Hiding from the zombies behind my laptop atm

[muneca_brava]

I. Ah yes, this is why I don't make long eloquent lj posts! I wait for weeks and then I feel guilty and quickly flail a bit about some tv show. So yeah, this is one of those.

II.Game of Thrones!

Man, I have moments where I love this show so much for bringing this world and these characters to life, and then sometimes they have uunnecesary rape or torture scenes :/
So the last few episodes; The bad:

• The Joffrey scene in the other ep and the Sansa one in this one are parts that tbh I just fastforwarded through. And I didn't miss a thing; I know Joffrey is a crazy, dangerous childking and I know Sansa has a shitty life. So what was the point again?

• I was severely underwhelmed by Renly's death. One of the greatest things this show has done in adapting the books is make Renly's court a bigger thing and make Renly/Loras happen onscreen. So it's disappointing that they cut two of the biggest book moments for them ("The Knight of Flowers went insane" and "I buried him with my own hands"). I just feel like we should have gotten some time to grieve for Renly, because now I just didn't have any feelings over it. Idk, maybe because I knew it was coming, but still.

But mostly I've enjoyed the last episodes much more than the first two. So the good:

• Natalie Dormer as Margaery. I will never stop raving about this casting because it's my favourite underused tv face and my favourite secondary character and I love that she's getting dragged out of the background. I can't wait for her stuff later on. No, I want the be THE Queen YES PERFECT I LOVE YOU etc.

• ALL MY THEON FEELINGS! In an unforeseen twist, he is the character I am most invested in this season? When reading ACoK I just hated him but now I have all these feelings because of reasons and Alfie Allen plays him perfectly! Theon is officially my second favourite male character (after Jaime). There is no doubt that he is an evil annoying sadistic idiot but at the same time you see his struggle because he just wants to belong and he still cares about Robb and to a lesser extent the Starks but he was never one of them and now he has this one chance to be a Greyjoy so he'll do anything. He's just fascinating.
  Sometimes I take a look at my lifechoices and how emotional I get over fictional characters and the fact that my favourite male characters at the moment are moral voids who enjoy killing sprees and I wonder what happened. Oh right, Game of Thrones happened.

• They're really not portraying Dany in the best light, or is that just me? Because I love it - I think in the books you're in her head so much that you just go with it, but in the show it really comes out how delusional she is to think anyone cares about her ~claim to the throne because her father used to be king. And she has no army or allies or money, just dragons so it's understandable that people are reluctant to support her.

• YGRITTE :D Finally, Jon gets interesting.

• I am loving the Arya storyline! Sometimes I forget how great Arya's story is because I don't have that many feelings on Arya herself? But all the stuff with Tywin is great and a wonderful decision. What killed him? - Loyalty gives me all the feeeeeeelings. Poor Arya, she is so disillusioned (rightly so but still). And I don't know who the actor playing Jaqen is but he is doing a brilliant job.

III.Supposed to be finishing my thesis this week but I ended up having more to do than I thought :/ And today I, uhm, had a bit of a hangover so I started too late and now I'm watching the first episode of The Walking Dead as I type this because there is no way I'm watching that show when I'm home alone in the dark.

IV. I watched New Girl and it's surprisingly good! Less ~quirky sitcom than I thought, more comedy with feelings about people failing at life. So if you're not watching because the pilot or the Zooey of it all put you off, maybe give it another chance!

Comments

[define-serenity.livejournal.com]

Natalie Dormer ♥

i think you just convinced me to watch New Girl (not that i need another show, but with the season finales this week maybe i can take on a new one ;)

GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR THESIS!

[muneca-brava.livejournal.com]

Yay! You just need to give New Girl a few episodes to find its way but it gets really enjoyable and all the characters are great!

[rainrockstar.livejournal.com]

I love New Girl so much! It took a handful of episodes for it to find its footing, but it became really great IMO and it was one of the shows I looked most forward to every week. Schmidt is actual perfection.

I hope you like TWD! I enjoyed the first season but the second one sucked tbh (well, the first half at least.) I'm pretty sure when it comes down to it, like 70% of the love I have for the show is because I'm weirdly obsessed with its theme music.

Ugh, I hated Theon so much in the books, but I totally agree about him being one of the most interesting characters on the show. I didn't expect to actually like Greyjoy scenes! I love how Alfie is playing him and that you can see the inner conflict he's going through. ALSO I AM SO EXCITED FOR JAIME NEXT WEEK, hooraaaaaaaaaay.

[muneca-brava.livejournal.com]

Yeah I watched the pilot and hated it but actually it really changes direction and becomes great.

I don't know how long I'm sticking with TWD because I have this problem where I love zombie stories but have the lowest tolerance for horror in the world, so it's a problem :P But the music is great! And the silences too, like that whole opening scene in the first ep where there is no sound was amazing.

I think most people hate Theon in ACoK and then suddenly develop feelings after ADWD (at least I did). I do think the portrayal in the show is more nuanced than in the book, largely as you say because of the inner turmoil Alfie plays him with.

[zombie_boogie.livejournal.com]

THEON. THEEOOOOOON. He was already my second favourite character (following Sansa) after ADWD, but the adapted material for him this season has been so good that I think I would even be obsessed with him without the lens of later books. Honestly, I think his character might be getting the best adaptation out of anyone. I actually think his show characterization is trumping his book characterization. In the books it took me until book five to have real Theon feelings, and he was just straight-up awful in book two, but the show is doing such a phenomenal job at balancing the more sympathetic moments of his identity narrative with his really heinous behaviour (which I'm glad they're not gentling or shying away from, because it's what makes him such an interesting and challenging character). AND ALFIE. OH GOD. He's just nailing all of the emotional beats.

I actually kind of dig that the show is showing how much of a Targaryen Dany really is? Because I think there's an argument to be made that while she thinks she's the hero of her own story there are a lot of villainous elements to her narrative.

[muneca-brava.livejournal.com]

I agree. I wasn't sure if I was projecting my post-ADWD interpretation of his character or not but the show is definitely doing a great job of making his motivations understandable while still showing how vile his actions are. It's great because most od us didn't get that understanding until ADWD.

Oh yeah, I love it too! It's what's so great about a tv adaptation, that you're forced out of these people's heads and you see how they look to others.