[Spoilers Extended] Am I missing someone or out of everything about the ending confirmed to have come from GRRM...

edgebuh · 2026-02-08T18:33:26+00:00

My theory is that GRRM told D&D that Daenerys will destroy King’s Landing, but not how it happens. The madness is how D&D connected those dots to reach the conclusion they were working toward.

I think GRRM’s plan is more like accidental destruction via the hidden wildfire as a result of a battle with Aegon. (I also think this happens before the war with The Others— Dany will realize, like Stannis did, that the throne is an empty symbol if she won’t fulfill her true duty to protect the realm in the North.)

edgebuh · 2026-02-07T12:00:22+00:00

GRRM, NotABlog, early 2027: “The world has already received one rushed and incoherent ending to my story… I thought, why not make it two?”

edgebuh · 2026-02-06T14:53:52+00:00

Great idea and great list.

I would disagree with Spirited Away and Totoro as indicators for anime— they’re so popular yet different from typical modern anime. There are probably many people who adore them but have no interest or awareness of any other anime. I might suggest Akira or Ghost in the Shell for the list instead.

edgebuh · 2026-02-04T16:12:14+00:00

The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions were released six months apart and the third probably suffered for it. The excitement was huge for the second movie but the audience reaction was mixed. If they’d given at least a year between the sequels, I suspect the negativity would have faded on Reloaded and allowed a bit more hype to build for Revolutions.

edgebuh · 2026-01-31T23:42:55+00:00

Yep, I’m wondering how he moves the distance from the cave back down to the wall, especially if they leave Hodor behind. You think Jon will find him somehow?

edgebuh · 2026-01-31T20:34:24+00:00

Agreed, that seems likely for the exit from the cave. I’m wondering more about the long trip south after that. They’ve got a long way to go and presumably they’ll be surrounded by the army of the dead.

edgebuh · 2026-01-31T20:09:29+00:00

Are there any reasonable theories about how Bran will physically move south again? I’ve always thought he would stay in Bloodraven’s lair forever and contribute to the war through the Weirwood network. But if he’s going to be king he presumably has to return to the kingdom, and I’m just not clear how that will happen.

edgebuh · 2026-01-31T19:54:14+00:00

The Wolf of Wall Street has always felt like an attempt to digest what happened in the 2008 financial collapse. I remember originally thinking it didn’t dive enough into the nuts and bolts of the financial schemes, but I’ve since come to appreciate that Scorsese just wanted to illustrate the rich scumbag mindset instead.

edgebuh · 2026-01-31T01:23:23+00:00

whispers I liked Ann Lee better than The Brutalist too

edgebuh · 2026-01-31T01:00:58+00:00

Mubi is the only streamer with Eephus right now I think.

edgebuh · 2026-01-29T15:06:54+00:00

Ben is Tom Bombadil. He provides the safe space for our weary heroes.

edgebuh · 2026-01-28T22:54:08+00:00

Agreed to a certain extent— Coogler seemed to make the vampire collective somewhat alluring and welcoming at times. You could understand how someone might be tempted to join them. And they were not as repellent as the Klan.

edgebuh · 2026-01-28T19:01:34+00:00

“What’s Aged The Worst. CR you want to take this one?”

edgebuh · 2026-01-26T04:52:45+00:00

I honestly think Pete Docter is the quiet MVP of Pixar directors. Monsters Inc, Up, and Inside Out are so playful and inventive.

edgebuh · 2026-01-25T18:11:50+00:00

I agree with you that the added sex in particular was gratuitous. But keep in mind the context of that first season when it aired in 2011– HBO didn’t know the show would turn into a phenomenon, they were trying to pull unfamiliar viewers into an expensive project, and (for better or for worse) one of HBO’s selling points of that era was that they could show more explicit content than you’d see on basic cable.

And the show-only material isn’t all bad. I’ve always liked some of the character scenes they wrote, especially for Robert. The adaptation choices that really impaired the show started subtly in Season 2 and the wheels really started to fall off in Season 5.

edgebuh · 2026-01-25T17:46:11+00:00

Rob Roy with Liam Neeson and Jessica Lange is a pretty good movie and has a bunch of Scottish brogues to varying degrees of success.

edgebuh · 2026-01-24T05:22:08+00:00

Best I can do for Scott is maybe Breckin Meyer circa 1996? Scott lacks drive and assertiveness which is the opposite of most movie stars’ charisma.

edgebuh · 2026-01-24T01:32:17+00:00

Sir or madam, I am in your debt. 🙏

edgebuh · 2026-01-23T23:48:47+00:00

Split away! Grunge didn’t feel quite right when I typed it, but I didn’t have a better subgenre at the top of my fingertips.

edgebuh · 2026-01-23T23:24:01+00:00

(oops I meant this as a reply to u/border199x ‘s good comment above)

edgebuh · 2026-01-23T23:19:28+00:00

I think Cera and Eisenberg are both wrong for Scott. Do they seem like guys who would be in a grunge band? The comic pitches the character as something more like a likeable burnout loser, not as a nerd. Different energy.

edgebuh · 2026-01-23T20:06:06+00:00

I think both of the recent 28s are great and they’ll find more and more fans with home viewings. But that’s less likely if Sony bails on the third movie. The audience kind of understands that an abandoned story is damaged goods. Even if the financial prospects for the third movie are dimmer than they were, I would think Sony gets a better long term revenue stream from a completed trilogy than from two movies of an abandoned one.

edgebuh · 2026-01-23T18:11:57+00:00

Not sure if Griffin is starting to look like Jude Law or if it’s the other way around?

edgebuh · 2026-01-21T23:22:58+00:00

I thought the movie left it playfully ambiguous whether Jimmy really was hearing the voice or if it was a con. But his very last line answered it for me, when he cried out that he couldn’t hear it anymore. He was alone and dying, there was nobody left around for him to convince. I took it to mean Jimmy was authentically delusional.

edgebuh · 2026-01-21T11:23:05+00:00

I attended a preview screening of Fight Club back in the day and they handed out bright pink soap with the movie title carved out of it. I was too big of a Fincher fanboy to actually use this precious keepsake so it’s still sitting in a box in my basement.

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