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Me, either. I'm not a Christian, or any religion -- it's just my internal feelings about intimacy. Just the thought squicks me out. That said, I can't wait to see Luke's born-again head explode. He and Hannah speak the same fundie language, what with the "testimony" and all, but he's put such a hard edge on it, and he's judgmental to begin with, so he'd be a monster to date. I'm not looking forward to the group prayer session with his fam next week. I hate group-grope displays of faith. Mike would be a fun bachelor. I like him! The below post is so awesome, I bolded the best parts to share again...

Exactly this. He totally has entered the "get off my lawn" era of his lifetime. I'm really getting sick of him, because he's becoming stuck in his views and one-note on his show. Don't the elders of every generation complain about "kids these days"? Can there BE anymore of an indicator that you're no longer moving with the times? He and Fran Leibowitz went on and on about it last week, and this week we got his graduation speech. I'm approaching 60, and I hope never to become one of those elders. Bill should read this.

I'm really getting over Bill Maher. All he does is bitch about how parents are raising their kids, from a guy who has none! That and social justice warriors, all because his invitation to speak at a university was withdrawn when students protested, because he's anti-Muslim. Get off it, Bill. You're just so butt hurt, but it's not funny.

True. Another difference is no one was stopping a person from checking the air quality and publishing their results in our FREE PRESS. That's probably the biggest difference between our representative democracy and a communist or dictatorial regime. The closed hearing and punishment for anyone not toeing the "company line" is apparent.

I googled it immediately after. I means eternal memory, and apparently there's a very somber musical piece by that name. I believe Russians use it like we do "rest in peace".

Excellent series. I went to work at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation right after the meltdown, in communications. My PR coworkers had just given interviews with the likes of Connie Chung at 60 Minutes because we also had a graphite reactor. It was already shut down and was undergoing massive safety renovations., and definitely had a different design. It was actually a weapons reactor. I am always puzzled by the Soviet Union, the philosophy, the thinking behind the way they governed. It just blows me away that they wouldn't want the scientific truth, in a closed hearing, no less. I never understood the appeal while watching The Americans, either. I see many Emmys coming for this show.

I believe she was trying to manipulate Nicole and Victor into being the ones to U-turn Team Fun, so she didn't have to. Pretty stinky. Can't wait until the duck-lipped pair is gone.

Yeah, it was way too sudden and over the top. Not slamming the acting at all. I'm tired of seeing people tell me there were all these "signs" Dany was going to go mad. Mostly in the recent seasons I saw people wondering about her parentage, and coin-flipping, but those aren't her actions being judged, it's her DNA. Which is really uncool. But I could do the same justification with pretty much every character, if the writers had chosen to warp the character at the 11th hour. For instance, Bran is now actually evil. That's why he had no emotion in saying goodbye to Meera, or seeing Hodor die. He arranged for the Night King to get killed so he could take his place. He didn't warn anyone about the coming annihilation of KL -- he actually warged into Drogon to make it happen, which is why we don't see Dany after the chaos and destruction start. OK, I don't believe that, but there's just as much evidence for it as there is for Dany going bonkers. Or Sansa is a new Cersei, plotting for her own power. Again, plenty of evidence to read it that way if the writers had gone there. Or, how about Tyrion plotted all along to become the king in all but name. He was intentionally giving Dany bad advice. Or, Jon is a depressive, and commits suicide in a shocking finale. There's plenty of evidence to support that's where his head is at. My point being there wasn't any more evidence of Dany ending up where she did than of any other character getting character assassinated at the last minute.

I would have loved to see Sansa release her from her oath so she could be head of the king's guard. I assume that's what she's doing in KL, which explains why Pod is now wheelchair-pusher-in-chief. I think the writers realized the table was full of MEN and had to figure out a way to get a woman in there. I wish we'd gotten that scene, though.

Not as bad as I feared. The character beats got the time to play out, unlike most of the season. For me, Daenerys was an alternate version of the character who took over last episode, someone I don't recognize. Other than that, it was fine. I love Arya going west of Westeros. I love that Davos and Brienne and Podrick survived. Am not keen on Bran as king — it's really Tyrion who will be ruling, since Bran apparently has such a short attention span he won't even attend a meeting of his own small council. Why weren't they discussing cleaning up the city? Tending to the wounded? Why are ships more important? Sansa being queen is OK, but really weird considering her bro is the king of the other six kingdoms. While the idea of a kingsmoot to choose future leaders is cool, I can't see it lasting with the rest of the feudal system remaining unchanged. Not when one of them has a son who thinks he should be the next king. Were the Dothraki going back to the Great Grass Sea? And were the Unsullied going to remain an army for the king, other than Greyworm's boatload? Why did we care that Jon was R + L = J? It came to nothing. (Same can be said for Dany birthing dragons and withstanding fire.. and the whole Prince who was Promised stuff Melisandre kept going on about.) Ghost gets all the luv....thank goodness! ETA: I forgot about Bronn. HATE that he got rewarded. How could anyone trust a pure mercenary?

It all Bran's fault.

I love this article. Saying ‘Game of Thrones' fans should regret naming kids after Daenerys is sexist. Stop it!

Nice, exactly. She got the hero's edit every time during her journey, until now. Swelling, triumphant themes, huge set piece scenes (many of which ended an episode), and the OTHER HEROES gravitated to her! That's what blows my mind (among many things). So all these people have sucky judgment: Tyrion, Jon, Yara, Theon, the Queen of Thornes, Jorah, Ser Barriston Selmy, etc. All but Varys, and only him because he changed his mind for...reasons that are not clear.

Interesting, Ursula. Can you explain a little more about this? Did it go from fantasy to something else? (Maybe dark drama...)

I could never get behind that prophecy. Yuck. Talk about fridging a woman for the sake of a man. So, so many ways! Tyrion, Arya, and Jamie all know a secret way into the Red Keep, and Arya has faces ability. It would have been so easy to plot a political or infiltration takedown, and much more satisfying, too, considering what a wanker she's been. LOL.

Oops!!! I am so behind! Sorry! LOL. This guy is hilarious and he has some really funny visuals in his rant.

Another good one.

Have you seen Angry Joe's take?

D&D come off like ill-informed frat boys, who have no concept of the history of mental illness applied to women. There used to be a "women-only" illness called hysteria (which is a word based on the Greek word for uterus), that men used for anything under the sun they could pin on women. Men used it to have their wives locked away. Now we have Dany going whackadoo AND Cersie turning into a blubbery mess, neither of which is in character.

Maybe so, but unless the ending is completely rewritten, I'm not going to spend hours reading it. There are plenty of fantasy sagas out there that haven't dashed my expectations.

USA Today just LOVED this episode. Just kidding.

Dany acting like she has for the past 7 seasons. Cersei getting her comeuppance in a better way. For years we've discussed who should kill her: Sansa, Arya, Jamie, Tyrion.... No one ever said "wall." Even better than an assassination would be her demise from political maneuvering (it is a game of thrones). Jamie not running back to Cersei, but helping to take her down. Tyrion being intelligent. Varys not switching alliances on a dime and getting roasted for it.

Seriously. Production values were great, music as always is great. Arya had a nice storyline, except she didn't get to use her faces and kill Cersei. CRAPPY way for Cersei to go out, all weak and whiny and pregnant and clingy. I wanted her pregnancy to be a fake, and for her to blow up the city in true Lannister fashion, showing how she only cared about herself. Not this mewling bore. And why does she earn dying in the arms of her lover? And why did Jamie forget she wanted to have him killed last episode? Damn, I was hoping he'd take her out! Dany... My Dany would never do that to innocent people. Who is that woman on the dragon? Why is she burning her own city into ashes? Oh, because people (without cause) worried she would. Oh. Too bad, women apparently can't handle power. (SMH) Ugh on all the bell talk. Anvils falling!! And Greyworm? What did they teach him in soldier school? Wow, Missandei is the most important character plot device of the entire story. Why, why why did Tyrion want to rescue CERSEI, who has had a hit out on him for years?! How stupid is he, trusting her so many times and now trying to save her? Where did his brain go?

AND JON.

This post is a good one assessing the changes and what season 8 has to overcome to tell a satisfying story. The Key to ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Isn’t Dragons or Swords or White Walkers or Even Incest. It’s Consequence. I also love this one, because I don't think GRRM himself can stick the landing. There are too many tentacles. Want to know why Game of Thrones *feels* so different now? I think I can explain. Without spoilers Both make essentially the same point -- the lack of consequences in the drive to the end.