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  1. Holy shit the score was awful in that AOTC cow riding scene.  As much as I despise TLJ for ruining the possible redemption of the Star Wars franchise, AOTC is clearly inferior and by quite some distance.  I still prefer TPM to TLJ.  Just compare the opening scenes.

  2. On 9/13/2018 at 6:44 PM, Deej said:

    Back in the 80's, I bought tons of Zep bootlegs on CD. They weren't cheap. Now, you can find all of the full concerts, just about, on YouTube and download and convert them to mp3. I would have so much more beer and weed money in college.

    You can also download them in lossless at shnflac.net

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  3. 4 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    She didn't give the people in King's Landing a moment to do anything before she burned them. They didn't crowd into the city to protect Cersei. They crowded in hoping they wouldn't die trying to flee with a foreign army outside their walls. As Tyrion said, the people don't give a shit which asshole sits on the Iron Throne. They just want to feed their kids and live their lives. It wasn't fear for the people in King's Landing. It was mass extinction. If it was a warning to the rest of Westeros then that makes more sense. It was handled poorly. 

    Pretty much.  She could have delivered the same message to the rest of Westeros by slaughtering the surviving enemy armies that surrendered and publicly executing Cersei and her advisers.  The townsfolk would have eaten that shit up the same way they enjoyed Ned's beheading.

  4. 13 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    I think the entire codebreaker/casino planet subplot with Finn and Rose was worse than anything in the prequels. Or at least anything I haven't permanently blocked from my memory.

    It was worse than just about anything in movie history, particularly relative to expectations.

  5. Top 20 squads currently not in qualification spots

    2 Arizona State (very early in Round 2)

    7 USC

    10 Cal

    13 North Florida

    14 LSU (very early in Round 2)

    15 Texas Tech

    17 South Carolina (still on front 9)

  6. 16 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

    The other villains were short term.  Cersei has been a consistent villain since the first episode.  I found her death more satisfying than a revenge killing would have been.

    Dany's heel turn also isn't completely out of character.  She could have ruled over paradise in Essos.  Its the homeland of all her armies and subjects so they'd all be happy as shit drinking wine and eating grapes.  Instead she dragged all of them to a frozen hellscape to fight zombies, all so she could take over a throne that none of her subjects care about on a continent they had never even been to before.  Really, all their deaths in Westeros are her fault.  She was bound to snap.  Still, the complete lack of compassion is probably a little too far. She's always been a narcissist, but she's never been incompassionate.

    She could have delivered the same message (don't fuck with me or I'll slaughter you) by laying down dragon fire on all of the troops that surrendered and Cersei and company and remained true to her breaker of chains moniker, but D&D couldn't resist going full Mad Queen.  

  7. 3 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    All the signs of Dany snapping were there.  Characters were literally concerned and talking about it.  Only people blind to the signs couldn't see it.  People never expect someone with power to go on a genocidal rampage until they do. 

    D&D decided that Dany would become the Mad Queen and included some throwaway dialogue in Season 8 episodes to justify that the turn was always coming despite the massacre representing a massive departure from her attitude toward the powerless established in excruciating detail in the first 7 seasons.  But Varys expressed concern in 8.4!!!

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  8. 11 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    None of that previous stuff was insanity or madness. They were ruthless, coldly rational responses to real threats.  She hasn't really acted irrationally before now.   Torching the civilian population after they surrender is a completely illogical psychotic break.   Sure, that can happen.   But if that's what the writers wanted to happen, they should have shown more signs of real crazy before this point.

    Odd that so many are struggling to distinguish between killing political and military enemies and mowing down thousands of women and children

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  9. 1 minute ago, Burt Macklin said:

    Sure but with the skills they've shown Arya to have, I'm not sure how there can be much conflict. If Arya decides Dany should die, then Dany will die. Maybe the hardest part is figuring out how to kill Drogon, because I assume Drogon will go apeshit and kill everyone if he learns they killed Dany/Dany is dead, but I still think this is a way worse ending.

     Internal conflict of Jon deciding if he has to kill Dany because she slaughtered surrendered soldiers (and Dany may possibly be pregantn with his child, even the show hasn't alluded to that in a while) > conflict between Westerors forces and Dany's forces. 

    Drogon may perceive that Jon is the true heir and refuse to turn on him and his allies.  Silly but this is D&D we are talking about.

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    4 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    She's been through a lot of shit recently, but she's also shown signs of being a tyrant-in-the-making the whole time.  She'll make you love her if she can, and if not then she'll make you fear her, but either way, you're going to bend the knee.  Even when she heard Jon's legitimate claim to the throne, at no point did she even consider co-ruling with the man she allegedly loves.  She immediately told him to suppress it, even though he'd already sworn fealty to her.

    She's always wanted the Iron Throne at all costs.  And we've always excused her brutality as "well, it's in the name of something bigger; it's collateral damage," and it was happening to Lannisters and slavers, so it was okay.

    I think an interesting question here is why do we only see the humanity some of the time?  Obviously those were innocents in KL and we feel for them.  Why didn't we feel for the Lannister soldiers in the caravan that got barbecued last season?  They were fathers and husbands and sons, too.  Their deaths caused suffering to regular folks in KL, too.  And did they really have a choice in joining that army?  So how are they that much different from the slaves she freed (when she needed an army)?  We cheered when that caravan burned, but now we mourn the deaths in KL and decide Dany's a monster, when really her actions have been pretty consistent the whole time.  Bend the knee, or die.

    Nah.  She went from killing enemy combatants and leaders and those who betrayed her to the ones she had spent 8 seasons swearing to protect because The Mountain beheaded her interpreter and Jon Snow wouldn't kiss her.  The KL battle was won by her and her Dragon.  The city had surrendered.  She was the liberator of KL and would have been viewed as such by its inhabitants.  The Southerners don't give a fuck about presumed bastard Jon Snow defeating the Boltons or his heroic actions around the Wall and Winterfell that they would likely dismiss as a fairy tale.  It would have made much more sense if Dany simply destroyed the Red Keep and used her KL liberator status to turn the South against the North with the series ending with Jon Snow being beheaded in front of the baying KL mob.

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  11. 9 hours ago, drewcifer said:

    Brilliant spectacle... I already ranted to my wife about the many things I thought made zero sense. Fairly consistent with how absurd the post-GRRM era has been. That's all I have.

    Exactly where I am.  The episode itself was an amazing spectacle.  The underlying plot developments that yielded said spectacle are best ignored at this point.  

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  12. 24 minutes ago, utee94 said:

     

    Yup.  Tastes vary and whatnot.  But a lot more people disagree with spanky, than agree, so he can take that bulljive it to the unpopular opinions thread.

    Along with all of Drew's opinions

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