![]() That’s his name on Downton Abbey, where he plays the rich newsman Mary almost married. (Stephanie: “He sort of looks like a cute Lesbian.” She said the same thing about Justin Bieber). Now that I’m thinking about it, Game of Thrones is like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings played out in a D&D module. Not his actual name, obviously, but the same hair color, the same haircut, the same condescension, the same lack of even a shred of goodness as the one-dimensional J.K. ![]() She’s basically Merida from Brave except that she doesn’t pay an old witch to turn her mother into a bear, and I can understand her when she speaks. She takes after her old man: she’s feisty and she likes to fight. The Starks do not require the services of Cesar Milan in chain mail. More attractive and more interesting than any of the humans on the show. ![]() Martin holds his family reunions at Plato’s Retreat.ĭogged instruments of deus ex machina…or deus ex canine, as it were just when one of the characters is about to get it, woof, these handsome creatures appear to save the day. Hey, you can’t accuse the show of not being morally ambiguous. On the side we’re supposed to root for, the queen is fucking her brother, whereas in the Land of the Bleached Blonde Bad Guys, the king is fucking his sister. Dothraki wedding.dick in a box."īrother-sister love is to Game of Thrones as BDSM is to 50 Shades of Grey. Note: there may be spoilers, but not very many. I’m going to rely completely on my memory here, and not use my usual writerly trick of using IMDB to look up the names of the characters so I appear smarter than I actually am. Why invest? Lots of unfair and violent things happening to blathering, long-winded people with English accents who desperately need to wash their hair.” Indeed, theirs is a world in dire need of levity, color, moral goodness, and Garnier Fructis.įor the purposes of posterity (insofar as that concept exists in cyberspace), I’m sharing my impressions of the first two episodes. It’s our third time trying to get through an episode. Stephanie’s post on the world’s foremost forum for artistic criticism (Facebook) summed it up nicely: “We just can’t do it. As the credits rolled, we looked at each other and uttered the same single word: “Eh.” This time, I’m pleased to report, we made it to the end of the second episode. Again desperate for a new show, and on the recommendation of “The Sports Guy” Bill Simmons-who, like us, had shunned the program for a long time-we decided to give Game of Thrones one more try. Ten minutes into Episode Two, we threw in the tunic.įast forward to this weekend. Martin’s world of faux-medieval dungeons and dragons and swordplay and incest. But we were desperate-we were coming off the first season of Homeland, and we needed a new TV opiate of similar sublimity-so we decided to keep watching, in the hope that we’d get swept away in George R. We watched the pilot, and although we found it well made, it didn’t really pull us in. ![]() LAST YEAR, in urgent need of a new show to devour, my wife, Stephanie, and I decided to make a go of Game of Thrones. But spending that much to attend a wedding feels foolish right now, when we're trying to pay of credit card debt so we can hopefully buy a home before Emmett leaves for college.This article originally appeared on The Weeklings. I mean, I guess if I got an unexpected check for $3,000 in the mail today, I'd suck it up and make the trip. So bailing on her wedding kind of feels lame. And this friend did come in from California for our wedding. That said, we traveled for weddings before Emmett. The bigger concern is the $2,000 (two flights, plus four nights in a hotel) or so it would cost for me and Rory to be there. Besides, leaving him home would only save us the cost of his plane ticket-about $400. Plus, just considering the logistics of leaving him with any of our parents (and choosing among our parents) pretty much makes me want to curl into a ball with my fingers in my ears. Yes, we could leave him at home, but since we've never both been away from him for more than a night, I'd rather not have our first trip away involve a 3,000 mile distance. Especially since we're bringing said 2-year-old to Florida in March and Aspen in June. Rory's friend is getting married over the summer in California, and if I'm being totally honest, I don't want to go to the wedding.ĭo I want to see Rory's childhood friend and her fiance exchange vows? Yes, I'd love to.ĭo I want to hang out with other friends from around the country who we hardly get to see? Of course.ĭo I want to travel across the country with a 2-year-old? No.
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