On This Tully Tuesday, Fuck You Ryan Condal, I See What You're Doing. Merging Kermit And Oscar Tully

on this tully tuesday, fuck you ryan condal, i see what you're doing. merging kermit and oscar tully and killing off their dad elmo without even naming him, you're trying to hide the muppet-naming pattern by only including the more mundane names. people may have heard of the name grover elsewhere like nonconsective us president grover cleveland, and certainly would with oscar like oscar mayar, the baloney/weiner man, but if you hear the names elmo and/or kermit you're thinking muppets right away. smdh, if you can embrace the gothic horror of harrenhal, you should be able to embrace the whimsy of grrm naming his dance-era tullys after sesame street muppets.

me when jon and robb parallel each other in the way that they are both honor bound to serve the realm (one as a member of the nightswatch and the other as a king) and they both fall in love with a girl from the enemy side (ygritte and jeyne) except jon chooses duty over love and robb chooses love over duty. so ygritte is dead while jon lives and robb is dead while jeyne lives.

the best thing about jon and sam's friendship is that aside from their core shared identity of being alienated within a classist patriarchal society, they have Nothing in common. sam spends the whole first jon chapter of acok nerding out over the sociopolitical signifance of a bunch of old maps and jon's response is "litcherally why does it matter as long as the rivers are in the same place, you sweet fool" they're like the medieval equivalent of nerd who likes lotr and jock who likes evanescence forming a deep affection on the basis of no one else understanding them.

I think something that hotd is really missing, at its core, is domestic character interactions. In the first few season of GOT we see characters on walks and bickering and playing, which sets the stakes for the battles and wars. In hotd.. it moved on too quickly, barely any characters are properly fleshed out, leaving most drama feeling hollow or unsubstantiated. I'm not sure if this is a common feeling or not.. I'd love to discuss it

“Bastard.” / “Guilty. Of that, at least.”

Jon Snow  ⁠— A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin