Game of Thrones Season 4 The Countdown Begins

by on January 13, 2014 at 9:19 am
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Well I’m excited. I mean… of course I’m excited. This is the second half of the third book  A Storm of Swords and I look forward to seeing what they are going to do with it. It’s interesting normally I tend to be an annoying pedant when it comes to adaptations of books but in Game of Thrones I am enjoying watching how all of the little pragmatic changes add up and snowball . I am enjoying being constantly being surprised despite knowing what is going to happen having read the books. It’s like they are using the source as a basic outline and following it in a completely different direction than George R.R. Martin did.

The other thing I like is how different an actor’s performance makes the character. Most notably I have trouble imagine Charles Dance’s Tywen Lannister suffering from the blinding hubris that the Tywen Lannister from the book does.

Finally I’m looking forward just how they are going to end the season. It was tricky to imagine at first since this is the second half of a very big book. If the formula that the writers have been using for the past seasons they will have the season climax on episode nine. For season three the climax of the halfway point of the book with the Red Wedding was an obvious choice. But Storm of Swords ends with at least three major climaxes. (My fellow readers will know the ones I mean.) It will be an interesting jugging for the creative team and I can’t wait to see how they pull it off!

 

Most importantly though is I can’t wait to hear what kind of music Ramin Djawadi puts “Hands of Gold” to.

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A Mixed Message

by on January 11, 2014 at 8:31 am
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Okay, here’s something fun and weird for your Saturday morning pleasure… (or confusion) a very strange public service announcement I stumbled over the other day.

Fun in a weird sort of way… but what’s the deal? Is this low level sadism on the zombies part? Do they need the heart to be beating in order for the zombie virus to infect her? Or…

I think at best this is what one would call a mixed message.

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Crazy Afternoon

by on January 9, 2014 at 1:00 pm
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Well yesterday afternoon was time for errands specifically the distribution of flyers for the annual Graphic Novel Panel that my chapter of the Graphic Artists Guild has been putting on for the past three years. With my targets being UDub’s art department as well as a student Graphic Novel club I go to occasionally. On the way I also stopped at the Ravenna Third Place Books as well.

At that point It was Seattle damp. I guess I shouldn’t have mocked it as a “hard mist” when I was talking to someone about biking in the rain because it started pouring soon after. When I got to the University I quickly got kind of lost. Not lost lost…. I know my way around the campus fairly well. It’s just all of the buildings in the Liberal Arts square all look alike to the point I end up going around in circles for about fifteen minutes until I identify the one that’s the Art Department. This time it was about fifteen minutes too many since the Department’s office closed a lot earlier that I thought it did so I wasn’t able to drop them there. I ended up making due with the Library as my drop.

After that I had about an hour before I had to go to the Graphic Novel Panel which involved heading over to my favorite hangout, the Dreaming, and then head back. Regrettably when I headed out again I found the key to my bike lock had bent in the lock so the lock was pretty much broken (so my bike was stuck to a railing) after a few minutes of panic I finally got the aid of the owner of a nearby bike shop who lent me some cutters (a charity I had mixed feelings about as for all practical purposes I’d asked him to help me steal a bicycle.) But anyway that was the end of the hectic insanity for the day, though I definitely needed my evening IPA more than usual.

Also it was kind of depressing how easy it was to cut the lock.

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Monkey King

by on January 7, 2014 at 9:19 am
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I’ve been a fan of Wu Cheng’en‘s Journey to the West since I had a picture book about Monkey’s early adventures as a kid. From there it was only a matter of time before I read the synopses to the whole story to reading the abridged version Monkey by Arthur Wale and then finally the whole thing. (These days I’m partial to the Anthony Yu translation.)

So I’m always interested in media versions of it from anime shows that are loosely based on it like Dragon Ball and Starzingers to the more straighter versions that go from good like the CCTV version, to insulting like the Lost Empire, to everything in between.

So all I can say is this new one with Donny Yen looks… promising.

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