It’s April 24th. Tonight on HBO, the sixth season of Game of Thrones kicks off.
Finally! Seven Hells, it seems like forever!
Relax, this isn’t going to be one of my huge wall of text essays on the show.
Sunday Night Gathers, and Now My Watch Begins: Season Six Game of Thrones
Posted: April 24, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Blogging, Game of Thrones, TVTags: Game of Thrones, My Blog
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Daredevil Season One: Maybe a bit too much Devil?
Posted: April 23, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Comics, Opinion, TVTags: Comics, Daredevil, Man Without Fear, Marvel Comics
Way back when, I wrote something about Netflix’s new series Daredevil. It had just started, I hadn’t seen much of it, so I talked a bit about Daredevil from the comics, how it was influential on other things I read, etc.
What Madness is This? Pat is Defending Ser Alliser Thorne?
Posted: April 21, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Blogging, Game of Thrones, TVTags: Film School Rejects, For the Watch, Game of Thrones, Jon Snow, Ser Alliser Thorne
This post will be talking ever-so-briefly about Game of Thrones. If you don’t know who Ser Alliser Thorne is, or why he even needs to be defended, you’ll have no interest in this.
Okay! We cool kids can talk freely now.
From the Swamps to the Heights: Some Things In Westeros Just Aren’t Right.
Posted: April 19, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: Eyrie, Game of Thrones, Moat Cailin
This post will be my last Game of Thrones post before Season Six! IT’S ALMOST HERE! YES!
Okay, I’ll calm down now.
As I implied, this post will be about HBO’s excellent adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire. If you’re not caught up, I will probably drop some spoilers.
Sansa: Spoilers are smelly. Like the swamp around Moat Cailin.
Tyrion: Did he say drop spoilers? I’d really rather he not say the word drop.
Season Six of Games of Thrones will be airing in a handful of days. Whew! (It bore repeating. That’s how excited I am.)
The Long Decline of the Night’s Watch: Now Their Watch has (Nearly) Ended
Posted: April 13, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: Game of Thrones, Night's Watch, Valyria, Westeros
This post will be about the Night’s Watch, the monastic order of wardens who guard Westeros from whatever terrors dwell North of the Wall. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you haven’t been watching Game of Thrones or haven’t read the book series the show is based on. You might as well stop reading now, since what follows will either be spoilery or won’t make all that much sense. I trust you’ll see yourself out.
Game of Thrones? That show’s ridiculous! Let me explain all of the show’s failings as we head out on our two-week-long patrol.
Now that Those People are gone, I can continue.
Game of Thrones Wildcards: the Wildlings
Posted: April 12, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: Game of Thrones, Roose Bolton, The North Remembers, Wildlings
This post will be talking about Game of Thrones, HBO’s excellent fantasy series. We’re only weeks away from Season Six starting up, so if you’re not caught up, please stop reading and start binge-ing the episodes. I don’t want to spoil you. I know spoilers make people cranky.
SPOILERS!!!!!!!
Season 5 initiated a variety of changes in the political landscape of Westeros.
Your Future is Dark and Full of Terrors: Prophecies in Game of Thrones
Posted: April 5, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: Cersei Lannister, Game of Thrones, Maggy the Frog, Melisandre, Prophecy
As the title suggests, this post will be talking about Game of Thrones. I’m going to assume that you’re all up to date on the series, which will be kicking off Season Six in a few weeks.
If you’re not caught up… I predict this post will contain spoilers.
Young Cersei: If you don’t stop singing “we’re off to see the wizard” – I predict that something terribly unfortunate will happen to you.
Prophecies are often an element in fantasy stories. It’s almost expected that someone is driving the action, either by trying to fulfill their destiny or by desperately trying to avoid their fate.
March 2016 #MicroStory Collection
Posted: April 1, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Flash Fiction, WritingTags: Flash Fiction, MicroStories, MicroStory, Pat Wrote This, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Twitter, Writing
It’s April, so I went through my social media feeds and grabbed all the MicroStories I’d tweeted during the month of March. (It was a short month for me, since the last week of March had me vacationing in beautiful California. Sorry for not telling anyone…)
As a reminder, these represent story-essences composed using no more than 129 characters (so I could tweet them with the hashtag #MicroStory.)
Usually, I only tweet Science Fiction and Fantasy #MicroStories. March was pretty much no exception.
For really great #MicroStory action, please follow @MicroSFF, the Twitter account that inspired me to participate in this minimalist writing exercise. That feed puts out great science fiction and fantasy MicroStories all the time.
You Starks are hard to kill…
Posted: March 29, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: Baratheons, Game of Thrones, Jon Snow, Lannisters, Starks
This post will be talking about Game of Thrones, and if you’re behind on the show and consider knowing who lives and who dies as spoilery info, this will not be the post for you.
The second episode of Game of Thrones, the Kingsroad, is particularly poignant on rewatches. This was the last episode all of the Starks were in one place. The partings were very rough.
Why are we rooting for the Starks?
Posted: March 22, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: Game of Thrones, Lannisters, Starks
This post will be talking about one of the great noble houses of Westeros, in HBO’s Game of Thrones (the adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire.) And not just any noble house, I’ll be talking about the beleaguered and bullied Stark family.
It all goes downhill from here…
I don’t know how super-spoilery this post will be, most of what I’ll be talking about is years-old information. It’s your call to keep reading, if you’re behind on the show or the books.
I Can't Possibly Be Wrong All the Time 