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Watching Monday
Game of Thrones
I really liked this episode!
Man, Ramsay with the dogs already? I feel like the show is going to catch up with the books incredibly fast. Or else the Ramsay and Bran storylines are just going to outpace everyone else.
Fat Walda! Yay!
I thought the Theon/Ramsay shaving scene was an excellent way of showing how broken Theon is without being able to use his internal monologue. Also just a great, tense scene.
I kind of don't care about anything happening with Melisandre and Stannis, just get back to the wedding, y'all.
Oh, I don't know how I feel about this Tyrion/Shaw scene. On the one hand, it's really obvious he's only saying these things to drive her away, and if we're going to have him regretting things later, I would like it to be things he himself said rather than things his father said. On the other hand, I wish Shae had done something other than stand there and cry. It doesn't seem like the character she's been set up as. At least she slapped Bronn, I guess? (Shae is totally not on that ship when it leaves, by the way. My guess is Tywin already has her.)
I really liked the Cersei/Tywin/Oberyn/Ellaria scene. Oberyn's actor is growing on me, and I loved the line about "Some places frown on those of low birth, others consider the rape and murder of women and children distasteful". Cersei calling him "tolerant" as an insult was too perfect.
I liked the change in the wedding entertainment– it managed to insult not just Tyrion, but basically every single person there. All the reaction shots were wonderful.
And then Joffrey dies! Goodbye, Jack Gleeson, you were awesome.
Oculus
Sigh, I always have such high hopes for horror movies and they almost always disappoint me. That said, I did like this one better than any other that's come out in the last few years: it actually managed to use suspense and terrible situations rather than gore and jump scares. I also liked that there was never an explanation given for why exactly the mirror was evil (and let's just go along with the "evil mirror" situation) because that's definitely a set-up that's just going to get silly instead of scary if you spend too much time trying to explain it. It could have been a bit scarier– there was a few scenes where the director dragged out a super-long take to build tension, and it just wasn't happening– and the ending wasn't as good as it could be, but overall a very nice horror movie.
I really liked this episode!
Man, Ramsay with the dogs already? I feel like the show is going to catch up with the books incredibly fast. Or else the Ramsay and Bran storylines are just going to outpace everyone else.
Fat Walda! Yay!
I thought the Theon/Ramsay shaving scene was an excellent way of showing how broken Theon is without being able to use his internal monologue. Also just a great, tense scene.
I kind of don't care about anything happening with Melisandre and Stannis, just get back to the wedding, y'all.
Oh, I don't know how I feel about this Tyrion/Shaw scene. On the one hand, it's really obvious he's only saying these things to drive her away, and if we're going to have him regretting things later, I would like it to be things he himself said rather than things his father said. On the other hand, I wish Shae had done something other than stand there and cry. It doesn't seem like the character she's been set up as. At least she slapped Bronn, I guess? (Shae is totally not on that ship when it leaves, by the way. My guess is Tywin already has her.)
I really liked the Cersei/Tywin/Oberyn/Ellaria scene. Oberyn's actor is growing on me, and I loved the line about "Some places frown on those of low birth, others consider the rape and murder of women and children distasteful". Cersei calling him "tolerant" as an insult was too perfect.
I liked the change in the wedding entertainment– it managed to insult not just Tyrion, but basically every single person there. All the reaction shots were wonderful.
And then Joffrey dies! Goodbye, Jack Gleeson, you were awesome.
Oculus
Sigh, I always have such high hopes for horror movies and they almost always disappoint me. That said, I did like this one better than any other that's come out in the last few years: it actually managed to use suspense and terrible situations rather than gore and jump scares. I also liked that there was never an explanation given for why exactly the mirror was evil (and let's just go along with the "evil mirror" situation) because that's definitely a set-up that's just going to get silly instead of scary if you spend too much time trying to explain it. It could have been a bit scarier– there was a few scenes where the director dragged out a super-long take to build tension, and it just wasn't happening– and the ending wasn't as good as it could be, but overall a very nice horror movie.
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There was a scene with Shireen! I love Shireen. She taught Davos how to read! She is so adorable; And I like that Stannis tries his best to be a good father (less of his wife/her mom would be good though).
I don't know how to feel about any of the Tyrion/Shae/Bronn developments.
I do know that I ship Tywin/Olennna something fierce, though. "You should enjoy yourself once, before you die. You might find you like it."
The shaving scene was excellent, but I really did not like the one with the dogs.
Joffrey's powertrip at the wedding was so embarassing, not just because of how cruel it was, but because it was one long series of political missteps after another. And Margaery trying to keep things under control.
Oberyn and Ellaria were excellent and now we know where Joffrey gets his terrible sense of politics from. (Hint: it's Cersei.)
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I am... mostly waiting to see what will happen with Tyrion/Shae/Bronn. I could see it going in a direction I really like, and also one I really hate, and at this point I have no idea which is more likely.
Shireen is great! She is so sweet.
Yeah, the dogs scene I was kinda meh on. The show is getting way ahead of the books there and I'm not sure who– Miranda? I think her name was?– was that was being introduced, or what her purpose will be. Pretty much every single thing about Ramsay I've preferred in the books to the show, though. He's just so much more creepy in the books, imho.
Yeah, Joffrey was at his absolute worst there, though I do love watching Margaery out-maneuver him. Though even she could only manage so much.
Hahaha, yes!
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There are a lot of things I am reserving judgement on until I see more. Ramsay, Tyrion/Shae/Bronn are some of them.