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22 hours ago, smores said:
t's getting harder and harder to watch Bill for me. I used to be able to appreciate the stands he took that I disagreed with, because they at least came across as informed and not a petty, personal grievance. Now everything seems like he's just yelling at kids to get off his lawn and pissed because the world isn't the way it was when he was the hot new thing. He hasn't adapted, though, it's on him.
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.
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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 That and social justice warriors, all because his invitation to speak at a university was withdrawn when students protested, because he's anti-Muslim.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.
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On 6/4/2019 at 7:31 PM, txhorns79 said:
I would say the difference in scale and motivations makes the comparison inapt. With 9/11, I think the problem was more ignorance than any particular desire to cover up. The EPA marched ahead with bad and/or incomplete information, and allowed it to be spun more positively than it should have been. And once it became known, steps were taken to rectify what had happened. With Chernobyl, the Soviets knew the issue, knew what would happen, and purposefully took steps to cover it all up, regardless of the consequences.
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.
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7 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
In the finale, "Vichnaya Pamyat" (what does that mean?)
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".
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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.
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18 hours ago, sphoebus31 said:
I think Rachel was trying to target Team Fun via Nicole and Victor, under the guise of being helpful to Nicole and Victor. If she had no ulterior motive, then why not just tell them the whole truth--that Colin/Christie and the Afghanimals were also part of the conversation? Her ham-handed attempt at being clever backfired, when Nicole and Victor could tell her story didn't add up.
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.
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38 minutes ago, Jack Shaftoe said:
But the writers seemed so enamored with making Dany look Hitler that even someone like me who is not a fan of her at all was left with the impression that she was character assassinated.
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.
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2 hours ago, zibnchy said:
Why is Brienne on the Small Counc il? Isn't she oathbound to Sansa? She could be Sansa's hand. Sansa may need her for protection. Also why was she voting for the new king? Is she Lord of something now? (Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Brienne, but I don't love her on the small council.)
Ser Pod for the WIN!
Sit down, Uncle.
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.
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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?
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6 hours ago, BooBear said:
One point a co worker made today was that you get a sense that the show never really intended for Dany to be the bad guy to this extent simply because of the music. Almost every theme they used for Dany suggests a hero.
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.
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10 hours ago, ursula said:
The show pretty much switched genres to make the Insanity!Dany work. Nothing in the last 2 seasons fits into the narrative of the world we've been presented with.
10 hours ago, SNeaker said:Interesting, Ursula. Can you explain a little more about this? Did it go from fantasy to something else? (Maybe dark drama...)
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11 hours ago, ursula said:
I can see Jon killing Dany (or more likely vice versa) as part of the ritual for creating Lightbringer, etc.
I could never get behind that prophecy. Yuck. Talk about fridging a woman for the sake of a man.
2 minutes ago, izabella said:How do you destroy Cersei without attacking King's Landing? Even if you besiege the city, thousands will likely die due to starvation and disease before people rise up and kill her.
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.
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14 minutes ago, GraceK said:
Stop posting my videos!!
( I’m just kidding 😂😂😂) I posted this one too. We have the same taste apparently 🤣
Oops!!! I am so behind! Sorry! LOL.
This guy is hilarious and he has some really funny visuals in his rant.
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Another good one.
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Have you seen Angry Joe's take?
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9 hours ago, lucindabelle said:
If they’re women you mean.
this is a very male idea of women not being able to handle their emotions. Hysteria, as someone on twitter pointed out.
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.
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16 hours ago, ulkis said:
On the up side, I could see the prospect of swooping in to "fix" the show inspiring GRRM to start writing again.
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.
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USA Today just LOVED this episode.
Just kidding.
QuoteWhen Daenerys Targaryen lived up to her terrible family's reputation and burned King's Landing to the ground, she incinerated the last hope for "Thrones" along with it.
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36 minutes ago, Neurochick said:I am curious for all who hated it, what would you have preferred?
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.
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22 minutes ago, Popples said:I was really hoping he would stab or choke her or something when they were in the map room.
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
characterplot 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?
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2 hours ago, Oscirus said:
You still have that madness gene up and alive. If madness is passing from generation to generation as is being insinuated, then it needs to end with Dany
AND JON.
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This post is a good one assessing the changes and what season 8 has to overcome to tell a satisfying story.
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.
QuoteWell, GRRM is one of the most epic pantsers around. He talks about writing like cultivating a garden. He plants character seeds and carefully lets them grow and grow.
That’s why every plot point and fair-in-hindsight surprise landed with such devastating weight: everything that happened to these characters happened because of their past choices. But it’s also the reason why the narrative momentum of the books slowed over time.....
So with only two seasons to work with, they started asking themselves what was left to do. What could they build with the pieces left in the box? What beats did they just have to include?
What big moments did they want to deliver? Where should the characters end up? What did they think we, the audience, wanted to see on screen before the show came to an end? It was a Game of Thrones bucket list.
And once they had that list, it was time to connect the dots to make it all happen. So they started maneuvering the characters into the emotional and literal places they needed to be for all those dots to connect up in the right way.
That’s why Game of Thrones feels different now. A show that had been about the weight of the past became about the spectacle of the present. Characters with incredible depth and agency - all the more rope with which to hang themselves - became pieces on a giant war map....
Where once the characters authored their own, terrible destinies, now they were forced to take uncharacteristic actions and make uncharacteristically bad decisions so the necessary plot points could happen and the appropriate stakes could be felt....
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S15.E08: Week 8: Amsterdam
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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...