This post will be talking about two outstanding characters on Game of Thrones. Therefore there will be spoilers if you are not up to date on the show (or have not read the books, but mostly this will be related to the show.)
Fair warning.
Archive for the ‘Opinion’ Category
A is for Arya, B is for Brienne
Posted: January 13, 2015 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: Arya, Arya Stark, Brienne, Brienne of Tarth, Game of Thrones
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The Orcish Perspective on Game of Thrones
Posted: January 6, 2015 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Middle-Earth, Orcs, Starks, Westeros
I’m not going to mince words. This post is going to talk about plot details of every season of HBO’s Game of Thrones and the three movies of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. (I’m quite shocked that Peter Jackson made the trilogy with only three movies.) So, if you’re allergic to spoilers, you should probably stay away.
Spoils? We Orcs Love Spoils! “To the Victor Go the Spoils!” Or So We’ve been Told. We wouldn’t Really Know…
I think it’s a popular thing to compare either JRR Tolkien and George RR Martin as writers or their respective works, Lord of the Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire, as fantasy epics. Usually by someone who has an axe to grind.
Full disclosure: this is going to be one of those posts but I hope it’ll be slightly different. I’m not trying to prove one is better than the other but I plan on doing some comparisons. Trust me, Ned.
Arya Sure That’s How It’s Pronounced?
Posted: January 1, 2015 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: Arya, Bran, Catelyn, Game of Thrones, Names, Peytr Baelish, Tyrion
This post will be talking about HBO’s Game of Thrones, but I’m pretty sure this won’t be spoilery. Unless you want to try come up with your own way to pronounce the names in the books. There are so many names.
After He Read that Huge Genealogy Book, Ned’s Head Felt Like it was Going to Fall Off.
So. Many. Names.
I usually talk about the television show Game of Thrones, rather than the A Song of Ice and Fire series that it’s based on. I think I do that because I’d like to engage with the Unsullied show watchers who are experiencing the story as presented by HBO.
I try not to be a smug book reader, but it’s hard. Today, I will not hold back my smugness. But fear not. I’m not going to aim my smug focus on the innocent show watchers. I’ll be hitting on the book readers.
Star Trek vs. Star Trek
Posted: December 29, 2014 by patricksponaugle in Movie Review, OpinionTags: Gene Roddenberry, JJ Abrams, Star Trek, Star Trek the Motion Picture
With the recent announcement of Justin Lin as director of the third Star Trek movie in the JJ Abrams reboot series, I’ve noticed a resurgence of dissatisfaction among some Star Trek fans with the reboot series in general.
I don’t think that their complaints are particularly invalid (maybe some of their complaints) but a recent image that’s been circulating had me metaphorically shaking my head.
Where are the Others? Are they LOST?
Posted: December 23, 2014 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: Game of Thrones, Others, White Walkers, Winter Is Coming
Although the Others were the mysterious antagonists on the great television show LOST, this post will be talking about the White Walkers on HBO’s Game of Thrones. It’s probably best if you’re up to date on that television show if you want to read this post and not be spoiled.
Meet Up at the Glacier, the Night’s King Said. As if there’s Only One!
The winter solstice was a few days ago, ushering in the calendar’s recognition of the winter season (everyone who dealt with snow in November knows that winter’s already been here.) And we’re at that time (depending on your cultural affiliation) that children are being told that way up in the arctic, an old wizened figure is directing his fey minions in preparation for a magical trip away from the pole and into the warmer southern lands.
Snows, Love Them or Hate Them
Posted: December 9, 2014 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: Bastards, Catelyn Stark, Game of Thrones, Jon Snow, Ramsay Snow
This post will be discussing plot points from the first four seasons of Game of Thrones. This is your usual spoiler warning. But this is just boilerplate, because everyone’s up-to-date on Game of Thrones. Or at least all the cool kids are.
Hey! FIRE and ICE!
It’s now December, and Winter, you know, is HERE! (It would have been depressing to say Winter is merely Coming when last month I was walking my dogs in the pre-dawn sub-freezing temperatures. But you guys don’t need to hear all this.)
Anyway, I’m expecting we’ll be seeing more snowfall soon, and that made me want to write about my two favorite Snows in HBO’s Game of Thrones: Jon Snow and Ramsay Snow.
Game of Thrones: Thanks? Thanks!
Posted: November 25, 2014 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: A Song of Ice and Fire, Daenerys, Game of Thrones, George RR Martin, GRRM, Thanksgiving, Theon Greyjoy
This post will be discussing some of the major plot points of HBO’s excellent series Game of Thrones, a solid adaptation of George RR Martin’s unfinished book series A Song of Ice and Fire. If you’re not caught up, don’t be reading this! Go read those books, or watch the show. You’ll thank me. Or not.
When Someone Asks GRRM When the Next Book will be Out, He Kills a Stark
George RR Martin, the author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series which is the blueprint for HBO’s adaptation Game of Thrones, has been described as a serial killer of fictional characters. It’s also been said that he survives solely on the tears of Game of Thrones fans (according to some meme I tripped over, researching for this article.)
Those statements are probably not 100% correct. I think he probably supplements his diet of tears with liberal helpings of lemoncakes as well, but I’ll concede the point. Certainly, there are two demographics that GRRM doesn’t mind messing with, and those would be his characters and his audience.
Shameless Promotion II: Halloween, Raising the Dead, and Television
Posted: October 31, 2014 by patricksponaugle in Blogging, Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: Film School Rejects, Game of Thrones, Halloween, Pat Wrote This, Resurrection
It’s Halloween, when the dead rise. This inspired me to write an article about resurrection for the Film School Rejects website.
A few months ago, they were cool enough to publish (and pay for) a Game of Thrones Season Four recap I wrote right after the season wrapped up, and they accepted my pitch this month for a Halloween-relevant article about the dead rising, in Game of Thrones and other shows.
Bran Stark: the Witch-King of the North
Posted: October 28, 2014 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: Bran Stark, Game of Thrones, King in the North, Lord of the Rings, Nazgul, Witch-King of Angmar
This post will be talking Game of Thrones, the Television show. It’s best you not read this unless you’re caught up on the current season, or have read the books. Oh, I guess if there’s anyone reading this not familiar with Lord of the Rings, I’ll be spoiling a wee bit of info about that excellent fantasy series too. Just sayin’
Okay, Halloween is right around the corner, with long cold nights, demanding children, and the undead. So a perfect time to talk about Bran Stark’s storyline on Game of Thrones.
He’s a Stark, Therefore AWESOME, right?
Hey, I’m all Team Stark. I’ve gone to bat for Ned, Cat, Robb, Sansa, and Arya. And especially Jon Snow. So I’m favorably inclined to Rickon’s older brother.
But, I’m worried about Bran’s future path. There’s some serious dark vibes about a child with mind-control powers being taught magic by a wizened old hermit in a cave littered with skulls. This doesn’t seem to be Hogwarts.
Game of Thrones, Trickier and Treatier (More of that thing I posted last time…)
Posted: October 14, 2014 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: Game of Thrones, Halloween, Robb Stark, Roslin Frey, Theon Greyjoy, Walder Frey, Yara Greyjoy
Earlier this month, in honor of October and the imminent holiday of Halloween, I had a post rating a handful of notable deceptions and surprises in Game of Thrones. I enjoyed it so much, I decided to do another round, but focus on some of the less-amputation oriented pranks (no beheadings in this bunch.)
Oh, Spoilers for the first three seasons of Game of Thrones. Seriously.
I’ve Got an Idea for a Laugh. Oh Yes.
I provided more details in that last post, but basically, I rated events based on three parameters: Planning, Patience, and Payoff. All on a scale of 1 to 10, and completely subjectively scored. Here we go…
I Can't Possibly Be Wrong All the Time 