Game of Thrones season 8

People get lost to hyperbole in the moment.  If they ever sat down and thought about it (or looked at the statistics) they'd realize this is literally the best time to be alive in human history.  We have problems, serious problems that need to be addressed; but we have the technology and industry to solve these problems if we organize ourselves properly.  More than ever it's up to us, and that fact in itself puts us ahead of our ancestors in the quality of life department.    

I agree with everything you have said except people getting lost in hyperbole. I think they are just ignorant of history and pathetically short sighted.

I am talking about posters polled. Not people responding knee jerk to the catastrophe of the moment.

Extinction is an inevitability.  

I can fully understand Sam, and I have no trust in Daenerys:

When they marched in, you were shown the disgruntled people of the North, but this turned into fear when they saw the dragons, and the reaction of Daenerys was a smile. The reaction to her power, the fear and terror of these people, pleased her. Or when Sansa correctly pointed out that they might have assembled the greatest armies in the world, but how should they fed this greatest army in the world now...and two dragons ...and what do they eat anyway. Daenerys: Whatever they like.
And here one should maybe remember, that they burned and ate a little girl alive, or how she fed prisoners to her dragons - alive. Imho she is more and more growing into her father's footsteps. What an irony if the Night's king would bring an end to her reign of fire and blood - or the king's slayer, or Aegon Targaryen, the Azor Ahai(?).

Sam was great, I liked how Sansa was ten times more realistic then every other characters in this episode: from the Lannister army to the point how to feed this army. Stannis lost his war not on the battle filed, for he was already on his knees before it began.

Preparation is all: it was in the case of Stannis, it was the case in the battle of the bastards, when Snow was ignoring every advice of her, and she thus didn't even bother to beg him to wait for the army of the Vale. She beg him over and over to wait for they have not enough men. She didn't know herself, if Littlefinger would stand to his word or not, especially after her own family failed her (=> The Blackfish, who preferred to waste his life and men for a useless cause instead to help his family, his niece).
If they don't solve this problem, and the show maker does not provide a deus ex machina solution, the Night's King just needed to starve them out. But I guess the battle will come soon, and dead people do not need to eat.

Bran and Jaime was also intense, and my guess is that Bran has forgiven him, and won't tell anyone that he knows who threw him down the tower.
Maybe their destinies continue to be intertwined.

Like:


Sam
Sansa
Bran
Jamie
Yara and Theon (first the butthead, but then the reached hand...)

where the best characters in my humble opion.
Some honorable mentions to Arya (defending her sister) and the Hound, Dolorous Ed (Jon Snow: Don't knock down the wall! I'll try my best...) and the blued eyed Wildling.

Dislike

Euron

Cercei becomes more book Cercei,

Tyrion continues his way down the gutter,

and the blonde bimbo is the worst.

If my theory is correct, he actually DID appear.

Well I can't speak for Canada but the people of the US are absolutely better off now than they were in 1979.  If we're talking social change, they're better off now than they were in 1999.  

Trump is a disaster but society has still progressed despite him.  And my original point went beyond politics.  I was talking medicine, technology, communication, social awareness, etc.  The human race is better off today than we (almost said they and blew my cover) ever have been, Trump notwithstanding.  

I came up with a game the other day.  I was trying to think of one, just one single US President in history that would listen to Trump speak on any topic at all or read over his policies and not think he was a total embarrassment to the office.  I couldn't come up with one.  The biggest moron I could imagine was W, and even he resents Trump!  In fact, he's been making the rounds since 2016 on this, "I wasn't so bad was I," tour in the media.  You sir were also a morally corrupt imbecile, we haven't forgotten.  The biggest difference between W and Trump is that W wasn't on Twitter. 

Andrew Jackson might appreciate the plain-speaking lunacy Trump spews but he'd see right through the rhetoric and realize Trump only represents the elite, then he'd beat him with his cane.  95% of them would be horrified by this clown; Pierce would just assume Trump was a drunken hallucination.  If only we could sleep Trump off.           

Fair.  Distribution of wealth has actually gotten worse in the last 40 years, no question about that.  And the environment is one of the concerns I referenced in my initial post on this topic.  But the mechanisms are there to deal with most of these problems, it's up to us to implement them.   

Some of these points are good, but you give Sansa WAY too much credit. What exactly did she offer at the Battle of the Bastards? She did not offer anything. Jon asked for her advice. She gave none. She went to see Petyr and did not tell Jon. She knew, or at least hoped, the Vale were coming to assist them, yet she told Jon nothing, even when he was hesitant to attack because of the lack of men. She has grown a lot as a character, but she is still a spoiled little girl. When Davos, Tormund, and Jon were in the Commander's Tent preparing for the Battle of the Bastards the night before, Sansa was there too. She never said a word. Then, when the meeting was over, she yelled at Jon for not including her and said, "Do you ever think that maybe you should ask my advice?" What? He did, idiot. You were invited to the Commander's Tent. You were standing right next to Davos and Tormund. You just stood there and said nothing. He also DID ask your advice, Sansa. He specifically said he did not have the men and he was not optimistic about their chances, but if they were going to have any chance, they would have to attack now. He was right. He asked her for another option. She stated she did not have one. She actually did. Don't get me wrong, I think that Jon is an idiot. I could write a dissertation on the terrible decisions he has made throughout the show, but to act like he somehow ignored and did not seek Sansa's council is ridiculous. He did, and she is just as dumb as him.

Also keep in mind that Sansa was the one who forced Jon to raise these armies and attack in the first place. He was ready to retire.