Cas Stark

It's been so long I don't know if I can pick a 'worst' choice. They ended up making almost everyone extremely stupid...Littlefinger, Sansa, Dany, Jon, Tyrion....everyone did things that were nuts, in order to have BigMoments. All of Tyrion's advice for the last two seasons was bad. The wight hunt, hello. Sansa letting her own people get killed so the audience can be 'surprised the Vale army shows up, and on and on it went. At the time I thought GRRM purposely held back details on how things would go to 'save' them for his book(s), and/or because he was unhappy with some of the worst of the shows changes, but now I wonder if he just didn't have any of the story beyond the end points to give them. And still, apparently, doesn't have the story.

It's a bit Dorian Grayish.

Do you mean his estate will release whatever there is of Winds of Winter+notes, like what they did with The Last Tycoon? Or do you mean you think that he has finished Winds but is only going to allow for a postumus release?

You expected something else from this show

I think the difference with Seinfeld and The Sopranos is that those endings were 'weird' and unusual, but they didn't sabotage any of the main characters., The GOT ending was objectively bad and unearned and it's failure to set up the various character arcs, especially Dany, had a reverse ripple backwards effect. Many said at the time that the terrible, cheesy ending would harm the show's overall rewatchability and I stand by that. I have rewatched 1-4, snippets of 5 and 6, but that's it. When a show built around character devolves into a show of BigScenes this is what you get. The real issue, aside from Jon stabbing Dany and her not having any meaningful last words was that all of the end points were unearned. I'm fine with Bran being king, but not like that, and certainly not with a pimp/mercenary on the small council. I'm fine, but sad, with Jon going back beyond the wall.....but the show made his parentage meaningless and they stole his role in defeating the Others and gave it to Arya. I am not fine and never will be with Arya killing the Night King. The Lannister twins dying together, fine, but again, felled by random rubble and no last words, no. I am more than fine with Dany being finally outed as a destroyer, but not that way. I personally dislike Sansa being gifted the North, but as a story endpoint, it's not anything crazy or out of the ordinary of what could be expected. I imagine over time the hatred of the end will somewhat soften. If GRRM were ever to finish the series, which he clearly will not, adding in some much needed background for how the endpoints came to be, that might help. But, overall, the ending was bad is going to continue to be seen as bad. IMO

Do people still believe that Winds is coming out?

So. They picked the worst, most stupid, pointless, dull option that they could. Got it. And still, no Tom Bombadil.

We have the vets comes to the house now to spare the animal the stress of a car ride and vet visit for end of life drugs. But this option isn't available everywhere and is also more costly than going to the vet office. I can see that maybe if I lived out in the country and was a crack shot, that a single bullet to the brain is 'okay' and not stressful to the animal. It might even be less stressful than a prolonged vet visit, strangers, etc. Obv. if you have to go back to your car and reload because your first shot didn't do it [RIP goat], then you have no business trying to shoot any animals as a form of euthanasia and maybe you shouldn't be hunting either. She is just a POS all the way around, any way you look at it, and must be pretty 'crazy' to have thought that this 'anecdote' would win her any points with anyone...farmers, hunters, gun owners, anyone.

Comparing what this insane bitch did to a farmer or anyone putting a sick or infirm animal out of pain by shooting it, seems to miss the mark. By her own admission the 14 month old dog was happy and peppy, and had just had a great day 'ruining' her pheasant hunt. This dog wasn't sick, infirm or needing a vet. The dog needed either a trainer or a new home, not a bullet in a gravel pit. RIP Cricket. And the goat she also shot for being 'dirty' and 'mean'. Farming and dog ownership, like governing, not for everyone.

She got the dog with one shot. It was later on during her killing spree of the same day, that she decided to also shoot a 'dirty' goat, and so she took the goat to the killing field, er, gravel pit, and shot it, but had to go back for a second shot. I will grant that things are a little different in the West and on farms, but the idea that it is 1) common 2) badass to shoot your own PUPPY because apparently you failed to train a high prey drive dog to behave is insane. She was crazy to have thought this revelation would give her some kind of credibility with conservative voters.

Killers of the Flower Moon. Loved it. I can't understand how Leo wasn't nominated. I thought it was much, much better than The Irishman. Oppenheimer. It was good, not great. After finally watching, I'm a little surprised at all the hype, awards and box office. I'm happy to see an adult, talky movie do well, but I'm not feeling 'masterpiece' really.

Napoleon. Beautiful, that's about it. What a very, very strange choice to portray Bonapart with such a flat, emotionless, dare I say incel like affect. As if he was a bystander in his own conquest of much of Europe. Phoenix was much too told for this role. How can you have a Napoleon with no charisma? Why is old Phoenix paired with young Vanessa Kirby when the reality was the opposite? What the actual fuck?

More exercise is the simplest first order possible solution. A tired dog is a good dog. Some dogs need 3+ mile walks every day. I'm glad you are refusing to crate the dog when no one is home. Good luck.

You can rewatch 1-4, all the flaws are still there, but the show is good, sometimes great during those years. I also found, that after the horrific 7 and 8, rewatching 5-6, while still bad, were still much better than 7/8 where quality fell off a mountain. Yes, GRRM bears much responsibility for GOT going totally off the rails once they ran out of books. It's interesting that they chose for their project something that had built in so many challenges for an adaptation, instead of something a little more straightforward. It is hilarious in a bad way that Rian 'yes I ruined Star Wars' Johnson is also involved. Doesn't bode well, but we'll see I guess, I have not read the source material.

I much prefer 1984 Baron to the new one. The loss of his hideous facial disease is a shame. I love both Jessicas. Always hated Kyle M so Chalamet is a big upgrade. There is a lot to like in the Lynch version, even though there is a lot that is insanely bad. It's a loss for the movies that they've eliminated almost completely the stuff about the spacing guild. Dune should have a GOT kind of vibe to it.