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It's time for a new hero again, and I have to say, after a year more or less away from the franchise, I have been really looking forward to Kamen Rider Wizard, since I first saw the suit design and started reading about the premise. So how did the first episode stack up against my expectations?
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I'm going to be trying to get down quick reactions to stuff from now on, instead of mulling things over so much that I end up... not posting. Anyway. Asylum of the Daleks. Doctor Who's triumphant return to tv.
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(Using tv show screencap for a book post because, well, it fits.) So, Game of Thrones, Sansa I. I have to say, I'm not actually planning to blog about every chapter as I read (I'd never finish!), but Sansa I in particular stood out to me, because I enjoyed it a lot more on reread than I did originally. In part I think it's that now that after you've read all the books and know who Sansa is, who she was and who she is becoming and why, you appreciate that this initial chapter kind of encapsulates, in and of itself, her initial journey. Just a warning, this post ended up being spoilery for the reminder of Game of Thrones (no specifics though), and is also very vaguely spoilery for Arya in general, although only in the most general of terms.
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I finished A Dance With Dragons in May, went on to The Tales of Dunk and Egg in July, and have since read a few other books (including Robert Jordan's New Spring, which I really enjoyed; it's been years since I read a Wheel of Time book) but mostly I've fallen pretty deep into ASoIaF withdrawal. So I decided to just start rereading! In part it's because Cast of Thrones (a great, wonderfully funny Game of Thrones podcast) is just starting their book club for Clash of Kings, so reading along seemed a good idea. It's a nice slow pace, so I can read other stuff at the same time. On the other hand, I wanted to reread Game of Thrones because I keep hearing about how much foreshadowing and clues you find in it once you've read all the books, and it seemed a little strange to skip the first book in a reread. The solution I came up with was to read them both at once! It may not be the best idea I've ever had. In fact, it's probably the same level of insane as watching most of the Heisei Kamen Rider series during Kamen Rider Decade's original run. I expect I'll get things mixed up here and there, but oh well.
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Yes, I'm slow. Shut up. :D (Actually, I watched the first four episodes as they aired, then fell behind. But then, I watched Avatar The Last Airbender after the whole thing had aired, so...) All in all, enjoying The Legend of Korra so far. It both feels reminiscent of Avatar while being very much its own thing. I find the choice of conflict very intriguing because... well, yes, Our Heroes are benders, and they are great, and we like benders since Avatar, but on the other hand, the Equalists have a point in the fact that this is a world in which the division between benders and non-benders has generated a, shall we say, not ideal society. I also really liked the fact that the early episodes were so willing to point out that Korra was sheltered and privileged, and thus doesn't start the series being capable of healing the rift that the Equalists are mining.
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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.