Daemon the Leaner

so far he has delivered one scudetto and two CL finals. I don't think any other manager achieved that in Inter history. And it's not as if his squad is vastly superior to others either. One win against PSG and I'm sure you will reconsider your opinion...

IMO that's more accurate about Rashford. Rashford has proven in the past that a dip in confidence can seriously harm the quality of his season, not only about G/A, but work rate, shots, etc. Garnacho looks like he's still trying a lot so I'm not sure the issue is about confidence. It's more that he plays in the position where we have the most depth (Rashford, and arguably Bruno in the new system, can play there), so he tries to impress a lot and make himself valuable, sometimes in spite of the collective.

we also conceded a lot of chances to this Leicester side, so nothing different from ETH ball really. https://x.com/JohnBrewin_/status/1851720598612824277 that's genius material

so this really lets us with only Southgate to take over once Ten Hag is sacked

I would 100% go with Tuchel if we are to chose between the two. Tuchel has had a strange spell at Bayern when he took over in the middle of a season, but he was quite successful with: BVB, PSG (his PSG side was really impressive at the time until it crashed out in a weird CL RO16 game against... us). Reached a CL final there Chelsea (won the CL while City, Real etc had better squads than Chelsea back then) he does tend to meltdown very quickly though especially when he's not backed by the club, which could be a terrible mismatch with United

Erm, ok... I won't pretend I've already seen a holocaust with my own eyes, but... It was very white ashes, wasn't it ? u_u Oh, and a supplement of thoughts: love how they landed a random guy with a Doran x Trystan look, so we get that "it's him the new Prince of Dorne", lol most crucially: I also like how Dany's fate match with some political aspects of our current world. As Charlie Chaplin said in "The Dictator": "Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!". Autocrats appear because of people's desire of freedom, only for them to fall in different kind of chains. Well, that's deep complex stuff that would deserve a proper thread to be discussed, lol. If it's interesting to anyone, Dany's last scene also reminded me that last scene between Anakin & Padme in the Revenge of the Sith. "let's make things the way we want to", etc. Damn, Tyrion is a bit of the Obi-Wan of this story!

Well, it depends. If we are rating this ep as the conclusion of a show which identity and brand have been long devoid of what it used to be, and considering this finale makes no effort of reuniting with this brand (complex storylines, political stakes, etc), I'd rate it 3. If we are rating this ep as an individual 75min piece, and we're talking just about acting, scenario and cosmectics in this single ep... then I think I can give it a 7. If you absolutely need an average between these two POV, then it's going to be 5. Overall, I'm fine with the way they drove the major characters's plotlines (except Jaime ffs). Almost every single conclusion that every character has, makes sense in the big picture. (it makes sense for Tyrion ending Hand, for Jon heading North, for Arya heading West, etc.) Only Bran was really unexpected (apart from bookmakers I see??), but I'm surprisingly of with it. Too bad they had to rush the details, some dialogues, R+L=J was just a reason do divide Dany's squad... and, obvisouly, too bad how they dealt with the WWs.

Some random thoughts: so those bookmakers saw right about Bran ending up king... ah, well played to them, how did they do ?? so happy for my man Davos. Dude kinda took the social elevator ...and so did Bronn actually. But I actually dislike Bronn since that crossbow moment that Frodo-like ending for Arya was long predicted, but was still delightful to watch how did Drogon not burn Jon to the ground after he killed his mom?? Ah, well, Targ blood etc I guess... how did they handle weather in this ep ?? At the beginning it's clear, then there's snow everywhere, then a few "weeks" later it's summer again ?? And wasn't the WW extinction meant to bring back some balance to the rythm of seasons ? isn't Davos aware of the Unsullied being eunuch? His proposal of them filling an empty Reach with new generations of Unsullied babies felt so nonsensical lol why do they think they'll absolutely need a Master of Whisperers though? Not sure this function actually helps the regime, not to mention it leds to the MoW being an absolute schemer lol Jon basically brokes his NW vows for the 2nd time, what a champion. this Sansa ending isn't going to please our resident anti-Sansa activists lol so Brienne really thought it was outright necessary to mention that Jaime was rock wrecked by Robb at the Whispering Wood ? lol so the Unsullied are heading to Naath... are they aware that there are foreigners-killing butterflies out there ? this vision Dany had at the House of Undying back in S2, was so perfectly fullfiled. Reach the throne, but instead reach her gone Khal & baby in the fields of death. Jon's storyline, as much criticized as he may be, makes sense IMO. He's in eternal conflict between love & duty... as is everyone in this story. I think it's one of the rare GRRM elements of writing that D&D successfully implemented in their show. Tyrion throwing his Hand badge down the stairs was so badass. Even more badass that Ned doing so with Robert back in S1. I hope Tyrion will experience less difficulties with Bran in the future lol (at least this King is a bit less adventurous than Robert & Dany, if anything) so those Northerners just can't stop yelling " [something] IN THE NORTH !!!" ,right ?

It's to be 1. Didn't think they could do worse than ep3. Meantime ep4 gave me a bit of hope. In the end they did do worse. Everything was so dumb, and so conveniently handed, and so predictable, in this ep. Really it's about time we get to the end. The only appreciable thing in this ep was Maisie's acting. And the CGI, for what it's worth.

Gave it a solid 3. Slow, underwhelming, and quite anticlimatic. The Jenny of Oldstones' song and Tormund Giantsbane make this episode worth watching. Let that apart, there's nothing to relish, it's basically a filler. I understand the "moving" statements, but I think those moving scenes could have been handled far better. Remember that "you would by my lady" scene between Arya & Gendry, back in season 3 ? Well, I recall it even more moving that this topless scene we had today.

I'd rank it 7. As many, I actually expected it to be much worse. But it turned out to be a decent starter of the season. The stakes are fairly set up, and the reunions between characters are funny, sometimes relevant at best. I'd have expected a bit more quality of acting in that Jon /Sam talk though.

Does not deserve better than a 5 in my opinion. Almost every plotline has been butchered with that season, and Sam's one is probably the finest joke of everyone haha.

Well, while talking with the Braavosi guy Cersei says blowing up the Sept was "an accident"... so I assume that she aims for KL's people to believe she is not responsable. Though I can't see how could she disguise it as an accident lol. "Apparently there was chests of wildire under the Sept, as far as I know a mouse passed there, and suddenly breathed fire JUST AT THE MOMENT where all my ennemies were gathered above. What a coincidence, isn't it ?". Why not, after all, Roose Bolton was poisoned by his ennemies, wasn't he ?

3/10. This episode sucks so much. I do not know where D&D are going but it does not make me confident. Euron was okay in E01 but then he is more a meltdown of Jack Sparrow and Ramsay than else. I assume we are not meant to notice anything about Euron's armada crossing Westeros by earth... How did Dany not send an army to guard High fucking Garden. The Littlefinger bullshit has come too far, give him a proper death so we can stop slaughtering his character. Bran's acting is horribe but let's be honest, he is more a secondary character by far Dany's entire strategy has no sense lol, where his her interest by letting Jon mine the dragonglass. I serisously have doubts on what Game of Thrones became.

Welcome! The lack of Bran plot in that episode is even more surprising if you consider the fact that it took only one single shot for Dany's raven to arrive at Winterfell. If Dolorous Edd would have sent a raven when Bran reached the Wall, then it would have been received by Jon in E02 or earlier. It is awkward. Especially when we know what Bran knows about Jon's parentage. What the fuck are D&D doing with Bran's plotline.