A Game of Thrones - take two
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wiseheartWe were given 4 episodes in a row today. Even less impressed than by the first 3. More gratutious nudity - just how did two whores performing for evaluation in front of the brothel owner move the plot forward?
At least this time it's on an equal basis. Not that I'd needed various male characters running around bare-arsed naked, wiggling their pride and joy before my eyes. After having seen them in their birthday suit, I think I understand why it was supposed to be humiliating to drag the would-be-assassin nekkid after Danaerys' horse. If I looked like him, I wouldn't want to be seen nekkid, either. Let's face it, most men benefit from a fig leave... nuff said!
The gross factor was rather high in any case. I could have lived without watching Danaerys stuffing raw heart into her mouth, that stupid face of her smeared with blood. Actually, that part was fortunate - we saw less of her face, which is always a good thing.
Lady Stark's insane sister still suckling her teenaged son was another thing that made me wish I hadn't had anything for dinner. Gah! Or the canon gay couple shaving breas hair and blowing each other onscreen. Or the disgusting wounds...
This general desensitising of the viewers towards anything brutal, disgusting or simply gross has become very fashionable lately. And then we're surprised that people seem to think it's normal and act, well, if not similarly, but at least a great deal more brutally than earlier.
The plot moves forward with the speed of molasses - but it's the same in the book, so I can't really complain. Well, I can, but since slowly oozing plot is canon, I'm not supposed to. I hope tomorrow we'll finally see some dragonbirth; that would make up for a lot of suffering (from boredom). If I were a dragon egg and had been molested by a blonde bimbo several time in each episode, I'd have hatched already and eaten her. Even if she gave me digestion problems.
All in all, the only things worth watching are Sean Bean as Eddard Stark and Tyrion Lannister. They I great fun. I wish we had a ten-episode-series for each of the LotR-books, though, instead of 3 big films. I'd have enjoyed slower pace there
At least this time it's on an equal basis. Not that I'd needed various male characters running around bare-arsed naked, wiggling their pride and joy before my eyes. After having seen them in their birthday suit, I think I understand why it was supposed to be humiliating to drag the would-be-assassin nekkid after Danaerys' horse. If I looked like him, I wouldn't want to be seen nekkid, either. Let's face it, most men benefit from a fig leave... nuff said!
The gross factor was rather high in any case. I could have lived without watching Danaerys stuffing raw heart into her mouth, that stupid face of her smeared with blood. Actually, that part was fortunate - we saw less of her face, which is always a good thing.
Lady Stark's insane sister still suckling her teenaged son was another thing that made me wish I hadn't had anything for dinner. Gah! Or the canon gay couple shaving breas hair and blowing each other onscreen. Or the disgusting wounds...
This general desensitising of the viewers towards anything brutal, disgusting or simply gross has become very fashionable lately. And then we're surprised that people seem to think it's normal and act, well, if not similarly, but at least a great deal more brutally than earlier.
The plot moves forward with the speed of molasses - but it's the same in the book, so I can't really complain. Well, I can, but since slowly oozing plot is canon, I'm not supposed to. I hope tomorrow we'll finally see some dragonbirth; that would make up for a lot of suffering (from boredom). If I were a dragon egg and had been molested by a blonde bimbo several time in each episode, I'd have hatched already and eaten her. Even if she gave me digestion problems.
All in all, the only things worth watching are Sean Bean as Eddard Stark and Tyrion Lannister. They I great fun. I wish we had a ten-episode-series for each of the LotR-books, though, instead of 3 big films. I'd have enjoyed slower pace there
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Date: 2012-03-25 03:01 am (UTC)Movie- and book-Danaerys annoy the hell out of me, but especially the movie one. I want to murder her character left-right-center. Gah.
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Date: 2012-03-25 08:48 am (UTC)Danaerys should have married her idiot brother. They deserved each other, and after 300 years of inbreeding, the kids of two such stupid individulas wouldn't be able to cause problems to anyone. The actress isn't much help, either. All she does is looking out of her skull with a stupid, expressionless face. Just like Eve Myles in Torchwood, actually.
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Date: 2012-03-25 12:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-25 03:09 pm (UTC)