TV Shows

I just realised that this Sunday will bring the S2 finale for Game of Thrones. It just didn't register with me before that the end was so nigh. Most of the time I still only watch the show because the people talk in such wonderful ways and it looks pretty, and because I still think a lot of the plotlines are ridiculous and I love to get all worked up over their ridiculousness.

But I really did enjoy the last two episodes. I mean there's just nothing bad you can say about Bronn, and especially the Bronn/Tyrion bromance. I do love a scoundrel, and Bronn totally personifies all those characteristics. He's amoral, rugged, clever, and a tad egoistic. But at the same time you can see that he cares about Tyrion, and their dialogues are the best of the entire show.

And then the latest episode was entirely focussed on King's Landing, which made such a nice change from all the jumping around. The main reason why I stopped reading the books at the second one and moved on to just reading characters' stories on wikis etc. online is that I couldn't stand the multitude of POVs and the constant jumping from one person to the next. It just doesn't work for me. The books are neither character-driven nor plot-driven, they're world-driven. Also I constantly got the feeling that GRRM thinks himself very superior to all his readers, and that just bugged me a lot :P


All that said, I'm looking forward to the finale this Sunday. I wonder how they're going to plan on wrapping everything up, but then this is GoT/ASoIaF, so probably things just won't get wrapped up.

I honestly thought it would run a bit further into the summer though. I don't know what I'll do over the next months! These are the shows whose return I'll be waiting for:

* Castle
* Hart of Dixie
* How I Met Your Mother
* Doctor Who (even if I don't quite like the 'new' style with Moffatt, but whatever)
* Game of Thrones

Stuff I'm not enthusiastic about but will watch anyway:

* Glee
* Gossip Girl (or the mindfuck it has become)


In the meantime, I'll rewatch my Firefly and Quantum Leap DVDs perhaps, or get into some movies or whatever. If I do the latter, expect me to post about them here. Or not, who knows.

I've also been told to get into Sherlock, Big Bang Theory, and Mad Men, but I never seem to be getting around to doing that.

I also created a MASSIVE to-read-list on Goodreads.com. Seriously, it's like forty books long or something. I'll have to see how many of them I can get for my kindle, and maybe that'll be my summer.

Oh and let's not forget uni.