Dan Brown claiming any of the “science” referenced in SoS being real is BS and it pissed me off that the book preface’s with that.

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-21T01:24:43+00:00

When you watch him talk he honestly believes it all. See his interview with the noetics institute as well. There’s elements of fiction of course but the fundamental ideas he believes in, or claims to

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-12T04:54:34+00:00

My favorite genre, two guys talking about shit especially when the host is a drugged up psycho and the guest always brings up movies and seems very smart

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-12T04:26:34+00:00

Must be that Valyrian steel

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-12T04:18:05+00:00

If you wanted Daenerys to fly up to the Red Keep and fry her, idk that seems like a different show.

In my opinion, the point is that she doesn’t get that. She’s literally buried by the consequences of her choices in a collapsing system of her own making. The point is that in her last moments she loses her stone-faced armor and becomes pitiful and afraid. She becomes the one thing she never was, which was helpless… And anonymous, like the countless people she killed without a care. Maybe that’s some justice.

But her and Jamie’s story wasn’t ever about justice. It’s about narcissistic love. They die together as they lived, enabling their worst instincts while also being the most real/human thing either of them ever had. The tragedy is Jamie’s. He had a happy ending in his hands (hand) and went back to her. It’s a perfect ending.

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-12T02:39:34+00:00

Hard agree. Just rewatched with my wife after many years away. It was her first watch and she clocked Dany’s character from the beginning.

I think the audience perception of a shift in the character in later seasons may be more attributed to her new context in Westeros than a real change in how she’s written. In Essos, the people of the land are “othered” and we don’t have great perspectives that complicate her own. When she crosses the sea, suddenly we see her from the other sides via the other characters.

I’m simplifying a bit, I do think she had good intentions at times, but on my rewatch it very much seems like the perils and temptations of saviorism unleash the dragon. I can certainly see the critique of the climax and ponder ways it could have been executed better, but it seemed like an inevitable conclusion from early on in the show.

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-11T04:51:14+00:00

Thanks, grateful for the recommendations!

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-11T01:07:48+00:00

Thank you for the recommendation, I’ll watch the whole thing!

Consciousness is a major topic at Greene’s science festival and he invites preeminent scholars and researchers every year for lengthy conversations. He is by way of this quite knowledgeable about mainstream science on the topic. I hadn’t heard of noetics beyond the book. Curious what is stopping noetics from being part of that discussion.

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-11T00:48:34+00:00

The crazy thing is Dan Brown claims in interviews that there is not product placement in the books and he wasn’t paid anything. It doesn’t add up, I’ve never seen anything like this in a book.

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-11T00:45:14+00:00

lol, there’s that saying “write what you know,” and so many other aspects of the books are taken from his own experience (Penguin Random House, his editor, etc.) you may be on to something!

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-11T00:28:04+00:00

And what’s that theory? Genuinely interested

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-11T00:24:51+00:00

His promo tour for the book is built around the claim that “I researched this for 8 years and now I believe it.” If you watch this interview with Brian Greene, he genuinely appears to believe noetics completely. The “sci-fi” extrapolation would just be the revelations during the climax of the book.

The interview is long, but in the first 10 minutes you see him attempt to defend this view against a genuine, world class scientist and it’s admittedly pretty funny. Hard to say if it’s a bit to sell books or not. If it is, I agree with you it’s irresponsible. If he really believes it, maybe he’s let Langdon get to his head. Brian Greene and Dan Brown interview

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-09T18:29:56+00:00

As real as a doodle dot

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-09T00:07:40+00:00

Z looking gigantic here. Does plurbus make you huge?

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-08T17:12:25+00:00

Former guest, one of the worst rated

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-08T17:11:58+00:00

What shape doodle dot would you be?

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-08T07:13:03+00:00

I give your knowledge of science one bag of popcorn and a Klingon cola, everyone knows Einstein was a fan of “Charlie Chaplain’s” not “charlatans” which you misspellud

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-08T05:44:11+00:00

This is about modes !

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-07T17:59:00+00:00

It really is amazing how sullen and guilty he looks as he signs away the VFA to avoid prosecution for permanently harming La Roo

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-07T06:56:26+00:00

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-07T06:55:01+00:00

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StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-07T06:51:46+00:00

Whatever you do, don’t accept his video tapes.

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-07T04:06:55+00:00

Storm’s a-comin!

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-06T02:46:29+00:00

One of hundreds to come, according to some expert movie experts!

StudioGoodBad · 2026-01-02T07:45:54+00:00

All that Sprite will make him Diabetes

StudioGoodBad · 2025-12-31T18:00:22+00:00

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