thank you!

i never watched dr who but this is rly good & well written

Chinballs

i read all the spoilers but i still dont know who the gray worm is or why he was in charge briefly

My gut is that they're following the grrm's general outline and just forgetting to make sure everything makes sense.

this part is definitely true at least

I get the sense that saving Westeros and not getting the adoration she got in the past is supposed to be why she takes the turn she does, so I don't think anything is reversed. I think that makes less sense, actually.

My gut is that they're following the grrm's general outline and just forgetting to make sure everything makes sense.

Not really sure what in the second book made you think she was meant to be a villain. The end of her plot in that book is murdering the shit out of slavers.

It's made obvious that her idealised version of what will happen when she tries to take the thrown won't pan out and she's ignorant of how awful her family history really was, but I don't think she's intended to be a villain, just a complicated protagonist who, like the rest of the cast, is going to have a low point where they probably end up doing some awful shit before redeeming themselves fighting to save the world.

The leading consensus on the aSoIaF people I still follow is that basically that the TV show probably swapped the order of events for Dany's low point and ending. So she does the save the world thing, then the awful thing, completely changing the context of it and just suddenly making her the main villain at the last minute out of nowhere.

Honestly with the amount of self-described Khaleesis on social media, I assume that a lot of people just genuinely reasoned from blondness that Daenerys was Baenerys. Case in point: Fox talking heads line ups, Theranos etc. for the power of blondness.

I mean the monster thing and the characters just repeating catchphrases wasn't exactly subtle, but I found it really got great when the music started playing. I may be disappointed at what Simpsons the show has become, but love the Simpsons family still and what is here is satire yet with a heart in it, much like the show at its best.

EDIT: I found this cool blog post on how the couch gag is about dementia.

lol didnt think of this but its perfect

Ok did anyone else read this as commentary on the worsening of the Simpsons? Projected into the far future, they become monsters and the Chopin playing in the background is fake nostalgia.

Also, my real motivation: I so sorely hope to see better for adult animation. It seems like it's only allowed in comedic and satiric form and has to be edgy. R&M probably would be better if it had less gore and burping, it's as if the networks think that an animated show can't survive without pandering to a teen male audience.

I think the reception of Pickle Rick is just so characteristic. The show's fans seem to think it's either about lel random joaks or science and philosophy. The show is honestly a bit deeper than most adult animated series, but not hugely so and apparently independently from Harmon's intentions (which is ok since the author is dead). The show is more about amusing situations, riffing on sci-fi, horror and film tropes and being oddly endeared by the dysfunctional family members.

The end result is that Pickle Rick had a genuinely well done action movie parody that was better than it had any right of being, the Pickle Rick thing was hilarious as it was genuinely absurd how far Rick could go to avoid his responsibilities, the therapist speech was great and seeing the kids develop and gaining insight into Betty was cool.

While these galas are sort of horse shit, I very much hope good things for the new female hires of season three, they made the episodes clearly better and must have held back Harmon's worst tendencies. I don't know what the other nominees are, but Gao did good work.

I give it credit for pulling me away from Reddit culture.

Also I love this episode because I didn't know about "I statements" before then but I find them to be a really useful tool for expressing my feelings so thank u dan and company for teaching that to me.

Yes. But also, my favorite part of the episode was when Morty and Summer are in the backseat to their mom and grandfather, and they're realizing together, as brother and sister, how sick their guardians are. I think they realize how much they need to grow on their own and how little guidance Rick and Beth can actually provide. I relate to that moment a lot, since I tend to look towards traditional mentors for guidance, but in my experience the people whose lives have gone just swimmingly do not have answers for important or interesting questions. It's the people whose lives have been difficult and weird who have useful and interesting advice.

the therapist tearing rick apart at the end was fucking great

shitredditsays was my jessica gao

this rules

good, I'm happy for the drunk anime girl

He gets kinda lonely in the end, gets into a mild existential crisis and before that briefly considers whether humanity will survive for a thousand years or will it nuke itself first. It's quite innocent, just ridiculous.

someone plz watch this and let me know if anything problematic happens cause I couldn't make it 10 seconds

This is the real golden age imo

hmmmm i might give it a try at some point, my family recommended it to me which..... to me, is kind of.... the opposite of a recommendation

Really?

Mind hunter is original TV and great.

Errol Morris and Wormwood! This is part of a very long series of work by Errol Morris and furthers his incredibly strong approach.