RobertDeSneero

How are these rules applied to spoilers from the Game of Thrones TV show, such as the fate of one character being described in season 3 episode 4?

His problem is that Rhaenyra is so much like her uncle--headstrong, impetuous, and temperamental--that, like Daemon, she is unsuited to be a ruler. If I were the writer, this is the direction I would go in, showing that her cause is just while also showing that she shouldn't be queen, an implicit criticism of monarchic succession. I think Viserys knows this on some level, but he won't admit to naming his daughter his heir being a mistake, unless she does something to provoke him the way Daemon did by joking about the "heir for a day". I fear we are in for a long series about unlikeable people fighting over the throne. Imagine Game of Thrones, but with no Starks to be sympathetic towards. If your most likable claimants are Cersei and Stannis, with every other option worse, who do you root for?

It took three years because Daemon's strategy was "I haz dragons" and the Crabfeeder's strategy was "I can hide in the caves whenever you bring your dragons out". Daemon can handle a problem where brute force gets the job done, but he's unsuited to be king because he is incapable of strategy and nuance.

Dragon showing up as obviously planned this episode is not a lazy plot device. When the dragon shows up, the Crabfeeder's people go hide in the caves. The goal here was to use Daimon to draw them out of the caves far enough and long enough to use the dragon on them. The question was whether Daimon could survive long enough for the dragon to do its thing. Dragons are such an overpowered weapon that the show has to work to create credible threats from people who don't have dragons against people who do have dragons in direct military combat.

I'm going to go the other way and say that I initially thought Laena was older than 14 until she said her mother said she wouldn't have to be bedded until she was 14. I just thought she was short.

I got the sense that they were anti-American leftists who would do things like infiltrate a legitimate peaceful protest group like Black Lives Matter and try to turn them into riots. They were believed to be funded by Russia, which has been known to support disruptive elements in an attempt to cause chaos in American politics. She seems to be what is described as a "tankie", a hardcore pro-Soviet communist of the sort who would find the leftmost edge of the Democratic Party insufficiently radical. (I say this having known a few who fit that description.)

Binged the entire series over the last two days. This show relies on having Michael, Saru, and Stamets get the most development as a big three like Kirk, Spock and McCoy, while the rest of the cast gets more character advancement than Sulu, Chekov, and Uhura (they have first names!), but not as much as in later Trek shows--partly because in a serialized show, there's no room for stand-alone episodes that explore these characters--so how much you like the show depends on how you feel about the focal characters and I like Michael more than most. I was amused by seeing Vance's family because the closest things to a straight white male character (Oded Fehr is an Israeli actor of Ashkenazic origin) had a decidedly non-white family, but I guess we saw them in the first episode of the series and I missed it. I love it if that bothers some people. I believe President Rillik consistently referred to a non-gender-specific partner, so they're probably planning some sort of surprise there. It's clear Disco has a wokeness agenda, which I support and which is going to turn some people off. This series isn't for everyone and I'm fine with that.

I have a different reading of Lucy than most in this thread. She feels like someone who has suffered some sort of personal trauma and wanted the relationship with Whistler as something to help her move past it.

You know what happened in 2024? The Bell Riots, although that happened in SF, not LA. They name-dropped Sisko, so maybe they will reference the riots somehow.

Did it look like the Borg Queen had a cat-who-ate-the-canary smirk on her face like this was all going according to plan?

I can't shake the impression this episode gave me that Boba is going to be betrayed, possibly by Shand, at the end of the season.

My big takeaway was that Dubose looked like an oompa loompa in the Sound of Music skit.

The point of this series should be to establish Kate Bishop as a character in the MCU. Clint's backstory doesn't do that unless he killed someone in a way that affects Kate. My guess is that Kingpin wants Clint dead and Eleanor is working for Kingpin and hired Clint on his behalf. The reasons for wanting Clint dead are related to the watch.

Not sure if her name is spoken, but visual clues give her name as Moira Brandon. Moira Brandon was a minor character who interacted with Hawkeye in the comic books. I wonder if talking about being a weapon is a signal that Clint has a coming story arc of becoming more than a weapon, becoming a leader. (See: West Coast Avengers.) A leader full of self-doubt about past mistakes and his ability to lead seems like a writer's dream for who they would want to place in charge of a team.

How old does Sylvia look when the TVA first comes for her? I'm not good at estimating ages, so she could be 8 or she could be 12 for all I know. What if the TVA seeks to prevent the offspring of two Lokis, so the nexus event that got the TVA after Sylvie initially was menarche and the activation of her uterus as a baby factory while the nexus event on Lamentis was the moment when Loki became romantically interested in Sylvie, bring the possibility of their coupling closer together? Maybe the people who are behind the TVA are a bunch of Asgardian variants who fear offspring of two Lokis as the bringer of a multiversal Ragnarok.

Musk monologue delivery made me think he was acting like a Seth MacFarlane character. I did like the OJ joke, though.

I knew we were going to get a scene of Sophie dancing around her knowledge about Batwoman with Ryan while drinking, I just thought it'd be in the bar. I'm feeling vindicated in my belief that Sophie wanted to earn the trust of the Bat Team so they let her and tell her instead of forcing her way in. She just outright said what I said about last episode. I feel more chemistry in a potential Sophie-Ryan pairing than I did about Ryan-Angelique or Kate-Sophie. I've always felt that way since the characters first met. Maybe they'll find an angsty reason for them to need to use Enigma in the future to erase Sophie's knowledge of Batwoman's identity.

If I were Sophie, I wouldn't admit that I knew who Batwoman was. She should reassess and go check out Ryan in civilian mode. Sophie knows they have an antagonistic relationship. She needs to build trust. And they were in a time crunch where arguing about the how and of why of finding out secret identities would have been a costly distraction. Anyways, Sophie kind of wants to be part of the Bat Team as she gets disillusioned with the Crows. But she wants to earn it and be asked, not barge in and blackmail her way in by being able to threaten to reveal who Batwoman is. Besides, we need that cute scene where Sophie visits the bar and drops some double entendre that Ryan interprets as weird flirting. If Alice remembers Cora, has she already figured out who the new Batwoman is?

I can't shake the feeling that the Speed Force wants to have sex with Barry.

I'd imagine a more mature version of Billie Eilish. I get the sense that Katya is going to be involved somehow in Hetty's arc. I've greatly missed the Nell-Eric dynamic. That's been my favorite interaction of the show.

Might be more fun if she turned out to be the Power Broker.

To be clear, they mentioned the Machete order for watching Star Wars movies (which I endorse) in which you skip episode I and drop II and III in as a flashback after the end of Empire. Looks like they found a way to double Danielle Panabaker's screen time.

I've always thought there's something a bit weird about people who seem to care more about dogs than people.

They explained it in-story. Thawne's artificial speed force was stabilized by negative emotion. To avoid doing that, they used an inert substance to stabilize Barry's speed force. Cisco hypothesized that Barry's lack of emotion was caused by doing that, so it wasn't a by-product of becoming more intelligent. This suggests that there is a way to stabilize the speed force in some other way that allows Barry to have normal emotion. The obvious and oh-so-comic-y solution would be for the ASF to somehow be stabilized by Barry's love for Iris, which would make sense since he is the Paragon of Love.

Not everyone believes in a consequentialist ethical theory.