What is up you bastards? Things have been a little crazy for old Pesci lately. If you’re looking for some action at the window I have the inside track on a 7 year old softball team. Bet the Maroon Dolphins and Uncle Joe will take care of you.
Right now I am gearing up for the big NATO summit in the Chicago. All the stinkies are in town ready to throw their feces at Chicago’s finest. I hope to see some serious beatings.
Everyone enjoying this season of GOT on HBO? I find it a little blah so far. I do enjoy how the directors try to distract us from the monotony by throwing in background sex scenes while the characters give dialogue. I mean, the show is fine, but I need a little more action. I think it is a bit of copout when you have a guy like Theon bust into Bran’s room and have to explain everything he did step by step. Just show us a little bit; Ironmen throwing grappling hooks, slitting the throats of a few guards etc. I don’t ask for much. If I need intense action, I can always flip on an episode of Spartacus. I do feel that they are trying to shove too much into each episode. For such a high budget show they do slack a bit in the action scene department. Right now I think my favorite part of the show is the opening theme music. But enough about that.
How’s our boy doing? What’s he doing? Any progress on book six? We are past the one year anniversary of Dance (April 28th 2011).
So let’s see: Chubbles is directing fans to Ebay to find limited copies of something he signed….not interesting……..plugging figures and a GOT video game, which actually does look pretty good…… song of ice and fire update – not updated……..football stuff…..Jets will be dysfunctional again……no news there………whining about how many emails he has to catch up on…..if you are typing Lord Tater, put you efforts into your craft and not a heaping bowl of Kraft mac n’ cheese……….lot’s of travel bullshit, he is pretty much gone all summer….great no work to be done ……
So what do we do? Not much we can do. I’ve grown so bored, I found myself reading old Drizzt Do’urden novels. Love the double scimitars.
Uh-oh – I just read that an old short story of His Vastness is also being considered for an HBO series – The Skin Trade, so werewolf novel. This means more distractions.
Lately I have been musing over the idea that I started reading GOT in college and I might be paying for college for my oldest when this series is finally finished. Weird and a bit pathetic.
Peace
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(Yes, for the irony impaired, the paragraph above is me being snarky. I WAS disappointed when Daniel's book was over, though... and the moment the next volume is available, I intend to snatch it up at once. Meanwhile, there are other good books to read).
No, GRRM. You don't have the moral authority to snark at another author because you want his book to come out. You do NOT.
I agree with you about the second season - they've tried to cram too much content into too few episodes, so the show comes off as jumpy and sporadic. My boyfriend (who hasn't read the series) loved season 1, but has no clue what's happening in season 2 (and he doesn't care anymore - every character he likes dies. LOL!).
They've left out so many things that made the second book shine and added shit that wasn't in the book. Mind you, some of the stuff they added was GOOD shit, but the plot has become so fragmented that I feel a disconnect as a viewer (and I've read all of the books! LOL!).
Every recap I've read about every episode seems to say, "Tonight's episode was laying the foundation," "Tonight's episode is building up to something big!" After reading the recap for last night's episode (and we're at episode 8 of 10 now), the writer explained that this was yet another "build up to something big."
It seems that the only thing this entire season is building towards is the Battle of Blackwater Bay. That's it. Bran's storyline has hardly been touched (and key characters have been excised from his plot line), and it seems to me that the major plot points of every character has been given an abridged version in the television series.
This season either needed to include about 5 more episodes or they should have just chopped the book in half like they're going to do in the third season. It would have bought more time for GRRM to finish the series (my money's still on the show finishing first) and the show would have been able to concentrate on important plot points that would actually make the viewer give a shit.
The acting, special effects and writing are all stellar (given the budgetary and time constraints) and I loved the first 4 episodes, but after that it just felt rushed and crammed together. I'm wondering if they're going to do The House of the Undying scene justice or if it's going to be a footnote.
I subscribed to HBO for the first time just so I could watch season 2 of GoT. After it's over, I'll be cancelling it and next year I'll just wait for the season 3 BluRay to come out. I'm kind done with it and don't want to invest my heart and time into a series that might never be finished.