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There was definitely talk of it at one time, for all the stuff they own/have distribution rights to through studios like Fox, Fox Searchlight, Mandeville Films, Mayhem Pictures, NatGeo, UTV, Fox STAR, A&E etc. Plus the former studios and distribution deals that in some cases still have rights retained to them, like Dreamworks, Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures, Caravan Pictures, Bruckheimer films, Spyglass, etc. It may just have been rumors. But the story I heard around 8 months ago was talk of up to five services, which would usually be bundled but that you could go a la cart on. One for truly kid animation stuff, one for PG-13 family stuff, one for mature audiences (saying adult just sounds like porn), one for foreign language stuff, and one for sports (maybe? I can't remember the fifth). Clearly that's not the plan anymore because the animated films and PG-13 family stuff are all on Disney+, but I thought there was still a second service and that it wasn't just Hulu.

I am intrigued by this bundle offer. The part I'm unclear on is if Disney+ is everything Disney is offering and if all if it is included in this bundle, and if not, what is? Because I seem to remember talk that Disney was going to have at least two streaming services, one would be kid-focused one that has all the animated stuff and one would be the more adult-focused one. Is that still the plan or is there just one giant thing now?

Hey all. Sorry if this seems ignorant, but I was hoping someone could let me know which, if any or all, of these terms are acceptable and commonly used in the community? And also if they are synonyms? And if there are other, more commonly used terms? Non-cisgendered; person born with a uterus; transgendered man; person assigned-female-at-birth We've realized at my job that we our language style guide doesn't cover this, and I don't know what an authoritative source on the this would be. Any help would be awesome.

Late to seeing it, I gave the episode a 5; which is the second lowest I've ever given an episode of GoT (the record holder is S8E4, which I gave a 3 in retrospect after learning how Jaime's character arc ends). In a vacuum, I'd probably give it an 8 or 9; everything production-wise was fantastic and, if you ignore all the context of the show, the writing was okay too. The only issues I'd have were the coincidence of Jaime and Euron running into each other and fighting; and also, if there's a secret passage into the Red Keep, Tyrion can't be the only one who knows about it. Why not just send some assassins to kill Cersei and end the war immediately? HOWEVER, I can't ignore the context of the show, and with that, I thought the episode was pretty dreadful. I can completely believe that most of what we witnessed could eventually happen (except for Jaime going back to Cersei), but everything was so absurdly rushed and poorly explained that it was just silly. I always thought there was a good chance Dany would go Mad Queen in the end, but the show didn't earn it; there was some foreshadowing, but she snapped way too quickly compared to where she was earlier this season. If D&D were burned out on the show, which I get, I'm sure its a tough job and they've been doing it a long time now, I don't understand why they didn't hand off showrunning to someone like Cogman, who was still passionate (and S8E2, which he wrote, is by far the best of the season) and would be up for at least having seasons 7 and 8 be full length. They'd still get their huge EP fees, and could still even come back to direct the series finale if they really wanted. Extremely disappointing how things are wrapping up.

Not necessarily (I tell myself). It could be that he fully expects to die in the process of killing Cersei and doesn't want Brienne following him and getting hurt/killed as well. Of course, that requires a degree of subtlety that I'm not sure the writing is capable of anymore.

A 6 for now. The big variable is whether D&D are doing a poor attempt at misdirection with Jaime and he's going to go kill Cersei or if they are throwing away his character arc. If it's the former, the episode is a 9 (still -1 for some minor complaints) if it's the later, it's a 3 because that's a really terrible move. So I'm splitting the difference for now.

It was going okay, albeit with poor lighting, but then the ending happened and it was deeply disappointing. Night King's end was way too anti-climatic and it was silly how many main characters survived considering how many extra were killed.

I seem to recall someone, either GRRM or ones of the Ds I think, saying that there would be a few more people sitting on the Iron Throne before the end; and this was said when Tommen was already king. Maybe that just means Cersei, then Dany, then Jon, of if there rule together or if someone will fit in after Cersei or if someone else will be there at the very end. Far as Cersei goes, it made sense to me that she declared herself Queen. There's a major power vacuum in Kings Landing now that all her rivals are dead and she's the one with armed soldiers there. Plus, its not like the rest of the kingdom has accepted it. The North, the Vale, the Reach, Dorne, and the Iron Islands are all in open revolt for various reasons; all that Cersei's got are the Westlands, the Stormlands, and the Riverlands (which are mostly in ruins anyway).

Yeah, I'll give that a 10. I won't for the season though. There was way too much stuffed into this episode that should've been spread out better. For instance, the sept and all that probably should've blown up in ep8, that way the Dornish stuff could also be in ep8, and it wouldn't be quite as absurd for Varys to be in Meereen in ep10.

8/10 I wish I could give it higher, it was just unbelievably technically impressive throughout; but the writing was just far too sloppy and/or cliched in too many places. Which just makes me sad. A lot of it I could overlook; but Sansa not mentioning that the Vale might be coming is a bridge too far. It doesn't matter if she doesn't know for sure, just the possibility that they might would make that war council go completely different. If that's addressed next week, awesome, but there were other issues too. Mostly smaller, but they add up. Such as the fact that no army would allow itself to be surrounded the way Jon's was, as soon as they saw the Boltons coming in, they'd charge in one direction to break out before the circle could get in place. At the same time though, it all looked incredible; with the absolute highlight being that tracking shot of Jon. And the Meereen stuff was fairly solid too for the first time in ages. So, 8 outta 10.

6/10 Just not enough happening and what did happen didn't satisfy. Except The Hound, he was great.

Season 4 had the purple wedding in episode 2 and Season 5 had the Sparrows taking over early on. This season had Jon coming back and Dany burning the Khals happen early on. Most major plotlines have had events occurring throughout the seasons for the past 3 seasons. With the big exception of Dany before this season, who was just dragging in Meereen until Daznak's. Also, that's not how ratings work. The ratings went up starting with Hardhome, but people didn't know that battle would happen until after they had already tuned in. It was the episode prior to that, The Gift, that got people back on board.

That's been the problem with some plotlines, but in general I don't agree. Seasons 2 and 3 did suffer from that, just waiting for the Blackwater and Red Wedding to happen; Seasons 4 and beyond though have done a good job of having important stuff happen in the earlier parts of the season.

7/10 Was pretty bland, but still helped move the plot forward in noticeable ways; the final 3 episodes need to be really good though, considering how much set-up they've been getting. Also, the episode itself was just gorgeous; some really amazing shots throughout.

Still seemed unnecessary. The Dothraki were already loyal to her, having them become more loyal is not really worth the climatic final scene of the episode. Especially since Dany has already had far too many of these 'big important speech' final scenes and not really done much with them. I was really hoping that speech would end with something like 'Forget Meereen, we ride to Braavos, that's where the ships are.' and a command for Daario to ride to Meeren to gather the Second Sons and the Unsullied for her. At least that would've had more plot movement for her. I will say, after sleeping on it, I may have been a bit harsh on the episode. I still say 7/10, but last night I was kinda close to giving it a 6/10 whereas this morning its closer to 8/10, although not quite there. I didn't like the aforementioned Dany scene, or the Sam & Gilly scenes, or the scenes in the High Sept. But Bran was good, those flashbacks were great (short as they were), the Arya scenes were actually really strong, and I did like all the Kings Landing scenes that Jaime was in. And I do think the episode did a good job at setting up some of the next moves. For instance, now that Jaime (the one character in Kings Landing who still had unfinished business to resolve elsewhere) is going to be safely out of Kings Landing, I'm pretty confident in saying that Kings Landing is going to blow up (possibly literally) at the end of the season. I wouldn't be surprised if basically all the characters there, even Cersei, somehow die in Episode 10.

Gave it a 7/10. It was well done and all; it just wasn't plots I was interested in, and the Dany scene just seemed like a repeat of the Khal burning scene. The Jaime/Cersei scene was really good though (and I'm super excited to see Jaime in the Riverlands) and it was awesome seeing Benjen again.

It may be different in the show, but in the books the Iron Islands are so large that there are people living inland who have never seen the ocean. The biggest Island is supposed to be roughly the size of Ireland I believe. Plenty of wood for a 1000 ships.

I think it was just that the 3ER somehow knew the future, and knew that Bran needed to be near Hodor in the past so that he could be 'Hodor-ized.' I also think we haven't seen the last of the 3ER either. I think somehow Bran will continue to see him through the Greensight somehow; whatever the Greensight version of a Force Ghost is.

10/10 That was one hell of a thing. I even liked the Kingsmoot. Only weak bit was seeing Arya and the waif fighting yet again. Hold the door.

9/10 The Wall was great. The Dothraki stuff was great (albeit a bit cheesy at the end). The other scenes were all solid. With one exception, Kings Landing; which has just gotten way too boring. The Lannister scenes were okay, but everything with the High Sparrow went way too long and wasn't that interesting anyway.

10/10 And not just 'cause I'm fucking hyped about what's happening next week. My only complaint would be that they should've cut that random guy talking and then getting killed by UnGregor and replaced it by extending out the final scene more. Other than that, every note hit right for me. Great scenes all the way through.

8/10 Bit clunky, as all season openers are, but a real solid episode overall. The Dothraki were great.

Finally got a chance to see it. Gave it 7/10. I'm probably not in the right frame of mind to be watching it right now (lunch break on a Wednesday), but that said, the episode just wasn't clicking for me. It just felt like nothing was happening, except for Stannis and Daznak. Stannis the character I'm disappointed in, but the scene made sense given what we know; so that's fine. Daznak, while visually kind of cool, just wasn't doing it for me.

Considering what little of the setup we see in the preview for the next episode, I don't think you need to worry much (at least, in terms of the budget being all spent; you may still be disappointed depending on how expansive your imagination while reading can be).

Ratings were back up to 7.01 million for this episode. Hopefully this quiets the doubters who were arguing that last week's massive dip was anything other than the usual Memorial Day issue (I didn't watch that episode live either). There's obviously been some decrease this season (that article points out that this still isn't quite as high as episode 8 last season), but its not the death knell some were trying to make it out to be.