I'd say better

I immensely disliked both on first watch and when the Moffat era was on primevideo recently I positively reevaluated huge swathes of it but still reflexively cringed from most of Kill the Moon. Still cringed at bits of Forest but it has some nice dialogue and pretty filmmaking

Bernice Summerfield's babydaddy

Hey, it's not my fault they kept drawing Adrian Wall with very big arms

As the primary caregiver of an almost 14-year-old golden retriever I'm happy for you

It's the way he says Petyr that irks me the most because it's just Peter spelled differently, half the names are just normal names spelled differently, you don't need to overthink it.

(He also misses the the first N in Brynden, a fact I am delighted to share with a Brendan)

I've been rewatching the odd scene but I've also finally made a decent start with the (audio)books.

You can tell poor Roy Dotrice struggled with pronouncing the hundreds of deranged proper nouns thrown at him but otherwise a good job.

I put that more on the show, the books seem to run more on a don't ask don't tell vibe and while there is a lot of hetero coupling it's not like much of it goes happily for them either

Still one of a few clear blind spots in the worldbuilding though

Side note but George needs more gay friends to note the obvious gay sex loophole in the 'take no wife and father no sons' wording because realistically there has to be a lot more butt fucking going on at the Wall than anyone's acknowledged.

(Yes I know breaking the vow is ridiculously common but that's another argument in favour of this being bullshit)

Only replace being hit in the face with a rake with having yet another Evil Base get blown up

God this rocked

Yeah, I understand the impulse to romanticise the creative process in response to this s**t but given how it can be stressful to the point there's an entire subgenre of art about how hard it is to make art I think it misses the point

The point being that the end product is still worthier than slop