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I will not derail the thread with snark, I will not derail the thread with snark, I will NOT derail the thread with snark. ?

I'd have preferred Keefe, but I'm pretty excited. He's just a super interesting hire and infinitely preferable to any normal retread. Dare I say it's an inspired hire. That doesn't mean it'll work, of course, and he could end up being a jack of all trades master of none type person (or worse). But it's easy to get excited about a guy who has had some success in pretty dramatically different positions.

It's just the natural consequence of the series ending and the length of the seasons contracting simultaneously. Everything happening so fast makes it sloppy, but I think the trajectory has been telegraphed quite heavily. Toss in the recent emotional trauma of losing a second dragon, her most trusted advisor, her best friend, being betrayed by Jon (and thinking she's going to lose the throne to him), etc. I think the turn made total narrative sense, even if we didn't get to see all the dots get connected in a well-paced fashion.

I can definitely see the parallels. I understand why Botterill would prefer someone with NHL head coaching experience, I just hope he isn't being blinded by that preference.

...value-wise it's not far from what we ended up with. Anyway, Tippett continues to be wholly unexciting to me.

Neither do I. Give me Keefe or give me death. Not really, but he is at the top of my list.

...are people actually annoyed that a more accurate position label is being used now? Holy smokes.

The Night King isn't exactly a normal mortal human the way Jon and Dany are. I see no reason why you'd assume it would work the same for him as for Jon.

My point was that the ice dragon's breath should have just obliterated the things Jon was hiding behind. It took down The Wall and Winterfell's siege wall. Talk about discontinuity. I'd also assume that its breath isn't fire in the Targaryen's are immune sense.

We probably have enough people who have seen this and want to talk about it without spoiling it for others to deserve its own thread. Obviously, full spoilers here. I mentioned in my initial reaction in the Movies/TV thread that I didn't really like it. I think there were some glaring issues that really just ruined it for me. In no particular order: 1) I thought the pacing was really poorly executed. The entire first half of the movie had too much time dedicated to some things and not enough to others, and so much lacking any and all context. We got a whole group therapy session with Cap, but we see Tony figure out time travel in about 3 microseconds. Captain Marvel randomly (?) stumbling about Tony to save him at the 11th hour. Nat's weird conversation with the team and "things" happening elsewhere, like they had no idea what to do with the characters in the interim but they had to be doing something. 2) I know what the initial mission where they killed Thanos was meant to do, but for me, having the "real" Thanos dead so early actually kind of emotionally disconnected me from what happened for the next 1-2 hours. Maybe it was the pacing and the scene choices, but I didn't feel invested after this. 3) I think the entire "retrieve the stones" quest was...boring. The moment with Tony and his dad was terrific, but I was sitting there just waiting for it all to be over. Even the minor tension by screwing up the Tesseract heist lasted for about 2 seconds and was pretty easily and seamlessly solved. They could have cut the entire middle frame and I don't think the movie would have lost anything for it. That's...not good. 4) Holy hell was Thor's arc bad. And by arc, I mean flat line. It was hilarious at first, and even fitting that he'd be kinda broken after not being able to reverse the snap. But when they had a legit plan to fix things, he really should've snapped out of it. I think it ultimately betrayed the character development he's had with Ragnarok and Infinity War. Learning how to be a leader, a king, protect his people, discovering his true power, etc. He also seemed really underpowered in the final battle relative to where he was in Infinity War with Stormbreaker. 5) Smart Hulk was pretty useless/pointless. It had potential, but was pretty poorly executed. 6) So let me get this right....Captain Marvel can just fly straight through Thanos' mothership and obliterate it without breaking a sweat, but can't take Thanos 1v1 or at least essentially incinerate normal enemies? So incoherent. I'm sure I'll think of some other things as the conversation evolves, but I left the theater and felt pretty empty. And not in a good way. It wasn't all bad, of course. I though Tony's arc was the best of the movie and excellent all-around. Cap's arc was good, even if the ending seemed to break the time travel rules they had established earlier. I loved the Nat and Barton soul stone quest; probably the only stone quest I enjoyed--thought it was great and fitting. The final battle was obviously super fun and I enjoyed Cap finally wielding Mjolnir. But overall I don't care if I never see the movie again.

I simply meant did you see it coming before the episode? I didn't. There should have been another main death or two, given how the fight was playing out. That's for sure. But I also think too many main characters dying would have made it really hard to give each a fitting death. So yea it might have fit the battle better, but in a character-driven show, I think each one having their moment is also important. The lighting is an interesting conversation. Plenty of people said it was fine once they adjusted their TV settings, and those with OLED were fine regardless. Obviously that shouldn't be necessary to do, but it helped bring me into the atmosphere of the battle. I could just feel the chaos and dread, and the lighting was part of it. I didn't have a problem with it, but I understand those who wanted to be able to see more directly. The Night King ate dragon fire and just smiled. He also dispatched a charging Theon without even trying. What more do you need? And we know who the Night King is and why he exists, we learned it in previous episodes. We don't know the specific person who became the Night King, if that's what you mean, but I don't think that's particularly integral to the story. And not everyone of consequence survived. Jorah has been hugely important as a mentor/advisor to Dany, and he's the reason she kept Tyrion on as hand. And Theon is one of my least favorite characters, but he has had a lot of important moments in the story whether it's betraying Robb or saving Sansa. At least we agree on the score being incredible ? See, I've always thought the battle for the Iron Throne was secondary to the war against the Night King. It's just that nobody knew it at the start, and only a few learned about it until recently. Her and Jon were hunting the Night King at that point, no? Some of the dragon scenes were definitely disorienting though with regard to where they actually were. As someone else mentioned, Arya knew to go to Bran because of what Melissandre told her. Sure, everyone on the front lines should have died. But I'm not really bothered by that compared to the ice dragon exploding an exterior siege wall and then somehow not being able to kill Jon through a dinky interior wall. Correct. I'm really interested to see where Sansa ends up in all of this.

I really hope that gets hidden before too many people see it. @SABRES 0311 use spoiler tags. "Spoiler" and "/spoiler" in brackets. .

But did you see it happening before the episode?

That was awesome.

In some order, Iron Man, Thor Ragnarok, Infinity War, and Cap 2. I left Endgame with the same feeling I did leaving Age of Ultron, actually. The overall quality felt the same, but Endgame had some pretty big problems whereas Age of Uktron was just meh. I'll happily expand in a few weeks when spoilers are allowed.

Just saw it and I, uh, disagree. I think it's easily among the worst Marvel movies, and clearly the worst Avengers.

Your Bona inferiority complex continues to be impressive. Bold prediction: Tyree has a longer NFL career than Daniel Jones. Edit: That said, he obviously shouldn't have declared for the draft this year. He got some bad advice.

No, but I'm probably going to be pretty drunk later, so check back.

How many times does someone have to do something that's a dick move or think dick moves are funny to actually be considered a dick? And would you like to be the pot or the kettle with the thought policing nonsense? Or, people could just not do things for the sole purpose of pissing others off.

They signed Yeldon. They're not dressing 4 backs on game day.

He's not wrong, though.

On that note, either McCoy is toast on this team or we just wasted a 3rd round pick on a guy who will be inactive all season.

Sure we do. We just have to cut one of our 30 running backs

But that 5th has value. Is the difference between Ford and, say, Risner, worth a depth player with potential? I think it's unlikely.

Trading up is dumb far more often than it's smart. Unlike the NHL mid-round picks in the NFL are valuable. Beane treats them like he has an allergy.