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"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." - Sansa Stark. Thoughts on the Game of Thrones finale, "The Iron Throne". Spoilers and more ahead... "When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." - Sansa I think a lot about television shows, probably too much really. In the grand scheme of things, they aren’t important, simply blips on the artistic or entertainment radar and nothing more. Hell, most of us don’t even watch the same shows anymore. There’s so much stuff *on* to choose from (some of it good, a little bit really good, most of it very bad) that generating *water cooler* talk about television these days is nearly impossible. It really just doesn’t even happen. Gone are the days of a show airing on Sunday night and you made damn sure you caught it because if you missed it you’d be out of the loop. Except for this one. So before we start to pick apart

Some thoughts on Targaryens, Daenerys, character arcs and more as we wind to the close with "The Bells". Spoilers ahead... What’s the point in having a pet dragon unless you get to lay waste to and incinerate a whole city with hundreds of thousands of innocent lives inside the walls? When you’ve got a sports car, you need to open that thing up every once in a while. Dragons are no different. And Daenerys opened that mother up. From the moment Missandei’s capa was detated from her head at the end of last episode and Daenerys did her rather symbolic heel turn away from Cersei and the rest of the city, I suppose we could see this coming. She’s been increasingly unhinged over the last few episodes with the writers building to a not-so-happy ending for Danny, or at least something different than we thought they’d built to over the last seven+ seasons. I think some will make a ruckus that this was, in fact, a complete 180 for her character, going from 0 to nuts all too

I was basically (over) forgiving of last week’s “The Long Night”, willing to look past some obvious narrative fumbles in order to (mostly) enjoy the episode. It was the battle Game of Thrones had been building toward for seven seasons and there were, for sure, missteps.   But I understood, for the most part, the writers’ willingness to end the rather problematic Night King saga in order push the show’s main players into a final conflict. And that was ultimately the point of this week’s “The Last of the Starks”, getting Jon, Daenerys, Tyrion, Jamie, Cersei, Arya and others face to face for a final confrontation that would ultimately decide the fate of the Seven Kingdoms and the GOT world as a whole. So yeah, I get it. But man was this episode had some real problems.   Forget the rather obvious gaffs like the  Starbucks’ coffee being served in the Great Hall through final edits. Mistakes, I guess, are made from time to time, whatever. But the path they’ve taken on some of these