Everything Goes

Yeah, been a while since I posted and I'm sorry about that but school is a BITCH! But thanks to my long time away I have plenty to talk about.
Anyone see the pilot episode of Game of Thrones? Well I did and it was pretty good, it's always hard to adapt a book series into a tv show or movie, (example Harry Potter because that was a huge mistake, or Legend of the Seeker since the show diverged so completely from the books that they might as well have written the whole damn thing from scratch). I think that they did a freaking awesome job with Daenerys, not only is Emilia Clarke just as beautiful as I imagined Dany being, but so far she is doing a great of job of being Dany too. Plus I love the dynamic between her and Kahl Drogo (played by Jason Momoa, and by the way as much as I love him in Stargate Atlantis, DEFINITELY did not need to see his naked ass, next time I think I'm going to see it I'm just going to close my eyes). The only problem I had in the pilot was that the first night for Dany and Drogo was for me too much like a rape scene, in the book she wasn't exactly happy about having to sleep with the guy, but she was making the best of it and seemed to actually want to try and ahve a good time with it. In the scene in the show she was just such a crying mess that I just wanted to skip by it, but I guess that's just how the show writers liked to interpret the scene, whatever. Second episode though, SUCH an improvement, and great job with her slave fro Lys too, I thought that was well written and executed, although I don't like who they picked to play Irri and Jiquui and I think that they aren't going play much of a role in the show, not that they did in the books but at least they were somewhat functional as people in the story. And finally Drogo in the second episode, when is he going to talk? I'd like to hear at least something out of his mouth that I can understand before he gets nipple sliced and veggie-fyed in the head.
Now on to Tyrion, duuuuuude awesome job with Peter Dinklage! He is perfect as Tyrion if only a little better looking than I imagined Tyrion being, either way I'm sure he'll look right ugly enough when they eventually get around to hacking his nose off. Plus I love how sarcastic he is (something I myself can always appreciate) and how they are making the... dynamic , yes let's go with dynamic, relationship with his brother Jamie (despite their numerous flaws they actually seem to love each other as brothers, at least until they finally bring up Tysha in the show, you book knowers out their agree right?) and his hateful/spiteful one with Cersei, and how that all wraps up with Cersei hating him, loving Jamie, Tyrion loving Jamie and hating Cersei, and Jamie somehow loving them both. Despite all HIS flaws, at least Jamie was able to love both of his siblings and learned to just go with it, when he wasn't throwing little boys out windows for one, or accusing one's new wife of being a whore and raping her like one "for the good" of another. Yes, dynamic is definitely the right word to use.
Now on the rest of the cast, pretty decent job with Bran, where's Rickon by the way (hope they finally bring him fully into the picture soon), Sansa is just as annoying as in the book (and just like in the book can't eait for her to start living some hell and actually evolving into a decent and slightly less whiny human being), Arya and Jon are perfect can't wait to watch their respective journeys, and Ned and Catelyn too. Although dude, has Sean Bean gained some weight! What ever happened to the slim and hot Brit in Lord of the Rings, because it's painful enough knowing he's going to die soon, but it's something else entirely to have to watch him being fat too. And Cat is as whiny as in the books, can't wait for her to turn into Lady Stoneheart. But onto the bad stuff, Illyrio is boring, so I'm glad he's already out of the show's eye, the guy they picked to play Viserys just plain sucks, he looks weird and is not convincing as a self important beggar king, he's too much whiny boy not enough arrogance, please just spare us all and kill him already I kind of want to see how they do the molten crown scene. Cersei is cool and I love Lena Headey and all, but they need to start playing her up as the bitch we all know she is sooner rather than later, come on people we all knew she was a raving bitch from the first scene she was in, bring it to life! Robert is too boring and his accent isn't as gruff as it was alluded to in the book. And Theon and Robb, well all I can say about them is that their characters need work, and I can only hope for their future as characters on the show. That's pretty much all I can say until they start bringing in the rest of the cool guys in the book, can't say I'm not a little excited for the arrival of Brienne or Ser Flower-cape, ooh or the Unsullied, or any of that good stuff. And I can only hope that they just leave Davos out of the script all together since I NEVER saw his importance anyway and mostly just read his chapters since they were on the way to the good ones, and I never was entirely sure that he wouldn't became plot relevant, too bad I wasted my time since he never DID.
Ok well this post just turned out to be a review of Game of Thrones, oops. Oh well I had fun and maybe this will be a nice read for a certain demographic.
Tata for now!

Just Shoot Me Now

So I was feeling pretty bored and decided to listen to that wonderfully inept song that we all know, "Friday" by Rebecca Black. And I'm just going to start of with how STUPID it sounds, it's like yeah we get it, you couldn't figure out what to write so you turned a diary entry into a song. But thanks to you Miss Black, I now hate Fridays, they used to be my favorite day of the week, but alas I am ow doomed to be forever thinking on every single Friday that "yesterday was Thursday.... tomorrow is Saturday, and Sunday comes after that". Seriously, just shoot me now and get it over with because I just heard that she is going to be working on her debut album which means that while today we may be lucky enough not to have to listen to her on the radio, tomorrow we may not be so fortunate. I dread the day that I turn on the stereo and I have to hear that girl's voice come out of it. And when I think about it I can only wonder how many car crashes in the future will be the result of spontaneous seizures due to accidentally listening to her sing for more than ten seconds while driving.
The only thing, that for me, makes it a little bit better, is that for the life of me I cannot remember that her first name is Rebecca, yesterday when I started this post, and then fell asleep at my desk and accidentally erased it, I called her Melissa Black like 30 times which makes me laugh for some pathetic reason. but maybe it speaks of hope for our future in which her entirely creepy jump/rise to fame will immediately die out and no one will remember anything about her, like the fact that she is living proof that when your parents have enough money you truly can do anything (including ruin a country, yes an entire country), much less remember her name.
But on a happier note, the reason why I fell asleep last night before finishing my post (and ending falling asleep on my backspace key) was because I waited until 11ish to finally watch the season finale of Merlin on Syfy (still hate that whole "syfy" thing, just proves that people are idiots and need to spell things a certain way or they won't remember how to pronounce them correctly) yes I know, yet more proof that I watch too much tv, and WAY too much sci-fi (see the PROPER way to spell it). Anyway, loved it, thought it was great, and even though when the show first started and I hated it because it was so dissimilar from the Arthurian legends that I love, it's really grown on me and I loved how they brought the Knights of the Round Table into being, thought that was pretty cool.
Oh and to go from there, does anyone know the Song of Ice and Fire series, anyone at all? Well I do, and the first book the Game of Thrones is now the name of the tv series that's coming out next week or so on HBO and it looks AWESOME! It's got like seriously all of my favorite actors, from Lena Headey to Peter Dinklage, even Jason Momoa (whom all you Sci-fi freaks like me should remember from Stargate Atlantis, he played Ronan, the "caveman" as McKay liked to nickname him) I even saw one of the little promo videos they did where they interviewed the actors over their respective parts, and Momoa is playing Khal Drogo (did I already mention this in an earlier post? I feel like I did.) and I looove Khal Drogo I thought he was awesome until well SPOILER ALERT he died, which sucked huge balls. But until that happens on the show it will be nice to see a beloved Sci-fi actor playing another cool part, and for me it'll be even more happy news because sadly I have come to realize in the last few years that once you do Sci-fi anything, you tend to get pigeon-holed and can't ever do anything else, maybe Momoa playing a part on HBO means that some day I will be able to see him on other stuff instead of occasionally watching him guest star on other Sci-fi shows like so many other actors that I love have been forced to do. Wow that sounded a bit melodramatic.
Hmph well despite my wandering mind I have nothing else to talk about for now, so I guess that's it. Talk to all latter.