game of thrones

this has been going around the interwebs after the red wedding episode...obvious spoiler ahead...although since the book has been out for over a decade and the episode already aired, i don't think it really qualifies as a spoiler anymore...



game of thrones is probably the best show on tv now...even better than the walking dead...the two shows have an interesting dynamic between the fans who have read the books/comics versus the ones who haven't...a bit of geek snobbery from the ones who have read the books/comics

dracarys

the first three episodes of this season of game of thrones were spent setting up the story, and not much happened, which is pretty similar to how the books are - lots and lots of talking with bits of action...the fourth episode changed that with daenerys getting her army...it's what i've been waiting to see ever since she got to astapor, and emilia clarke did not disappoint...she delivered those lines like she really knew valyrian...much better than the other guy who played the person selling her the unsullied...people uploaded a bunch of clips of the final scene on youtube, because it was so good...they'll probably get taken down soon though...

the episode also had some great scenes that really captured the essence of the characters...any scene with varys and tyrion together is bound to be good, but the one where varys reveals some of his past is one of the best of the series even though it differs a little from the book...they've even been able to develop the relationship with jaime and brienne properly...casting for the majority of the main characters has been good...other good scenes were the ones between tywin and cersei, varys and lady olenna, and surprisingly a scene with sansa...sansa is one of the weaker characters but her scene where she shows a glimpse of happiness when talking to margaery shows how naive sansa still is even though she is learning that she can't trust anyone...bran is another weak character, and his storyline isn't too interesting to me in the show or in the books...

this episode is the best so far of the entire series in my opinion, but i think there could be even better ones since this season and the next are supposed to be based on a storm of swords, which i think is the best book of the series...

game of thrones mash up

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picard and arya

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/08/captain-picard-and-arya-stark-team-up-to-scalp-olympics-tickets?utm_source=Feedburner%3A+Frontpage+Partial+RSS+Feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torcom%2FFrontpage_Partial+%28Tor.com+Frontpage+Partial+-+Blog+and+Stories%29

patrick stewart is pretty awesome

game of thrones

excellent start to the second season...dinklage is listed first in the intro...easy to see who the most interesting character is on the show...i think they did a great job casting tyrion, cersei, jaime, and dany...i don't like the starks much though except arya...there was so much crammed into this single episode...however, it can't be helped since so much happens in the book...

one scene that didn't make sense was when littlefinger provoked the queen...i don't think that was in the book, and it was completely out of character for him...littlefinger, varys, and tyrion are the most calculating characters in the series, and it made no sense that baelish would get himself into trouble like that for no reason

got to see a baby dragon and a larger dire wolf...hodor didn't say "HODOR!" though...that was a little disappointing...second season of game of thrones might turn out to be more fun than the second season of the walking dead

season two

looks pretty good from the teaser

game of thrones

hbo is going to make a tv series based on the book series A Game of Thrones
i haven't read any of the books yet, but the trailer below makes it look worth watching the pilot...

boromir is in it...maybe he'll survive in this series...

http://shelf-life.ew.com/2011/03/03/dance-with-dragons-date/

and the next book of the series has a publication date of July 12, 2011...