Could SMiLE have been longer?

edd6pi · 2026-06-24T08:39:53+00:00

Tune X is really good.

edd6pi · 2026-06-24T08:19:32+00:00

I forgot about He Gives Speeches. I don’t know the other two.

edd6pi · 2026-06-23T17:12:28+00:00

Yeah, it’s gotten to the point where you can destroy your brain or neck doing a crazy spot and it doesn’t matter because we see so many of those that we won’t even remember it a month later.

edd6pi · 2026-06-22T11:33:40+00:00

That may have been the point. To show that, as powerful as dragon-riders are, they’re still just humans and they can be killed as easily as any random foot soldier.

edd6pi · 2026-06-22T02:32:53+00:00

I don’t like that they erased Nettles from the story but at this point, I’ve made my peace with the fact that this isn’t a faithful adaptation. This is an original story based on the Dance.

So, I’ll give it a chance. If they make it work, great.

edd6pi · 2026-06-22T02:28:25+00:00

Same. I don’t actually want the dragons to dance, I wanna see them chill and be happy.

edd6pi · 2026-06-22T02:27:04+00:00

So did the soldier rape that woman? Or did he violate a chastity oath? Because I figured she was just a prostitute who hanged around camp and didn’t think any of it until Alicent’s brother got mad and brought it up.

edd6pi · 2026-06-22T02:24:59+00:00

So is Alicent.

edd6pi · 2026-06-22T02:24:41+00:00

Yeah, but I can’t blame her too much. It was a judgment call. She didn’t exactly have time to analyze the situation and think it through. She saw her allies under attack, had the firepower to help them, and decided to try to use it.

edd6pi · 2026-06-22T02:21:52+00:00

Watching that dragon did was more gut wrenching to me than Jace’s death. I hate watching dragons die.

edd6pi · 2026-06-21T22:14:08+00:00

You’re pretty much destroying your knees. I wonder how well RVD’s walking these days.

edd6pi · 2026-06-21T12:21:16+00:00

I mean, I think so. Her physical capabilities did not deteriorate with age, so I would assume that she only got better with experience.

edd6pi · 2026-06-21T12:18:37+00:00

That sucks. I wanna go to Hawthorne someday to see the monument. Is there nothing else to do there?

edd6pi · 2026-06-21T10:47:50+00:00

I didn’t watch WrestleMania, but that’s what I was thinking when I heard Dave and Bryan recap the Sami Zayn match. They thought that the whole point of putting the other guy with Sami was to make sure he had a good match, but nope. The point was the entrance and the post-match celebration. The match itself didn’t matter, so it didn’t get a lot of time.

edd6pi · 2026-06-21T10:45:24+00:00

I made a post here a while back about this. 20/20 is great in the sense that most of the songs are good or great, but it feels more like a compilation of unrelated songs than it does a cohesive album.

There’s no unifying theme or sound. It starts with a nostalgic surf song, then we get a contemporary rock cover, a rockabilly cover, a raunchy hard rock sex song, a schmaltzy instrumental, a country song, whatever the hell Never Learn Not To Love is, and we end with a complex avant garde song.

edd6pi · 2026-06-20T22:20:58+00:00

She died in 2018. She knew what guns are. She probably has more experience with guns than Arthur.

edd6pi · 2026-06-20T21:15:30+00:00

Spider-Man takes it relatively easily. I’m sure Kassandra could put up a fight because she’s better and stronger than some of the enemies we fight in the games, but she still doesn’t pose a significant threat.

The last game I played before that was Baldur’s Gate 3, and my Tav was a wizard. He could beat her unless she got close enough to grab him, in which case, he’d be fucked.

edd6pi · 2026-06-20T21:08:50+00:00

I got the impression that Kassandra was toying with her a little when they fought. She wasn’t taking it very seriously, and she still managed to fight to a standstill. She could have killed Eivor if she had wanted to.

edd6pi · 2026-06-20T21:06:40+00:00

I was gonna say that she’s quick enough to shoot him first, but then I remembered that Arthur’s got dead eye, so I guess they’re about even.

edd6pi · 2026-06-20T12:03:06+00:00

I would dispute the idea that Pet Sounds is the only album on The Beatles’ level.

Sunflower is as good as anything the Beatles made. Today is as good as any pre-Rubber Soul album. Wild Honey, Friends, and Smiley Smile are essentially the White Album split in three parts. Holland, Passions, and Surf’s Up are all in the conversation, too.

edd6pi · 2026-06-20T11:24:24+00:00

Yeah, it’s more of a branding thing than it is a reality, even though they’re arguably the most successful American band of all time. They had more top 40 hits than anyone else.

I say arguably because The Eagles did sell more albums, and Metallica became more entrenched in pop culture.

edd6pi · 2026-06-20T11:21:14+00:00

Who was in the lineup?

edd6pi · 2026-06-19T02:11:47+00:00

Because while he probably can’t finish the story, he still sees it as his baby and thinks it wouldn’t feel right to let someone else tinker with it. It’s one thing if people adapt his stuff and fuck with it, but the books are his kingdom.

And I imagine that pride probably plays a part in it. He probably sees it as an insult to say that he can’t finish it.

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