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Thank you for posting that, they articulated a lot of the frustrations I had with the Jaime/Cersei and Cersei plotlines better than I could. From the article: “I’m open to the argument that their characters’ fates should be tied together, but to see this ending play out without Cersei being forced to reckon with her own actions, and with Jaime never stopping to take stock of this decision, is hard to swallow. Are we supposed to be moved by Cersei’s vulnerability after we’ve seen her so steadfast at committing the same kind of atrocities that just turned Daenerys into a villain? If you go back to when the series debuted and said that Cersei and Jaime meet their final end reunited in the dungeons of the Red Keep as the city crumbles around them, I’d say that more or less makes sense. They’re co-dependent, and toxic, and both motivated by complex scales of justice that shift as they struggle to hold onto their senses of power and honor and family. But something about the way the story played out—the pointless swordfight with the pointless Euron, the focus on their unborn child—just felt too clean, boiling the characters down instead of building to a final cumulative moment in their respective arcs.” I found the baby plot device incredibly frustrating and frankly cheap and sexist. Ultimately, I think we were supposed to contrast Cersei’s motivating love for her children in contrast to Dany’s motivating thirst for vengeance in this episode? I am admittedly unsympathetic to arguments about intention vs impact so maybe I’m not being fair. I think this season really failed Cersei’s character regardless of a lovely, incredible well acted final scene.

Petition to change the name of this topic to “Cersei Lannister: Did you know she loves her children?” There is a bizarre undercurrent of “Out of sight, out of mind” regarding Jaime and Cersei prior to episode 5 until Sansa Snark triggers him.

The second she saw that rowboat Davos left them, she’d ditch Jaime for a man with two hands. They did you a whole season of wrong, girl.

The pregnancy brain on a 28 month gestation must be bananas.

Cersei is one of my favorite characters on GOT and I love the actress (do they give emmys for staring out windows) but I feel like they seriously reduced the complexity of the character but maybe I feel like that because I despise the baby storyline, “but she loves her children”, and the description of her by the showrunners as “just a little girl” at the end. I think they wanted to contrast her to Dany like Cersei has a reason to live because fetus whereas Dany has a reason to kill because she has nothing. I’m probably not explaining myself well.

A classic example is Natalie Portman’s character in Garden State and Zooey Deschanel is frequently accused of playing one but I don’t think her character in New Girl qualifies. It’s like an oh-so-quirky girl who’s sole existence is to show the male character how to have fun and live life.

He seems to think he’s the smartest person in the room whether that’s a set, a twitter convo or some convention hall which I guess he justifies to himself by the level of success he’s achieved. That is not the mindset of someone willing to learn from his mistakes or people whose life experiences differ from his, and frankly “...but what about the children” is a far too often used justification for racism and other bigoted behavior. Regarding his on set behavior, I get advocating for better working conditions especially for safety reasons but is the other stuff within his role as the lead actor? He’s still not a producer right? I guess it seems like he pulls power moves on people in roles beneath his and doesn’t say kick it up the chain of command as it were.

He looks like he’s at the tail end of his sentence. (with bonus old man rogue eyebrow hairs)

I wonder if it has anything to do with the anti-hero trend (that seems to be petering out) where it’s kind of the only appropriate ending for a main character who is objectively a bad person.

At first I was like I don’t think much of her acting but it’s also the CW so it’s not like Helen Mirren is available to them. From the limited information about Batwoman so far she sounds basically like Dinah Drake, so terribly generic. BRB, starting Helen Mirren for DCEU Black Canary Twitter campaign.

Dinah gets Oliver out on some sort of temporary work release nonsense for the most humorless, dour road trip ever?

I wonder if his company predates the current marriage? Because I would take issue with my husband naming his company as a dig at his ex. I mean maybe that’s the deal they made, he gets a trophy wife and she gets a trophy life and they do their own thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pretty sure they are the same thing to Oliver. I don’t know, I would be pretty annoyed if they didn’t treat what Oliver did to Felicity as a huge deal, he made a huge personal sacrifice but he also majorly sacrificed on her behalf without even saying boo to her. Pretty much over Oliver’s “better to ask for forgiveness than permission” attitude towards Felicity especially when it’s to her detriment.

I guess that’s a family size avocado, they go bad so quickly but I would probably buy one for novelty value. I’m all about Trader Joe’s teeny tiny avocados that are basically single serving right now.

LOL! I personally think he and his wife seem perfectly suited for each other. I continue to marvel at his ability to make things so much worse. You do not have to respond to everything on SM, dude. He took time out of his vacation to do that? Also hard not to compare this to what happened with the Star Wars actress who literally did nothing but exist. ETA: Why even bring up cons? Where people pay you to interact with them? Congrats for knowing how to behave at work.