Game of Thrones Season Four Episode Three

by on April 21, 2014 at 8:34 am
Posted In: Rhapsodies
Ever have one of those days?

Ever have one of those days?

Well now that we’ve gotten past the long awaited Purple Wedding we have a nice slower episode that moves more pieces into place and providing more examples of how the show is wonderfully different from the book.

The most noticeable  changes were the absences of characters from the book it looks like it’s official that Kevan Lannister and Fat Belwas have been written out. There’s still a chance they’ll be brought in in season five since both have very important roles in the next two books. To a certain extent it’s almost a shame since Belwas’s finest moment occurs in this episode and it’s given to Daario Naharis.

The other big changes are characters that are so radically changed to the point they are different characters with the same name. The most blatant example is the introduction of Joffrey’s younger brother Tommen. (technically not an introduction he’s been around in the last three episodes but he was pretty much just a prop and he is now been replaced with another actor) He is now noticeably older than he is in the book with the actor’s voice just beginning to break. This makes a huge different. While I’m sure he’ll still do everything his mother and grandfather want him to do, he certainly isn’t the sweet little boy who will sign any paper put in front of him.  A lesser example of these changes is Ser Alliser Thorne he’s just as much of a bastard as he is in the book but in this season he’s a useful bastard one who you’ll want in your corner when the chips are down.

Beyond that things continue to meander in ways I can’t predict. I don’t know how Arya and Sandor’s story will go since they started their story with what in the book was it’s end (except that the Hound survived), It Looks like they are padding the Night Watches preparation for the inevitable attack from the Wildings and the stuff going on in King’s Landing is just getting very interesting. At the moment in fact the only plot line that is “On Schedule” is Sansa’s and I don’t intend to bet money on that.

All in all a fun episode. My favorites being Tyrion in prison where he sends his squire Podrick Payne away from King’s Landing after Pod made the ethical, and suicidal, choice of refusing to testify against him. 

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Interesting Spam

by on April 16, 2014 at 9:38 am
Posted In: Test

For the last couple of months I’ve been getting spam with a recurring theme. Generally they would be what looked like badly written court orders with an attachment. Usually they pretend to be eviction orders, something with my annual paranoia about my apartment (which a month ago proved that a broken clock can be right every now and again.) that makes me a very easy mark. One time they had me going just enough that I made the mistake of opening the attachment. Fortunatly thanks to spam filters all it was gibberish. I learned after the fact that the whole point of this spamming campaign was to get you to unleash a virus on your system.

While they have mostly gone away I still get a few now and again each one faker than the last. The two I got today pretended to be court summons to New York. Of course I would have to open the attachment to find out where in New York I’d have to go to and why.

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Running Out of Smoke

by on April 15, 2014 at 10:17 pm
Posted In: Prose

Kevin waited as Fedya to unlock the door to his apartment. “Why am I here again?” He asked

“You not like the company?” Fedya asked opening the door.

Kevin paused trying to think of an answer. “ You said it was an emergency.”  He said finally.

“No… Is no emergency. I just forget my smokes. So we had to go back home and make sure I have them for gig. “ Fedya turned and walked into his apartment.

“How did you forget your cigarettes?”

Fedya spun around and glared at Kevin, but how had he forgotten his cigarettes. He had told himself that it was because he had just changed his jacket but that didn’t make any sense. He always made sure he had packs in all of his jackets… maybe it was because he had just bought that navel donkey jacket a week ago but still…. “That is not important,” He said. “What is important now is to get smoke and go to gig.”

“So this is all you’ve got?” Kevin asked.

“What?”  Fedya turned to see Kevin holding a box of cigarettes he had taken from the top of the refrigerator. Fedya grabbed it rummaging through it. It was barely half full.

This is not good. He said.

“So just get some more.”

“I can’t there is no place in country that sell these. I have to make trip and next week we have very busy schedule and you know what that means…”

“No.”

Fedya sighed. “It mean there no way to get smoke before this run out.”

“You know… there’s plenty of tobacco stores all over the place just get something else to tide you over.”

Fedya rolled his eyes in exasperation. “Are you kidding? American cigarettes are like how you say? Little girl smoke, is no good, like breath of fresh air. “ He took a pack and put it in his pocket. “For this I have to ration.”

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A Long Anticipated Episode

by on April 14, 2014 at 12:09 am
Posted In: Rhapsodies

Well the episode every one has been looking forward to since season one has finally come and went I was very happy. To be honest I had expecting this episode to be just a little later into the season (which threw my pet theory that the song “hands of gold” was going to be featured out the window) But this was good and considering how much is going to happen in this season it makes sense in the long run.

Having read the books there are always a lot of scenes I wonder just how they are going to do it. For this episode it was the dwarf jousting. Since in the book it is two dwarfs riding a pig and a dog I was really wondering about the logistics of it. The show does the same routine completely differently. In this case they go with more dwarfs with pantomime horses so no actual animals are harmed. Just as funny and as insulting to Tyrion and several other members of the cast. The only thing that distracted my viewing was trying to spot a character who should be appearing in season five.

Other than that this episode has me asking questions and wanting more.  Since the return of Ser Dontos I’ve been wondering about other characters. showing up. So far the cast member I’m missing the most is Kevan Lannister. He only had one cameo in season one but since his his presence starts to pick up in the book this season is based on I’m expecting him to show up soon. On the flip side I find myself interested in the new character Locke who was created to replace Vargo Hoat from the books. But at this point he has outlive Hoat and seems to have his own story starting now But the character I found myself wondering the most about was Shae. Now keep in mind I know the fate of Shae but since she is such a different character than she is a book, I expect the trip to that fate be different and interesting.

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