A few years ago I was out to coffee with my mother. We each brought a book as we usually do, and I was diving into a fantasy novel recommended by a fr…
I know, I know, Reddit…but this is really worth a read, plus the Diego Velazquez painting linked at the end is just stunning.
So I’ve got to confess: I’ve never been a Robb fan. It was always hard to connect with him in the books, and obviously I’ve always been more of a Jaime kind of girl. And frankly, if I were a Westerosi hairdresser, I’d really rather run my fingers through Emo Jon Snow’s ringlets before Robb “I’ve Made a Huge Mistake” Stark’s. (I also find Theon Greyjoy attractive, though, so please feel free to dismiss all of the above.)
( “Catelyn Stark character assassination” is a terrible pun that I now get to start making, though, which is fun!!!)
But, dude really does have some epic hair and once I yelled in Richard Madden’s face and he was really cool about it and introduced me to Michelle Fairley, who is a goddess, so here’s to this guy.
NO MORE HODORING
(Source: breakingbads, via wicnet)
Game of Thrones || 02x06 || 03x09
He saw Sansa crying herself to sleep at night, and he saw Arya watching in silence and holding her secrets hard in her heart. There were shadows all around them. One shadow was as dark as ash, with the terrible face of a hound. ~Bran, aGoT~
Rory McCann once gave me a bear hug in the parking lot of an airport hotel in London, so I feel like I’m pretty much almost a Stark girl.
[FEELINGS]
(via tumblrofthrones)
— “Catelyn,” A Storm of Swords.
“It took me almost three seasons, but I finally found the one person in Westeros who does what he says he’s going to do!”
And then my heart shattered into a million tiny pieces because flawless scene was flawless.
My top five Game of Thrones ships from this season so far:
1) Jaime + Brienne (OBVIOUSLY)
2) Davos + learning how to read
3) Arya + Gendry + Hot Pie + wolf bread
4) Margaery + Sansa. Besties in the Westerosies. I just want them to move to Highgarden together and share a nice loft and drink wine while watching SATC reruns and sharing clothes and hanging with Loras and his boyfriends and basically abstaining from men altogether.
5) The Hound + any and all Stark girls. “Do you know what dogs to to wolves?” Well, apparently they follow them around, act sorrrrta creepy but not really towards them, protect them, and then offer to take them back home to their parents. That’s the kind of dog I love.
(*Bonus OTP: Bronn & the inside of my pants.)
—
ANDY GREENWALD, LADIES AND GENTS
Thank you for making me laugh. out. loud. on a Monday morning.
(Sean T. Collins is my other go-to GoT recapper.)
Lady Olenna throwin’ shade.
(Source: meereeneseknot, via thekrakensonions)
“Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that castle today, nor tell you the color of that woman’s hair. Who knighted me, old friend? What were my favorite foods? It all fades. Sometimes I think I was born on the bloody grass in that grove of ash, with the taste of fire in my mouth and a hole in my chest. Are you my mother, Thoros?”
Arya stared at the Myrish priest, all shaggy hair and pink rags and bits of old armor. Grey stubble covered his checks and the sagging skin beneath his chin. He did not look much like the wizards in Old Nan’s stories, but even so…
“Could you bring back a man without a head?” Arya asked. “Just the once, not six times. Could you?”
"— A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin.
Jojen Reed should be a little higher, but I’m on board mostly. Stannis and Renly should be higher than Littlefinger, obviously.
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More more more … I want to quit my life and read the comments here for the rest of it
Correct Top Five:
1) Jaime Lannister
2) Bronn
3) The Hound
4) Tyrion Lannister
5) Three-way tie between Jaqen, Gendry, and Loras Tyrell because Finn Jones is a sparkling, radiant gem of a human being and dat hair once I got to touch it.
(Oh and also I am going to struggle with INAPPROPRIATE FEELINGS re: Theon/”Reek” all season, I already know it.)
The sense of pattern recognition that comes from diving into fathoms and fathoms of canon is its own kind of narrative reward.
The problem — and the excitement — of Game of Thrones comes from rewards and expectations.
I just wrote a whole lot of stuff about Game of Thrones that you probably shouldn’t read to begin with but definitely not if you haven’t seen the show or read all the books. But if you don’t care either way, knock yourself out.
If Game of Thrones itself had a house motto, it might be, “What’s past is prologue.” It’s true for the highborn, who live their lives in the constant light — or shadow — of their ancestors. And it’s true, too, for those scrambling to gentle themselves. (Ros has to remind Varys that “prostitute” is her “former position.”) The big, Silence of the Lambs–ish reveal at the end of Varys’s story — it puts the balls in the fire — is not only effective because, Jesus, Varys has a dude with his lips sewn shut stuffed in a packing crate, but because it shows, in an unsettlingly casual way, just how long memories can be. Time heals no wounds, grudges, slights, or offenses. It’s no coincidence that the show’s ever-impressive opening credits depict centuries of Westerosi history: all those tales are still feeding the beast.
Which is part of the reason being a Game of Thrones geek is so great: The sense of pattern recognition that comes from diving into fathoms and fathoms of canon is its own kind of narrative reward.
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Game of Thrones Recap: Here Are My Dragons! — Vulture
This is good and relevant to my current critical interests (cf. Barthel’s comment on the show):
Nobody bother me or text me or email me or ask me out for drinks for AT LEAST another 48 hours, or until I actually write something about this.
This is not a complaint, or not exactly a complaint. Game of Thrones is a series I look forward to with excitement and watch with enjoyment, but its approach to adapting novels for the screen is much different than what we’ve seen in the past. Despite the way many TV shows have begun to use the 13-22 hours of airtime they’re given each season to tell longer stories, the time commitment and narrative expectations for novels are just much different than they are for TV and movies. (Novels don’t need to end each chapter with a major event, for instance, while TV shows very much do lest they be charged with not being consequential enough.) As such, almost every screen adaptation of a novel or series of novels has decided to cut major parts of the original story. Chunks were left out of the respectful-to-a-fault Harry Potter movies, and even the four hours Peter Jackson got for each movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy had to cut whole sequences. Other times, things are recombined and invented wholesale, as with the addition of Galadriel and the far increased presence given to Radagast in The Hobbit, or the way the movies in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy bowdlerized bits and bobs of several story arcs from Batman comics over the years. In all cases, the strategy was the same: selectively borrow from the source material in order to make the story work within the constraints of the new medium.
Game of Thrones, however, seems to be doing something different.
I admit that I often don’t know what’s going on while watching Game of Thrones, but argue that this is because it’s taking a bold new approach to adapting long works of fiction.
Reblogging because I love reading Barthel on TV, but also because I have stuff to say and I need to remember to say it later when I am at not at work!
I'm Carrie.
I am the one and only.
I live in Los Angeles.
I like eating, filmmaking, playing Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, writing, and people.
Mostly this is a blog about stuff I cook, want to cook, or want someone to cook for me, Game of Thrones gifs, and the cool dogs I hang out with. (That's a metaphor.)
(Also, saying that's a metaphor is a Werner Herzog reference.)
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