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I love these dudes :D
I love these dudes!
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Staying with the Battle of Blackwater for the entire episode was a bold choice, considering the usual structure of most episodes of Game of Thrones, but it payed off, and seriously... they couldn't really cut away to f*cking Qarth in the middle of the battle for a a round of WHERE ARE MY DRAGONS!!!1!, could they? Anyway. Reaction time! (Contains hints about events in books beyond A Clash of Kings)
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Back to Den-O after a long long hiatus. For context, in case anyone should stumble upon this, I have not watched all of Den-O, so awhile back I decided to tackle it and blog about it. You can find my posts on previous episodes of Kamen Rider Den-O here. No, I never finished it before, I stalled right around the same eps as the first time I started to watch Den-O... I did watch the first 3 or so Yuuto episodes, but I never actually blogged about them, so I'm starting again from 17. Yes, I skipped 15-16. No, I won't ever blog about those two episodes, they were the original catalyst for losing my drive with Den-O twice already. And just to clarify, yes, I know who Yuuto is, and I know who Hana is, but other than a couple of very general things, I'm pretty much unspoiled, and these posts are pretty much safe for episodes beyond the ones each one is about. Anyway, on to 17 and 18. The plot thickens. And how.
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Got caught up on a month's worth of Mad Men yesterday. Among the many things one could say about the show, the thing that stood out to me was just how much I enjoy Joan and Peggy's scenes.
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I read Game of Thrones last year, and then in the past month and a half tore through Clash of Kings, Storm of Swords and Feast for Crows. The trigger was the beginning of the second season, two hours after watching the first episode I was well into Clash of Kings. Game of Thrones had left me with somewhat mixed feelings (I get the sense that occasionally having something of a love/hate relationship with these books is not that uncommon). My feelings about the series are no longer mixed, and Storm of Swords in particular was amazing. I could not put it down.
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Well, that's probably the most deviations from the books' plot in a single episode of Game of Thrones. Now, I'm not saying that's bad. In general I've been fairly satisfied with the changes to the story (with one admittedly very subjective exception). It is an adaptation, and those books are long, the plot is very complicated, and in general I think the changes have been understandable and have made for a better TV series than if it had remained unchanged. But seeing as there were quite a few changes, I thought it'd be interesting to dissect them. (Needless to say, spoilers! Although I do try to be vague about book stuff).
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I don't usually blog about Mad Men, in large part because I find that other people usually say whatever I might have said and more, but I just have to comment on Mystery Date, episode 3 (or 4, technically) of season 5.
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I first read of Brandon Sanderson in the context of The Wheel of Time books, and how he was the one that would complete series since Robert Jordan's death. I used to be really into WoT, and although it's been awhile since I stopped following them (around book 8 or 9, I believe... I always meant to go back and finish someday) I was interested in what would happen, and more specifically in what kind of a job the new writer would do. By all accounts, Sanderson is said to be doing a good job, and although I'm not quite up to the task of playing catch up with WoT, I decided to start reading his Mistborn Trilogy.
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How long has it been since Regional Holiday Music? Almost exactly three months, right? Way too long in any case, but Community is finally back. I've missed these characters and this show so much. Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts was one of the more "normal" Community episodes, and while I do think that you need episodes like this to balance out blanket forts and zombie apocalypses, I also find it really amusing that this episode also contained an entire subplot about how if weirdness is in your nature you should embrace it and not try to be normal (hard not to take Troy and Abed's subplot as meta commentary, isn't it?).
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Recently I've been rewatching season 2 of Alias, and I also went back to watching Spooks, and watching both shows so close together really highlights the contrasts.
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Thoughts about Shinji's character arc and the general storyline as it reflects in the first episode of Kamen Rider Ryuki.
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One of the things I love about Doctor Who is that even when you know something is coming, it still surprises you.
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The fact that being the Doctor's companion quite often is a curse disguised as a blessing is something that has been explored before in Doctor Who. Moffat has been toying with it all along, and I really like how it all comes to a head in this episode, how the 11th Doctor has to face that truth and do something about it.
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I was going through Google Docs and I found something I meant to post long ago but somehow never got around to. It was a little over two years, about a week after the final episode of Kamen Rider Decade. The caveat is this was before the 2010 movie, when those few seconds of teaser footage that were never actually used in the movie created a lot of false expectations about what the movie would be like. Basically what that timeframe means is that some of my opinions were rendered moot points once the real movie came out, and the movie did force me to change some of my perceptions (reluctantly, I might add). But I don't know, it's interesting to read this and put myself in that mindframe again. Kamen Rider Decade had a lot of faults, but I did love it. I have to love any show that makes me overthink it as much as this one did.
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"Back to Where You've Never Been" promo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndRvTDWMEc8 Lincoln Lee meeting himself? Charlie? Fauxlivia? Judging by the promo, Back to Where You've Never Been will be awesome.
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A lot of people have felt that Fringe has not been at its best this season, for various reasons. One specific complaint has been about spending time in a world in which the fact that Peter Bishop drowned in Reiden Lake rendered everyone slightly different from the versions we know. Not radically different, as in Earth 2, but still not quite the same. When introducing Fauxlivia and Walternate's world, Fringe had the advantage of stepping into a world that was very clearly, very obviously, different from ours. Blimps in the sky. The World Trade Center still standing. Olivia's red hair. Everything about the world said, this is different, and the audience could approach it as such. The problem facing Fringe this season is that we have no clear indicators of how to approach the reality we're watching. Neither Here Nor There indeed. The problem has been, I suppose, that we weren't quite sure whether we were supposed to take this as OUR Earth, rendered different enough for it to be unfamiliar after whatever Peter did, or as an entirely different timeline. I think the writers definitely knew all along, but we didn't, and I think it's caused a certain unease.
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Pirate Sentai Gokaiger is so insanely fun that it's really easy to forget that it can touch deeper topics, and that, in fact, most of the main characters have had fairly dark backstories revealed. Case in point, Joe Gibken.
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Work happened. Then vacation happened. The stuff I've gotten into in the past 3 months, and that I've been playing catch up with: Community, Mad Men, The Good Wife, Downtown Abbey, The Hour.
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The Doctor's interaction with River during "Flesh And Stone", and Rory's awesomeness starts to surface in "Vampires of Venice".
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The first time I watched The Time of Angels, it was pretty late at night, into my initial first time marathon. Fourth episode, I was already having a great time on the series, and then I get the double punch of River Song and the horribly creepy Weeping Angels.