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Updated for Investors Day and Legends

Legends - January 8th 2021

Synopsis

Post-Investors' Day, Marvel announced a new series focused on iconic moments and characters of the MCU, with the first two episodes focusing on Wanda Maximoff and The Vision, recapping their stories a week before WandaVision premieres

Wandavision - January 15th 2021

Synopsis

The very first Marvel Studios series on Disney+, and the first content of Phase 4. With 6 episodes, this series explores the powers and capabilities of two of the most powerful heroes of the MCU, exploring their relationship and new marriage through the medium of various sitcoms throughout the decades, as well as dealing with Vision's sentience, after being killed when Wanda destroyed the Mind Stone, only to be brought back to life by Thanos and the Time Stone and killed again when Thanos ripped the Mind Stone from his head.

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Following directly on from Avengers: Endgame, the series pulls in characters from all over the MCU, specifically Darcy Lewis from Thor and Thor: The Dark World, Jimmy Woo from Ant-Man and The Wasp and Monica Rambeau from Captain Marvel.
Elizabeth Olsen will transition from this series into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, while Monica Rambeau will go from this series into Captain Marvel 2.

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier - March 19th 2021

Synopsis

Originally meant to be the first series of the MCU, the show is described as a movie played out over 6 episodes. The series follows Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes as they cope with Steve Rogers' retirement and the legacy of Captain America, with Sam Wilson being passed the mantle while the U.S. government try and replace him themselves.

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Leading from the fallout of Avengers: Endgame, the show brings back feature characters originally from the Captain America series, specifically Sharon Carter of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War and its villain, Baron Zemo as well as a minor character from Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Georges Bartoc, better known as Batroc the Leaper.

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Black Widow - May 7th 2021

Synopsis

The solo movie for the first female Avenger, this movie was intended to be the first content of Phase 4, but still holds the title as the first movie of Phase 4. The Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her history when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her arises, bringing back faces from her past.

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Set between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, the show brings back General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross from The Incredible Hulk, seemingly in a flashback.
The movie will connect to Hawkeye with Florence Pugh recently joining the show's cast, and touches upon the long awaited Budapest story, first mentioned in The Avengers.

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Loki - May 2021

Synopsis

After Loki escapes capture and escapes The Avengers, he uses The Tesseract to travel human history and alter the past, when he is captured by the Time Variance Authority in a 6 Episode Crime Thriller, exploring some mysteries in human history that were never explained.

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Following on from Loki's escape in Avengers: Endgame during the events from The Avengers.
This show will link directly to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - July 9th 2021

Plot

In the second movie of Phase 4, Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

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The Ten Rings have popped up infrequently in the MCU, but they were the first villain we saw all the way back at the start. The Ten Rings kidnapped Tony Stark under Obadiah Stane's orders in Iron Man. They also assisted Ivan Vanko in reaching Monaco in Iron Man 2, something not well known by fans who don't read the canon comics. However, after two films of teasing, it appeared in Iron Man 3 that Tony Stark would go against The Mandarin himself, only for it to be an elaborate ruse, orchestrated by Aldrich Killian himself, using Trevory Slattery to pose as The Mandarin and take responsibility for Killian's terrorist attacks.
Trevor Slattery was last seen in Marvel One Shot: Long Live The King when he was kidnapped by The Ten Rings.
The Ten Rings were last teased in Ant-Man, when a member bearing the group's insignia were present at the Yellowjacket suit presentation
The group was also mentioned in Daredevil, a WHIH Newsfront Special and various canon comics.

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Marvel's What If? - Summer 2021

Plot

In Marvel Studios' first animation, this show explores what could have happened given a big or small tweak in the movies. The show will explore different storylines while staying in keeping with the characters and movies from the MCU, with voices and storylines from the first three phases of the universe.
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Eternals - July 9th 2021

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In this group origin movie that dates back to at least 800BC, ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years. An unexpected tragedy forces them out of the shadows to reunite against mankind's most ancient enemy, The Deviants.

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Marvel have revealed the events of Avengers: Endgame cause the events of this movie to unfold.

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Untitled Spider-Man: Far From Home Sequel - December 17th 2021

Plot

The last in the Sony/Marvel trilogy leads on from Far From Home when Peter Parker was outed as Spider-Man and he was implicated in the cold-blooded murder of Mysterio.

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The movie will directly carry on from Spider-Man: Far From Home. It features Doctor Strange, and the events of the movie will tie directly into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
In a very exciting turn of events, cast members from the original Spider-Man trilogy and the rebooted franchise, The Amazing Spider-Man, are confirmed to have roles in the film.

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Hawkeye - Late 2021

Plot

As Clint Barton comes to terms with his new life, post-Endgame, this explores his life as Ronin, his family life after losing them for five years, and his journey in passing on the mantle of Hawkeye to Kate Bishop.

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The show has direct tie-ins with Avengers: Endgame, and Barton's life between snaps.
Florence Pugh of Black Widow is in the cast, as well as Clint's children, last seen in Avengers: Endgame.

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Ms. Marvel - Late 2021

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The first Marvel Studios show to title feature a new character, it follows Kamala Khan - a 16-year-old Pakistani-American in Jersey City, who follows The Avengers' stories and idolises Captain Marvel, while being an outcast at home and at school until she gets super powers like the heroes she’s always looked up to.

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Kamala Khan's favourite Avenger and namesake of her own superhero name is Carol Danvers from Captain Marvel.
Ms. Marvel will feature in Captain Marvel 2

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Thor: Love and Thunder - May 6th 2022

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The first character to get his own 4th movie, Thor: Love and Thunder is based on The Mighty Thor comic run, and features the female Thor. The movie also explores Valkyrie following her promotion to King of Asgard, as she handles that responsibility and looks for a Queen to help her.

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Thor was last seen in Avengers: Endgame boarding The Benatar with the team of The Guardians of the Galaxy, some of whom are confirmed to be in this sequel.
Jane Foster is rejoining the team, last seen in Thor: The Dark World, last mentioned in Thor: Ragnarok in reference to her split from Thor. Joining her, Lady Sif is back after a long absence, last seen on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but last on the big screen in _Thor: The Dark World before disappearing, saving her from the slaughter of The Warriors Three and the Asgardian Army

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness - March 25th 2022

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As Doctor Stephen Strange continues his research on the Time Stone, Baron Mordo returns, once a friend to Strange, now an enemy hell-bent on undoing the work that the Sorcerers have done. When he interferes with Strange's work on the Time Stone, he causes Strange to unleash unspeakable evil in the MCUs first movie to heavily feature horror elements.

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The sequel to Doctor Strange, this films comes directly out of the Untitled Spider-Man: Far From Home Sequel and Wandavision, featuring Wanda Maximoff herself.

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Black Panther II - July 8th 2022

Plot

After confirming the character of King T'Challa will not be recast, we know that the sequel to the Billion Dollar film will explore more of Wakanda and the characters from there we already know, following T'Challa's revelation of Wakanda's immense power, and promise to bring that to the rest of the world

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The film is a sequel to Black Panther, the characters of which were last seen battling Thanos in Avengers: Endgame.

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Captain Marvel 2 - November 11th 2022

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The first female led sequel in the franchise will be set in the Present Day MCU, following the revival of her friend Nick Fury, the film will initially be set on Earth.

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The sequel to Captain Marvel, the titular character was last seen in Avengers: Endgame.
The movie will feature Kamala Khan from Ms. Marvel and Monica Rambeau, first seen as a child in Captain Marvel, she will feature in Wandavision before this movie.

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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special - Christmas 2022

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The first Holiday Special of the MCU is released on Disney+ after Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2 and features the same cast as Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 3.

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - 2023

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Following on from their time on Earth in Avengers: Endgame, this movie will be released after The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, and will be linked to Thor: Love and Thunder, which select cast members will have featured in.

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Moon Knight - TBA

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An action-adventure series focusing on Marc Spector, a superpowered vigilante with Disassociative Identity Disorder, with the plot encased in the exploration of Egyptology.

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She-Hulk - TBA

Plot

The series follows Jennifer Walters, a Green 6' 7" Lawyer who specialises in superhero orientated legal cases.

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The cast features The Abomination from The Incredible Hulk, as well as Bruce Banner himself, last seen as Professor Hulk in Avengers: Endgame.
Kevin Feige teased that due to the nature of her job, "you never know what Marvel characters might pop up from episode to episode".

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Blade - TBA

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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantamania - TBA

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Marvel's What If (Season 2) - TBA

(10 Episodes)

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Untitled Deadpool Sequel - TBA

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Wendy Molyneux (Bob's Burgers, The Megan Mullally Show)
Lizzie Molyneux (Bob's Burgers, The Great North)

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Secret Invasion - TBA

Plot

Nick Fury and his team grapple with the revelation that a sect of Skrulls have infiltrated every level of life on Earth, and struggle to regain control.

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Secret Invasion is one of the biggest crossover events in Marvel Comics and it's unpredictable who might be in this show, but Feige confirms the plot of this show will directly correlate with the MCU's feature films
The show's plot stems directly from Captain Marvel and the set-up was teased by Talos in Spider-Man: Far From Home, the end credits of which showed Nick Fury having formed a base in Space with Skrill allies.

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Ironheart - TBA

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The show follows Riri Williams, a young woman who has developed the most advanced suit of armour since Iron Man's.

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Kevin Feige confirmed this show will directly tie to the MCU Feature Films.

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Armor Wars - TBA

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The show follows the fallout when the Iron Man technology falls into the wrong hands.

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The plot of this show was projected in Iron Man 2, when Tony Stark fought against the government taking his weaponry and argued that the rest of the world was decades away from developing the technology.
War Machine was last seen in Avengers: Endgame.

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I Am Groot - TBA

Plot

The first series of MCU shorts features Baby Groot on adventures with new and unusual characters

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Baby Groot was a member of the team in Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2, meaning this series is set between Guardians of the Galaxy and the end credits of Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2

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Loki (Season 2) - TBA

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Fantastic Four - TBA

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Makjang 101: Taking Things To The Extreme

In the wake of the recently aired Penthouse: War In Life and in preparation for its upcoming seasons 2 and 3, I wanted to do a little introduction to makjang (막장) dramas -- which is one of my guilty pleasure kdrama genres. I hope this introduction will provide a better "clearer" idea of what is makjang and what dramas are makjang dramas, in addition to the "best" viewing attitude towards such dramas.

What Is Makjang (막장)?

Word Origin
The word makjang (막장) is actually not an officially recognized word but rather a non-standard form of the word kkeutjang (끝장) (noun), which means the end or the conclusion (such as death or complete failure).1 Essentially kkeutjang represents a state of having reached the extreme where further continuation or development is not possible. In popular culture, the term makjang is used to represent the idea of having reached the extreme.
Makjang + Drama
In the context of dramas, makjang is a stylistic, tonal, or narrative element in dramas that chooses to play up outrageous storylines to keep viewers hooked despite how ridiculous the stories become.2
According to the Urimalsaem definition of makjang drama:
막장 드라마: 보통 사람의 상식과 도덕적 기준으로는 이해하거나 받아들이기 어려운 내용의 드라마. 억지스러운 상황 설정, 얽히고설킨 인물 관계, 불륜, 출생의 비밀 등 자극적인 소재로 구성된다.
A drama that is difficult to understand or accept based on common sense and moral standards of an average person. These dramas will often feature things such as forced situations/settings, tangled relationships, affairs, and birth secrets.
Other hallmarks of makjang dramas include switched identities, revenge plots, power struggles, death (lots of it, especially due to murder), incest (often shown as undertones rather than real relationships), amnesia, blackmail, and evil rich people.
Thus, makjang can be used to refer to specific elements of a drama or the drama overall as a genre designation.

How Makjang Is That Drama?

Over my years of drama watching, I've developed a personal scale of measuring how makjang a drama is based on the presence or absence of "normal" moral compasses in characters.
The fewer number of characters with a "normal" moral compass, the more makjang a drama is.
By counting the number of "normal" moral compasses present in a drama, I rank dramas on a spectrum ranging from makjang-lite to full-blown complete makjang. A drama with 3 or less characters with "normal" moral compasses is what I would consider a full-blown makjang.
I roughly define a "normal" moral compass as one where the character refuses to commit any crimes that would result in prison time because I believe the average common person is a law-abiding citizen that would not commit serious crimes (white collafinance crimes are included) that merit prison time.
An additional indicator that the drama is fully makjang is when characters do not evaluate their actions (especially evil actions) in terms of moral or ethical values but rather solely based on their personal advantage or disadvantage (think gains in powemoney/influence/revenge/etc.).
Example: If a person is considering forging a document and debating on whether it will help them attain their objective as opposed to how ethical/criminal the act of forging is, then the drama is more makjang. If however, the person deliberates on the potential forgery due to ethics (of their profession for example), then the drama is less makjang.

How To Enjoy Makjang Dramas

Makjang as a genre can be polarizing for audiences as some people love them while others detest them. I personally think that makjang dramas have the potential to entertain if one watches them with the "correct" mindset -- that of curiosity of how extreme things can get.
Essentially, I would suggest not taking things seriously (at all) while watching makjang dramas. Watch them with mindset of "how crazy can things get?" instead of "how can a person be like that?" -- If you watch from the first perspective, makjangs are great shows of insanity. If you watch from the second perspective, you might end up checking yourself into a hospital from the stress. More than in any other genre of drama, you have to remember you are watching dramatized fiction.
Even then, this genre still might not be the one for you so don't force yourself to watch something you dislike. After all, kdramas are entertainment, they should entertain you.

Makjang Hall of Fame

(Note: This Hall of Fame is totally unofficial and my personal opinion only.)
When thinking of makjang dramas, one screenwriter immediately comes to mind: Kim Soon Ok (김순옥). She is the Queen of Makjang dramas, having penned the seminal Temptation of Wife (2008), which created The Mole.
The Mole
If you've watched Korean variety shows or lots of kdramas, you have probably come across a spoof scene where a person has a mole on their cheek, which is used to determine their identity. This sequence was used in Temptation of Wife where the FL, who was severely abused by her husband, comes back to exact revenge on her husband. When she returns for revenge, her character gains a mole on their cheek and all of a sudden no one could recognize her for her old self and believes her to be a new person.
See this clip from Runningman Episode 213 to see the spoof in action. (I highly recommend watching this entire clip from the beginning to get a rundown of a number of makjang cliches for female leads and to see how many dramas you see being spoofed.)
If you have watched Search: WWW, then you will remember the mole on the mother-in-law in the drama What's Wrong With My Mother-in-Law? that Cha Hyun (Lee Dahee) was following. (You get a seaweed slap as a bonus!)
Other renowned works also by Kim Soon Ok include Come! Jang Bori (2014) and [The Last Empress](2018), and of course, this year's Penthouse: War in Life.
While Kim Soon Ok's dramas are beloved by Korean audiences (and at least some audiences abroad), there is another famed makjang writer that is worthy of being mentioned in this Hall of Fame: Im Sung Han of New Tales of Gisaeng (2011) and Aurora Princess (2013) fame.
She really takes makjang to a new level as she does not limit the makjang to just her writing but also brings it to life in the process of filming/producing her dramas.
Quoting my favorite bits from the Dramabeans article on her antics:
That was just the beginning, because writer Im began writing out more and more actors as the show went on (more than a dozen in total), killing some off so unceremoniously that people half-joked that Aurora Princess was turning into a survival drama. Some actors gave interviews expressing their dissatisfaction and viewers started calling the drama “Im Sung-han’s Death Note.” (I’m surprised at how vocal the actors have been in criticizing this show, but that indicates that the level of distress was pretty high.) Nobody was safe—the firing spree culminated with writer Im eventually killing off the hero. More on that in a moment.
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Dissatisfaction with writer Im Sung-han mounted when it became known that one of the cast members, Baek Ok-dam, is her niece. (She is the daughter of Im’s older brother.) This is not Baek’s first drama, but her debut role and follow-up were both in aunt Im’s dramas, Ahyundong Madam and New Gisaeng Story, so you can see where denying nepotism accusations might not be too convincing.
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(from the drama:) A leukemia patient recently had the epiphany, “Cancer cells are living things too. If I try to die, my cancer cells can feel that. Those cancer cells arose out of me living my life wrong, so I don’t think it’s right to try to kill those cancer cells so that I can live.”
And the follow up to this mess when after her next drama, she announced her retirement.
But of course, what is a makjang without one more twist! Despite her prior "retirement", Im is slated to return in 2021 with TV Chosun drama Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce) starring Sung Hoon, Lee Tae Gon, Park Joo Mi and more. As this is a mini-series, perhaps Im will move away from her past brand of makjang but we certainly won't know for sure until the every end!

Some Recommendations

The following are just a few personal recommendations of dramas that have makjang elements or are makjang dramas that I think are an enjoyable watch (if you don't take things seriously). The dramas are roughly arranged from least makjang to most makjang.
Makjang-Lites
Makjang On Full Blast
Note: I've seen comparisons made between Penthouse and SKY Castle due to some of the similarities in (part of) their premise -- rich parents obsessed with their kids futures. Personally, I would not compare the two or equate them because they are two very different dramas and intended to be so. SKY Castle is a satire/dark comedy that focuses on the nature of academic competition in SK society. Penthouse is, well, a makjang exploring the extremes to which the rich and powerful will go to stay rich and powerful. In other words, the residents of SKY Castle can be your neighbor if you lived in Korea or a similarly academics-obsessed society, whereas the residents aiming for the Penthouse are extreme, fictional dramatizations of people.

Lastly

I personally love makjang dramas because they are larger than life and often amplify human emotions and ambitions to the extreme -- providing the utmost amount of escapism. More than any other genre of fiction or drama, makjang dramas allow me to let myself go emotionally as I curse at the characters on screen for their actions and motivations. So if you are having a bad day, consider putting on an episode of a makjang drama and letting yourself go completely as you curse to your heart's content.
P.S.
I'm not recommending it but The Heirs (2013) starring Kim Tan and Choi Young Do is a fantastic primer of makjang tropes -- I'd consider it a makjang-lite.
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Every Character Ranked

So here is my ranking of every character in the show. I'm ranking by season, and then I put my all-season favorites down at the bottom. I'm not only ranking the characters here, but also their complete story and arc. If there's a character I love that just kind of didn't get a good ending, they will be low down. If a character appears in multiple seasons, like Lou or Wrench, I ranked them based on their time in that season. Also, this is really only main and supporting characters, so none of the hotel guests from East / West are gonna be here or any other character like that.
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SEASON ONE- My opinion on the season one characters is that it had a handful of fantastic characters but the ensemble around them wasn't as memorable. Besides the main five, every other character was either a jerk or an idiot, and that was really it. There still were no bad characters, but I think 90% of this season's charm comes from Molly, Lester and Malvo.
  1. Lorne Malvo- Who else was it gonna be? Billy Bob Thornton delivers one of the greatest tv villains of the decade with this guy, and he makes him such a great character that you are rooting both for and against him at the same time. Fargo's biggest flaw is that they may never top this guy (but I think they did, which I'll explain a bit later down).
  2. Lester Nygaard- Lester's arc is one of the greatest falls of any tv character. In the first episode, he seems like a loser who got in WAY over his head who you just might still be able to root for, but as the show continues he slowly turns into a deeply disgusting individual. In the time jump, we even get to see him become a happy, successful insurance salesman, but the second Malvo re-enters his life he becomes the same, sad, smarmy villain that he was from the beginning. Probably the best of the show's guy-who-makes-a-big-mistake characters.
  3. Molly Solverson- The moral center of season one, Molly feels a little underdeveloped in the beginning of the show (for a while her only character trait was "let me do stuff, chief!!") but as the show progressed she became one of the coolest heroes of the show, as well as continuing Fargo's long tradition of powerful women that started with the movie and lives on today. My ONLY complaint is that she should have killed Malvo. She deserved it.
  4. Mr. Wrench & Mr. Numbers- While Wrench grew into his own character in later seasons, here they are one entity. Succeeding as the two coolest hitmen to ever be in a tv show, Wrench & Numbers have it all: the jokes, the style, the sign language, and that 11/10 drum solo / theme song that jumps up my heart rate every time it kicks in.
  5. Chief Bill Oswalt- I know that the Chief gets a lot of flack for being an annoying character, but I think he's actually one of the most real characters in Fargo. He's not the chief from season 3 who's actively trying to stop investigating for no reason. He's just a simple, nice guy who got in way over his head. His ending when he resigns is one of the saddest scenes in the whole show.
  6. Lou Solverson- Old Lou was good until he whipped out a shotgun and was ready to straight-up murder Malvo to protect Greta. Then he became awesome.
  7. Gus Grimly- Gus was alright. He had a nice story and he was just a sweet guy, but I feel like he never really had enough personality to match his fellow season one leads. I do like that he got to be a mailman, though. That was sweet.
  8. Greta Grimly- Greta was very obviously much cooler than her dad, but then she didn't get to anything for the whole show. PUT GRETA IN THE GAME, NOAH. I hope that season 5 will focus on an older her and continue the Solverson legacy.
  9. Stavros Milos- I liked Stavros. He was one of the only side characters that fell into both the jerk and the idiot templates. Unfortunately, his story went nowhere, and he had one of the most depressing endings for a character for no reason whatsoever. He wasn't that bad of a guy! He didn't deserve to think God was punishing him by killing his son!
  10. Don Chumph- Okay, look. Don was a funny idiot, but he felt like he came out of a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TV SHOW. He seemed liked he was from some weird, oddball comedy show about bank robbers until the show gave him Fargo's most disturbing ending for absolutely no reason. The Stavros storyline is my least favorite in Fargo, because not only do none of its characters get reasonable endings, but it also doesn't connect to the main storyline at all. If you took out the entire Stavros story, the season would've made just as much sense. It's only purpose was to give Malvo something to do in episodes 2-6.
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SEASON TWO- Season two is my favorite season of Fargo, and I think part of what makes it so great is that not only are the characters incredible, but their endings are some of the best in the series. There aren't really any characters in here on the level of Malvo and Lester in terms of originality, but season 2 certainly delivers one of the strongest ensemble casts of a tv show I've seen.
  1. Lou Solverson- Lou is my favorite character from Fargo. He was pretty cool in season one, but getting to see him in season two in his prime pushed him over the edge. Usually the standout character from a season of Fargo is the bad guy, but this is one of the rare cases where therein character steals the show. Also, his defense of the police station from the Gerhardts was maybe the coolest scene in the show.
  2. Peggy Blumquist- Peggy, the self-realized lunatic of season two, was the provider of chaos for season two. Season one had Malvo, three had Nikki, four had... pretty much every character, but here Peggy is the one that leaves a trail of craziness (and dead bodies) everywhere that she goes. Her final scenes in the supermarket and Lou's police car are some of the most heartbreaking in the show, giving her one of my favorite character endings in the series.
  3. Mike Milligan- Mike was just cool. I've realized from watching the entirety of the show that Mike really doesn't do much in season two; he kills Otto and the Undertaker, and he very briefly takes over the Gerhardt house, but besides that he has little to no effect on the outcome of the season. And yet... every time he does or says anything, it just FEELS important. He may not do that much plot-wise, but style and feeling-wise, Mike Milligan is season two. And his grim backstory in season four is just the icing on the cake.
  4. Hanzee Dent- Hanzee was a great character from episodes 1-7. Then episodes 8-10 happened and he reached legendary status. Watching Hanzee orchestrate the Sioux Falls massacre and then get away with it is truly quality television, and the sheer buildup of subtle racism that follows him throughout the show makes his breaking point all the more satisfying. But what makes the story of Hanzee so sad is that in the end, he just became that fat mob boss from season one that Lorne kills. He wound up just being another dead body in somebody else's story.
  5. Hank Larsson- "Ted Danson as a cop in the 70s" was basically the pitch for this character, but it works so much better than it should have. The trio of Hank, Lou and Betsy is genuinely the best part of season two.
  6. Floyd Gerhardt- Poor, poor Floyd. From the first episode we see that Floyd is a tactical genius who was made to run the Gerhardt family, but we know that she will never get the same respect as her husband just because she's a woman. Her ending is so perfectly anti-climactic, too. One of the saddest characters from Fargo.
  7. Betsy Solverson- Lou's wife is docked a couple points for never really being allowed to get in on the action (I would have LOVED to see Betsy take down a Gerhardt) but she still provides some much needed warmth to the show and grounds some of the more crazier episodes, like "The Castle" or the finale.
  8. Dodd Gerhardt- Dodd Gerhardt succeeds by being one of the most vile, unredeemable characters in the show's history. While most of the show's villains can be found to be somewhat sympathetic, Dodd is just the guy you're supposed to hate. And he hits the mark every time.
  9. Joe Bulo- Joe Bulo's death was a real heartbreak. He was really funny.
  10. The Kitchen Brothers- Much like Wrench and Numbers, these two mostly-silent hitmen nearly stole the show a couple of times. Unfortunately, Brother #1 dies halfway through the show, and they just don't feel like a complete set without both of them.
  11. Ed Blumquist- Ed was fine, but he falls into the same character as Gus where he just can't compare to his costars. I'd take Gus over Ed though, because Gus was just cooler.
  12. Simone Gerhardt- Eh. She could've done a lot more, and by her death she was the season's only character who felt like a waste.
  13. Constance Heck- Fargo would eventually take another shot at crafting a good lesbian character (it was kind of better), but Constance was pretty much a waste of screen time.
  14. Bear Gerhardt- I don't understand Bear. He's the nice Gerhardt, but also he kills Simone? He cares about the family, and yet he tries to kill literally everybody in the family? He trusts Hanzee, but he also... doesn't? Bear felt way to underdeveloped, and I honestly think season two would have made a lot more sense without him in it.
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SEASON THREE- If I had to choose, I think season three has the best bunch of main characters. Gloria, Emmett, Ray, Nikki, Vargas, and Sy are six of the show's best characters. Some of their endings I could give or take, and the supporting characters this season aren't as strong as two, but this is easily my favorite group out of the four seasons.
  1. V.M. Vargas- For awhile, it looked like the show was never going to top Malvo as far as villains. And for some people, I'm sure Fargo still hasn't. But to me, V.M. Vargas is the show's greatest bad guy, and for one very specific reason: he's not another Malvo. The show could've very easily taken the route of putting that same scary-hitman character template into every season, but instead the show gave us a character so entirely different than anything before. Everything about him just makes your skin want to crawl, and the way that he completely destroys the lives of everybody he encounters is so fascinating to me. As for his ending, I would like to believe that Vargas does get jailed away, but I'm not so sure...
  2. Gloria Burgle- My favorite scene in season three is the final one, which is probably due to the fact that it's one of only a handful that my two favorite characters share together. Gloria is one of Fargo's best moral centers, as she is the first one who seriously needs another moral center to make her feel happy. She's one of the show's most human characters, and watching her rise past Chief Moe in the end and land a great job was a perfect little ending for her.
  3. Nikki Swango- Nikki was just cool. She was the Mike Milligan of season three, where she was the cool, smart character who walked the line between villain and antihero for the whole season. In the end, I'd put Nikki closer to the hero side than Mike, as her rebellion against Vargas in the final episodes turned her into the character to root for.
  4. Emmitt Stussy- I love season three because with the exception of Vargas and Nikki, nobody has any idea what is going on at all for the whole show. It's just a bunch of very dumb people bopping around for ten episodes, and I love it. This is why I love Emmitt, the epitome of the "dumb guy who makes a big mistake" Fargo character.
  5. Ray Stussy- I like Emmitt more than Ray, mainly because he has more character development and Ray never really gets a satisfying ending. But for the time he's alive, Ray was the center of season three's warmth. The first time you watch season three, it's unclear if Nikki actually loves Ray or if she's just using him. But on a rewatch where you know the full story, the scenes between Ray and Nikki become so sad.
  6. Sy Feltz- Poor Sy. He was just an idiot of epic proportions.
  7. Wes Wrench- When Mr. Wrench popped back up on that bus, my heart literally stopped beating for a second.
  8. Yuri Gurka- Yuri was, in my opinion, Fargo's scariest character. The Russian accent? The ruthless killing tactics? The unpredictability? The wolf mask? Horrifying stuff.
  9. Winnie Lopez- Winnie was kind, and she was a nice friend to Gloria. That alone gives her enough to be in the top ten.
  10. Meemo- Meemo wasn't as scary as Yuri, but watching him transform into a lawyer for that one scene was eerily terrifying. Unlike Yuri, Meemo was smart. Which, in a way, makes him a lot scarier.
  11. Larue Dollard- Larue, the hapless accountant who accidentally discovers Vargas' empire, was probably the most normal guy to ever enter a season of Fargo. Good for him for surviving!
  12. Ennis Stussy / Thaddeus Mobley- Season three's brief detour back into the seventies was a season high-point, but Thaddeus was too dumb to be that likable. Also, when he got older, he turned into a real homophobe. Not cool, Thaddeus.
  13. Gloria's Kid- I don't know his name, but I didn't care for this kid. Nothing against him, but the show didn't give him enough to do or give him enough of a character. Much like Greta, Fargo wasted another potentially great child character.
  14. Chief Moe Dammick- It's odd that the most easily dislikable Fargo character isn't one of the main villains, but this absolutely awful police chief. He literally does everything in his power to stop Gloria for NO REASON. I hate this guy so much.
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SEASON FOUR- Season four got an unfair rep in my opinion. It wasn't on the level of the first three seasons, but it was still better than 90% of television. In fact, I loved the characters from season four. Loved them. My big problem is their endings. Half of the characters this season felt critically underused (probably due to the fact that the main cast was twice as large as it should have been), and some of the endings felt very out of place. Still a great season, but not as successful as before.
  1. Loy Cannon- Chris Rock was incredible as Loy Cannon, and he provided the one character from this season I have no problems with whatsoever. Everything about Loy and his arc I loved, and his ending was the saddest part of season four.
  2. Satchel Cannon- See what happens when you let the kids do stuff on Fargo, Noah Hawley?? Coming after Greta and mini-Gloria in the long line of underutilized children of Fargo, Satchel had a lot going against him... until East / West hit and it became clear season four was his story. I figured out Satchel was Mike Milligan fairly early on in the season, but the slow build to this reveal was beautiful, and that final shot of Mike Milligan loading his gun like Rabbi taught him was one of the best scenes in the series.
  3. Oraetta Mayflower- I love crazy people in shows and movies, so Oraetta was an instant win for me. Jessie Buckley turns in one of Fargo's all-time great performances as the deranged, racist angel of darkness. My biggest complaint is that Oraetta did nothing the whole season and felt like she belonged in an entirely different story. I wish so deeply that we could have seen her go full-Hanzee and start killing people as the season started to end, but instead she just... died. Eh. If she was actually given something to do, she would've easily jumped to #1.
  4. Gaetano Fadda- YES!!! In the beginning, I hated Gaetano. I thought he made no sense. He was supposed to be scary, but he wasn't. He was some weird, dumb freak who I didn't care about. And then he and Gaetano became best friends and I realized it... Gaetano Fadda isn't supposed to be scary. He's meant to be a weird, dumb freak who believes himself to be scary. Suddenly, he became my favorite part of the season. And watching him die by tripping over himself only solidified the idea that he really didn't mean anything to anybody.
  5. Josto Fadda- Josto was a so-so character given a great arc. I loved watching him slowly drive himself crazy, ending with him eventually getting killed by his own people. He was a little over the top, but Jason Schwartzman was great and the character's ending was great, so I have no complaints.
  6. Etherilda Pearl Smutny- Poor, poor Etherilda. She was introduced in episode one and I was SO EXCITED for her to be the no-nonsense moral center of season 4. I wanted to watch her crack the mystery. I wanted her to save the day. And instead... she did absolutely nothing the entire season. I spent the whole season waiting for her to become a main character again, and all she wound up doing was giving a dead guy's ring to Loy. Thankfully, she was still a joy to watch onscreen, and that ending shot was perfect, but WHY DID SHE NOT GET TO DO ANYTHING???
  7. Dick "Deafy" Wickware- Timothy Olyphant took a so-so character and made him legendary. He's docked a couple of points for dying like a wimp and not really adding anything to the main story, but he was a joy to spend time with.
  8. Doctor Senator- If he stuck around for a while longer, Doctor Senator would have placed a lot higher here. Unfortunately, his death was neccessary for Loy's character arc, but while he was still kicking, DS ruled.
  9. Rabbi Milligan- A true tragic figure, I liked everything about Rabbi Milligan. I liked his story, I liked his acting, I liked how he got sucked up in a tornado. I didn't love it, but I liked it.
  10. Odis Weff- Same as above. I liked him. I didn't love him, but I sure did like him.
  11. Happy- Happy only showed up in the penultimate episodes (appropriately titled "Happy"), but his appearance only made me wish that Happy was around longer. That guy was awesome! What was that whole thing with the frames? I want to know! I want his story! unfortunately, he was only in about two scenes and then died. But I loved Happy.
  12. Buel Cannon- Buel Cannon was awesome and didn't do enough. She deserved main-character status over Zelmare and Swanee 100%
  13. Lemuel Cannon- Lemuel was cool and played the trumpet. Another character who should've gotten more screen time, Lemuel deserved better.
  14. Dibrell Smutny- As far as no-nonsense moms go, I prefer Buel to Dibrell, but she still shined in a couple of key scenes. Plus, she was much cooler than her husband.
  15. That Freaky Sea Captain- He was kinda cool.
  16. Ebal Violante- I liked him in the first 10 episodes, but then in the final episode he went full Disney Twist Villain by taking a full 180 on his personality and becoming a supervillain. It was weird, but I get why it happened.
  17. Odie Sparkman- Much like nearly everybody else in the cast, Odie wasn't given enough to do, but his time in the spotlight in East / West was nice, if brief.
  18. Zelmare Roulette- Zelmare and Swanee were my least favorite part of season 4. They had no reason to be there, and I felt like they just took away time from the main cast. Episodes 1, 9, 10, and 11 were my favorites from season 4, which are the only 4 episodes these bozos don't appear in (well, Zelmare was in 11, but only for a second). Zelmare places higher because I liked her stuff with Dibrell (and because it was nice that Fargo finally did a good lesbian romance after the misfire in season two), but besides that I would count her story as Fargo's biggest misfire.
  19. Doctor Harvard- Ew.
  20. Swanee Capps- She was just a worse version of Zelmare. Her only redeeming quality was that she continued Fargo's long tradition of vomiting onscreen.
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And here is my list of favorite characters from all four season:
  1. Lou Solverson
  2. V.M. Varga
  3. Peggy Blumquist
  4. Lorne Malvo
  5. Gloria Burgle
  6. Lester Nygaard
  7. Mike Milligan / Satchel Cannon
  8. Nikki Swango
  9. Loy Cannon
  10. Hanzee Dent
  11. Molly Solverson
  12. Emmitt Stussy
  13. Wes Wrench
  14. Ray Stussy
  15. Oraetta Mayflower
  16. Hank Larrson
  17. Sy Feltz
  18. Floyd Gerhardt
  19. Yuri Gurka
  20. Gaetano Fadda
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What are your opinions? Who are your favorite characters?
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(Spoilers Extended) The Sun Also Sets: Fan-Service and the Adaptation of Dorne in GAME OF THRONES

Intro

Before Season Eight, before the wight hunt, before the Waif chased Arya through Braavos, the original sin of Game of Thrones was Dorne (according to fans anyways). Introduced in Season Five's "The House of Black and White", Dorne became the Season Five's most-reviled location and subplot. Why?
To many fans of the TV series, Dorne failed, because it was poorly-written and lacked the dense and careful plotting of other settings and subplots. Moreover, it served as a distraction from already-established settings and plots.
For fans of the book, there was a more complicated response. Dorne is not universally-loved by fans of the books. Many book fans dislike Dorne, viewing it as filler material that George RR Martin introduced in A Feast for Crows to pad out the length of that book. So, these fans were disinclined to like TV Dorne from the get-go. Other book fans love Dorne as a setting and the POVs introduced, particularly Arianne and Quentyn Martell. (Some love Areo Hotah too. But poor Arys Oakheart don't get no respect.) That Arianne and Quentyn (and I guess Arys Oakheart after he was seen sailing away with Myrcella in S02) were never featured led to disappointment and then dislike of Dorne by these fans.
I sympathize with all of these reasons for disliking Show!Dorne (even agree with some of them!), but there's more to it. In tracing why Dorne came into being both in the books and the show, we'll be able to chart what exactly led to the failure of the Dornish subplot in the show and more importantly, why it failed and what George will do differently in The Winds of Winter and beyond.

Why Dorne? (ASOIAF)

In George's original conception of A Song of Ice and Fire, Dorne was a place on a map, or, at best, a location where George could integrate backstory into - namely, Elia of Dorne and her brutal murder by Gregor Clegane. But there was potential for future story development even in A Game of Thrones. As Viserys Targaryen tells Daenerys in her first chapter:
"The realm will rise for its rightful king. Tyrell, Redwyne, Darry, Greyjoy, they have no more love for the Usurper than I do. The Dornishmen burn to avenge Elia and her children." (AGOT, Daenerys I)
So, George had the potential for Dorne to come into greater prominence someday down the road if he chose to bring them to the fore. However, I don't want to lose focus here. If you'd like to read more about the way GRRM gardened Dorne into existence, I have an essay ("Water-Gardening House Martell Into ASOIAF: How GRRM Integrated Westeros’ Most Mysterious Great House Into the Main Narrative") on that.
In A Storm of Swords, George RR Martin introduced the character of Prince Oberyn Martell on-page. In Oberyn Martell, George RR Martin caught lightning in a bottle as this character proved popular and endearing to fans. Moreover, George, himself, seemed to really like writing about Oberyn. So much so, that he wanted more Dorne. In 1998, two years before the publication of ASOS, George told a fan:
The Dornishmen will come on stage in A STORM OF SWORDS and will have an even larger role in A DANCE WITH DRAGONS. As to why they have stayed aloof, well, both history and geography have set them apart from the rest of the Seven Kingdoms. – So Spake Martin, 12/18/1998
So, George caught inspiration from writing Oberyn Martell, and he wanted to get deeper into Dorne as a result. After the publication of ASOS, another fan had a Dornish-oriented question:
Oberyn the Red Viper should NOT have died. In him you had one of the coolest and most interesting off all your characters.
GRRM: Wait till you meet his daughters. – GRRM, So Spake Martin, 2/1/2001
So, now the inspiration from Oberyn was being carried over to his daughters, that is the Sand Snakes. In fact, the Sand Snakes were one of the main reasons why George RR Martin abandoned the Five-Year Gap, saying:
During Q&A, GRRM revealed what seemed to be the major reason for the five-year gap. He said that he realized something. He had to deal with the reaction to Oberyn’s death in Dorne. He thought of different ways that he could handle things. He could have just summarized what happened, without talking about it very much, but he did not want to do this. He could have decided that for some reason there was no reaction, or a delayed reaction, but the reasons he could come up for to do that did not make sense. So, he finally realized that the story needed to be told. – GRRM, So Spake Martin, 8/23/2002
Of course, George's desire to see the Dornish reaction to Oberyn's death was only one part of the equation. Somewhere along the way, GRRM decided to graft Dorne to two other parts of the story: Daenerys' and Young Griff's. What seemed to happen, then, was that George then took the "Sand Snakes' reaction to Oberyn's death" ideas he had for Dorne and then stapled them to Dorne's integration into Dany and Young Griff's stories. We'll unpack that later.

Why Dorne? (Game of Thrones)

By the end of Season Three, Game of Thrones was a massive critical and commercial success. The Red Wedding was what David Benioff and Dan Weiss had wanted to achieve as Weiss told Entertainment Weekly:
"The Red Wedding was the thing we always told ourselves, “If we get to this moment that’s in the books, and if we do it right, then [the show will] be in a pretty good place and the energy that [the twist] injects into this story will be enough to get us through to the end.” - Dan Weiss, Entertainment Weekly, 2019
And now that they had achieved it, creating a TV event that entered the cultural zeitgeist (where it remains today) but whence goeth Game of Thrones thereafter?
Largely, the showrunners followed their bible in the form of the remainder of A Storm of Swords when they adapted Game of Thrones, Season Four. They did the Battle of the Wall, Arya and Sandor's reaction to the Red Wedding and Daenerys moving on Meereen. And they cast Pedro Pascal as Oberyn Martell and then brought the Prince of Dorne to King's Landing.
In Oberyn and especially Pascal's performance as Oberyn, the showrunners caught lightning in a bottle same as George did in A Storm of Swords. Pascal's performance was electrifying, and he made an indelible and lasting impression. And though cuts and adaptational changes were made from the book material to the show, largely, the show stayed faithful to the books.
But in staying true to the books, D&D killed off Oberyn Martell in his duel with Gregor Clegane. And now that Oberyn was dead, what would they do? Would they follow GRRM's model and go to Dorne? Originally, that was not in the cards:
"We were so happy to be able to include [Dorne]. We didn’t know if it would fit, to be honest—because of budgeting, scheduling and story reasons. There were a lot of ways we had to cram it in. But it’s such an important place. Of all the places in Westeros you’d ever want to live, the Dornish seem to have figured out the right approach to life. It’s the one most aligned with what our approach to life would be if we weren’t making this show. It’s our Brazil—we dream of Dorne and the way they do things down there. And Indira Varma [who was introduced as Ellaria Sand last season]—once you have someone of her caliber, you want to double down on that casting strength. Also the Sand Snakes are such a fun, exciting addition to that world. [Prince Oberyn Martell] opened up a tiny window into this world last season, and now you get to go through that window and see what kind of world this is that made this person we loved so much." - Dan Weiss, Entertainment Weekly Interview 2015
It's an understated parallel that the showrunners and writers of Game of Thrones found themselves in a similar place as George RR Martin did in writing A Song of Ice and Fire. Where originally Dorne wasn't going to be featured in the Thrones Show (or ASOIAF), they decided to feature it to see the reaction of Dorne to Oberyn's death and also to meet with the Sand Snakes (and Ellaria Sand).
At the same time as they were making the decision to feature Dorne as a location in Season Five, they were also making other hard adaptational choices which would impact Dorne.

Adaptation is Hard

A sense I get (but haven't seen in any recorded interview) is that another factor which drove the the showrunners to feature Dorne is fan-service for fans of the book series. That may be entirely wrong-headed, but I recall reading that Bryan Cogman, a writer and loremaster of Game of Thrones, was instrumental in convincing D&D to have Dorne be on the show. And Bryan is an even more fervent fan of the books than D&D (who are reported to have read the books over a dozen times) are. Here's Bryan talking about Dorne in James Hibberd's recently-published book Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon:
BRYAN COGMAN (co–executive producer): Dorne was always tricky. When you read the book, it’s essentially a spin-off within the book. It’s really compelling. It’s really interesting. But it’s an entirely new cast of characters, and it only really links up with the main storyline through Myrcella. For a long time, I didn’t think we were going to do it. Season five is not the time when you normally introduce twenty-five new characters. - Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon, "A Detour in Dorne"
In a vacuum, the inclusion of Dorne seems smart. The Prince of Dorne's death, the second most powerful man in Dorne and certainly the most popular person in Dorne would garner a reaction from the Dornish. And the Dornish material from AFFC/ADWD was "really compelling/really interesting." So, they ended up deciding to showcase Dorne in Game of Thrones.
But how to show a location which had never been featured on the show? Bryan Cogman proposed a solution:
BRYAN COGMAN: I proposed that Jaime would be a good way in. You take one of our main characters and use that person as an audience surrogate into this new world and that might be a way that we can do a version of Dorne that fits in our framework and, frankly, within the time and budgetary constraints of the show.
Jaime Lannister and Ser Bronn of the Blackwater serve as our respective Luke Skywalker in Dorne (Dorne is fantasy Tatooine after all). Conceptually, they would be the audience avatar to explore a brand new setting. Plus, they had a surviving Dornish character who could help with audience familiarity as they had cast Indira Varma in Season Four as Ellaria Sand. Additionally, they cast the venerable Alexander Siddig (who played the beloved Dr. Julian Bashir in Star Trek) as Prince Doran Martell and brought on Academy Award winner Keisha Castle-Hughes (Obara Sand) and relative newcomers Jessica Henwick (Nymeria Sand) and Rosabell Laurenti Sellers (Tyene Sand).
The casting of veteran actors and newcomers had been hallmark of the success of Game of Thrones seen as far back in Season One with Sean Bean, Mark Addy and Lena Headey occupying the veteran actor role, and all of the child actors (Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner) and up-and-coming actors (Richard Madden, Kit Harrington and Emilia Clarke) mixing it up on-screen and creating the show we loved.
So, now they had a plan, they had the cast. What went wrong?

(Almost) Everything Went Wrong: Major Plot Points: Cutting Young Griff

Here's the problem. At the same time they were deciding to feature the further adventures of Dorne, David Benioff and Dan Weiss were making difficult adaptational choices with the Dornish storyline: namely, they decided against adapting Arianne Martell's and Quentyn Martell's stories seen in A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons and The Winds of Winter. And the reason they seemed to cut these POV characters' stories was tied into Young Griff's story as GRRM talked about in Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN: I thought Feast for Crows and Dance with Dragons would be recombined, because you can’t separate them the way I did in the books, and I thought there were three seasons there. At the very least, two seasons. But they got through it all in one season because they eliminated so much. They really started taking shortcuts and cutting things. They eliminated Lady Stoneheart and Quentyn Martell and his voyage across the world and Tyrion’s journey where he goes to Pentos and hooks up with Magister Illyrio, and then he crosses the hills and meets up with Jon Connington and Aegon on the river and they make the long journey down the river to Volantis and they encounter Jorah Mormont, who takes him prisoner—they skipped over that.
So, now you start to see a storytelling problem. As we talked about, George's original inspiration for having Dorne enter center-stage in the books was to give us the Sand Snakes and Dorne's reaction to the death of Oberyn. But that was not the only reason for Dorne to be in ASOIAF! Instead, George made the (correct) call for the Dornish storyline to connect with the main story of ASOIAF: namely, Dany's and Young Griff's stories. That's why Quentyn and Arianne become POV characters.
But, again, adaptation is hard. Hard and necessary cuts to the stories have to be made. And the showrunners recognized that a "bottle subplot" wouldn't resonate with watchers. They had to integrate it into already-existing stories and characters. So, they came up with the aforementioned Jaime and Bronn go to Dorne story to rescue Myrcella idea.

(Almost) Everything Went Wrong: Characters: The Sand Snakes

But now that Jaime and Bronn were going to Dorne to rescue Myrcella, they had to figure out who was endangering Myrcella. The persons they chose for that role were Ellaria Sand and Oberyn's daughters: the Sand Snakes. This is a bit of a change from how A Feast for Crows did this plot. There, the Sand Snakes didn't plan on murdering Myrcella. Instead, Tyene proposed crowning Myrcella, Arianne almost did the crowning herself and then Gerold "Darkstar" Dayne made the attempt on Myrcella's life.
In Game of Thrones, this was consolidated and adapted to the Sand Snakes and Ellaria Sand try to (and eventually succeed) in murdering Myrcella Baratheon. They were only saved by the deus ex machina arrival of Jaime and Bronn at the moment they made the (first) attempt.
But fans ended up focusing on the deus ex machina of Jaime and Bronn's arrival or singling out the bad fight choreography between Jaime/Bronn vs. the Sand Snakes and missed something big: we didn't care about the Sand Snakes. And the reason we didn't care about the Sand Snakes is because we barely knew their names or anything about them.
This was something that Nymeria Sand actor Jessica Henwick talked about in 2016:
They had to introduce three characters all at once and differentiate them. When you’re limited to an introduction of two lines per character and there are four characters in the scene—during our introduction scene in Season 5—it’s hard to create a lasting impression. You kind of have to shove a character down the audience’s throat and Game of Thrones’ success is in its multifaceted characters. At the time it was definitely frustrating feeling like there’s so much potential here, and a lot of the stuff that we shot didn’t make the final cut. It was hard.
So, the Sand Snakes' material was constrained by the lack of time they could give to this plot point. So, the adaptational choices the showrunners and writers made is completely understandable. They had to consolidate plots, characters and stories within the time constraints of one season. And the Sand Snakes' murder of Myrcella makes character sense and is in some keeping with the spirit of how these characters act in the books.
However, as George was saying: he thought they should do AFFC/ADWD in 2-3 seasons, and a lot of people (including me!) thought George was cynically trying to buy more time for him to finish Winds with those types of statements. The more I reflect on the adaptations of the later seasons of Game of Thrones, the more I think I was wrong. George wasn't being cynical at all. He was making an artistic case as opposed to a please, more time, a few months, a year, two years, and then you'll have TWOW. I promise. So, perhaps my sympathy for the showrunners and writers is misplaced.
However, where I'm truly less sympathetic with is the adaptation of Ellaria Sand.

(Almost) Everything Went Wrong: A Character Study of Ellaria Sand

Permit a short long book digression about Ellaria Sand. There's this common belief that George RR Martin sUbVeRtS eXpEcTaTiOnS, and that's what gives ASOIAF sUbTlE nUaNcE. It's a meme, but it brushes up against a surface-level truth about how Martin writes ASOIAF. He writes plot twists and nuanced characters that often subvert reader expectation. But that's much more grounded within a character framework. A plot beat that subverted expectations in ASOIAF is Ellaria Sand coming out as a voice for peace.
After A Storm of Swords introduces her, Ellaria Sand remains off-page until she returns in Areo Hotah's "The Watcher" chapter from A Dance with Dragons. There, you'd expect that Ellaria Sand, Oberyn's paramour who witnessed Oberyn's gruesome death, to join in the chorus of Sand Snakes all clamoring for Doran to sack Oldtown, murder children or crown Myrcella. Instead, in ADWD, Ellaria comes out as a voice for peace:
"Oberyn wanted vengeance for Elia. Now the three of you want vengeance for him. I have four daughters, I remind you. Your sisters. My Elia is fourteen, almost a woman. Obella is twelve, on the brink of maidenhood. They worship you, as Dorea and Loreza worship them. If you should die, must El and Obella seek vengeance for you, then Dorea and Loree for them? Is that how it goes, round and round forever? I ask again, where does it end?" Ellaria Sand laid her hand on the Mountain's head. "I saw your father die. Here is his killer. Can I take a skull to bed with me, to give me comfort in the night? Will it make me laugh, write me songs, care for me when I am old and sick?" (ADWD, The Watcher)
That's a powerful statement by Ellaria. It's powerful, because she saw the horrors visited upon the man she loved, and yet she's standing against striking out against innocents to satisfy her personal feelings. She's standing up for innocents like her children -- and even for innocents like Tommen and Myrcella:
Obara bristled. "I never did and never shall." She gave the skull a mocking kiss. "This is a start, I'll grant."
"A start?" said Ellaria Sand, incredulous. "Gods forbid. I would it were a finish. Tywin Lannister is dead. So are Robert Baratheon, Amory Lorch, and now Gregor Clegane, all those who had a hand in murdering Elia and her children. Even Joffrey, who was not yet born when Elia died. I saw the boy perish with mine own eyes, clawing at his throat as he tried to draw a breath. Who else is there to kill? Do Myrcella and Tommen need to die so the shades of Rhaenys and Aegon can be at rest? Where does it end?" (ADWD, The Watcher)
That strikes a better and more interesting tone for Ellaria. It's that theme of "where does it end" that George deftly explores in AFFC/ADWD, and it's all coming from a woman who just watched her lover and father of her children die horribly in front of her eyes. How powerful!
Unfortunately in Season Five, that dynamic is radically-altered. Instead of that powerful dynamic of a woman who has every emotional right to desire vengeance but wants the violence to come to an end, we get Ellaria Sand: mastermind of the plot to murder Myrcella.
My reading is that D&D thought that Ellaria Sand, a brokenhearted widow, developing the plan to kill Myrcella was the show's attempt to subvert expectations. A woman who wants to to MURDER!? Whoa. I'm exaggerating for effect, but the subversion that Thrones did was tied to Ellaria's gender and how she bucked a traditional gender role of women are damsels in distress or are peacemakers and non-violent by nature. That trope is shitty and sexist, and that seemed to be what the writers of Season Five were reacting against. But as we were talking about before, George was responding to a different trope.
You can be the judge about which subversion is more effective and emotionally poignant.

The Hard Reset: Killing Off Dorane

All of the above were not the only problems with Dorne. Doran Martell was radically altered to fit what the showrunners wanted the character to be and do. Instead of being a secret Targaryen supporter who had the best plan (citation needed), the only plan (more citations, please), a foolproof plan (I'm going to assume that you don't believe in citations) to achieve vengeance for Oberyn, Elia and her children, he oscillated between passivity and reacting to the Sand Snakes on the show.
On Game of Thrones, Doran Martell is not faking his appeasement of the Lannisters. He just wants to be left out of the war. Fine, then, says Game of Thrones. You'll be left out of the war, permanently.
The above in tongue-in-cheek. The reality is Doran Martell, Areo Hotah and Trystane Martell were killed off in the very first episode of Season Six, and that was a statement by the showrunners. What kind of statement? Alexander Siddig was interviewed, and he had some ... thoughts about it:
"Something happened; I have no idea what. There was an enormous amount of fan excitement when I got named to be on the show, and everyone was like, “Oh my god, yes, Doran Martell. He’s going to be great as Doran Martell.” That might have been the kiss of death. Maybe they didn’t want quite that much attention on that character. Maybe they thought, “Well, let’s prove that we’re going to stray from the books. We’re going to do something else, and he will be our first example of that.” Or maybe I just screwed up. Maybe I said the wrong thing to the wrong person."
With respect to Siddig, I don't think it was that he said the wrong thing or that Doran Martell got too much attention. Instead, with a massive fan outcry against Dorne in the show, the showrunners seemed to listen to what fans were saying. And fans said Dorne sucked.
To be fair, when D&D were interviewed by James Hibberd about Dorne for Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon, they put their decision to kill off Doran/Dorne in a different spin:
DAVID BENIOFF: There are times I’m watching shows, or even reading books, where I’m wondering, “Why are we spending time with these characters we don’t really know or care about when I want to be with that person instead?” The big lesson was there are characters who mean so much to us and that’s who we want to spend time with. It’s their journeys we’re most curious about seeing where they go.
DAN WEISS: In a book you can branch out into a whole different world. But if you do that in television, for whatever reason, a different set of rules apply. I’m sure it would have been fascinating to build out a proper Dorne, but the time it would take would come at the expense of what we needed to cover.
Now, I think there's a small element of truth in there insomuch as D&D were reluctant to go to Dorne altogether, and their reluctance may have been borne of knowing the time constraints that would inevitably be placed on Dorne. But c'mon. That means they can do a better job of writing Dorne/Doran for Season Six. Instead, they killed Doran, Areo and Trystane and Dorne as a location, but they didn't kill off all the Dornish characters.
"Weak men will never rule Dorne" was what Ellaria said to Doran Martell as he lay dying. Please allow me to express my sincere opinion of this line. No. It is not Indira Varma's delivery of the line that's the problem. It's the reason why it's in the show in the first place.
This will seem off-topic, but I promise I'll bring it back around. I also need to emphasize up-front that I am not the subject matter expert of feminism or feminism as depicted in HBO's Game of Thrones. So, if I come across as insensitive, it's by omission rather than commission. But ... this line and the killing off of all speaking-role male Dornish characters. Boy. It seems to have been written to the tune of the "Women on Top" marketing that Season Six tried to pull off. And why were they trying to pull this off? I believe it's because of the backlash that Game of Thrones, Season Five received due to the Sansa and Ramsay subplot and rape scene.
The above, I know, will be the most controversial aspect of this essay, but I felt it had to be stated. All the same, they had killed off Dorne by the open to Season Six. And even though Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes lived on, joined with Dany's side and fought for her against Euron Greyjoy and the Iron Fleet in Season Seven, they were relegated to bit-part status until their torture and murder by Cersei and Gregor Clegane at the end of Season Seven.
The last time Dorne appeared was in Season Eight's "The Iron Throne" at the Great, er, small Council scene to select Bran as King where a new Prine of Dorne, dubbed "The Fresh Prince of Dorne" by Verge appeared in a minimal role.
And that's it for the adaptation of Dorne in Game of Thrones.

Conclusion: George RR Martin Sends His Regards

To sum it all up: the adaptation of Dorne in Game of Thrones was a failure. It failed because of sympathetic reasons like them cutting Young Griff. It failed for less-sympathetic but understandable reasons like not adapting A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons into two or more seasons. It failed for unsympathetic and not understandable reasons like trying to rewrite Ellaria to be violent to fit a mold and seeming to try to right the wrongs of earlier seasons and ending up being wrong again.
Reportedly, George RR Martin feels similarly to fans about Dorne in the show, allegedly telling a fan at Balticon in 2016:
GRRM talked about Dorne! He wasn't exactly dissing the show, but he didn't have anything good to say about it. One guy talked asked if season 6 would spoil the books for him. Something like "Don't think what happens in the show will happen in the books, the show is completely different. The books will be nothing like that." You could really feel the dislike he had for it.
Moreover, as reviewers of Game of Thrones like Joanna Robinson have noted, GRRM's release of Winds of Winter sample chapters from 2014-2016 (Mercy, Alayne, Arianne II) have been tied to showcasing the difference between the show's direction and the direction George is taking with The Winds of Winter.
I don't think that George is doing Dorne differently than the show for fan-service reasons. His are reasons borne of both his long-term plans for Dorne in the books and that he's going his own way regardless of what the show has done.
But take heart. Dorne will be different in the books.
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Sunday Funday: a YOU'RE THE WORST reunion - Discussion

Date And Time Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 6:00 PM –
Thu, Feb 4, 2021, 11:00 PM EST
A Zoom Reunion Featuring The Cast and Creatives Behind FXX'S "You're The Worst" to Benefit Feeding America
On-Demand 2/1-2/4
Play-PerView will reunite the principal cast members of FXX’s comedy series “You’re the Worst” with series creator Stephen Falk in Sunday Funday: A “You're The Worst” Reunion. Series stars Todd Robert Anderson (“American Vandal”), Desmin Borges (Amazon's “Utopia,” The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity), Darrell Britt-Gibson (Judas and The Black Messiah), Aya Cash (Amazon’s “The Boys,” Kings), Kether Donohue (Pitch Perfect), Chris Geere (“A Million Little Things”), Allen Maldonado (“The Last O.G.”), Allan McLeod (“Drunk History”), Brandon Mychal Smith (“Four Weddings and a Funeral”), Collette Wolfe ("A.P Bio") and Janet Varney ("Stan Against Evil") will appear in this Play-PerView exclusive event, which will feature Leah Wellbaum, the lead singer of Slothtrust, performing the show's theme song, "7:30AM," , a live-streamed reading of the season two episode “A Rapidly Mutating Virus,” with original performers Sunkrish Bala ("Castle"), BJ Bales ("Bombshell"), Tessa Ferrer ("Catch-22"), Erik Griffin ("Workaholics"), Echo Kellum ("Arrow"), Ambrit Millhouse ("Pretty Little Liars"), Artemis Pebdani ("It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia") and special guest Paul F. Tompkins ("Bajillion Dollar Propertie$") followed by a moderated discussion and Q&A for the audience led by The Hollywood Reporter’s Lesley Goldberg. Additional guests will be announced soon.
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- ULTIMATE list of media with Androgynous Girl as the lead character!! -

Hyperlinks are a link to a pic of the mc in question! :)
Also, ALL OF THEM ARE RR!!! they don't all necessarily feature a relationship, but they all definitely have the vibe, even if there is no relationship!
Films: ("*" indicates its on Netflix!)
· Terminator Dark Fate (she's SO cool!!!!!!)
*· Aliens(=Alien 2) (there are actually two of them so I put an image of both!)
*· Mad max: fury road (imperator furiosa is awesome!)
· princess blade (so underrated!!)
· the dark knight returns(carrie kelley is best robin! )
*· the fault in our stars (not totally rr, but she's hella awesome and think yall at RR will like the film still)
*· girl, interrupted
*· mortal engines
· Secrets of the Surface(badass irl math genius!!!)
· Amelia (the film about the true story of amelia earheart)
*· ok this is an exception, but; Divergent. she only has the short hair in the second film. but i think its a cool franchise so i still put it! (she's the one on the left, in the pic)
TV series:
*· ouran high school host club (haruhi fujiokaaaaaa i love her)
· Kurau Phantom Memory (i love her so. much.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
*· hyena (also, don't be fooled by the first half of the first episode, there's a huge plot twist!!!)
*· Voltron Legendary Defender (ahh Pidge is Best Girl!!)
*· not lead the protagonist but is in the main cast: the show Carmen Sandiego has the short haired scientist dr.bellum and she's the best!!!!
*· star trek discovery
*· the dragon prince
· Andi Mack (ok not thaat andro, but short hair, at least)
*· stranger things (well... although eleven ended up growing out her hair in season 3, in 1 and 2 she has awesome short hair! here, each image is her in: the first, second, then third season!)
· patlabor
*· ok this one, i haven't watched yet but Halt and Catch Fire; Cameron seems to fit the bill. not sure if she grows out the hair at some point though
· Infinity train (each season follows a different character. the one that is andro is in the 2nd season! the first season has a rly cool protag too tho!!!)
· Glitch Techs(she only appears in season 2 though, but she's badass)
Webcomics:
· The Knight and Her Emperor (she's the one with the RED hair!!!!!) MY FAVORITE SERIES EVER ASGFHJSDKLFGJHSDLFG
· crimson karma MY SECOND FAVE SERIES EVER ASDGHJKLDFGFJKLH
· castle swimmer(technically the two leads are 2 males [they are boyfriends ^-^] but there are loads of badass females in the main cast!!! here's my fave in hyperlink; Silver. she's the best haha)
· Axed
· Ghost Bats (she's the one alll the way to the right, with the cool hair!)
· Messenger (i like dis webcomic!!!!! didn't finish it yet tho)
· Sword interval
· The 101st Heroine (she's the one with the brown hair!)
· Thornstone (she grows out her hair at some point though, but still keeps a pretty cool style. there are other female characters with short hair tho!!! it's a cool comic, too!)
Video games
· Immortals Fenyx Rising !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :))
· Beyond good an evil!!!!!!!! :))
· the last of us 2!!!!!!!!! :)) (she only has short hair at the very end though, but she is buff all the time so i made an exception and still put here here!)
· Dishonored: death of the outsider/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/9258153/dishonored_death_of_the_outsider_1.jpg)
· overwatch
· Half Life: Alyx (thanks bigmaxporter!)
Graphic novels and Mangas
· Saotome Senshu, Hitakakusu (havent finished yet but seems promising!) !!!!!!!! :)
· The Spire(havent finished it yet tho but cool) !!!!!!!! :)
· Martha Washington
· spartiates(by Charlotte Rousselle)(its AMAZING but irs only out in french for the moment)
· marion duval (sry again, fench exclusive too for the moment BUT ITS COOLLL)
· enemy(ange savaresse) also only in french too, tho
Bands (this time, in hyperlink, i put one of the music videos of the bands!!!!)
· fanxyred (cool!!)
· existtrace(all-female band from tokyo. they are the best!!!!!!!!!! my bias is Omi)
· christine and the queens
· kd lang (i love her ahhh)
· ael (another awesome japanese all female band!!)
· eurythmics !!!
· leah dou
· MISSter (SO COOL!!!)
· the hoopers
· la roux
· the pack ad
· marija serifovic
· arlo parks
· zwei
· valshe
· big thief
· amber liu
· disacode(the singer Akira also releases music independently!)
· Zhang Yun Jing
· so!yoon!
Short comic artists (can be followed on instagram, for instance)
· randomninjakitty(she's the best!!! a ton of very RR comics!!!)
· life of bibi
· the touring test
kids books:
· the turbulent term of tyke tyler
· because (by mo willems)
· wilma rudolph: fastest woman on earth
· unstoppable me
· rocket says clean up
kids shows:
· ronja robbers daughter (bonus point: the male mc is a femboy!)
· bluey (her family is entirely RR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
. Heidi the pic is from the 1987 tv series, but theres also an anime version. In the latter, she wears a pink dress though but oh well
Others:
· basically any buddhist nun. they are all badass. dunno why there is so little talk about them.
Short animations
· here's a playlist containing short animations featuring badass androgynous females!!! (this person has a couple other cool playlists i recommend you can check out as well!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaalMc4iRVk&list=PLbg9VLCO3I4hqHBMbouiS4o8oWV2xwy9A
novels:
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you are free to copy-paste this list! :) Please tell me if you have anything to add :D have a nice day!
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Random thoughts after my first rewatch of the show since it aired.

I did watch the show when it originally aired and I enjoyed it and was happy when it got renewed once it ended I mostly forgot about it. It wasn't until it appeared on Amazon Prime I started to think about watching it again and by the time I did it had been removed so I bought it on iTunes instead to watch it in HD because the BluRays were never released in the UK. So apologies for another one of these threads but here are my thoughts in no particular order:
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This is a lot longer than I intended, I definitely won't be waiting years to watch the show again. I'm not sure what to watch now, there's no other show quite like it. I might continue watching decade old tv shows and rewatch Warehouse 13 which doesn't have the romance but definitely has the action and fish out of water feel that Chuck does.
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Sigtryggr’s incredible magical flying respawning Vikings, or why Season 4 pulled a Game of Thrones and became terrible (Part ½)

Sigtryggr’s incredible magical flying respawning Vikings, or why Season 4 pulled a Game of Thrones and became terrible (Part ½)
I love The Last Kingdom. I took my time watching all 4 seasons, and for the first three I absolutely fell in love. The political intrigue, the conflict between Dane and Saxon, Uthred’s brilliant strategies and his unjust treatment, his wonderful band of followers; it was by far the best thing I’ve seen on Netflix.
Then I watched season 4, and to say I was disappointed is a massive understatement. I genuinely had to force myself to watch the last episode, and I couldn’t believe how incredibly mediocre my favorite show had become. I know I’m about 8 months late to the discussion, and likely only people who really loved the last season are still here, but I wanted to gather my thoughts on where I think TLK went wrong in season 4, and see what everyone thinks.
The first several episodes were just as great as the previous seasons, with few hiccups. Uhtred tried desperately to seize Bebbanburg, losing most of his men (including father Beocca), in the process. The whole arc of Uhtred’s grief and loss of resolve, and his slow return to confidence mainly by Finnan’s encouragement, was a touching moment and showed how far they had grown together as characters.
Uhtred’s maneuvering to capture Cnut’s sons and use them to goad Cnut into a bad position (while never harming the kids) was perfectly in character. However, the actual battle was a slap in the face to previous seasons; contrast the shield wall and formations of season 1 with the huge clusterfuck battle of season 4 (in season 1, only after the Dane shield wall is broken do the Saxons charge in and start hacking them apart):
Season 1, a clear formation.
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Season 4, a huge clusterfuck.
In the season 4 battle, extremely important characters (Æthelred, Æthelflæd, and Edward) are found swinging their weapons wildly in the middle of a huge mosh pit, with no regards to their own safety:
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Hey Edward, you probably shouldn’t be in the middle of this! Where are all your men?
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Æthelred, the queen of Mercia, completely surrounded by Danes. Where the hell did everyone go? Why did the fighting stop for this goofy Disney-esque scene of the queen surrounded by bad guys? What are all the Danes waiting for?
Uthred had a clever tactic; cover up the natural ditch stretching across the battle, and slaughter Danes as they stumble and fall into it. A few minutes later, and areal shot of the battlefield shows the same clusterfuck, with EVERYONE spread out and fighting ON BOTH SIDES OF THE RAVINE. How the hell would that have happened? Why is everyone so spread out? Did the Saxons jump over the ravine to fight on the other side!?
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In season 1, Saxons would be on one side, Danes on the other. Here, everyone is fighting everywhere!
One extremely silly outcome of this is that Æthelred, the king of Mercia, is swinging his sword around at Danes all about him before one of them tackles him and carries him for several seconds. Again, why are his men not near him? He’s the king for god’s sake!
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Hey does anyone know where the king of Mercia is? We should probably be protecting him huh?
When Alfred attended the battle of season 1 (even at the very last stretches when the shield wall broke), he kept well in the back surrounded by his men, which makes sense since he’s, ya know, THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
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Alfred surrounded by guards, not standing isolated in the middle of the battlefield!
Anyways, suffice to say this climactic battle of season 4 disappointed me. It was hard to find a show in which battles didn’t explode into a series of anachronistic duels, and I thoroughly enjoyed the formations and battle tactics of previous seasons. But I press on; it this was my only complaint about season 4 it would still be a near perfect show, especially as I’ll admit the earlier seasons do this to some degree (though not nearly as bad).
Episode 5 was genuinely an enjoyable one. The political machinations of the Mercians is a good contrast to the previous battle-heavy episode. Eardwulf’s killing of Æthelred to further his goals makes perfect sense, as does Edward’s attempts to weasel his way into the Mercian Witan to find a loyal, unambitious candidate to control Mercia (including taking a noble son hostage).
Episode 6 is also fine, but as it ends the cracks in the writing begin to unravel. There is a plague spreading across Mercia, and both Edward and Eardwulf maneuver to find Uhtred (and thus Ælfwynn) to force a marriage. Edward makes the difficult (but rational) decision to close the gates, against the Mercian nobles wishes. Again, everyone’s actions make sense, as do their grievances against one another…up until the point that Eardwulf catches up to Uhtred’s band.
First, Eardwulf surrounds him with horse archers, who can easily draw and shoot from horseback. I won’t complain that this is historically inaccurate (most of TLK is), but it does seem completely bizarre within the logic of the show. Wouldn’t horse archers have appeared in every major battle if they existed? Whatever, pretty silly but not a massive plot point. I do feel like earlier seasons wouldn’t have gone this far with anachronisms however, but I haven’t gotten to the true failing of this scene yet.
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Horse archers! I can think of a million places these would have been useful!
In this scene, Eardwulf is accused of killing the king. An easy accusation for him to deny of course, except that Eardwulf is wearing the ring he stole from Æthelred’s corpse in a bag around his neck. This was the first moment the cracks really started to show for me, and it’s a scene that becomes more ridiculous the more you think about it. Why the hell would he do that? Why carry evidence of an incredibly heinous crime around his neck? Why would you even remove the ring from the king’s corpse in the first place? Wouldn’t that make it obvious he was murdered? Did none of the dozens of people that attended to him notice that his signet ring had been stolen? Did he accidently leave auto-loot enabled during the assassination?
So Eardwulf killed the king a few months ago and this entire time, he wears this ring around his neck, knowing that if anyone sees it he will be arrested, die horribly and lose everything. At no point in those months does he sell it or hide it somewhere. I’m sorry, this is terrible writing and here Eardwulf’s actions make no sense whatsoever.
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Durr I probably should have kept that somewhere else huh?
The episode ends noting that some Danes have landed in Wales, and are raiding the Welsh in another incredibly bizarre scene. The Welsh lords are sitting in their mead hall, having just finished a feast, when a bloody, maimed peasant staggers in and goes right up to the king’s brother to deliver a message.
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The Welsh lords, enjoying a feast.
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Uhh…who let this guy in again?
Remember when Uhtred wanted to talk to Alfred in season 1? Getting an audience with the king used to be a momentous task in TLK, but apparently in Wales anyone can just go right up to the most important nobles in the land during a feast and nobody will stop him. Where are the guards stopping this filthy peasant? Why is all logic and political grounding being thrown aside for the sake of a ‘cool, badass scene’? This small scene is emblematic of TLK S4’s larger issues, where nuance has been cast aside for a cool shot. By the end of this episode I was getting Game of Thrones flashbacks and praying it was just a one-off case of sloppy writing. Boy was I wrong…
Episode 7 is where the entire story begins to collapse. I enjoyed the plot set in Mercia (despite how ridiculous Eardwulf’s exile was), including Edward’s discussion with Uthred in the cage. Æthelhelm’s exile to Wessex is well deserved after his actions, and again Edward’s actions to secure a viable leader for Mercia (settling on Uthred) are rational.
The true nonsense begins when we cut back to Wales. There are a few scenes of the Welsh King’s brother admitting to defeats in the various clashes with the Danes, and not wanting to tell his brother. A few scenes later, we see Sigtryggr breaking into the mead hall and slaughtering all the remaining Welsh. Yes, that’s right. Wales has been conquered by Sigtryggr! He hasn’t just managed to raid them, he actually has taken the Welsh capital by storm.
This moment is where all the writing of TLK falls apart. The intricate plots and maneuvering of conquering warriors has given way to sheer stupidity. Let’s break down what we’ve been told of Sigtryggr. First, as soon as he secures the mead hall he has this exchange with Brida:
Brida: “Sigtryggr was defeated and killed”.
Sigtryggr: “Defeated, yes. Driven from his settlements, yes. But at this moment, very much alive”.
In the very next episode, Hæsten admits that Sigtryggr is a man of “no reputation”:
Hæsten: “Sigtryggr, the kin of Ivar the Boneless”
Uhtred: “A boy without reputation”
Hæsten: “Reputation will come”
So, a boy without reputation, who was defeated and driven from his lands, takes the remnants of his troops, heads to Wales, and proceeds to conquer the entire kingdom? I’m sorry, I’ve suspended disbelief before to enjoy TLK but this is just way too stupid in too many ways to comprehend.
I’m not done outlining how dumb this episode is yet. This is what Dehuebarth fortress looks like:
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A cliffside fortress with one entrance... an almost impossible target.
Lit towers all across the walls...the Danes are clearly manning the castle!
Any avid watcher of TLK will know that a castle like this can only be taken with immense effort and many casualties. This is because we have already seen the amount of effort that goes into capturing (or trying to capture) walled, manned settlements. We’ve seen Kjartan’s fortress, Beamfleot, Uhtred’s own assault on Bebbanburg (where he can only bring a handful of men to the sea gate), etc. In TLK, taking walled settlements has always been a really big deal. This Welsh castle has massive walls and is on a cliff with only one entrance. It’s not an exaggeration to say this is the mightiest castle we’ve ever seen in the history of TLK.
So explain to me exactly how a defeated boy with no renown and his personal retinue managed to take it?! This is a question the show completely fails to answer… because it cannot. The show has been invaded by Sigtryggr’s incredible magical flying respawning Vikings, and all semblance of logic and plot have gone out the window. The moment I saw that castle I realized how incredibly stupid this show had become… but unfortunately it isn’t done embarrassing itself yet.
Before I move on, I want to point out that, hilariously, both of these shots are shown only after the fortress is taken by Sigtryggr. Before he takes it we only see the inside of the Welsh mead hall, and only an episode later (and in a scene where the Welsh try to retake it…we’ll get to that scene) we are privy to how impregnable the castle truly is. You would need a huge army to take it, which Sigtryggr obviously does not have, and the writers are clever enough not to show the scope of their laziness until the deed is done and the audience has hopefully forgotten their hack writing.
I want to emphasize how ridiculous this subplot was. Why exactly did Sigtryggr take Wales (something he never would have been capable of doing if the show had a semblance of logic)? The first thing he says upon entering is “we are looking for a Dane named Brida”. So he conquered an entire kingdom to save Brida, a woman who has lost every battle she ever fought in? What possible purpose does she serve for such a huge cost in men?
Fine, maybe Sigtryggr wanted to take Wales for the plunder and land? We’ve clearly been shown that Wales has a ton of loot, and lots of good land, not to mention an impregnable castle. Maybe the loss of hundreds of men (don’t ask where he got them) is worth this incredible reward? Nope! Because in the very next episode, Sigtryggr leaves it all behind to try to conquer and hold Wessex. The only logical reasoning is that because Sigtryggr’s army consists of incredible magical flying respawning Vikings, he doesn’t have to care about losses, or the logistics of holding Wales and Wessex, and about the impossibility of assaulting a castle with a small band of men. None of these details matter to our new batch of writers.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Episode 8 continues TLK’s death spiral. Brida, who has lost every major battle she fought in and recently been rescued, demands that Sigtryggr leave Wales behind and go conquer Wessex. I’m shocked at Brida’s transformation from a battle hardened but pragmatic woman to a thoroughly unlikeable, impetuous, bloodthirsty idiot, but I suppose the show needs a new villain. She wants revenge against the Saxons for…defending themselves from the Danes, I guess? And like a spoiled child she makes demands of Sigtryggr to leave his conquest behind, while he just made a heroic effort to rescue her. The Brida I knew would be much smarter than that.
Meanwhile in Wessex, Uhtred abdicates the throne of Mercia to Æthelfled, a clever move that I have no qualms with. Although Æthelfled is politically savvy and graceful in taking the throne, King Edward doesn’t like this decision, so he sends his men to take over the entire city! What is his plan exactly? He’s been shown before to be wise and crafty (in refusing Uhtred’s request for men to take Bebbanburg and his earlier dealings with him, and in his initial intrigues regarding with the Mercian Witan), but now he decides to declare martial law and…wait? For what? Why does he have such extreme misgivings about Æthelfled that he would rather have a bloodbath than let her take the throne?
And why exactly does he change his mind after such a decisive action, just a few scenes later? I'll tell you why; because Uhtred rallies a few hundred peasants and brings them to the walls. No really, go back and watch it. When Edward sees this makeshift fyrd cheering on Æthelfled (at Uthred’s urging), he just… changes his mind.
Let’s think about this. Why exactly is Edward against Æthelfled taking the throne? In episode 4, Æthelfled showed that she could lead armies and rally men around her. As a matter of fact, that was what Edward was afraid of!
Edward: “Steapa is dead… sacrificed in a battle for your husband’s ambition, and for yours”.
Æthelfled: “No, I have no ambition”
Edward: “You seek to be loved by all, chronicled for your bravery, no matter if it costs the blood of men.”
So Edward is afraid that Æthelfled is loved by all, ambitious, and eager to fight. How exactly does he change his mind about this? His reasoning is as follows:
Edward: “I see you have the support of the people of Mercia… I have made mistakes in some of my choices. I was blind not to see that you were the right person to rule Mercia”.
None of his actions make sense! He should already know she has the support of the people of Mercia! She led them victoriously in several battles, and the entire Witan approved of her! Edward’s decision to enforce martial law is completely nonsensical and doesn’t fit his character, and his change of heart is never explained. Especially because Uhtred was the one that actually rallied the people to support her. This is probably an attempt to make Edward look stupid so his actions in episodes 9 and 10 have justification (they don’t), but it completely butchers Edward’s character.
I should add; was anyone else wondering when Uhtred’s plan to bring hundreds of peasants together would backfire? There are food shortages and a plague (remember that? Don’t bother, in season 4 plagues just go away after a few months apparently), and yet Uhtred takes hundreds of farmers working the fields and brings them together in the city where they are useless mouths to feed, to show support to a queen that everyone already knows has their support. Am I the only one feeling like none of this makes any fucking sense?!
Episode 8 also shows the absolutely mind-bogglingly stupid attempt by the Welsh king to take back his castle. He arrives at the fortress with a few dozen men. Remember how devastating the Welsh archers were in the episode 4 battle? They’re gone now with no explanation. The Welsh have no siege equipment, and no plan to actually take back the impregnable castle the Danes now hold. Does everyone have the ability to fly over walls now? Seriously, what the hell was their plan? What were they going to do once they reached the gate? Who wrote this garbage!?!!
Ahem…sorry. Anyways, Sigtryggr has a plan to stop them. Wait behind the walls and shoot them? Well…that’s a better plan because the Welsh are written to be insultingly incompetent, and have no way to breach or overcome the walls, but no. He lays an extremely thick line of pitch across the field, and when the Welsh charge into the Dane line, he lights it on fire. When they retreat, he lights another line behind them on fire! No, nobody noticed the incredibly powerful odor that such a thick line of pitch would have, and the Danes knew exactly which route the Welsh would take and when they would arrive. He ambushes the Welsh on their own home territory, and they put up no resistance whatsoever and literally do not kill a single Dane.
Again I’m getting Game of Thrones flashbacks, and am reminded that no matter how good the acting or cinematography, it can’t make up for absolutely terrible writing. Was nobody with medieval military experience consulted before they wrote, shot and edited this complete nonsense?
The king with a couple dozen men…which he plans to assault that castle with.
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A large, deep layer of pitch that the Welsh cross. No, nobody stepped in it, saw it, or smelled it. How convenient!
The Welsh (who have no armor, no helmets, tiny shields, and no archers) are then shot to pieces by arrows (at night, when projectiles are far less accurate). They do not form a shield wall or even step back and duck down under cover of darkness to wait for the absurdly large fire to go out (the walls literally reach 7-8 feet high), and we as the audience are expected to sit here and watch this comical farce of a battle play out. And that is the end of the Welsh! It is a wonder how they fought off Saxon invasions for centuries when the show has made them out to be incredibly feeble and incompetent in every way. If anyone of Welsh ancestry is reading this, I’m sorry for what a disgusting hack job the show has made of your ancestors.
This incredibly dumb episode ends with a bit more nonsensical intrigue; Eardwulf has decided to betray Wessex by telling the Danes it is completely undefended…wait what? Firstly, why exactly is Wessex completely undefended? Especially since it was conquered and sacked by the Danes a few decades ago? How do the writers have such a cartoonish understanding of military logistics? Did they think Edward took all his men to Mercia? How could the Danes possibly have enough men to take and hold yet another walled settlement (answer: the incredible magical flying respawning Vikings of course!), and how would they fight off the resulting assault by Wessex and Mercia’s forces? They already have far more land than they can defend, and an entire province worth of loot! This entire plot is such incredible fucking nonsense, it boggles my mind. Nobody’s actions make sense, including Brida who is willing to make a ridiculous suicide attack for the sake of vengeance.
I want to emphasize something; Sigtryggr decides to attack Wessex at the end of episode 8, before he even captures the king’s wife and kids as hostages. He has no idea if Wessex (which is, again, left entire undefended) will have any suitable hostages. Not to mention…what does Eardwulf have to gain by doing this? He has made no demands, and as soon as he provides this information the Danes have no use for him whatsoever. Nobody’s actions make any sense!
I need to stop here. I’ve written over 3000 words covering my disappointment, and I still have two terrible episodes to write about later this week (I haven’t even gotten to the ridiculous scene where Hæsten hangs Uhtred and all his men upside down and leaves them there like a James Bond Villain). I want to emphasize that I still love the acting, the cinematography, and the character interactions of this series. Everyone has done an amazing job…except the writers. And exactly as with Game of Thrones, that is all it takes to turn an excellent show into a confusing, infuriating, and unwatchable one. None of the plot makes sense, none of the character’s motivations make sense, the military strategy has been thrown completely out the window, and I’m left in a daze wondering what the hell happened to my favorite show?
The answer to that is… I’m not sure. In the following thread (from the subreddit of the book series), u/Ghostface1357 mentions “I knew that after they deviated so heavily in season 3 that it would eventually ruin future storylines/seasons”. u/Pepper3493 agrees, saying “Season 4 deviated so heavily from the books and honestly it ruined my enjoyment of the show”. Perhaps the show was doomed earlier on exactly like Game of Thrones was when they started deviating from the book and didn’t realize how important cut material was:
https://www.reddit.com/SaxonStories/comments/ge3j50/the_last_kingdom_season_4_discussion_thread/
https://www.reddit.com/SaxonStories/comments/gb887l/season_4/
I also know that season 4 has completely new writers vs the last 3 seasons, (Stephen Butchard was the most notable loss, as he wrote the entire first season and stayed on for seasons 2 and 3). It is likely a combination of deviations from the book causing the story to unravel, and the loss of talented writing staff causing new episodes to be written by inexperienced writers.
If you’ve gotten this far, thank you for taking the time to read my thoughts, I look forward to hearing what you think!
EDIT: Minor typos
EDIT 2: A few more minor typos!
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[US] [Selling] Selling Half My Collection. Very Long List. Lots of titles.

Edit: I'm going through all the comments so be patient with me XD
Edit 2: 11/17 12:00pm I'm still responding to comments and taking pics for people so thanks for your patience
Edit 3: 11/17 5:30pmI’m still replying to people and packing up/shipping out orders so if I haven’t gotten to you I will! Again thanks for your patience I was not prepared for the response I got haha.
I wanna get rid of this chunk of my collection so help me out lol.
The red stickers mean I shrink wrapped it, if it does not have a red sticker that means it is in its original factory shrink wrap. SR = shrinkwrap incase I happen to abbreviate. All Box Sets are new in original Shrinkwrap except monster.
Most of these books are New & Unread because I also have the digital versions. They might have slight yellowing or wear & tear because I received them that way from the retailer.
I will split sets only if another person wants the other half of what's being split.
The only trades I'm accepting are for Fire Force, Priapus, Wandering Son and What Did You Eat Yesterday Vol. 9
Some of these are cross-posted so I will update as they are sold on all platforms. Prices include fees but do not include shipping unless stated otherwise. Shipping is based on Media Mail & final weight of your purchase. $75+ is shipped free, box sets are excluded.
Free Stufbucks code or $25 dollar blind box code to the first 3 people to spend $75. I Have 2 of stufbucks and 1 blind box code.
Sorry about the typos it’s a long list. It’s a lot of photos to take so as I finish taking photos or as people ask I’ll update the listing. Thanks!
Manga
pics of everything
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07 Ghost Volume 1-5, 7-17 (G5) $104
5 Centimeters Per Second (G5) $10
7 Billion Needles Volume 1(G4) $12
7 Billion Needles Volume 1-4 (Complete) (G4-G5) $150
20th Century Boys Perfect Edition Volume 1-9 (G5) $110
A Brides Story Volume 1-12 (g5) $120
A Certain Scientific Railgun Volume 1-15 (G4-G5) $450
A Drifting Life (G4) $20
A Girl On The Shore (G5) $12
Absolute Boyfriend Volume 1-6 (G3-G4) $30 (Volume one has some weird stain from previous owner)
Again!! Volume 1-12(Complete) (G5) $85
Ajin Demi-Human Volume 1-15 (G5) $120
Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor Volume 1-6 (G4 remainder marks) $40
Alice & Zoroku Volume 1-5 (G4 remainder marks) $35
Alice in the Country of Bundle (G4) $130
  1. Clover: Bloody Twins
  2. Clover: Ace of Hearts
  3. Clover: Cheshire Cat Waltz Vol. 1-5
  4. Hearts: Volume 1-3 (Omnibus)(Complete)
  5. Hearts: My Fanatic Rabbit Volume 1-2 (Complete)
  6. Joker: Liar's Game Volume 1-2
All You Need Is Kill (Complete Omnibus) (G5) $9
An Invitation From A Crab (G4 new & unread, slightly damaged during shipping) $8
Anonymous Noise Volume 1-18 (Complete) (G4-G5) $120
Aposimz Volume 1-3 (G5) $24
Aquarion Evol Volume 1-5(Complete) (G5) $35
Arata the Legend Volume 1-14 (G4) $98
Arcana Volume 1-9 (Complete) (G4) $60
Artifice (G3-G4, pages are in great shape but are separating from spine slightly. Signed by author in previous owner's name) $10
Asian Beat (G3) $5
B.O.D.Y. Volume 1-10 Complete (G4) $50
Baccano! Volume 1 (G5) $8
Bad Teachers Equation Volume 1-10 (Complete, Japanese) (G4) $50
Basilisk Volume 1-5(Complete) (G3-G4) $50
Battle Club Volume 1-6 (Complete) (G4-G5) $40
Battle Royale Volume 1-15 (Complete) (G4) $350
Beasts of Abigaile Volume 1-4 (Complete) (G4, remainder marks) $25
Biomega Volume 1-6 (Complete) (G4-G5) $60
Black Bird Box Set (g5 new in SR) $100
Black Clover Volume 1-9 (G4) $63
Black Gate Omnibus (G4) $10
Black Torch Volume 1-5 (complete) (g5) $35
Blade of the Immortal Volume 1-26, 28, 30-31 (G2-G4) $300
Blade of the Immortal Volume 11 (G2) $6
Blade of the Immortal Volume 11 (G3) $8
Blade of the Immortal Shinsou-ban (Japanese) Edition (G5) $160
Blame! Master Edition Volume 1-6 (Complete) (G5) $120
Bleach Box Sets 2-3(G5 new in SR) $220
Bloody Cross Volume 1-12 (complete) (G4-G5) $96
Bloody Monday Volume 1-11 (Complete) (G3-G4 , vol 3 is very worn from previous owner) $70
Blue Exorcist Volume 1-23 (G4-G5) $140
Boarding School Juliet Volume 1-9 (G4) $63
Boxers & Saints Box Set (G5 new in original Shrinkwrap) $40
Buddha Volume 1-8 (Complete, paperback) (G5) $72
Bungo Stray Dogs Volume 1 (G5) $7
Buso Renkin Volume 1-10 (Complete) (G4) $70
Captain Harlock : The Classic Collection Hardcover Volume 1-3 (Complete) (G4-G5) $45
Captain Harlock: Dimensional Voyage Volume 1-10 (Complete) (G3-G4) $70 (some are former Library books, the outsides have been cleaned and are unmarked but the insides may still have markings or stickers.
Cats of Louvre (G5) $18
Cells at Work Volume 1-5 (G5) $40
Cells at Work! Code Black Volume 1-5 (G5) $45
Children of the Whales Volume 1-15 (G4-G5) $120
Cirque Du Freak Volume 1-12 (Complete) (G2-G4, some former library books and spine creases) $150
City Volume 1-8 (G5) $68
Claymore Box Set (G5 new in SR) $110
Clockwork Apple (G4) Got for free, free with a purchase or just pay shipping alone
Cy Believers Volume 1-4 (Complete) (G4) $15
D.N. Angel Volume 1-13 (Complete) (G3-G4) $60
Dance in the Vampire Bund Volume 1 (G4) $8
Daniel X Volume 1-3 (Complete) (G4-G5) $25
Daytime Shooting Star Volume 1-7 (G5) $49
Daytripper (G5) $10
Dead Mount Death Play Volume 1-4 (G5, new in original SR) $32
Deadman Wonderland Volume 1-13 (Complete) (G5) $85
Dears Volume 1-8 (Complete) (G3-G4) $50
Demon Diary Volume 1-7(Complete) (G4) $40
Demon Slayer Volume 1-18 (G5) $120
Devilman Grimoire Volume 1-5 (Complete) (G4 remainder marks) $35
Devilman vs Hades Volume 1-3(Complete) (G4 remainder marks ) $22
Devils and Realist Volume 1-15 (Complete) (G4-G5) $130
Devils' Line Volume 1-14 (Complete) (G5) $120
Dorohedoro Volume 1-23 (Complete) (G5) $184
Doubt Volume 1-2(Complete) (G4) $20
Dragon Goes House Hunting Volume 1-5 (G4-G5 remainder marks) $40
Dragon Half Omnibus Volume 1-3 (Complete) (G4 remainder marks) $30
Drifting Classroom Perfect Edition Volume 1-3 (Complete) (G5) $60
Drifting Dragons Volume 1-5 (G5) $40
Durarara!! Volume 1-4 (Complete first Arc) (G4) $30
Erased Volume 1-5 (Complete) (G5) $90
Everyone's Getting Married Volume 1-9 (Complete) (G5) $60
Fairy Cube Volume 1-3 (Complete) (G4) $15
Fairy Tail Volume 1-21 (G4 wear from shipping, was not shipped to me securely) $110
Fall in Love Like A Comic Volume 1-2(G4) $12
Fire in His Fingertips: A Flirty Fireman Ravishes Me With His Smoldering Gaze Volume 1 (G5 new in original shrinkwrap) $9
First Love Monster Volume 1-6 (G4-G5) $48
FLCL Volume 1-2 Omnibus (Complete) (G4) $15
Frau Faust Volume 1-5 (Complete) (G5) $42
Fuku Fuku Kitten Tales Volume 1-2 (G5) $12
Full Moon Volume 1 (G4) $6
Game X Rush Volume 1-2 (Complete) (G4) $10
Gamerz Heaven Volume 1-2 (G4) $12
Gangsta Volume 1-8 (G5) $60
Gangsta: Cursed Volume 1-5 (Complete ) (G5) $40
Gantz Volume 1-37 (Complete, Japanese) $160
Gantz Omnibus Volume 1-4 (G5 new in original shrinkwrap) $68
Ghost Diary Volume 1-3 (Complete) (G5) $24
Giganto Maxia (G4) (got free, free with other purchase or pay for shipping alone)
Gintama Volume 1-5 (G4) $30
Girl with the Sanpaku Eyes Volume 1 (G5) $9
Girls Bravo Volume 1-4, 6-7 (G4-G5) $40
Go With the Clouds North-By-Northwest Volume 1-3 (G5) $23
Goblin Slayer Volume 1-8 (G5 in original shrinkwrap) $65
Goblin Slayer Side Story: Year One Volume 1-5 (G5 in original SR) $40
Goblin Slayer: Brand New Day Volume 1-2 (G5 in original SR) $16
Graneliers Volume 1-3 (Complete) (G5) $20
Grand Blue Dreaming Volume 1-10 (G4-G5) $80
Happiness Volume 1-10 (Complete) (G5) $80
Happy Marriage Volume 1-10 (Complete) (G4-G5) $60
Hayate The Combat Butler Volume 1-2 (G4) $12
He's My Only Vampire Volume 1-10 (Complete) (OOP) (G4) $80
Hetalia Axis Power Volume 1-6 (Complete) (G4 shipping wear) $60
High School Debut 3-in-1 Volume 1-5 (Complete) (G5) $50
High Rise Invasion Omnibus Volume 1-7 (G4-G5) $80
Himouto! Umaru-Chan Volume 1-10 (G5) $80
Hot Gimmick VizBig Edition Vol 1-4 (Complete) (G4) $40
Howl's Moving Caste Film Comic Volume 1-4 (Complete) (G4) $30
Hunter X Hunter Volume 1-32 (G4) $200
I Am A Hero Volume 1-4, 6-11 (G4-G5) $200
Ibitsu (G4) $12
I'm Standing On A Million Lives Volume 1-6 (G5) $40
Immortal Hounds Volume 1-6 (G5) $45
Imperfect Girl Volume 1-3 (G5) $22
In/Spectre Volume 1-6 (G5) $40
Inuyasha Volume 1-41 (G3-G4) $240
Inuyasha VizBig Edition Volume 15-18 (43-56) (G4) $48
Inuyashiki Volume 1-10 (Complete) (G5) $80
ION (G4) $6
Isle of Dogs (G5) $
Itsuwaribito Volume 1-23 (Complete) (G4-G5) $140
Jack Frost Volume 1-9, 11 (G4) $80
Jack The Ripper: Hell Blade Volume 1-3 (G4, remainder marks) $15
Jack the Ripper: Hell Blade Volume 1-5 (Complete) (G4-G5) (Volume 4 has remainder mark) $35
Juana and the Dragonewt's Seven Kingdoms Volume 1-3 (Complete) (G4 remainder marks) $19
Judge Volume 1-6 (Complete) (G4) $60
Jujutsu Kaisen Volume 1-5 (G5) $30
Kakegurui Compulsive Gambler Volume 1-12 (G5) $90
Kanokon Omnibus Volume 1-9 (Complete) (G4 remainder marks) $50
Kanpai Volume 1-2 (Complete) (G4) $10
Karneval Omnibus Volume 1-10 (G5) $120
Keili Manga Volume 1-2 Complete (G4)$12
Kimi ni Todoke Volume 1-30 (Complete) (G4-G5) $200
King of Thorn Volume 1 (G4) $8
Kiss of Fire Youka Nitta Art Book (G5 new in original shrinkwrap) $10
Kizuna Volume 1-11 (Complete, Japanese) (G4) $50
Knights of Sidonia Master Edition Volume 1-3 (G5) $62
Komi Can't Communicate Volume 1-8 (G5) $52
Kujibiki Unbalance Volume 1-2 (Complete) (G4) $12
Kuma Miko Girl Meets Bear Volume 1-8 (G5) $54
Kuroko's Basketball Omnibus Volume 1-11 (Complete) (G5) $110
LDK Volume 1-15 (G5) $100
Lament of the Lamb Volume 1-5 (G4) $40 Shipped
Lament of the Lamb Volume 1-7 (Complete) (G4) $60
Laon Volume 1 (G5) $8
Legal Drug Volume 1-3 (Dark Horse Omnibus) (G3, remainder mark) $15
Levius (G5) $20
Levuis/est Volume 1-6 (G5) $48
Little Devils Volume 1-4 (G4-G5 remainder marks 1-2) $30
Livingstone Volume 1-4 (complete) (G4) $25
Lone Wolf & Cub Volume 1-28 (Complete) (G3-G5) $365
Lone Wolf & Cub Volume 7, 9, 19 (G2-G3) $15
Love Hina Volume 1-14 (Complete, matching spines) (G3-G4) $70
Lust Mix (Hentai) (G5 new in original SR) $15
Machimo: I Messed Up and Made the Wrong Person Into A Magical Girl Volume 1-6 (G5) $48
Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka Volume 1-8 (G4-G5 remainder marks on 1-6) $60
Manhwa Novella Collection Volume 1-4 (Complete, Netcomics) (G3) $25
Marginal Operation Volume 1-3 (G5) $24
Maximum Ride Volume 1-9 (G4-G5) $70
Midnight Mover (G4) $5
Mikagura School Suite Volume 1-3 G4 remainder marks) $20
Moble Suit Gundam 00: Second Season Volume 4 (G4) $4
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Orgin Volume 1-3 (G4) $45
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Episode Zero & Endless Waltz Vol 1-4 (G3/G4) $30
Model Volume 1-7 (G3-G4) $40
Monkey High Volume 1-6 (G4) $30
Monster Perfect Edition Volume 1-9 (Complete) $120
Monster Japanese Box Set (Box is G3 was damaged during shipping, has dent/hole on bottom of box. Books are G5) $140
Moster Tamer Girls Volume 1 (G5) $8
Mushoku Tensei Jobless Reincarnation Volume 1-9 (G4-G5) $70
My Boy Volume 1-6 (G5) $50
My Father is A Unicorn (G5) $9
My Little Monster Volume 1-13 (Complete) (G4-G5) $104
My Neighbor Seki Volume 1-3 (G4) $18
My Neighbor Tototo Film Comic Volume 1-4 (G4) $25
Nabari no Ou Volume 1-14 (G4) $140
Nabari No Ou Volume 1-2 (G4) $12
Naruto Volume 39-46 (G4) $40
Natsume's Book of Friends Volume 1-14 (g4) $100
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Box Set (G5 new in SR) $45
NE NE NE (G5) $8
Negima Volume 1-20 (G4) $100
Neo Parasyte F & M (G4) $18
New Lone Wolf & Cub Volume 5 $9
Nichijou Volume 1-8 (G5) $52
No Guns Life Volume 1-7 (G5) $56
No Matter How I look At It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular Volume 1-16 (G5) $128
Not Simple (G5) $10
Oisinbo Volume 1-7 (G4) $60
Of The Red the Light and the Ayakashi Volume 2-10 (G5) $70
Olympos (G4) $12
Only the Ring Finger Knows (Manga) & Novel Volume 1-5 (G4) $100
Ooku: The Inner Chambers Volume 1-17 (G5) $150
Opus (G5) $12
Orange Omnibus 1-2 & Orange Future (G5) $32
Otomen Volume 1-9 (G4) $50
Overlord Volume 1-10 (G5) $80
Parasyte Volume 1-8 (Complete) (G5) $60
Phantom Dream Volume 1-5 (Complete) (G4) $30
Ping Pong Volume 1-2 (G5) $40
Pixie Volume 1-2 (G4) $10
Planetes Volume 1-2 (Complete) (G4) $24
Platinum End Volume 1-11 (G5) $72
Pleasure & Corruption Volume 1-2 (G5) $14
Plum Crazy! Tales of a Tiger Striped Cat Volume 1-4 (Complete) (G4 remainder marks) $30
Plunderer Volume 1-4 (G5) $48
Pluto Volume 1-8 (G5) $70
Pokemon Adventures: Collector's Edition Volume 1-3 (G5) $35
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea Movie Comic Volume 1-4 (G4) $25
Portus (G5) $7
Priest Volume 1-16 (Complete) (G4, vol 3 is G2 pages are clean and crisp but the cover has a stickepaper stain) $130
Priest Purgatory Vol 1-2 (Complete) (G4) $10
Prince of Tennis Volume 1-3 (G4) $15
Prison School Volume 1-14 (G4-G5) $180
Prophecy Volume 1-3 (G4) $15
Psychic Power Nanaki Volume 1-3 (Complete) (G4) $15
Psycho Busters Vol 1-7 (Complete) (G4) $40
Psycho Pass Volume 1-4 (G4) $40
Push Man & Other Stories (G5) $10
Q.Ko-Chan Volume 1-2 (G4) $16
Radient Volume 1-12 (G5) $ 80
Real Love (G4) $ 5
Red Hot Chili Samurai Volume 1-4 (Complete) (G4) $20
Red Riding Hood and the Big Sad Wolf Volume 1-2 (Complete) (G5) $16
Requiem of the Rose King Volume 1-12 (G5) $80
Rosario Vampire Box Set (G5 new in SR) $110
Rurouni Kenshin Volume 1-28 (G4) $140
RWBY (DC Comics) (G5) $10
RWBY (Viz Media) (G5) $ 8
RWBY: The Official Manga Volume 1(G5) $8
RWBY: The Official Manga Anthology Volume 1-4 (Complete) $30
Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beats Volume 1-10 (G4-G5) $80
Saga Volume 1 (Hardcover) (G5) $15
Saga Compendium One (Paperback) (G4) $35
Sailor Moon Eternal Edition Volume 1-8 (G5) $136
Samurai Executioner Volume 1-10 (G4) $160
Samurai Harem Volume 1-2 (Vol. 2-G2 & Vol. 1-G4) $12
Satisfaction Guaranteed Volume 1-7 (Complete) (G4) $30
Say I Love You Volume 1-18 (Complete) (G4, vol 13 has crinkled spine) $130
Scumbag Loser (G5 new in SR) $15
Secret Volume 1-3 (Complete) (G4) $30
Sekaiichi Hatsukoi (World's Greatest First Love) Volume 1-7 (Japanese) (G5) $40
Sensual Phrase Volume 1-18 (Complete) (G4 OOP) $140
Sensual Phrase Volume 15-16, 18 (G4) $20
Sequence (G4) $6
Seraph of the End Volume 1-17 (G4) $105
Seraphin 266613336 Wings (G5) $12
Servamp Volume 1-12 (G4 remainder marks) $95
She and Her Cat (G5) $8
Shut-In Shoutaorou Kominami Takes on the World Volume 1-3(Omnibus) (G5) $18
Skip Beat Volume 1-31 (G4) $180
Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle Volume 1-12 (G5) $75
Solanin (G5) $11
Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: Heed My Call Beasts! Volume 1-2 (G4 remainder marks) $17
Soul Eater Volume 1-25 (Complete) (G2-G4) $125 (volume 15-25 got water damaged during shipping and have noticeable warping. Vol 1-14 are in perfect shape. Basically selling 1-14 for 8 bucks each + shipping and fees and 15-25 are free. They're still readable and look fine on a shelf)
Soul Liquid Chamber Volume 1-3 (G4 remainder marks) $21
Soul Rescue Volume 1-2 (complete) (G4) $10
Spirit Circle Volume 1-6 (Complete) (G4 remainder marks) $40
Spirited Away Film Comic Volume 1-5 (Complete) (G5) $30
Spy X Family Volume 1-2 (G5) $12
Star Blazers Volume 1-2 (G5) $24
Strawberry Chan Volume 1-2 (G5) $10 (Shipped)
Suki Volume 1-3 (G4) $15
Sweetness & Lightning Volume 1-12 (Complete) (G5) $100
Taboo Tattoo Volume 2-13 (G4) $95
Togainu no Chi Doiujinshis (6 different ones) (Japanese) (G4) $40
Takeru Opera Susanoh Sword of the Devil Volume 1-4 (Complete) (G4) $20
Tales of Berseria Volume 1-3 (complete) (G5) $25
Tales of Zestria Volume 1-4 (Complete) (G4) $30
Tarot Cafe: The Collector's Edition Volume 1-3 (Omnibus) (Complete) (G4 remainder marks) $30
That Wolf Boy Is Mine Volume 1-4 (Complete) (G5) $28
The Ancient Magus Bride Volume 1-12 (G5) $95
The Angel of Elhamburg (G5) $10
The Boy and the Beast Volume 1-3 (Complete) (G5) $24
The Bride and the Exorcist Knight Volume 1-4 (Complete) (G4) $
The Daily Lives of High School Boys Volume 1 (G5) $8
The Dark-Hunters Infinity Volume 1-2 (Complete0 (G5) $16
The Demon Prince of Momochi House Volume 1-16 (G5) $112
The Dungeon of Black Company Volume 1-4 (G4 remainder marks) $28
The Flowers of Evil Volume 1-11 (Complete) (G4) $110
The Garden of Words (G5) $8 (2 copies)
The Gentlemen's Alliance Volume 1-11 (Complete) (G4 $50
The Ghost and the Lady Volume 1-2 (Complete) (G4) $22
The Girl From the Other Side Volume 1-8 (G5) $68
The Gods Lie (G5) $9
The Great Catsby Volume 1-5 (G4) $35
The Innocent (G5) $8
The Legend of Dororo and Hyakkimaru Volume 1 (G5) $8
The Legend of Zelda Legendary Edition Volume 1-5 (Complete) (G5) $50
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Volume 1-7 (G5) $45
The Other Side of the Mirror Volume 1-2 (Complete) (G4) $10
The Prince in His Dark Days Volume 1-4 (Complete) (G4) $30
The Promised Neverland Volume 1-17 (G5) $120
The Royal Tutor Volume 1-13 (G5) $105
The Saga of Tanya the Evil Volume 1-9 (Manga)(G5) $72
The Seven Princes of the Thousand Year Labyrinth Volume 1-4 (Complete) (G4 remainder marks) $30
The Voynich Hotel Volume 1-3 (Complete) (G4 remainder marks) $22
Time Killers: Short Story Collection (G5) $8
Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun Volume 1-4 (G5) $30
Tokyo ESP Volume 1-6 (Complete)(G4) $55
Tokyo Ghoul Box Set (G5 new in shrinkwrap) $100
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