It’s that time of year again; we get to all stuff ourselves to the point of gluttony in honor of a religion that labels such as one of its major sins. I can hardly wait. No folks; that’s not sarcasm. I have the privilege of catching two Easter dinners this year around, Lamb and butter tarts for one evening and Turkey with all the fixings backed up by pies (yes, plural) for the day after. Given the sheer quantity of food for both nights it also looks like I’ll be eating left-overs from either the nights for the entire week that follows. If that isn’t just fantastic, I don’t know what is. I don’t know if I’ll be around to post much in the next couple days, but this place hasn’t burnt to the ground in any of the other short breaks I’ve had, so hopefully it won’t this time.
Oh, in and news about posting and whatnot I’ve recently sat down with an old friend who’s currently going through media design and has a deep-set urge to make parody videos on the internet. He goes by the name Skye and apparently that’s a common phenomenon in his course. Anyways; he was looking for a group of people to help out in making said parodies and actually happens to have functioning (even new!) video equipment. I don’t know when we’ll ever collaborate, given our notable lack of success in making stuff just on our own, but hey – it’s another avenue to try stuff out, why not?
By the way, the last time I worked with this guy was High School when we were all bright eyed happy youngsters that positively filled to the brim with pride when we figured out where the record button was on the cameras. Though what we made back then still makes me laugh now, it’s usually out of embarrassment. I have no assurances of quality in what we will produce what so ever. Still, check it out if you want to have some basis for how silly you’ll look if you want to ever try doing this stuff yourself. Expect shenanigans* and terrible, terrible in jokes.
Though when it comes to videos, there’s certainly something out there that is worth watching. Thanks to Josh and his vast network of all knowing family members we’ve recently gotten a hold of a copy of the first show of HBO’s new series a Game of Thrones. Being avid fans of the book series we’ve been anticipating this production for quite some time. I can happily pass on to all three fans that haven’t seen it that it’s off to a good start. Of course, as expected from any fan; yes, I would’ve done things slightly different. They did change the tone of a handful of scenes and introduced at least one major character in a new (though not incorrect) fashion. They made the possibly erroneous attempt of trying to introduce about three or four of the major plot threads of the series in conjunction with presenting about a dozen characters all in one episode. It was a huge frontload of information. Though I suspect it’ll flow well into later episodes as they start to focus on just one group at a time in the future, it must have left viewers that hadn’t read the book series more than a little baffled. Trying to remember names and faces alone would’ve been a task beyond most people. We’ll have to see what the second episode brings, but right now I’m getting the feeling it’d be easier to start this series off by watching one right after another.
In its distinct favour I must note the excellent job done in casting. As expected you’ll inevitably run into a few characters you imagined differently, and the odd hair colour is slightly off; but most of the actors seem to fit what was in the books. Furthermore they nailed what I consider the perfect actors for Tyrion, Eddard and Jamie. Given the weight they’ll have to carry in the series I’m left with high hopes for what’s to come.
* I managed to use shenanigans in an entirely appropriate and non-ironic fashion on the ‘net, do I win a reward?
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