i.e. you outgrew playing with Barbie dolls by trying to become one yourself. It is beyond irony that you see this as an improvement in your life but hey ho, off we go…
Dude… I didn’t have to try, and the fact that I was a tom-boy/wasn’t a girly-girl was the biggest irony of all, but it is useless to fight the inevitable - my favourite toys were so far removed from dolls you can but imagine…
You keep assuming so much with the little I say… and there is nothing wrong with a bit of dress up
I guess sex sells… hence series such as GoT and S:b&s, but they just make me wanna hurl at the lack of substance in such dramas… and not to mention the instant boredom that ensues.
There’s definitely not enough flesh or sex to characterise the show as “softcore porn.” My only frustration is that now that it’s in its second series and each character’s story is beginning to get into stride the bloody series ends, leaving me to wait a year or so before the next . I could read the books of course, but those aren’t even complete either. Pah!
Exactly how I felt! Not that I need all ends to be tidy and neat…but wtf?
I liked the episode but felt that a burned out empty Winterfell was a BIG omission…why was no one there to find the two Stark boys, Hodor and the wilding girl?? Where did all the people of Winterfell go??
I’m sure the story will pick up with them trying to get to the Wall…but still feel a little cheated about the overthrow of Winterfell.
50 Shades of Grey is a god awlful “mommy-porn” trilogy that is taking the U.S. by storm. You said:
I have to agree with that statement, as I picked up the book and pretty much HURLED it after the first “steamy” sex scene. Blech
Anyway, crazed women are already talking about the book series becoming a movie…so I was trying to make a little joke for you. No good if you have no idea about the mania this is causing in the states.
Catelyn Stark (mother of the 5 Stark children and widow of Ned)
Sansa Stark (daughter of the above)
Ros (the ho)
Margaery Tyrell (virgin widow of homosexual Renly Baratheon…now pledged to marry Jeoffry)
Ygritte (wilding girl momentarily in control of Jon Snow)
Lysa Arryn (Lady Regent of the Vale also Catelyn Stark’s sister)
Here’s a titty picture just for SIATD:
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Except for the ninth episode, which I found massively underwhelming, I think season 4 is as good as the others. However, I’ve become kind of disillusioned with the whole series, because it’s only ten measly episodes at a time and then we have to wait another year. Its scope is just too big for that; almost every episode is already a succession of short scenes in which events in totally different parts of the realm progress ever so slightly. I think this is a major reason why I consider Breaking Bad significantly better: its scope is perfect for the amount and the duration of its episodes; major developments occur in almost every one of them.
Grr! Martin has complained about the same thing, saying he wants each season to be 13 ep each.
Here’s my predictions, not having read the books, but being aware of what happens because I read the wikis. Note that I’m not spoiling anything.
There’s a duality of fire and ice that’s introduced, with the Fire and Ice Gods and their Targ and Stark human representatives. Dany and Bran.
Dany is slowly descending into madness. We saw traces of it this season with her obsession with power and and her sense of self-righteousness as she’s inflicting suffering on people she doesn’t like. Fire as a metaphor for madness is a standard trope. It’s interesting to note what Martin’s doing here. He’s making her likable by having her motivation be founded on a combination of modern liberal/progressive sentiments and a serious lust for power and revenge. The first part clouds the second things which makes her actions difficult to judge. He’s luring in a target audience, viz., the self-righteous social justice warriors demographic who love a single powerful woman who don’t need no man and liberates slaves and whatnot, and making things difficult for them by making her turn mad. It won’t even be clear that she’s mad, because we’ll understand her reasons, and Martin will try to make us empathize with them, sort of how David Chase made us sympathize with Tony Soprano by showing us what went into a decision to ruthlessly murder countless people.
Bran is also going to turn into the bad guy, cold and evil, because he’s also magic and associated with the Others. Ice.
Jon bridges the gap, saves Westeros and becomes king.
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