"YOU KNOW NOTHING, JON SNOW!"

Ygritte (Game Of Thrones, season 2).

Pedigree Chum have finally rethought their advertising.

So, it would seem the Games Of Thrones addiction wasn't quite as well 'kicked' as I'd earlier hoped...


Alright then, let it never be said I won't admit when I'm wrong (although, in my defense, that is unusual). I may not have been totally correct in my last post on Game Of Thrones, but see that I'm not removing the post completely and licking my wounds in secret, I'm far too honest for that, and besides which, it's the only fucking post on here that got any real replies!
I was told once, by a wiser man than myself, that if I wanted people to take the time to reply that I should write something controversial, and I guess he was right... Either that, or the silence of my other posts can be interpenetrated as 'tacit agreement'?

I'm getting slightly off topic.

Firstly, some of the information in the last post was incorrect. SPOILERS AHEAD: Jon Snow is attacked, but it's uncertain if he died, and Gundry, the former King's bastard, is not killed (as yet). Poor research on my part, but whoever knew that the web contained so much misinformation? As such, narratively speaking it holds up better for this and becomes less of a one-trick pony.
However, many of my old gripes remain: there are far too many characters, plots and sub plots struggling for screen time- meaning that jarringly the most interesting threads are forced to share screen time with narrative 'fluff'. These extra characters (introduced as the seasons continue, even as late as season 3) have to work much harder to gain a viewer's interest as they could initially be seen as an annoyance; more names, history and subplots to pad out the episode- all the while, less and less actually happens to the characters you care about.

"Brotherhood Without Banners? Fuck off, I want to see more of Jamie and Brienne."

Honestly, consider season 2 a moment. If you have a favorite character, remind yourself of what they actually went through in that time? You'd except that with over 9 hours of TV that you'd be left with quite a story, right? Wrong. I bet 9 in 10 characters actually did very little, they just did 'very little' over a very long time...

Still, on the whole, I'll admit Game Of Thrones makes interesting TV, which is an achievement to be applauded rather than attacked. Sure; it's exhausting, gratuitous, wildly sprawling and absurdly self-important (and I still maintain my belief that it does little to affirm life), but hey?


It's not perfect, but what is?