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IIRC the showrunners say in the BTS stuff that Jaime made the call to ditch the Rock and take Highgarden. Makes sense.

I loved seeing Davos try to connect with Missandei, and Tyrion and Jon reconnect. Loved hearing him ask after Sansa. The Daenerys/Jon summit - a four-hander, really, with the two of them plus Tyrion and Davos - was as magnetic as one could ever have hoped for. I love whenever Davos goes off on a tear about the leader he believes in. Also liked the moment with Melisandre and Varys, and her final prophecy, and Daenerys and Jon coming to terms re: dragon glass. The two have chemistry. I wonder when the show first tested Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke together, because I think many of us suspected from Day 1 it would come down to these two together. Pilou Asbæk is great as Euron, but honestly we've had so many laughing sadists on this show over the years that after Ramsay (who was at it for what felt like forever) he just feels like a bit of an also-ran. They should've introduced him earlier than last year and not rushed it so. But he sings onscreen with everyone, and he is amazing opposite Lena Headey. The little moments with Indira Varma/Ellaria clocking the Mountain again after all this time, and locking eyes with Cersei at the throne, were great. As was that amazing scene in the dungeon - Lena Headey's Cersei at her most evil and psychotic, and yet relatable. As to Indira Varma I think Ellaria has not been a great showcase for her post-S4 but Varma always deserves more exposure. I first saw her on Rome as Kevin McKidd's long-suffering wife in the 2000s - ironically, Rome was HBO's precursor epic show that foresaw GOT, which was a lot of fun (with a great cast - Polly Walker! Lindsay Duncan! Ciarán Hinds! Tobias Menzies! Ray Stevenson!) but wildly over-expensive. It flamed out as a result and taught the network how to make costume dramas more effectively. Worth a watch if people have never seen it, and a fun history lesson. I didn't think Cersei would be able to handle the Iron Bank but she managed to put forth a strong argument. Great scene between Headey and Mark Gatiss. Bran's a little out of it! Not sure that'll ever change, but it was a thrill seeing scenes between Sophie Turner and Isaac Hempstead Wright, back at Winterfell together again. He's gotten huge in the last year - trying to remember how he looked when they last saw each other is staggering. Great speech from Littlefinger: "Everything that happens is something you've seen before." Sansa should still waste him. She knows what she's doing running the house. I was amazed Jorah was cured, and I did love his bonding with Sam. Jim Broadbent is excellent as always as the Archmaester. Great sendoff for Olenna, and a magnificent final scene with Jaime. I wonder whose idea abandoning the Rock and going for Highgarden was. Doesn't seem clever enough for Cersei, but it does solve her gold troubles with the Iron Bank + divests Daenerys of another ally. EW talks to Clarke and Harington about Jon and Daenerys. The showrunners on Olenna. Isaac Hempstead Wright about Bran's metamorphosis. Indira Varma on Ellaria's fate.

So this happened: Also, I don't think I posted this: Michael Horse talks to Collider.

Miller is a white supremacist, period. Neo-Nazi. Meanwhile, Bannon apparently has a new enemy, because everyone in the WH is always after each other: McMaster.

Posting without watching, because I can't deal with at least one of these people:

Final two teasers for parts 17 and 18:

Kelly and Trump butt heads.

No they don't. These people are as incompetent as he is. Kushner and Ivanka - Ivanka especially - live and embody Trump's worldview which they have deeply internalized. Everyone in his circle has been Trumpified. And no, Scaramucci was not hired just to fire Priebus. He was hired because Trump wanted it. He was their idea of "turning things around" with an exciting new PR man. He was intended to be a long-term change and he flamed out in ten days. That is their business sense. That is their intellect level. That is their sense of politics. Stop assuming these people know what they're doing. They have no idea.

Who are you? First of all, let's not pretend you won't read this because judging by your out of nowhere rant you clearly read plenty I post. Second, if you want respect, don't show up in a thread to complain about it out of nowhere when many people have been posting embeds for literally years and doing scrapbooking work the rest of us (you and me included) clearly have no time for. We all have trouble with browsers sometimes. That doesn't make those situations the priority. Your solution is not feasible and it is not realistic in 2017. Your options are: get a better device to browse the cancelled soaps threads on, or live with it. Simple. No one cares how many PMs you got from other people. Live with it.

Charles Pierce ponders Life After Mooch. Jeff Flake says his party is in denial about Trump.

Reince's Revenge:

What?

Well, Part 12 was at least 50% troll! Amazing. The Audrey/ending scenes alternated between agonizing and hilarious, as I'm sure was intended (a rotary phone! Come on!). The whole first half was mint - especially the Sarah stuff. I thought Ben's testimonial to Beverly was actually pretty touching too. Ashley Judd's reaction work was great. I feel like the random soapy scenes at the Roadhouse with various nobodies is almost this bizarre Mulholland Drive-esque device - that film also has several random vignettes with people never seen again. It's far too deliberate to be random.

Ivanka and Jared - always trying to maneuver themselves to look sympathetic to liberal friends - lament their failing influence.

Politico calls Trump unbound a man without a party. NYT on the Republicans fearing the worst from the WH and creeping doubts.