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netgirl_y2k) wrote2013-04-02 12:12 am
netgirl_y2k) wrote2013-04-02 12:12 am
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Valar Dohaeris
I'm not sure my sister's working sojourn to Germany got off to the best start as she called me from Hamburg (roughly 200km from the town she was aiming for) to ask me, and I quote, to "...go down to western union and wire me some money before this hotel realises I don't have any money to pay them."
In less dramatic news, I spent the holiday weekend mainlining S2 Game of Thrones with Tequila Boy. A tip for you all, do not allow yourselves to be suckered into a drinking game where you drink every time Cersei does. Oh. God. The. Pain.
Oddly, some things about series two work much better when you watch it all in one go. I mean, the attempt to engineer Dany a story out of nothing still doesn't really work, and Robb is still a dick, but the whole thing flows much better, and the pacing seems much less fractured.
Does this mean that I am going to save up series three to watch over a weekend, on the assumption that the same thing will be true? It absolutely does not.
Game of Thrones
-It was sort of a slow-burn of an episode, and felt much more like an episode from the middle of the series than the opener. I mean, there was nothing wrong with it, in fact there was a lot of good stuff there, but it was definitely less of a spectacle than I'd been geared up for.
-Show!Robb, why are you such a dick? Such. a. dick.
-Oh God, Margaery, I just want to draw hearts around your face. It's an excellent face. You're excellent. I very much enjoyed the most awkward dinner with the in-laws ever.
-Most of all I liked Cersei's "wine is the only thing at this table that I like, including my son" face.
-What was I saying? Oh, yes, Margaery, the Player of Games herself, I may die when she has scenes with Sansa.
-And Sansa. The shot where she and Shae turn their heads in unison, love love love. Oh, I adore their friendship, please let me have at least a little more of it before everything goes to hell. And the bells of Winterfell rang all day when Sansa was born. Oh, the feelings. My poor precious wolf girl.
-And I fucking adored the exchange between Shae and Ros, everything from, "Look after her, especially around him," to "it's hard for girls like us..."
-Unpopular opinion time: I really like Ros. At least, I really like the idea of Ros. Okay, it sucks that she gets stuck with all the sexposition scenes and not much else. But the idea of giving one of the innumerable voiceless whores of Westeros a name and a point of view, I like very much. The scene where Varys tries to recruit her is one of my favourites of S2.
-Dany. Dude, the blue overdress and leather trousers is a good look for her. I was looking forward to her stuff the most, because Dany in the slaver cities is easily her best plotline and the trailers had made it look pretty epic. But, I was expecting to have four or five episodes of her sailing about before she got to Astapor, and her arriving this soon says good things about her forward momentum this series, yay!
-I am torn on Missandei though; I mean the actress is gorgeous, but I'm a little... squirmy about how heavily she's sexualised. But that's just me as a book reader where Missandei is a child.
-Mance was brilliantly cast, I thought. But is it just me or is the show being more ambiguous than the books in whether Jon has gone over to the wildlings for real or not?
In less dramatic news, I spent the holiday weekend mainlining S2 Game of Thrones with Tequila Boy. A tip for you all, do not allow yourselves to be suckered into a drinking game where you drink every time Cersei does. Oh. God. The. Pain.
Oddly, some things about series two work much better when you watch it all in one go. I mean, the attempt to engineer Dany a story out of nothing still doesn't really work, and Robb is still a dick, but the whole thing flows much better, and the pacing seems much less fractured.
Does this mean that I am going to save up series three to watch over a weekend, on the assumption that the same thing will be true? It absolutely does not.
Game of Thrones
-It was sort of a slow-burn of an episode, and felt much more like an episode from the middle of the series than the opener. I mean, there was nothing wrong with it, in fact there was a lot of good stuff there, but it was definitely less of a spectacle than I'd been geared up for.
-Show!Robb, why are you such a dick? Such. a. dick.
-Oh God, Margaery, I just want to draw hearts around your face. It's an excellent face. You're excellent. I very much enjoyed the most awkward dinner with the in-laws ever.
-Most of all I liked Cersei's "wine is the only thing at this table that I like, including my son" face.
-What was I saying? Oh, yes, Margaery, the Player of Games herself, I may die when she has scenes with Sansa.
-And Sansa. The shot where she and Shae turn their heads in unison, love love love. Oh, I adore their friendship, please let me have at least a little more of it before everything goes to hell. And the bells of Winterfell rang all day when Sansa was born. Oh, the feelings. My poor precious wolf girl.
-And I fucking adored the exchange between Shae and Ros, everything from, "Look after her, especially around him," to "it's hard for girls like us..."
-Unpopular opinion time: I really like Ros. At least, I really like the idea of Ros. Okay, it sucks that she gets stuck with all the sexposition scenes and not much else. But the idea of giving one of the innumerable voiceless whores of Westeros a name and a point of view, I like very much. The scene where Varys tries to recruit her is one of my favourites of S2.
-Dany. Dude, the blue overdress and leather trousers is a good look for her. I was looking forward to her stuff the most, because Dany in the slaver cities is easily her best plotline and the trailers had made it look pretty epic. But, I was expecting to have four or five episodes of her sailing about before she got to Astapor, and her arriving this soon says good things about her forward momentum this series, yay!
-I am torn on Missandei though; I mean the actress is gorgeous, but I'm a little... squirmy about how heavily she's sexualised. But that's just me as a book reader where Missandei is a child.
-Mance was brilliantly cast, I thought. But is it just me or is the show being more ambiguous than the books in whether Jon has gone over to the wildlings for real or not?
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(I liked the Dany stuff, too, but it was pretty much like the book, whereas there's a lot of inventiveness to what's happening in KL.)
Oh, and the whole Stannis/Davos/Melisandre (am I getting her name right??) dynamic was nicely done, as well.
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With the Dany stuff-- I think I'm just relived because they veered away from the books in S2, and it didn't really work. But then sometimes they invent stuff that wasn't in the books, for example the relationship between Sansa and Shae, and it's fucking epic.
I meant to talk about the Stannis/Davos/Melisandre dynamic, mostly to say that I'm surprised by how compelling I find it on the show, because in the books for me that entire plotline disappeared into the charisma sucking black hole that is Stannis Baratheon.
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(I will also be watching for Jaime & Brienne, ngl, but if the King's Landing stuff is this strong throughout, I have no complaints.)