Ferocious Veldt Roarer

Which is a truly weird choice for Regis - and I'm not talking about race. Regis is, ostensibly, a harmless, middle-aged man, lean and looking like a tax collector. Say, Mahershala Ali would kill as Regis. Giancarlo Esposito. Morgan Freeman, if he wasn't actually four hundred years old already. But not Laurence Fishburne. (Fishburne would've been a perfectly natural choice for, say, Dijkstra).

One tangent thought: even after Elon's purge, the company must still be full of nerds. How come nobody told him that they're ripping off the logo of X Window System? It is not "hey, they do look kinda similar", it's "they're the same picture". (Buying popcorn in anticipation of lawsuit from X.Org Foundation).

What's absolutely infuriating is that I can't even cancel the subscription.

Looks like they're advancing through Russian territory like they'd hoped to slice through Ukraine 16 months ago. A little ironic.

Urm... what? That sounds just about as right as that "VPOTUS can overrule the result of the election and pick any president-elect he likes" pitch, which once upon a time gained some popularity as the solution of the problem "what if Trump lost the election, but really doesn't want to leave?".

Ah, all the appropriate quotes! "There's a chance I might have committed some light treason." "I get the worst fucking attorneys!"

I read it as a callback to Season 1 Ted, arguing with assistant referee: "Explain to me how that's offside! No, I'm serious, how is that offside? I don't understand it yet".

Officially and emphatically hairless, how neglectful of you not to mention that.

Probably. OTOH, it's best not to assume anything, in the world where a crow somehow has managed to become King in the North. In such world, who knows anymore?

Jon's lady wife, for example. It would be a perfectly reasonable guess.

Most definitely. I think those are the books he asked, and was denied, the access to. It is his reward.

Yep. Not much fighters, them, apparently.

Still not fixed, by the way.

Huh, I didn't notice somebody had reported the same problem (and, I think, inspired by the same fellow user). That's... nice. (And good to know that it isn't my computer possessed by Satan/malware, that it's the board's problem.)

A weird problem: there's a user who has a comma in his nickname... and therefore I cannot add him to my "ignored" list. Let's call him "X, Y, Z". I try (hover over his name, click 'ignore'), and the system seems to interpret it as if I wanted to add three different users "X", "Y" and "Z" to my list.

"Server not found". Is it "forum.westeros.org"?

Well, it has a little girl being burned alive, but no naked nipples, so nothing really disturbing...

And her shocked, terrified face... Ugh! I could do without that scene.

Shocking? I thought her fate was spelled out a few episodes back, and I'm surprised how many people were surprised. There was that dialogue between Mel and Selyse, with Selyse bitching about - this time - her daughter's imperfection, and Mel saying something like: "Those scars mean nothing to the Lord of Light, she has king's blood in her veins". From that moment, it was only a question when, not if, Melisandre will burn Shireen.

But wasn't that a weird place to find a loose corkscrew?

I think it was a montage of her cleaning several cadavers.

Funny, I thought it was the opposite: his issue was with her use of past tense: "I hated him!" - slap! - "no, really, I hated him!" - slap! She didn't leave all that behind, she's still Arya Stark, with Arya Stark's issues and Arya Stark's scores to settle (bless her heart).

Why of course, the Scrappy himself must think he's cool.

Well pointed out. An Unsullied. Singular. While they had been built up as something more than "mighty Grey Worm and a bunch of poor fuckers".

Uhm... You know we aren't discussing reality here, either? We're actually talking about a TV show. With a huge emphasis on show, with dragons and choreographed fights and tits and everything. I don't care much for "realistic", I want entertaining, and let's not delude ourselves, that's the showrunners' priorities as well. And the famous legendary badass Unsullied getting their asses kicked with ease made a disappointing show, and that sin I don't take lightly. Ser Barry actually had a decent exit, he was attacked by, by my count, fifteen people and killed them all but one, so I don't mind. But the Unsullied were a bunch of fucking red shirts.