Month: June 2020
Game Of Thrones‘ final season is still a point of contention, one year later, as HBO continues to develop a House Of Targaryen-focused prequel. The Thrones cast certainly didn’t shy away from offering their takes, with Kit Harington previously expressing disappointment that Arya was the one who killed the Night King since he wanted Jon Snow to take that trophy. However, The Eternals star seems like he’s found peace with where his character ultimately ended up, even if some viewers felt that Snow got the shaft by being sent into exile following Dany’s death and Bran taking the Iron Throne.
Granted, people may have felt sorry for Jon because of his perpetual grumpy face. Hey, it’s difficult to know how the guy felt! Even when he was in love, the dude seemed miserable. Yet Kit wants everyone to know that Jon’s fate was consistent with where he belongs. While speaking to Twitter user @purple_dwagon during a video chat,” Kit insisted that “Jon is always happiest” (although, again, it’s hard to tell when he’s experiencing palpable feelings) when he’s “north of the wall” because Tormund was correct when he said “You’re of the north.”
Harington maintained that he felt passionately on the subject and could continue arguing the point “for hours,” but he’s fairly certain that Jon would have been truly miserable sticking around in the south. Here’s why:
“He’s been saddled with this weight all the way through the series and he’s this heavy character – he’s literally got a cloak on and he’s heavy. And what I wanted with that last bit is for there to be this lightness about him. It’s all falling off, this terrible thing that he’s been through is all falling off as he goes north of the Wall.”
Sound reasonable? I think that Jon could have tried throwing off that massive cloak and heading out to sea with Arya, just to see if he was capable of happiness without being underneath a mountain of snow. Then again, Arya might have grown annoyed with his attitude and thrown him overboard. We’ll never know what could have been, but you can watch Kit dig back into Jon Snow’s psyche below.
Kit Harington on Jon Snow’s ending in #GameOfThrones
“I could go on about this for hours” pic.twitter.com/B55kOg6HJj
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Trevor Noah wasted no time getting to the point during Monday’s The Daily Show. “Another Monday in the middle of corona and in the middle of protests about police brutality, and yet it’s another Monday of another police brutality incident,” the weary-looking host said. “Another story that has people going, how long? How much? When is it enough?” Noah could have been talking about any number of unarmed black men, women, and non-binary people who have been killed by cops, but in this case, he was referring to Rayshard Brooks, who was fatally shot last Friday in Atlanta.
After going through the details of the incident (Brooks had fallen asleep in his parked car while drunk), Noah said, “He’s broken some law, a law not worth dying for. I think we can all agree on that. The police approach him, and even then, I ask the question: why are armed police dealing with a man who’s sleeping in his car? He posed no threat to anybody… Why, why, why, why, why, why? Why are armed police the first people who have to go and respond to somebody who’s sleeping in their car who is drunk?”
The whole clip above is worth a worth, but the biggest takeaway is this:
“People always say the same thing. They go, ‘Well, you know, if you didn’t do that, then you would still be alive.’ They say this sh*t all the time. ‘If you didn’t do that.’ But the truth is, the ‘ifs’ keep on changing. If you didn’t resist arrest, then you’d still be alive. Or if you didn’t run away from the cops, you’d still be alive. Well, if you didn’t have a toy gun and were 12 years old in the middle of a park, then you would have still been alive. Well, if you weren’t wearing a hoodie, then you would have still been alive. If you didn’t talk back to the cops, you would have been still been alive. If you weren’t sleeping in your bed as a black woman, you would have still been alive. There’s one common thread beyond all the ‘ifs.’ If you weren’t black, maybe you’d still be alive.”
If this is The Daily Show‘s worst legacy, Noah asking the tough questions is the best.
The country has changed since the death of George Floyd. Protests against police brutality sprung up across the nation, and in the midst of all this, support has also been shown for the daughter Floyd left behind, Gianna. Kanye West, for his part, established a college fund for the six-year-old, and now Gianna has expressed her gratitude.
On her Instagram, Floyd shared an image of text that read, “Thank you Kanye for securing my college education,” and wrote in the post, “Thank You Kanye, Because of You I Will have a college Education… Mommy and I are so thankful for you and your family @kimkardashian.”
Kanye isn’t the only person who has helped make Floyd’s future better: Earlier this week, Floyd also took to Instagram to thank Barbra Streisand for giving her the gift of Disney stock.
Stephen Jackson, a friend of George Floyd and his family, recently spoke about the hole Floyd’s death has left in his daughter’s life, saying, “He will never see her grow up, graduate, he will never walk her down the aisle. If there’s a problem she’s having and she needs her dad, she does not have that anymore. There’s a lot of stuff you said that he’s gonna miss, that I’m gonna be there for. I’m gonna walk her down the aisle, I’m gonna be there for her. I’ma be there to wipe away her tears, I’m gonna be here for you and Gigi.”
Shortly after the birth of Grimes and Elon Musk’s first child together last month, they revealed that their new son had a name they probably didn’t find in a baby book: X Æ A-12 Musk. Since then, the name has gone through a different iterations as the couple tried to make the atypical moniker conform to California law. Most recently, it was X Æ A-XII, but now a birth certificate reveals the boy’s legal name, and it has undergone one more alteration.
TMZ obtained the document, and it notes that the full name of Musk and Grimes’ son is officially X AE A-XII Musk: First name X, middle name AE A-XII, and last name Musk.
These changes come after some noted the kid’s original name wasn’t permissible under California law, which only allows the 26 letters of the English alphabet, and traditional characters like hyphens and apostrophes, to be used.
Grimes previously explained the meaning of the name, an explanation that invoked elven spellings and aircrafts. A fan responded, “you realize this is a human child and not an EP right,” to which Grimes replied, “I think it sounds like the name of the main character in the story. I hope he vibes with that. Ok, going back into the pain/ beauty reverie for sum time, just came on to add my thoughts. Peace to all.”
