age: 42 (Dec 31, 1969)
MEMBER SINCE: October 2011
occupation: Travel Agent, Bullshitter
makes me sad: racism. Well done steak. Too much fucking snow that I am cooped up in the house.
heroes: Captain America, Howard Zinn, Malcolm X, Jean Paul Marat
sign: Saggitarius
i lost my virginity: on an air mattress on the back porch with my best friend's girlfriend.
crush: GoGo
into: Geek Culture, Acting, Writing Obsessive monitoring of politics. #OWS Cosplay, Dogs, Travel, Film Noir
gets me hot: Radicalism, the unique, the unusual, intelligence and a woman who can write well.
makes me happy: Hot Soup, Hot coffee, Rye Whiskey, a good competitve game. Doctor Who. A good audiobook. A well-done post apocalyptic book.
most humbling moment: It is so embarrassing I would rather not think of it.
That being said, just because pacing and dialogue in the book play out one way is no reason to flip the coffee table over in a fit of rage because you don't like the conversation between Sansa and the Hound in episode eight. Maybe I am too easily pleased, but I am waaaay too much of a hater to be pleased by much of anything for any length of time.
Let's be frank, AGOT is very well writtten, superbly acted and even though it pisses off the picayune among us, the additional scenes and dialogue and general changes are much better television than being absolutely faithful ever could be.
(SPOILER ALERT)
Let's talk about Blackwater. I know that there are going to be a lot of people pissed off about the fucking chain. Fuck the stupid chain. Now that we have seen the episode, I can here the raging nerds "No chain? No Chain? Then Tyrion did nothing at all this whole season and it was Cersei's plan, not Tyrion's." My response. "Whatever." The episode wasn't about cleverness. It was about courage. The principle theme at work here is pretty much "How do we each react in the face of fear."
The Hound is unmanned by fire, Lancel takes an arrow and runs to the queen, Tyrion man's up, Stannis tries to win the war single-handedly, Joffrey is a whiny cunt. (huge surprise) Cersei gets drunk and mean. Byt the way I just want to say that I was really digging that bronze corset thing that the queen was wearing. This was a very well written episode and not only was it a pretty...

















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