repetitiveness, so perhaps this decision opens up new avenues. If the show has ever been a vehicle for social commentary, then there is an opportunity to speak on gender issues in a way that will be unwelcome in some corners. It is also certainly possible that Chibnall wanted to put a stamp on his own era by picking a Doctor who was the least like the other Doctors in recent memory. While one could write the Thirteenth Doctor as having a more violent personality than previous incarnations, I'm sure that would be be met with resistance from the fan base.
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S10.E07: The Pyramid At The End Of The World
RobertDeSneero replied to Tara Ariano's topic in Doctor Who
This is a Doctor undone by hubris. He doesn't like to give more information than he needs to and he probably gets off on being able to negotiate the world without telling anyone that he is blind. Getting too caught up in his cleverness had a price. -
The crossover would work like this....Supergirl is mostly unrelated, until she gets the invitation at the end. Everyone from all the shows appear for the wedding on The Flash. The wedding gets interrupted by a villainous threat. Legends features some of the characters on a search for some information about the threat or a weapon to be used against it. Everything is resolved on Arrow. So, for example, Supergirl defeats Mxyzptlk and gets a wedding invitation. The audience sees what Kara does not, that Mxyzptlk was attacked by something that made him vulnerable. Music Meister shows up at the wedding. He gets attacked. It is revealed that he and Mxyzptlk are related and he knows about what happened on Supergirl. The Legends travel back in time after determining that some historical event may be related after MM mentions that some historical figure was a similar being. They bring some mystical device to Arrow, where it is used to defeat a mystical, multidimensional threat.
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S42.E21: Dwayne Johnson / Katy Perry
RobertDeSneero replied to formerlyfreedom's topic in Saturday Night Live
I'm both glad and sad you needed to Google that. Think of it in the context of another evil device, using the dictionary definition of evil. -
The timeline is fluid. So, Wally's powers can come and go based on changes to the timeline. But even if Savitar is erased, his existence has to have left a footprint, to avoid creating paradoxes that rip the timeline apart. So, Wally still has speed and HR is still dead. Him being gone does not undo all of that. The Speed Force protects the existence of time remnants to keep the timeline from imploding. I can fanwank that Eddie Thawne killing himself in such close proximity to Eobard is what created a singularity that the Speed Force was unable to protect the timeline from. Would I have written it differently? Sure. When Savitar reveals that his plan is to be fragmented throughout all of time and Barry says that Snart told him the Flash should stay a hero, I thought we would get Barry talking his time remnant into having a change of heart, but it would be necessary to go through with his plan anyways because Savitar being scattered throughout the timeline is actually how the Speed Force is created, so Barry's remnant is actually the Speed Force and has been manipulating events to bring itself into existence. (And other speedsters someone become part of the Speed Force when they die.)
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S42.E21: Dwayne Johnson / Katy Perry
RobertDeSneero replied to formerlyfreedom's topic in Saturday Night Live
Robo Chomo is totally my sense of humor. If I had been writing that sketch, I would had a white guy invent a robotic policeman that beats up black people, only to be beaten by his own robot when another mad scientist attaches his octoroon detector that determines that the first scientist actually has some African heritage that he doesn't know about. And maybe have the robot not recognize celebrity guest judge Drake as being black. I wonder when Tom Hanks was confirmed to be part of the show. In the rap video, it feels like Essentially Simon was supposed to go in the spot where David S. Pimpkins went and they moved him so there was no transition between Kathleen Bell/Katy Perry and him. I like political humor and I like toilet humor, so this was a good show for me. -
S02.E22: Nevertheless, She Persisted
RobertDeSneero replied to The Crazed Spruce's topic in Supergirl
I bet there is a portion of the fanbase who would have loved it if Lena had gone full Penguin and activated the device after Kara wins a fair fight in order to get rid of Mon-El, her biggest rival for Kara's affection. Seriously, though, they have certainly planted the seeds for some dissent, with Lillian's prediction that she won't take it well when she find's out and Lena asking Supergirl about Kara and Mon-El. -
Just assume that he was left alive to identify Tahir so NCIS would be sure to know it was him, as if they wouldn't suspect it anyways.
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Shepherd's plan was to drain the swamp. And if you hate the current administration or if you hated the previous one or if you hated both, I feel like you could sort of understand where she was coming from. I appreciate having a villain who can have a reasonable goal that involves terrorism and mass murder. I sort of got this Alias vibe from the ending. I wouldn't be surprised if this led to some weird forced partnership where an inter-agency task force has to work with Shepherd to take down a bigger threat. Maybe she is less murderous because the impeachment of an unnamed corrupt president who may or may not be the same as our own has allegedly restored her faith in an imperfect government that tries to mostly do good. Or so she claims, but not everyone believes her. They should just go completely nuts and make the bad guys some sort of crazy international conspiracy.
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That felt more like standard CYA. Vance knew exactly what Gibbs was going to do. He has to officially say that he can't sanction anything, but he is also telling Gibbs that he unofficially supports him. Good cliffhangers are awesome. NCIS isn't the right vehicle for a good cliffhanger. It's a show I enjoy watching as something safe and unspectacular, with characters I find likeable. I don't watch for great storytelling.
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If we had three years of a female Doctor who was completely sexless and never had a hint of a romantic relationship, would that bother people who are rooting for a woman to be cast?
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S04.E19: Your Honor / S04.E20: The Slaughterhouse
RobertDeSneero replied to formerlyfreedom's topic in Brooklyn Nine-Nine
You will get your wish in next season's heist, when she is out-smarted by Hitchcock and Scully. -
That speech would have been horribly out-of-character coming from May. She's not the one to give an emotional, inspirational speech. She's the one who you give a single sentence stuffed with profoundness. She is going to be as talkative about her experience in the Framework as she has been about her experience in Bahrain.
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Now that I think about it, it should turn out that the video of William was not live and he's already dead, with his desecrated corpse being used to taunt Ollie.
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Maybe they can just kill him horribly and give us even-more-angsty Oliver next season. We can even get Barry to guest-star when Ollie tries to make him create another Flashpoint-like timeline. What's the best way to kill William? Defenestration? Slit his throat? Bury him alive? Arrow through the forehead?
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The Doctor is dissing the commodification of human life. Some might argue that unfettered capitalism leads in that direction. Whether that is true or not is a topic for another forum, but is certainly something that would wind up a character who believes you should never be cruel.
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I would guess that he is off-camera somewhere, ready to stop Killer Frost from killing Cisco. The standard superhero story would have Julian willing to sacrifice himself, providing the emotional push for Caitlyn to gain control and push back the Killer Frost personality. Then, she gives them information needed to find Savitar and/or take him down. Just need a reason for Barry to go back in time and create Flashpoint times ten.
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They should definitely not clear it up until Flockhart's last appearance on the show, either when they plan on killing off Cat Grant or when the series has reached its conclusion and it is known to be on its last season. Given the obvious allusions to Trump, I wouldn't be shocked if the direction next season is to have the president assassinated and replaced by an anti-alien politician, with the storyline being protecting "illegal aliens" from a government crackdown.
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I don't think he believed that, but he just couldn't pull the trigger on his own mother. I suspect he might end up killing her to save Kara. Then, next season can be all about Kara tending to angsty Mon-El. Olson's character is a casualty of the shift in focus to the DEO. He made more sense as part of the cast if the series focus was on a millenial lifestyle complicated by being a superhero, instead of superheroics being the focus. He is now so disconnected from Kara-as-Supergirl that it is hard to justify giving him a minor role that leads to them interacting. Not to steal an idea from Arrow, but James running for mayor and making National City a sanctuary city for aliens would make him a target for threats that could allow for more reasonable interaction with Supergirl and the DEO.