A Game of Thrones

I imagine you've all watched the "A Game of Thrones" season finale by now.

That's right. I'm making that assumption. Try to stop me.

I'll be completely frank with you all. I thought they did an absolutely stupendous job adapting the books to an HBO series.

The casting was wonderful, the acting was superb, the episodes were fluid and coherent, it was just about as good as it could of been.

Some complaints might of been that it would be a bit hard to fully understand and grasp what the hell was going on for anyone who hasn't read the books. It got easier, but I feel like the first few episodes would/were hell for anyone who didn't already have an idea what was going on. They almost left out a few very minor characters completely, which isn't a real big issue, they after all weren't terribly important, but I just noticed their absence. Ned's hair should of been black, they had it more of a brown, which is cool I guess, but I specifically remember it being mentioned more than once that his hair was black.

Some reasonable complains might also involve the lack of any large scale fight scenes. They purposely avoided one or two. I understand the time and money that would go into a full scale battle scene so I don't blame them for avoiding them completely. It just kind of saddens me. I would of liked to see those battles. Though if I remember correctly George R.R. Martin didn't get too terribly detailed with those in the books either.

Other than little things like hair color and the story throwing you in a bit quickly in the first few episodes for those who didn't read the books, I still stand by my declarations that it was all masterfully done. Most of the roles were filled wonderfully. Sean Bean was a great Ned, Peter Dinklage was a great Tyrion, the Stark children were all cast pretty great, the only complaint in casting was I didn't particularly like Mark Addy as King Robert.

The finale itself was well done. They didn't do that thing where they tried way to hard to make it full of grandeur and epicness like some series' do. They just finished it up like the first book ended and some cool shit went down and that was that. Nothing flashy or stupid. Just tied up some ends, gave a few teasers, implied future awesomeness, and let us stew until what I guess will be spring of 2012.

On a completely left field turn to something as unrelated as it can get. I was sitting down to a nice home cooked meal that I and a roommate laboriously prepared and I accidentally caught an episode of "Ugly Betty".

To make a long story short, I sat through it for the sake of curiosity and I'm ashamed to admit, I didn't hate it. It's not necessarily my type of show, but for what it is I feel like it's done pretty well. It seemed like a pretty decent show for the genre and sub-genre it falls into.

It's no Spartacus or A Game of Thrones but it was, lets say, cute.

Oh, and True Blood. I've caught about the last ten minutes of every episode since AGoT first aired since it comes right before AGoT and I must say. Not a fan. I can understand why tons of vampire loving women might like it. It has vampires and witches and what I take to be romance and violence but in a context where it's somehow clearly more acceptable to women than it is in Spartacus and other such programs. So if I was a young vampire loving women I could totally see myself enjoying something like this.

But I'm not and I find it weird and kind of silly.

While I'm on the entertainment review ball here I might as well hit you with what I thought of "Green Lantern"

I thought it was great. I found it also to be very well done. I don't know a lot of the actual lore behind the Green Lantern comics but I found the movie easy to digest, fun to watch, and an all around enjoyable experience. I was considerably skeptical about Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern but I thought he did really well. And of course Blake Lively was attractive as always. What else is there? It just turned out to be better than I expected. Though I had pretty low hopes to that's not saying a lot. But even if my hopes had been higher I feel like I wouldn't of left the theater with any regret.

Did I Say Thursday and Monday?

Son of a bitch. I said Monday didn't I? Wtf. I totally thought to myself, "Oh, on Tuesday I have to make a post because that's one of the two days that I said I'd do so." I fucked up guys. I fucked up real bad.

Fail.

Already a fail. Jesus Christ in Heaven. F my life. F it good and hard.

I don't even have anything good to say anyways. How about that basketball? I hear some things...might be happening...in basketball? You know, the big rich black guys, basketball.

I could of swore I overheard somebody mention the Lakers and as far as I know that's a Basketball team so it only follows that there is a bunch of stuff going on with basketball and any sport really that I don't know about because I frankly don't give a flying fuck. But that's besides the point.

What is the point you ask? Or for you basketball players, "What be the point you axe'n about?"

There it is right there. You ever notice how African American citizens pronounce "ask" as "axe"? Well first of all that's hilarious. It always makes me giggle. And secondly, do they, in turn, pronounce "basketball" as "baxeketball"? This is the kind of shit I sit around and think about. I blame my not so diverse upbringing in places like Northern Minnesota and Montana.

Speaking of "A Game of Thrones" the HBO series. Yes. Yes please. Yes please, may I have another? I was overall pretty happy with it. Nothing disappointed me. Most of the actors were as close as I could ever hope to be to what I imagined the characters would look like. It was all around pretty great. I'm pretty excited about the rest of the series. I'm totally underplaying my excitement here. I'm ecstatic about it, it was amazing, and I'm totally pumped for the rest. It was a total nerdgasm for anyone who has read to books. The mere idea was already pretty nerdgasmic in the first place though, so at this point it was just inevitable that it would be enjoyed assuming they didn't completely botch it, which they didn't.

I could finish with apologizing. Sorry I missed Monday already. It's like missing the first day of work or school or whatever other life responsibility that you want to substitute. Lol The first post of my new "schedule" and I missed it. You're all free to chastise me for it. Sorry gang, sorry I missed Monday. I'll do better next time. Maybe. Forgive me?

Muffin Out.

I Have Not the Slightest Idea

How this works. I have this Amazon account thing and some stuff happens and yeah. It involves links and HTML and science. But consider this a shot at it.

So, I don't know if I mentioned before but George R.R. Martin is finally publishing "A Dance with Dragons", the 5th book in his series "A Song of Ice and Fire", in July. That being said, some of us need to brush up on the first four books, considering it's been like 6 years since the last of those four was originally printed. About God damn time George.

Those books that may need reading or repurchasing are as follows:

A Game of Thrones - Book 1

A Clash of Kings - Book 2

A Storm of Swords - Book 3

A Feast for Crows - Book you-get-the-idea, if you don't see the pattern yet please leave my blog

Not only do I strongly suggest you read this series, being it's great, but if you need to purchase it, why don't you click on the links and head over to Amazon and give it a purchase, if you need all 4 books, click the link embedded in the series name and you should be able to get a paperback box set, and if you'd like to pre-order the newest one that comes out in July, click on the link and head on over to amazon and give it a pre-order.

I'd suggest this series to anyone (Not Minors) who likes a good fantasy and doesn't mind things that are potentially R-rated. If you haven't read this yet, I encourage you to go buy them now, using my links.

p.s. I swear this isn't me selling out, I just want people to read a series I enjoy, and am eager to try out this internetz thing and some entrepreneurial endeavors. Thanks in advanced for forgiving me.