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I get all the foreshadowing that Dany is a mad queen. I get that she believes she'll never be loved and that terror will have to be the thing that keeps her on the throne. What I don't get is why, at that moment, she turned. What was going through her mind when she was perched on the wall, staring at the red keep? So I buy her heel turn, in a way, but also I don't really buy it, it didn't feel ... earned.

Super cool redo of the very first Star Wars lightsaber duel. Really captures Vader's rage and Obi-Wan's desperate exhaustion.

I'll always remember the 2005 Grey Cup -- the best football game I've ever seen live, a glorious shootout, a showcase for the league, and Ray was front and center. Thanks for a great career sir, and good luck to you in your next act.

I tried downloading that on my phone, and it crashed my browser.

NASA has released a new Hubble image. It's composed of 7500 exposures taken over 16 years. Some 256 thousand galaxies are shown in the image, which from Earth's perspective, is about the size of the moon. The most distant galaxies are shown as they were just 500 million years after the Big Bang. http://hubblesite.org/image/4492/news_release/2019-17

Cersei reminds me of last year's Vegas Knights, lying in wait while the Jets and the Predators beat the ever-loving bejeezus out of each other. Tho the Targaryeans still have at least one dragon and I don't know if The Platinum Blonde Romulan has an answer for that.

yeah, my impression was that the Night King brought the storm to bollix the dragons, they were roasting the **** out of the zombies when suddenly the blizzard rolled in. but don't take my word on it, I was just squinting at the screen and trying to parse the swirl of midnight blue and coal black pixels.

My impression watching the episode was that Bran was warging to draw the Night King out to play, since the whole plan depended on the NK making a big run for the Godswood. I figured everyone who was at the end of their plotline would be dead, so I called Jorah and Theon and the flaming sword guy dying. I expected there'd be a shocking death that would abort or reconfigure a plotline, but nothing like that happened, so yeah I'm kinda with you itchy. But on the other hand, they've only got three episodes left so they gotta get this thing tidied away and concluded, probably no time for any big plot swings. Loved the Arya and Lady Mormont bits and the callback to Arya's pre-Faceless sword training.

I thought it was your average Marvel movie: pretty entertaining but it didn't blow my mind. Civil War and Into the Spider-Verse are still my favorite Marvel movies. My favorite bits in Endgame were the second-act heist scenes, especially the Cap stuff in the elevator and the Cap-vs-Cap bit, those were great. Banner coming up meh when he was trying to hulk out was a great moment too. I thought the big battle at the end was a little busy and not as great as the Civil War fight scene at the airport, which for me is like the gold standard of superhero battles, with everyone given a chance to showcase their own unique kind of awesome.

Yeah, I hated how Lucas did this with the Luke / Leia / Han love triangle.

Anyway, enough trolling out of me, I thought TLJ was weird and decent but I can understand how it might frustrate people who want different things from Star Wars than I do. The thing I am stoked for now is The Mandalorian. The cast looks great: Pedro Pascal (the Red Viper from GOT) in the lead role, with Carl Weathers, Nick Nolte, Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring from Breaking Bad) and Werner Herzog as an old Imperial slimebag.

Maybe the reason I thought TLJ was a decent movie was because I don't remember the prequels that well. Seemed like a sensible move to try to forget them.

Luke did exactly the same thing that Obi-Wan did at the end of Star Wars. He sacrificed himself while using the Force to trick and distract his opponent and enabled the next generation of heroes to get away. Totally a classic old Jedi thing to do. Jedis are supposed to use the Force to defend -- never to attack. The one time we saw the Jedi going on the offense as warriors and generals was the Clone Wars. How did that turn out for them?

If the investigation was really to "rectify the injustice of Hillary losing" then why did the Republican attorney general (nominated by Trump, confirmed by GOP Senate) recuse himself from the proceedings, leaving the Republican deputy AG (nominated by Trump, confirmed by the GOP Senate) to appoint Mueller -- a registered Republican -- as a special counsel. The Dems living in your head have a frankly amazing ability to make Republicans do their exact bidding. I wish we had those Dems instead of the ones we've got.

No bad choices there, but considering that House had Brock and Clements throwing him the ball, and Wilcox had Dunigan for three years .. meanwhile the best QB Edwards ever had was 2007 Glenn... Edwards made some chicken salad on this team, he'll always be a favorite of mine for that.

here's a real nice and concise high-level explanation of how one takes a picture of a black hole. It involves taking simultaneous measurements from several telescopes worldwide and then filling in the gaps using computer guesswork. super cool.

Gonna miss Fogg -- got confidence that the bomber scouts can turn up good DBs, but they don't turn up good return men very often. How many return guys did we go through between Johnson and Fogg?

95 Leafs 5 Roughriders

Manziel is kind of a special case, though. People like Sinkfield are free to return to the CFL now that the awful's crapped out. That door is shut for Manziel and god ain't opening a window anywhere for him.

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This is a big reason I'm a fan of Johnny Impact / Mundo / Defy / Morrison. He always makes his opponents look awesome. I bet any random MBB poster could have a great-looking match against him. He got beat by Randy Myers at Defy, which is a ridiculous outcome based on wrestling talent, but it was still a great match. Morrison played straight man (literally) to Myers' weirdo hero shenanigans and got distracted into a surprise pin. Totally popped the Defy crowd where Myers is kind of a fave.

This is a bit old, but I didn't see it mentioned anywhere on this topic -- Joey Ryan replaced Eli Drake on an Impact card after Drake refused to wrestle Tessa Blanchard, says he won't do intergender matches. I've got strong opinions on this but I'll just say that you see itty-bitty guys like Rey Mysterio taking on jacked dudes all the time and no one blinks an eye -- Tessa Blanchard isn't much smaller than Rey Mysterio. https://twitter.com/TheEliDrake/status/1099044040924753 https://twitter.com/TheEliDrake/status/1099044040924753920

What happens to soldiers who boo or otherwise disrespect the Commander-in-Chief?

Next Bomber jersey of mine is gonna be a Leggett. Just loved watching that guy play. So clutch.

Got no love for Johnny Manziel ... but the way Montreal traded their seed corn and got just a couple of bad headlines in return puts me in USABomberFan rage territory. This was a move straight out of the bad old days of the Ottawa Rough Riders, except when the Riders went out and got splashy big-name/zero-hope talent from the States (Ware, Schlichter, Manley) at least they signed 'em as free agents and didn't trade the farm away. And now the Als' ownership is all up in the air, it's some deja vu. There's losing teams and there's laughingstocks, and I just hate hate hate seeing any laughingstocks in the CFL. I really want to see Montreal sorted out and stable again.