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Glad someone else is mentioning this. The ostentatious and gratuitous stonework at the Red Keep is clearly going to tear the realm apart and y'all just aren't paying attention.

Pretty sure Otto was just counting on Daemon to not be stupid enough to kill him unprovoked. Which, dragon theatrics aside, we have no reason to believe he was wrong in assuming. And honestly, it was a pretty safe assumption. The way they set it up it was clear Daemon was just being a petulant child wanting attention.

Pretty spot on. Feel like Archer would also emphasize Alicent looks, like, 10 years older than Laena.

Ok, what..THE FUCK..is up with all the symbolic stones? The small council ones last week and this week were like "hey that's weird and random but whatever." But now we have the Rhaenyra choosing Cole as the new KG scene where they have, like, hand carved stones for every knight's house. Are we to assume House Targaryen was thrust into civil war due to being as aggressive at marketing merchandise as HBO/TimeWarner/Discovery/Whateverthefuckitisnow? Anyway, from what I've read pretty much agree with the consensus. A step down from last week but still a solid episode. I'm really loving Milly Alcock as Rhaenyra thus far. Feel like I'm going to dislike whomever's next just out of loyalty. Same thing happened with The Crown and Claire Foy. Add me to the list of those that don't think Alicent is being "whitewashed." Well still obviously a victim, she was fully depicted as cleverly manipulative in this ep in my book. And I agree with LV that Viserys being too afraid to tell Rhaenyra he's marrying Alicent at the perfect moment he provided for himself is meant to depict his weakness of character. But I hasten to add that's not much of a weakness compared to the weaknesses on display by almost everyone else in his orbit. The Rhaenys/Rhaenyra scene didn't feel right to me either. It's not like it was written wrong and the acting was fine but..I dunno just something was off. And yeah, the opening sequence was a let down. My only thought is maybe it will change somehow for every episode? If not, that's just the laziest effort ever.

I haven't read any of this thread, just want a platform to write out my thoughts. I was pleasantly surprised they put more focus on Aemma's death than frankly Martin ever did. It worked well. Like, really well and unexpected. Viserys effectively killing her to try to get an heir entirely makes sense and was as wrenching as it should have been. I also really liked the actress playing young Rhaenyra. Aging her up against canon looks like the right and smart call to me. It made the dynamic between her and Viserys a lot more immediately interesting than if she was eight, in which case it's kinda lame. I still don't like Matt Smith as Daemon but I think they're treating the character as they should. The throne room scene with Viserys worked for me. On the negative side I do agree with anyone saying this was just so safe. They took what they knew worked with GoT and gave it another iteration, for the most part - the tourney, the small council meeting, the exposition. It smacks of formulaic, bordering on a straight-up procedural. But that was kinda built into my expectations. Overall, I'm fine with safe and comfortable for now and will watch the next episode. ETA: Oh, I really didn't like at the end how they tried to shoehorn the Others/White Walkers and subsequently the Starks into it to try to build up the importance of Rhaenyra being made heir. Just let it go guys.

It now appears Tony Dow is still alive...

My mom just mentioned this to me about five minutes before I saw your post. I didn't know who he was, but she said he was her first childhood crush.

Yep he's one of the like dozen examples of this (off the top of my head Frank Vincent, Tony Lip, Larry Boy, Beansie, Carmella's mom, Vincent Pastore, and of course Bracco and Imperioli).

James Caan too. When Paulie/Sirico died I mentioned it was a bad time to be a mafia actor. Freaky.

LOL:

Sounds strikingly like The Reasonabilists from Parks and Rec:

Yeah, the no comments by Harington's camp and HBO is all the confirmation you need.

Agreed, I'd think the most sensible pitch would be trying what Dexter did. Not retconning the show but trying to give fans a more satisfying ending. And hey, while the Dexter reboot was pretty middling, it was a hell of a lot better than its last season.

I actually randomly saw that episode just the other day. The scene in Jerry's apartment where Seinfeld can't keep a straight face is just the best. Here it is:

While being funded by the Saudis is a good way to turn public opinion against LIV, that's obviously not why the PGA is suspending the players. I hadn't heard anything about this til I read the news this morning, but the worse association for LIV to me is that it's run by Greg Norman. Anyway, I didn't read any specifics on how long they're "suspended." Seems like the PGA hasn't really decided on that, no?

Easily the best role of Marky Mark's career. "I am a peacock, you gotta let me fly!!!" ETA: @Fragile Bird - it's from The Other Guys and actually it's the beginning of the movie. Great parody of cop movies.

Charlize Theron? Anyway, I too like Prometheus while acknowledging it's deeply flawed. Some of that may be the expectations game - by the time I saw it in theaters all the reviews/word of mouth I was exposed to insisted the film was a complete travesty.

I think TSCC did a very good job of wordbuilding/potentially expanding the universe -- that's exactly why I liked it so much. For instance, one episode revolves around Cameron (the good cyborg sent back to protect John) spending her nights at the library and eventually tracking down and killing a terminator sent back to assassinate a certain politician. Other episodes show the gang protecting a nuclear power plant that will be vital in the future war, preventing the machines from stealing and storing a bunch of coltan which the machines will use to build the terminators (and then sinking it), and protecting a pregnant mother whose baby ends up providing an immunity to a virus skynet spreads in the future. What I found most appealing about the show is the introduction of the idea that there are machines that want to resist Skynet and cooperate with humans (this is also what I find most interesting about the Matrix universe). This is explored in the second season with a cyborg from the future (played by Shirley Manson) coming back to build an AI to counter Skynet and asking John "will you join us?" I think this issue with further content in the Terminator universe ultimately comes down to what kind of time travel rules are we applying? Is it that there is only one future/timeline - so Kyle always comes back to father John and Robert Patrick is always sent back to kill a 12 year old John? Because if that's the case then, yeah, there's not much to explore. Hell, that even makes Sarah's efforts in the last half of T2 inevitably futile because stopping Judgment Day is impossible (which is basically what T3 said). Or, is it that there are alternate timelines/futures, which indeed means "there's no fate but what we make?" Because if that's the case then I don't think killing John or Sarah or anybody is off the table at the conceptual level/as a premise to explore. And again, TSCC explicitly employs this in interesting ways - e.g. Derek Reese (Kyle's brother) and his girlfriend Jesse coming back from different futures.

I'm just saying I don't think there should be any strict rules on what sequels should be "allowed" to do, even ideally/hypothetically.

I mean even T2 fundamentally alters the concept of T1 by saying Skynet was developed through reverse engineering the T-800's endoskeleton remains from T1 that Cyberdyne recovered. Is that "destroying" T1? I certainly don't think so, but a purist could sure make that argument.

I don't think it's that upsetting and I'm a huge T2 fan... That being said, I haven't seen Dark Fate or Genisys. ETA: Ultimately anything that comes out after T2 timeline-wise would "cheapen" it because Sarah's entire purpose in Act 3 was to stop Skynet for good.

So Dances with Smurfs finally got a sequel? In this one will Papa Smurf finally turn Smurfette into a real Smurf?!? How James Cameron found time to do this after raising the bar is beyond me...

Yeah but it's been a few years now. Koepka was the last one and that was four years ago.

Haven't watched any of it but looked up this Scheffler kid a few hours ago and saw he just became the #1 ranked player a few weeks ago. Wonder if he's got a chance to be the next big thing.

Hey it's nice scenery to wake up to!