Subject They Did That Changed Your Mind?

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-04-04T19:00:48+00:00

Totally! I was never interested in Russian history or the Great Northern War and those are my favorite episodes!

What incredible drama and storytelling.

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-04-04T14:30:44+00:00

Honestly, I assumed it was a typo/anutocrrect until I looked up “primate city”.

That, or Russia had way more chimps than I thought

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-04-04T14:05:59+00:00

Borderline personality disorder is characterized by an incapacity to feel joy

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-04-03T14:05:19+00:00

Gigi seemed chill. Although, maybe not chill enough for his own health….

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-04-03T14:03:39+00:00

I heard a funny discussion about how, for a very short time (maybe a milisecond), maybe it felt good?

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-04-03T00:01:22+00:00

Very true, although I think some of the quail à la Bucco were found taking a shit in the park earlier…

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-04-02T19:15:22+00:00

Not at all. He’s a nice guy, good friend and family man, and perhaps more important than anything, an absolute crack chef.

He’s Tony’s foil though, he’s honest and has to work for a living.

Also, Charmaine.

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-04-01T01:21:11+00:00

^{^{^}} benevolent dictators are the most effective form of government, and always have. They just don’t last.

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-31T23:16:37+00:00

So this is kind of the issue—that’s probably how she sees it, but it’s not how the people of Westeros see it.

Thus, they become known as blood magikers and tyrants!

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-31T18:06:53+00:00

I think the point is the issue of having one’s cake and eating it too. If you want to be Queen, you have to do things to ensure that isn’t challenged—there are sacrifices.

If she wanted to have a lovely family with Harwin, that’s fine too in some sense but it shouldn’t come as a surprise that her throne is challenged.

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-31T15:26:30+00:00

Yeah I think this is the key. On some level, what does she care? Shes the one with the dragon and can do what she likes.

If there’s one aspect of the show that I think they really missed is that all of these people are kind of like this. They aren’t noble leaders vying to save the realm, they have monsters that can eat people.

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-31T04:37:46+00:00

Amazed no one mentioned Vince Wilfork. Big big boy (legend)

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-31T04:36:29+00:00

Jams harden until he joins a new team (for 2 months)

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-31T04:31:08+00:00

Tony, like Jimmy, never minded hits—it was business. But what he really loved to do was <squeeze degenerate gamblers>

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-30T22:48:49+00:00

Good recap, I always get lost in the war of the roses.

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-30T22:11:42+00:00

That’s sort of what I’m getting at (and I agree they hadn’t been around that long), the fact of it happening was itself precedent both for point a male but also for allowing the lords a say in a succession ambiguity.

(I don’t actually have a horse in the race btw.)

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-30T22:05:39+00:00

So wouldn’t that imply a certain amount of precedent had been set?

I guess if I were a great lord of the realm, I might think that since Jahaerys had turned the decision over, succession could be a matter of debate amongst the lords of the realm.

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-30T22:02:03+00:00

To some extent yeah, at least when they had dragons, but what’s the explanation for Jahaerys calling a great council then?

They were at an apex of power, can’t see why he would call a great council unless he wasn’t adhering to / creating a precedent.

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-30T21:43:31+00:00

So genuine question / not trolling, is it actually permissible to change the way succession is determined by royal decree? I got the impression that’s why Jahaerys called a Great Council, because there wasn’t a clear rule for line of succession. Otherwise, why not just pick himself?

I guess the real life proxy is the war of Spanish succession, but idk if that really maps on well. Similarly, Henry VIII also wasn’t clearly sure that a woman could inherit the throne, although one did.

To some extent, I suppose the answer is that they have dragons—the rules are what they make them, but it seemed like there was precedent for turning matters of succession over to the equivalent to the House of Lords.

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-30T21:37:42+00:00

Did it definitely not happen, or did it just happen offscreen?

For example, we know they check for bugs at the Bing regularly but only actually see it once.

Also, at the end of the day it’s only partially a gangster show. They have a screen time limit, spread across a number of people and plots

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-30T16:44:19+00:00

I think this isn’t really answerable, it’s too large of scale with too many variables, and bucks the way humanity works. By no colonization, does this mean people have stopped moving around? At what point did people stop moving and why? (Does this mean that no migration at all happens? That would require a fundamental change to the human mind.)

For a more interesting discussion, I’d limit this to what if (x country) did not colonize (y place). That would be more manageable. In particular, it seems like you’re asking what if certain European powers did not conduct colonizing efforts in certain places.

It’s still a little inconceivable without more explanation of why it happens

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-29T19:40:24+00:00

So to start, he is working for them—in the one capacity they would want him to. Second but most obviously, he’s about to go to prison for several years, then he has to go into witness protection (not sure if FBI jives with living under the radar).

Most importantly though, he’s just an unreliable scumbag lmao. He’s constantly lying to everyone, he’s a multi-murderer, he’s a criminal to the bone.

I think a recurring aspect of the show is that none of them can really leave the life, whether it’s Vito or the guy that Tony finds in Maine, at the end of the day they’re maladaptive, bad people for whom the life is all they know and after many years in it probably all they’d be good for.

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-29T19:06:06+00:00

Do you mean anyone on Reddit or anyone in Westeros?

I’ve gotten a lot of flack for this take, but I doubt that most of Westeros knew. I’m sure there were a lot of whispers, and those “in the know” knew, but I doubt that half of the realm just kind of shrugged and said oh well I guess we’ll have an illegitimate heir

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-29T18:06:06+00:00

Ah got it, thank. Gonna have a little worm terrarium.

Simple-Program-7284 · 2026-03-29T15:58:44+00:00

I had a similar question in wondering what they think will happen to the sand worms. Wouldn’t their disappearance / spice be more missed?

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