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Pi, you are one peculiar fellow.

Yup. He's not that good.

As opposed to the Smell Kim Pegula is trying to forget?

Crazy sports rants aren't holding anybody back, they're just hilarious. And the passion resonates with a lot of us, considering we had to endure 2 of the worst seasons ever after countless years on the Darcy Regier treadmill. The Leafs luck into the first pick after only finishing last once. They snagged Babcock. It's okay to hate a sports team, it's actually pretty fun. And once again, Blue wasn't wishing ill against anyone.

This man is a hero.

This might be the most braindead comment chain the board has ever produced. Good job, us.

You don't want Eichel winning hockey games?

My first response wasn't totally correct. In some ways, I do just want the show to be like the books. But that's because the first three seasons of the show were (nearly) exactly like the books. Even better, in some ways, because we got to hear conversations between Varys and Littlefinger that no POV from the books would ever get to hear. Now that things are going off the rails, I'm mad at the show for not following its own damn rules! Roose Bolton could've been killed by Ramsay and it could've totally worked. But they would have to set it up, and it would need to be consistent with the Roose Bolton we saw in the first 3 seasons who carefully plotted the destruction of Robb Stark from about 3 paces away. Roose's arrogance isn't a flaw because nothing ever went wrong for him. Jaime's arrogance is a flaw and it constantly over his life, like being arrogant enough to father Robert's heirs. Ramsay is just about the craziest person in the whole show. He's a psychopath, he's cruel, treacherous, extreme, rash, and hyper competent. For Roose to have not expected treachery after the birth of his trueborn son is silly. He spent months in Robb Stark's camp taking care with every single moment of his life to not tip his hand. Watching every single soldier and washer woman, wondering if they're a spy sent to suss him out. Sending secret messages to the Lannisters, wondering if the rider he sent will be taken or the bird he sent will be shot down. This is the guy that wasn't suspecting Ramsay von Hitler Satan? I don't buy it. Because the show didn't show me.

You're an , McNulty. The did I do?

I want the TV show to be good. I really don't need it to be the books. The fact that they keep adding parts that are in the books that make no sense in the show is salt in my wound. There's a direct correlation between when the show goes off the rails and when they can't straight up copy George. I am mad that there's no writing talent to make up new awesome ASOIAF stuff for me to enjoy. I want the show to do honor to the books. I'm fine with it being a bard's tale where the specifics are different and many of the details didn't make it in. But it still has to be good. And it's not. And saying that I just want it to be the books makes it sound like I hate the show on principle, which I don't. I hate it because I watch it and it doesn't pass the eye test.

I wonder why HBO sets the bar so low...

I liked Faksa too, but I stand by the Grig pick. At the time, that was the only way we were ever getting a first line center, by drafting for the highest ceiling and hoping. Darcy Regier was the worst GM.

There's so many things wrong with this post it makes me happy that my signature is what it is. The bolded is the part that makes the least sense. Book Roose is a player in the game of thrones. Book Roose is probably on the side of the others. Book Roose almost definitely practices black magic of some sort. Book Roose might be an immortal vampire. Book Roose is loose. Show Roose betrayed the North, making all loyal Stark men (y'know, most of the North) despise him. Then he betrayed the crown to win back the North lords by marrying Sansa to Ramsay. So now he has.... no friends. At least there's a Karstark there! And he hates Robb for killing his dad(?), Lord Karstark! And he hates Robb even more for being a kinslayer! Everybody knows about the blood ties between Stark and Karstark and how important it is to the Old Gods not to kinslay. Oh.... he's down with Ramsay kinslaying? Oh... the writers didn't even try to make this Karstark guy a character? Oh... I'm thinking way harder about this show than the writers ever even tried to?

It's cute, how much you love your little Flyer.

How EXACTLY am I asking for character perfection? I want the incredibly dangerous lords to be formidable. I don't want them to APPEAR formidable until the writers decide to discard them. It's pretty obvious that the writers do away with these formidable lords because they don't have the chops to write for smart characters. Their intepretation of Stannis was much the same. Roose Bolton thought Roose Bolton was smart, that's true, but he was never depicted as arrogant. You could say that the part he played in the red wedding was arrogant, that betraying the Starks in genral was arrogant, but that's such an amazing stretch. Roose Bolton's downfall had nothing to do with Roose and everything to do with Ramsay. Speaking of the show minimizing the Red Wedding, anybody seen any Freys yet? Freys that aren't Fat Walda?

No, I want my characters to be consistent and actually be, uhhh, characters. And I want stuff to happen for a reason.

Roose Bolton is dumb because he's arrogant? Wow. That's compelling.

Roose Bolton existed in this show for no reason. Up until now I was giving his character so much credit. "He's just subtle! They're doing a slow burn to reveal his darker side!" I told myself. But no. He was just a placeholder bad guy until Ramsay got around to killing him. They keep doing this, where they take established Lords that have been around for ages and have them killed with no real drama or justification. Roose has apparently been ruling his lands with fear for his entire life but has no inkling what kind of monster his bastard son is. He threatens Ramsay's place in life with the possibility of Walda's baby being a boy. Then when that comes to pass Roose has no fear that Ramsay would do exactly what he did? And why did the showrunners bother with that scene where Ramsay feeds Fat Walda and her baby to the dogs? To build up Ramsay? Not necessary. Because we care about Walda? No we don't. Basically they thought it would be EPIC if BAD GUY Ramsay fed a mother and her newborn to his Schrodingers hounds. How neat. So much value added.

Yes, Chuck. He really passed the bar. I just watched episode 4 again. The scene where Jimmy and Chuck have another throw down (the first time Jimmy's been to Chuck's house since "You're not a real lawyer") is absolutely fantastic. The way the push and pull of the discussion moves Jimmy in and out of the light is so neat. When Chuck is walking toward the desk saying a bunch of really uncalled for dickish things, we get a shot of the dark side of Jimmy's face that reminds me of the scene where he's eyeing Kenwins. Just like in the Kenwins shot, Jimmy is in the right of the frame looking left. Or is he looking to the West? Anyways, I love Michael McKean's acting in this scene. He switches so abruptly between voicing some legitimate concerns about his brother, taking ridiculous pot shots (Kim's only mistake was believing in you), and showing real uncertainty. When he says "Because if I were impeding the career of one of my employees for the purpose of compelling you to do something against your will that would be extortion." it takes a while for Chuck to believe in what he's saying here, but by the end of the line he's found more conviction. But Jimmy replies with "So what? You gonna extort me, Chuck?..." And the look on Chuck's face softens big time. At the end of the scene Chuck is feeling his joints because his electromagnetic sensitivity acting up... Gee I wonder why. I think Chuck absolutely told Hamlin to put the screws to Kim. Hamlin's resigned tone when she... uh, resigns is all the tell I need. Oh, also! There's a chills inducing Jimmy line in that scene with Chuck. When he's offering to quit the law for good he says "No more Jimmy McGill Esquire. POOF! Like he never even existed." The feels, man. :cry:

Ahhh, I just needed Blue here liking stuff to remind me of all the things I hated about the episode. I loved the Tyrion/dragons scene, but I hated the Tyrion in the council room scene. It was almost masturbatory how cool they wanted Tyrion to look. I DRINK AND I KNOW THINGS. I really thought the line was going to be "I drink and I read." Why is Tyrion still acting like season 1 Tyrion? Him going in to confront the dragons could've been depicted as a mad act of somebody that truly doesn't care if they live or die (or more accurately, doesn't want to live without dragons). Apparently the act of killing his father and lover was only good for ~9 episodes of sadness and absolutely no character development. Varys is still useless and NOT Varys. Tyrion made more "hey Varys you're a eunuch" jokes. Yipeeee. Dolorous Edd NOT killing Thorne on the spot makes no sense whatsoever. He thinks Jon is dead, he wouldn't chance leaving Thorne alive so another fool can be chosen for LC and let him go. Speaking of which, that scene where the wildlings busted in really reinforced all the stupid dumb things about episode one. I was asking myself "why would Thorne do this when his castle is indefensible to the South?" "Why doesn't Thorne just bust into that room and kill them? Did Davos really befuddle him that much?" And then in episode two it's revealed that: Alliser Thorne is a huge dumbass. Compelling stuff. Roose Bolton getting shoved aside so Ramsay can be the big bad is sooooooooo boring. Roose wouldn't suspect that of Ramsay? Really? Roose Bolton is just another dumb idiot? I didn't feel like Roose was getting what he deserved for the Red Wedding it just felt... stupid. Roose also added to the Thorne is a dumbass thing by explaining that the North lords would never accept the LC of the NW getting assassinated. I know there are eventually going to be North lords in the show this season, but so far every single bit of information about the current lords in the North have been given to us through Roose Bolton exposition. This show sucks. ------------------------ As soon as Lyanna showed up in the flashback I instantly started crying. Oh Ned. I am so glad they made Ghost important in the resurrection of Jon Snow. That said, now that he's back we can look at his assassination as a whole. I declare it a complete, miserable failure of storytelling. There was no dramatic set-up for his death and the logical reasons they gave were so offensively nonsensical that they just made every character involved look like a pillock. The tension in Castle Black that they manufactured from his death was inconsequential and resulted in the status quo returning which means... absolutely nothing is different for Jon Snow now that he's alive. I'm sure he'll talk about how being dead was weird and he feels strange/is a warg, but having the political situation at the wall be EXACTLY like it was before Jon Snow died except that a bunch of mutineers are found out doesn't move the story about the War for the Dawn forward at all. Jon Snow dying was just a stop on the side of the road, done entirely for the purposes of a cliffhanger and trying to "break the internet." ...we're not, though. Arya's in the thick of her super slow moving book plot, the iron islands are still in the books, and So Jon, Dany, and Cersei are the only plots that are truly beyond the books. And Dorne is... happening I guess??

I disagree fervently. If we're not allowed to go on absurd emotional rants as sports fans, then we might as well stop caring about anything. Everyone certainly aught to know Blue wasn't wishing harm on Stamkos.

I don't follow.

Also, breaking Matthews in at wing =/= wanting Stamkos at center.

Because having center depth is really really important. It also depends on how the Leafs rate Matthews vs. Laine. If they straight up think Laine is better, then that's the move. If they think Laine = Matthews then I'd have to think that Matthews would be the pick.

Maybe, if Babdick chooses to break in Matthews on the wing.