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They appear to be pulling the trigger on which was hinted at years ago. Euron played himself with Cersei.

I'm still watching. I'll spoiler tag major stuff. Do love the opening with the little boy climbing up to see the procession - a direct callback to the pilot and Bran watching the Baratheons arrive from the parapet. Arya defending Sansa is refreshing. "She's the smartest person I've ever met." Jon's reunions with Bran and Arya, finally, got me. Love the new opening sequence.

There's apparently a lot of callbacks to the pilot tonight or this final season, so I'll be rewatching it shortly. Meanwhile, cast reminiscences: More YT won't let me embed: Maisie Williams Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Emilia Clarke

Adieu:

Harris is also my first choice.

LOL:

Ugh. Disney has finally pulled most of OLTL 2.0 (and presumably AMC as well) from YouTube over copyright, while leaving many of their own episodes. I hope someone has a torrent or dropbox of all of them out there.

It's a good statement, at least.

Today in "Not a Trump Quote":

Grain of salt per usual re: the Times.

Con stuff and Eric DaRe speaks:

John, why do literally every male and female pair of actors you see in a Google search end up being proposed as Liz's parents?

I lost interest when they got rid of Virginia (Dominique Jennings). Insane.

Thanks.

I vividly remember Erika talking in the press and on her website/newsletter both pre and post-PP revival about how bored she was being retired, and how she'd tried it after OLTL on ABC ended but decided to give it up, lol. She's just a born worker and she needs the activity. She's got such drive, it inspires and thrills me.

Red carpet premiere night. Some pix and recent interviews. I had no idea Maisie's IRL past was so rocky with her family. She's really been through a lot; just her getting to dye her hair seems like a big act of release. Isaac seems to be doing well despite his uni days getting off to a tough start early on. He's always been very grounded; I hope he keeps acting, he seems to regularly vacillate between continuing vs. committing to studying the sciences. Emilia's really gone through it all (sorry to repost the above article from upthread). Her comments in Kit Harington's interview (also below) are pretty candid as well - how they've both done dumb action tentpole films and come out the other side in their careers. I never felt either have been given enough credit for being good actors as well as iconic characters. It's the material in other projects that's failed them. I just hope Kit is getting his real life together, as he's been dogged by scandal. Lena Headey, Michelle Fairley and Richard Madden were to attend, but allegedly Lena and Fairley was ill; not sure about Madden.

The NYT walkback begins: