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Comments (10)Uh-oh!! I thought this morning here in NC at my brothers it felt like a winter chill. I guess back home (upper part of lower Michigan)I probably have snow now..... If the "palm part" (downstate) of the state has frosting temps then my "above knuckle part" (upstate) is bound to have freezing temps. Hoping my pipes hold unfrozen until I get home. Keeping fingers crossed too for the plants given me I tucked in before coming here to my brothers (my dad facing anurism surgery but with 40% lung capacity they have to keep him awake). Tests are being run now and praying things don't rupture before the surgery gets scheduled. He just got his walking cast off from the broken foot! He was malnurished etc. I brought down a few squash though and I will be making breakfast for him in the morning. Can't stand his place long at once though as I am asthmatic and he a chain smoker who won't quit....See MoreAnyone watch Game of Thrones?
Comments (20)We have watched it from the beginning. Normally I am not into that kind of story line/genre, but as I've stuck with it and learned the characters, I really enjoy it. Neither of us has read the books. Tyrion definitely our favorite character, though we like Danerys and Aryra too. Love to hate Cersei and Joffrey. What I like about it is you never know what is coming next. No character is safe. Yes, it can be gory, but that's what it was. I do think they probably have women with more responsibility than what they would have really had at that time. Enjoy seeing women with "real" bodies, though they are mostly European and have a different look and attitude than what an American would have. If any of you are fans of Ben Mankiewicz from Turner Classic Movies, he does reviews of the show literally right after they play on a Show called "What the Flick." Of course, you can always watch them later. The panel discussion is helpful for those of us who have not read the books. We learned a lot by watching these. Ded, one other thing I learned is each episode opening shows the fictional locations where that episode is set. I'd love to do the actual tours of the real set locations. Here is a link that might be useful: What the Flick on Youtube...See MoreGame of Thrones
Comments (41)I could possibly enjoy watching GoT if they stayed away from gratuitous violence and sex. The show has many interesting characters and complex plotlines and is filmed well. The world-building is awesome. But I do not enjoy "gorn" for it's own sake. Writersblock: "know savagery was part of life in the Middle Ages Not like that, no it was not. Of course in areas where wars were going on it was bad, but Game of Thrones bears as much resemblance to medieval life as Star Trek does. Even in war areas in the Middle Ages the church was able to enforce a truce several days a week and all through lent in order to give the farmers a chance to get at least some work done. Imagine our "unsavage" world agreeing to that." You're completely right that the Middle Ages in Europe were far more complex and varied. There were different countries, nations and cultures, some warring and some more or less peacefully co-existing. Also, the Middle Ages span several centuries. State borders changed, laws and customs evolved, rulers and their policies changed too. However, there were plenty of acts of savagery like this: Real Life GoT: Hanged, Drawn and Quartered - Wikipedia I guess, this kind of public "shows" has now been revived in GoT....See MoreGame of Thrones?
Comments (22)One of my reading quirks is that for series books I don't like to have someone else 'cast' the mental image of the characters for me if the series is still being written. So I've never watched Longmire or the Harry Bosch shows either. Bunny, I also read the books--I was lost in Westeros for an entire summer enthralled by all of them in sequence--and I've not wanted to watch GOT because I harbored the hope that George RR Martin would eventually finish the last 2 planned books in the series. However I now do not believe that will ever happen. He seems to have pretty much given up on writing the GOT conclusion in book form; even before the tv show his output had slowed prodigiously with every book and he was notoriously later and later in submitting manuscripts. I suspect Martin will consider the tv show conclusion to be the end of his sweeping epic. So I've added Game of Thrones to my watch list. Bonus for waiting is I can view the entire arc of the series since I think this is the last season. I may never come up for air with the growing list of things I'm going to watch on tv on after I retire!...See More- 7 years ago
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