Revenge

This is getting so intense. I was a bit iffy when the second series started, because I didn't know how this very contained story would hold up for a second run, but I'm liking this a lot at the moment. With the overarching question of the first series mostly gone, the floor has opened up for a lot more individual intrigues and new characters.

I love how 90210 has run out of viable options for plot points, and now all they have left are stupid decisions, and so by now, all of the characters are just absolutely stupid - not even just in the egomanical sort of way that they always had about them, but just plain stupid in general. They should just go out with a bang, like Gossip Girl did. Crank up the telenovela!

I can't wait to see if they're going through with the death this time - they've put their tails back between their legs too often now really... I can't even count how many pretend deaths or cliffhangers with uncertain fates there have been.

New Leaf

So, I (evidently) haven't had a lot of things to say in here for a while now. Life is busy, which is why not a lot of writing has been happening over the past couple of months. This, among other things, is why I've decided to do something new here, namely blog about TV shows that I watch. (It's not entirely new in that I've had a post or two about TV things before, but I want to do it on more of a regular basis.) It's what I do a lot of the time anyway, and there isn't really a reason why I should bother only people close to me with my ramblings.

Obviously, this means there will be spoilers. If it's anything huge, I'll put a special note there, but if it isn't, I'll expect that anyone looking at posts about TV shows is aware of the possibility of spoilers.


So here are a couple of brief notes. I'm not all up to date with this week's episodes yet, so I'll post more as I watch more.

Game of Thrones Finale

Beware, there will be spoilers.

This concerns the 03rd June 2012 ep of GoT (S02E10).

First off, some people got very excited beforehand that this episode would be longer than they normally are. And it makes sense, too - it's the finale, and no storyline is really close to being finished, except the King's Landing one, which was finished last week.

But then... Uhm, it's like 65 minutes instead of the previous week's 56 minutes, so that's like 9 generous minutes extra, woot. But seriously, it takes like four minutes before the episode even starts after the 'previously on...' and the intro, which has this incredibly brilliant music, but is also getting annoyingly long, really.

There'll be a rather detailed blow by blow after the jump break, so longish post is longish.

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.