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shadowkatHot day. Busy day. But not as head-ache inducing as yesterday. Mostly because I was able to get things done without chasing my tail. Okay, I exaggerate about it being hot, by Kansas City and California standards? It's relatively mild. Heck by Hilton Head and Florida standards it's mild.
We reached 85-89 degrees. Big whoop. That's about 26 degrees Celusis - I think. And there was a nice breeze. It was actually pleasant. In which case...forget the hot remark altogether.
I'm certain there's something else I should be doing at the moment...but my mind is a blank. Probably making dinner or working on my novel - now that I've figured out how to fix the bits that need fixing before I write a synopsis and send it out to publishers. The internet, particularly blogging, is a great procrastination tool.
Enjoyed aspects of Game of Thrones this week but once again was struck by what they left out of the series and what they left in. Which I won't go into.
What I liked?
* Ayra's scenes. Particularly how Surian showed that speed and fast reflexes serve you better than brute strength. Yet another metaphor regarding mental acumen over brute strength. Ayra, who is smaller, not as pretty, and not as mature as Sansa, manages to escape - using her wits. Sansa - who is a deluded romantic nitwit that has spent far too much time reading stories about knights and ladies or daydreaming about them for her own good. Although I did feel sorry for her here.
*Jon Snow and Samwell Tary's scenes. Samwell is amongst my favorite characters. And we start to get a little of the magical surrealism that exists in the novels - with the horrific Wights.
Osha also discusses them with Bran...who thinks of them as stories. Osha, the wildling woman from beyond the wall, states that his brother's army is marching in the wrong direction. The real enemy lies to the north, not to the South. And yes, Jon needs to learn how to control his temper.
*Charles Dance...is having fun as Tywin Lannister. And reminding me of how good an actor he truly is. His scene with Tyrion was just delicious. Almost as good as his scene with Jamie last week. Tyrion apparently isn't that pleased with the turn of events, even if they are in his favor (well sort of). I did like these lines:
Tywin: "Robb Stark will turn tail and run back to the North, unseasoned..."
Tyrion: Maybe. He came across as fairly belligerant when I last saw him. You'd like him.
*Actually any scene with Tyrion is fun. Peter Dinklage is clearly in heaven. This may be the best role he's had since The Station Agent. I particularly liked his by-play with Bronn.
Yes, well, if you find someone who wants to murder me, talk to me first, I'm likely to outbid them. Or I'm not really interested in your honor or friendship qualities, just your murderous ones.
Tyrion clearly has no illusions when it comes to Bronn.
*Varys and Ned...Varys informing Ned that he's been an idiot from the start. To give Varys credit - he did try to warn Ned. Granted he was a bit subtle about it, just like Little Finger was. With Ned, you need to be more than subtle. The man is too pig-headed to get a hint. Had a best friend when I was a kid, who whenever she wanted something and I was being annoyingly oblivious - would say repeatedly "hint, hint". Suffice it to say, short of saying "hint, hint" - I doubt Ned would have figured it out. Did feel sort of sorry for him though...Scean Bean looked so adorably belleaugered.
[Not a fan of the Dani scenes. Not only are they blatantly racist but they appear to be taken out of either a B movie fantasy flick, starring Arnold Schwazzernegger, circa 1980 or a Bodice Ripper fantasy romance novel featuring Fabio on the cover. I remember liking this better in the book - granted, the book I'm most likely thinking of is Book 3 - Storm of Swords - the Dofraki bit sort of disappears by then. So if you are hating it, too? No worries...it ends. If you love it? Go rent Conan the Barbarian.]
[As an completely esoteric and non-sequitor aside? This is how you know that you watched a certain tv series one too many times - when you read a writer's interview and think, no, you idiots, the line - "I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it" - wasn't from Fool for Love, nor was it written by Doug Petrie, it was from Lover's Walk by Dan Vebber, who was a hired gun.
Sigh. I'm not sure what that says about either the writers or me for that matter. Not sure I want to know. Hmm. Maybe in ten years, I won't even remember the line?]
We reached 85-89 degrees. Big whoop. That's about 26 degrees Celusis - I think. And there was a nice breeze. It was actually pleasant. In which case...forget the hot remark altogether.
I'm certain there's something else I should be doing at the moment...but my mind is a blank. Probably making dinner or working on my novel - now that I've figured out how to fix the bits that need fixing before I write a synopsis and send it out to publishers. The internet, particularly blogging, is a great procrastination tool.
Enjoyed aspects of Game of Thrones this week but once again was struck by what they left out of the series and what they left in. Which I won't go into.
What I liked?
* Ayra's scenes. Particularly how Surian showed that speed and fast reflexes serve you better than brute strength. Yet another metaphor regarding mental acumen over brute strength. Ayra, who is smaller, not as pretty, and not as mature as Sansa, manages to escape - using her wits. Sansa - who is a deluded romantic nitwit that has spent far too much time reading stories about knights and ladies or daydreaming about them for her own good. Although I did feel sorry for her here.
*Jon Snow and Samwell Tary's scenes. Samwell is amongst my favorite characters. And we start to get a little of the magical surrealism that exists in the novels - with the horrific Wights.
Osha also discusses them with Bran...who thinks of them as stories. Osha, the wildling woman from beyond the wall, states that his brother's army is marching in the wrong direction. The real enemy lies to the north, not to the South. And yes, Jon needs to learn how to control his temper.
*Charles Dance...is having fun as Tywin Lannister. And reminding me of how good an actor he truly is. His scene with Tyrion was just delicious. Almost as good as his scene with Jamie last week. Tyrion apparently isn't that pleased with the turn of events, even if they are in his favor (well sort of). I did like these lines:
Tywin: "Robb Stark will turn tail and run back to the North, unseasoned..."
Tyrion: Maybe. He came across as fairly belligerant when I last saw him. You'd like him.
*Actually any scene with Tyrion is fun. Peter Dinklage is clearly in heaven. This may be the best role he's had since The Station Agent. I particularly liked his by-play with Bronn.
Yes, well, if you find someone who wants to murder me, talk to me first, I'm likely to outbid them. Or I'm not really interested in your honor or friendship qualities, just your murderous ones.
Tyrion clearly has no illusions when it comes to Bronn.
*Varys and Ned...Varys informing Ned that he's been an idiot from the start. To give Varys credit - he did try to warn Ned. Granted he was a bit subtle about it, just like Little Finger was. With Ned, you need to be more than subtle. The man is too pig-headed to get a hint. Had a best friend when I was a kid, who whenever she wanted something and I was being annoyingly oblivious - would say repeatedly "hint, hint". Suffice it to say, short of saying "hint, hint" - I doubt Ned would have figured it out. Did feel sort of sorry for him though...Scean Bean looked so adorably belleaugered.
[Not a fan of the Dani scenes. Not only are they blatantly racist but they appear to be taken out of either a B movie fantasy flick, starring Arnold Schwazzernegger, circa 1980 or a Bodice Ripper fantasy romance novel featuring Fabio on the cover. I remember liking this better in the book - granted, the book I'm most likely thinking of is Book 3 - Storm of Swords - the Dofraki bit sort of disappears by then. So if you are hating it, too? No worries...it ends. If you love it? Go rent Conan the Barbarian.]
[As an completely esoteric and non-sequitor aside? This is how you know that you watched a certain tv series one too many times - when you read a writer's interview and think, no, you idiots, the line - "I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it" - wasn't from Fool for Love, nor was it written by Doug Petrie, it was from Lover's Walk by Dan Vebber, who was a hired gun.
Sigh. I'm not sure what that says about either the writers or me for that matter. Not sure I want to know. Hmm. Maybe in ten years, I won't even remember the line?]
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Date: 2011-06-09 07:10 pm (UTC)I think Tyrion really has a horrible emotional scar from what Tywin did to him with Tysha. Because it instilled this thing in Tyrion that there are no good people. Even he himself ended up being a monster and the best that he can hope for is bought pretend love. And he prefers to be upfront about it.
He would actually want real love but he denies it even exists and so deludes himself, thinking he has it all in Shae. It'll be interesting meeting him after all of this. I think he might have lost his taste for whores.