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Aye I heard the episode looked amazing in editing, uncompressed on 4k screens. I've heard record producers keep an old battered hi-fi/boom-box around and listen to their tracks through car stereos to ensure the audio quality is as good played through them as it is through their state-of-the art $1000 head phones.

A few software and website developers could learn a lot from such record producers.  Especially the ones who have top-range state-of-the-art computers with two or three screens but are producing for people who will be viewing websites* on three-year-old laptops or desktops at home.


* software, whatever

Jason Kingsley has spoken.  He said It isn't so.  So we can ignore that 'article' and go back to our usual speculating now.

By the way: "Dredd sequel and planned TV show dead?!"* conforms to Betteridge's law of headlines, "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

* Let's pretend that interrobang isn't there, shall we?

Is Winter still coming?  I thought it was supposed to be tied up with the Night King and/or the wall (admittedly the wall is mostly still in place, but at least some of it is now gone).

The climate is unpredictable in Westeros: Summer lasted 9 years and the next Winter could last just as long. It's never really declared that the Night King is the cause of the Winter, only that he uses it.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure George RR Martin has stated that the irregular seasons and the white walkers are inextricably linked, and the details will be made clear by the end of the (book) series. Not sure whether that means winter itself will be averted on the show, though.

Looking at the trailer for the next episode, it certainly seems like

He's definitely said that the irregular seasons have a supernatural cause, and I wish I could remember where I read the quotes from GRRM.  One or more of the following are a matter of record (but, y'know, memory):

   
• the irregular winters are tied to the wall (which was constructed at least partially magically - probably something to do with the children of the forest)
• the irregular winters are tied to the Night King
• the winters will be back to 'natural' by the end of the (book) series

Oh dear, some possibly bad news here.

https://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/exclusive-dredd-sequel-and-planned-tv-show-dead

I can't work out how they get from one very guarded quote from Urban to "Today we have word via Dredd himself Karl Urban that all future Dredd projects may be dead in the water." That's not even close to what he said.

Exactly - the 'crazy' part he's referring to is that despite all the much higher profile films he's been in, before and since, this is the one that he frequently gets asked questions about.  And he's referring to 'Dredd 2', not the series in the following quote.

I really don't know much. I had a couple of preliminary meetings... gotta be a couple of years ago now, so it's a long-gestating project. I've gone on record saying if I had the opportunity to get back in that world and explore more stories I'd be down for it. It's crazy, it's been a few years since that movie came out and one of the most commonly asked questions I get is, when is Dredd 2?

I think the bigger point of that futility still stands and has not been negated – Winter is still coming. The only thing that's gone is the self-appointed embodiment of it – who used to be a Crow and declared himself King. As another narcissitic long-time player he's been wiped off the board, but no matter what, Winter cannot be beaten and it's still coming to King's Landing. I'm still not sure that Night King story is fully over but there's the possibility that no-one gets out alive, and even if they do, there won't be much to rule over when it's finished.

Is Winter still coming?  I thought it was supposed to be tied up with the Night King and/or the wall (admittedly the wall is mostly still in place, but at least some of it is now gone).

Season 8 / Episode 3 episode had some cool moments for sure (from what I could actually discern on a 55" HD TV anyway), but it was a bit of a shark jump for me.

It's Westeros.  They jump the Stark, surely?

It's entirely true that there's Lego and there's lego. That big millennium falcon is most certainly not for kids, its non-functional as a toy, but, then there is the smaller version that is a great solid toy. They have certainly broadened the range to appeal to a wider audience.

One of my favourite vehicles from Star Wars is the Sandcrawler (not an obvious choice, I know) and I've looked at previous Lego Sandcrawlers.  This Christmas I bought myself the latest version - it's about half the size of previous ones they've done but think it's probably the best one released to date (though if only it had proper see-through windows).

Massimo's painting in that final 6-page (I think, don't have it to hand?) story ranks right up there with some of the very best art that's ever been published by the House of Tharg

You're not winning any friends, you know.  Unless you want to invite us all around to your house to see them, of course.
It is indeed a six-pager - I have the original art for four of those pages, and it is genuinely stunning. The last panel is one of my favourite ever published.

[spoiler]He went up that tree like a rat up a drainpipe as soon as he thought no one was looking. The big reveal of this season is that he was never paralysed, he was just really fucking lazy.[/spoiler]

He wasn't seen to die on screen - nor was there any specific description of his death in the book.

I'm also hoping for a reappearance from said personage.

I've just finished the whole episode.  My god, that was intense.  Absolutely breathtaking - literally, in fact; I found myself short of breath and with a pounding heart for most of it.

I'll be able to have a proper, rational think about the episode when I've calmed down a bit. But right now, all I can say is, TV doesn't get more spectacular than this. Absolutely blown away.

You just didn't get that kind of thing with The Man from Atlantis and Automan.

Yeah, but it's no Manimal or Tales of the Golden Monkey.

This is starting to sound like the script to the Lego movie....

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that (though I couldn't remember Lord Business's name, so that reference skipped past me).

"...an indian Doctor Khazi..."

Wait, what? Blimey...

I think that name would cause a mental sudden pause with a record scratch-type sound effect even during the seventies...

Have you never watched a Carry On film? 

And we all know which Carry On film!

There's not even any weird Bellardinelli aliens to look at in this one, just a lot of humans which is always his weakest point.

I always thought the reason the last stories fell flat is because the humour just wasn't that great, but you've got it there.  A strip designed so that Belardinelli could draw lots of weird and wonderful aliens in weird and wonderful regions of space, and they take it to... Earth.

However, I'd argue that the whole 'parallel universe' stuff is redeemed by the final story from the '89 annual, which is absolutely beautiful in terms of Massimo's full-colour art, and which brings the series to a perfect conclusion. (Wagner and Grant clearly still hate Ace in it though!)

Massimo's painting in that final 6-page (I think, don't have it to hand?) story ranks right up there with some of the very best art that's ever been published by the House of Tharg - not bad for a strip that had been on its last legs for the previous year or so.