Stop Frame

I don’t want to write this. I want to write about Avengers: Endgame , but in order to do that properly I need to first rave about Avengers: Infinity War and try to write something vaguely polite about Captain (Un)Marvel(ous) . That’s a lot to unravel, so I guess I really do want to write about the self-immolation that is HBO’s Game of Thrones . Warning: SPOILERS. GoT was addictive from the prologue of the first episode, which immediately set up the central conflict of the show being humanity’s conflict with what we would come to call White Walkers. This was ignored for the rest of the first season, but that was all right because we met a slew of fascinating characters, including a doomed hero (Eddard Stark), a bastard (Jon Snow), a tomboy (Arya), a ditzy blonde (Daenerys), an insane blonde (Cersei), and a too-clever-for-his-own-good dwarf (Tyrion). There were others, sure, but let’s stay focused here. Over the course of ten episodes, we learned where each stood and a new conflict