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Even Lena Headey Didn't Love Cersei's Ending on 'Game of Thrones'


It turns out even Lena Headey wasn’t thrilled with how the Game of Thrones showrunners wrapped Cersei Lannister’s storyline in the final season of Game of Thrones. For the past eight seasons, we wondered if Cersei would meet her end on the show—but what ultimately happened wasn’t quite what viewers thought would transpire for the once-powerful queen. (After all, the show has dispatched characters major and minor in pretty much every way imaginable.) As viewers know, Cersei dies in her lover/brother Jamie’s arms as King’s Landing crumbles on top of them, which some argue wasn’t befitting of her character. As it turns out, they’re not alone: Headey always wanted Cersei to have a more epic death, too.

“I invested as a viewer, and I have my favorite characters. And I’ve got a few of my own gripes. But I haven’t sat down drunkenly with [showrunners] David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] yet,” she told The Guardian in an interview published Sunday (July 16). (Those two are the showrunners who adapted Game of Thrones from the books.)

As far as what she’ll say in her tipsy critique, Headey told the Guardian that she already has it planned: “I will say I wanted a better death,” Headey said. “Obviously you dream of your death. You could go in any way on that show. So I was kind of gutted. But I just think they couldn’t have pleased everyone. No matter what they did, I think there was going to be some big comedown from the climb.”

This isn’t the first time Headey has voiced her dissatisfaction with Cersei’s death. Last month, following the series finale, she told Entertainment Weekly, she wanted her character to “have some big piece or fight with somebody.”

Even if Cersei didn’t get the ending she quite deserved, Headey is already considering her next role: The Guardian reports that the massive success of the show—and the acclaim her acting received—has been a huge boost to her career, and that she’s now being “sent scripts in which she is actively interested.” Hopefully, that means we won’t have to wait too long until we see Headey and her talent back in action.



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Billie Eilish Is So Gen-Z She Didn't Know Who Hilary Duff Was


There’s always a lot of talk about millennials and baby boomers going tête-à-tête about who to blame for destroying the planet and ruining the economy, but the real chasm is the one happening between millennials and generation-Z. Just ask fans of Billie Eilish, who has emerged on the scene as a cultural icon for the 21st century youth.

In a recent interview with Nardwuar, the host gave Eilish a few gifts that were nostalgic of various pop culture icons or moments. The first present, which was received with excitement, was a miniature yellow submarine with tiny replicas of the Beatles attached. This one went over pretty well with the superstar, who exclaimed that she loves the Beatles. But it was a gift that Nardwuar gave her later in the interview which drummed up a bit of confusion for Eilish.

When Nardwuar gave Eilish a Hilary Duff sleeping bag, she appeared to be perplexed. “So, ‘Who is Hilary Duff? is the real question,” Eilish immediately inquired, to which Nardwuar replied, Lizzie McGuire, in reference to the early aughts Disney Channel original series starring Duff as the titular character.

It seems like everyone on Twitter who saw this Nardwuar interview was struck with the hard truth that the pop star really is that young, but there’s really no good reason to shame the 17-year-old for not having the same pop culture references on her mind as everyone else. At best, she just sounds a lot like that classic Vine in which a young man couldn’t remember the name of Duff’s Disney show.

This is also the same generation-Z pop star who thought the Spice Girls were a made up band until about two years ago. “I didn’t have cable growing up so I didn’t really watch TV shows on a channel,” she told Capital FM in the interview that revealed her unawareness of the Spice Girls. “I had DVDs of things, and I just rewatched them. So I never saw SpongeBob the show. I didn’t know it was a show; I thought it was only a movie.” Eilish would have been an infant when Lizzie McGuire, which aired from 2001 to 2004, was on Disney Channel, and she has also admitted that she did not watch much television growing up anyway.

But if Eilish didn’t know who Duff was, and she is an avatar of sorts for teens, it could be possible that there is an entire generation out there that remains unaware of the impact Duff has made on music (real Metamorphosis heads will always remember) and pop culture in general.

Duff, who managed to be one of the few Disney Channel stars to mature successfully and still maintain success and popularity with a television career (she currently stars on Younger), has yet to respond.

Related: Billie Eilish Didn’t Believe the Spice Girls Were Real Until 2017





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Twitter Thinks This Chart Helps Explain Why You Didn't Love 'Game of Thrones' Last Season


It’s officially been one week since HBO aired its final episode of Game of Thrones, and if you’re like other disappointed fans out there, you’re probably still trying to make sense of that unexpected ending. Though some aren’t pleased with showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (and even started a petition begging HBO to remake the last season), there’s some interesting data that might hold some explanation for why viewers were far more interested in the earlier seasons of the hit series.

Vanity Fair writer Joanna Robinson shared a chart on Twitter that tracks the average number of words the characters spoke per minute in each Game of Thrones episode, starting from Season 1. Based on the data, measured by OpenSubtitles.org and charted by Github user mrquart, the number of words in each episode declined throughout the show’s seasons.

You can see the graph fall from approximately 60 in the first season to less than 40 in the last. Meanwhile, season eight’s “The Long Night” episode, which contained the longest and most expensive battle scene in TV history, had the least dialogue with an average of just 15 words per spoken per minute.

As Robinson clarified in a reply to her original tweet with the chart, the data itself isn’t a reflection of quality. “… This isn’t INHERENTLY bad, obviously. I just like the earlier dialogue-heavy stuff so much personally,” she wrote. “… You don’t really need to see this lovely graph if you’ve looked at the scripts themselves—the difference is stunning.”

So if you think that the chattier scenes of earlier seasons were a little better, this might help support that. One user pointed out that the writers ran out of material after season five from author George R. R. Martin’s original books, so things shifted from “being conveyed via words” to, on its own, a more visual approach. Also, as some fans brought up, the show’s average word count could have also decreased in part because of all the battle scenes in later seasons, where there’s not a ton of talking going on.

Of course, fans were quick to chime in about it:

Despite the Game of Thrones‘ lack of dialogue, fans clearly still kept tuning in: In fact, more than 13.8 million viewers watched the final episode live, making season eight’s finale the most-watched of any of the show’s seasons.





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Why I Didn't Like Arya’s Sex Scene on ‘Game of Thrones’


Yes, she was empowered. Yes, it was one of the most consensual sex scenes in Game of Thrones history. Yes, she’s old enough to have sex. (Maisie Williams, who plays Arya, is 22; the character is 18.) These are all things I know to be true—and still, I did not enjoy Arya Stark’s sex scene last night with her friend and former traveling companion Gendry.

I’m not saying my reaction is correct or even that feminist. Objectively, I believe Arya made a strong, empowered choice with the autonomy she was afforded on her last night before the Battle for Winterfell. Arya needs no protection, nor does she need anyone telling her what to do with her body. And just a quick glance at Twitter tells me that many fans loved the scene:

Williams told Entertainment Weekly she’s happy with the scene too, though she thought the showrunners were joking when she first read the script. “At first, I thought it was a prank,” Williams says. “I was like, ‘Yo, good one.’ And [the showrunners were] like, ‘No, we haven’t done that this year.’ Oh f—k!”

Two episodes deep into the final season of Game of Thrones, I stand where I always have: very protective of Arya. That doesn’t mean she can’t or shouldn’t ever have sexual experiences—so if that reaction makes me garbage, I get it—but as I watched I thought about how we’ve seen her grow up way too fast in every other way, from seeing her father’s beheading at a young age to fleeing her nest and going scorched-earth on her enemies. Truly, the only way that Arya hasn’t been mature beyond her years is in sexual experience.

Arya (Maisie Williams) and Gendry (Joe Dempsie) on Game of Thrones

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Her story has always been about revenge and murder, slicing and dicing her foes with the grace and ease of an infomercial chopping device. The writers almost got through the whole series without sexualizing her—something I really thought they would do because of her one-track mind for retribution.

But they just couldn’t help themselves, could they? They couldn’t wrap this show without Arya Stark revealing herself to a man in the nearly textbook way that almost every other woman on this show has done before. (Seriously, the behind-the-naked-female-butt camera angles on this show are like clockwork. Why must the women always get undressed before the men?)

It felt jarring to me that this is the thing Arya wants to do before she dies, when that hasn’t been fully baked into her character until now. And I’m not alone in that opinion:

There’s something else about the scene that didn’t sit right with me. Again, I’m not saying I have the correct opinion—but I want to voice how I feel: The sex scene unintentionally prodded its finger into an old wound of mine. I’ve been pretty vocal on Twitter about my desire, as a queer person, to see more diversity of sexuality on this show. After all, there aren’t many characters on Game of Thrones with a queer experience. Yara Greyjoy is a lesbian character who flirted with Daenerys last season and nearly had a killer sex scene with Ellaria Sand, but she’s never gotten her due romantically. When Yara and Ellaria kissed, men literally burst into the room to kidnap them.

As a character with a less explicit sexual history, Arya was easy for me to relate to. She was a tomboyish kid who parlayed her brawny, raw power into a brute strength—and I loved that about her. Deep down, I knew the show wasn’t going to make her queer—but I was hoping we’d make it through the series without seeing her fall into a heterosexual romance in a way that felt forced to me.





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Priyanka Chopra Didn't Think She'd Marry Nick Jonas—But This Is What Changed Her Mind


Can you even remember when Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas weren’t a couple? We hardly can, either—it’s almost like they’ve just been in our lives this entire time, having amazing triple dates with the rest of the Jonas Brothers, live-Instagramming their vacations, and buying each other awesomely luxurious gifts.

Of course, that’s not actually true, and in a recent appearance, Chopra gave some insight into the newlywed’s relationship—including her nickname for Nick. “I call him ‘Old Man Jonas.’ That’s my name for him, ‘OMJ,’” Chopra said during a panel at Tina Brown’s 10th Annual Women in the World Summit, according to People. “He’s such an old soul, extremely smart, so good for me because he grounds me so much. I’m a wild child, I do whatever I want, whenever I want and he always supports me.”

But Chopra, who is 10 years older than her husband, admits she didn’t necessarily see beyond the surface when the two first met. “I’ve known him for two years. I didn’t think that this is what it [would’ve] turned out to be, and that’s maybe that’s my fault. I judged a book by its cover,” she said. “When I actually started dating Nick, he surprised me so much.”

So here’s what changed her mind about getting serious with Jonas: During a date early in their relationship, Chopra told Jonas she had to leave for a meeting but kept hinting that maybe she could cancel it. He wasn’t having it, though, and showed some real respect for her work ethic in the process. “Finally he took me aside, and he’s like, ‘Look, I’m not stupid. I know what you’re trying to do, but I will never be the one who will tell you to cancel work because I know how hard you’ve worked to be where you are,'” she said. “‘So if you could’ve canceled it, you would’ve done it. I’ll take our friends out for dinner, we’ll wait for you, and you finish your meeting and come back.’”

“He gave me credit for what I had done. It was just mind-blowing for me,” she continued.

It’s official: Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas are relationship goals. Take note, dudes.



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NASA Cancels the First All-Female Spacewalk Because They Didn't Have Enough Spacesuits in the Proper Size


This just in: sexism now has extended past planet earth to literal outer space.

This week, NASA announced it would have to cancel (or at least postpone) what had been billed as its first all-female spacewalk.

The reason? Not because of some scientific glitch or a massive mathematical problem but because…it just occurred to the people who push the boundaries of human explorarion that it only has one spacesuit sized to fit a woman. Now Anne McClain, one of the women chosen for the mission, will have to surrender her spot to a man. (Christina Koch will still do the walk.) According to The Guardian, McClain at first believed she’d be able to make do with a larger suit, but realized that a medium is a better fit.

“Anne trained in ‘M’ and ‘L’ and thought she could use a large but decided after [last] Friday’s spacewalk a medium fits better,” a NASA spokeswoman, Stephanie Schierholz, said in a tweet. “In this case, it’s easier (and faster!) to change space-walkers than reconfigure the spacesuit.”

A bit more detail was offered up in an official press release: “McClain learned during her first spacewalk that a medium-size hard upper torso – essentially the shirt of the spacesuit – fits her best. Because only one medium-size torso can be made ready by Friday, March 29, Koch will wear it.”

Frankly, I call bullshit, NASA.

Of course, the fit of the spacesuit is essential and no one would ever want to put an astronaut at risk, but how is that the people who put a man on the moon can’t (or won’t) imagine a world with more than one qualified woman in it? Earth to NASA (and men worldwide): women need to be in the room where decisions get made. Otherwise, this ridiculous pattern will repeat itself over and over. It’s not enough to “include women.” Women need to be part of the process, or we’re bound to end up on the cutting room floor.

The cancelation of this mission means women and girls won’t be able to witness an historic (and overdue) event. Instead, we’ll have just one more example of the extent to which the world (and the universe around it) aren’t built for us.

As a woman who has spent a lifetime obsessed with the space program and its achievements—to the point that I convinced my parents to let me miss a week of middle school to go to Space Camp—this is more than an outrage. It’s a genuine disappointment.

Looks like I’m not alone. On social media, the reaction has been fittingly ferocious.

As a government agency funded by taxpayer dollars, NASA simply has to do better. Representation matters—in the rooms where these plans are made and in the images we see of women taking historic steps forward, in space and on Earth.





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