Tag: Game of thrones

Moon Knight – The Next Marvel TV Show

I know nothing about this except that this video says it is coming to Disney+ on March 30th.

So the Eternals has half of the cast of Game of Thrones. Now Marvel is grabbing an actor from Star Wars. Nothing wrong with any of that except for the whole identity crisis thing. I mean, while watching Eternals I kept wanting Robb Stark and Jon Snow to team up. They didn’t have an actual opportunity for that back in Westeros. Jon moved out of the house before things went nuts and Robb was left holding the bag, you know?

Now, how long before Mr. Moon Knight (yes, that was a sad attempt at a Beatles pun) calls up Rey and Finn and starts asking for help with the bad guys?

Seriously, I have been really pleased with all of the Marvel TV shows on Disney+. Even though I know nothing about this character, I am looking forward to it.

Game of Thrones Recap

My step daughter, Bellana, didn’t start watching Game of Thrones until a couple of years ago so I had to wait for her to finish before we could break it all down. Well, she’s done and we just spent the last hour tearing through our analysis of the last two seasons.

No spoilers, and therefore no details, but suffice to say neither of us were thrilled but also neither of us really want to kill the Davids the way a lot of fans do.

In summation: that was a lot of fun.

House of the Dragon

The teaser trailer for the Game of Thrones prequel on HBO, House of the Dragon, has been released.

Am I interested?

I don’t know.

I always said that if Arya or Tyrion got wacked I would stop watching (this list was later amended to include the wolves as well) and neither of them will be in this as both characters would be approximately -200 years old.

Do I want to sit through a Game of Thrones story that doesn’t have Arya or Tyrion or any of the Stark kids’ wolves?

I don’t know. Probably? Maybe? I am not sure.

This teaser doesn’t really excite me at all. Maybe we’ll have to wait until the show actually starts airing before I decide if I am interested or not.

Diana Rigg

Diana Rigg passed away. Cancer. I’m so sick of cancer.

She was wonderful. You all know her as the Queen of Thorns in Game of Thrones. You may all know her from the old TV series, The Avengers (not Marvel).

What we all should know her from though… the most important role she played… One of the most important roles in film history…

She played Mrs James Bond.

Rest in Peace, Mrs Bond.

British Actors

There are only like 10 British actors at any given time. I think, at least.

We are spending some of our social distance time watching Downton Abby. It good. I mean, the world was obsessed with it for a reason.

It’s confirmed my suspicion that, while television in the UK can be excellent, they all have the same cast.

So far Downton Abby has had Ygritte and Ser Jorah “Sir Friendzone” Mormont from Game of Thrones, and both Daredevil and Legion from the Marvel TV universe. I expect at some point we will see the cast of Absolutely Fabulous and Monty Python’s Flying Circus as well.

On a side note, I saw one scene where Rose Leslie, aka Ygritte, was standing in a crowd of people and I thought to myself, gee Robert… wasn’t she was taller than that? That’s when I remembered her real life husband, Kit Harrington, aka Jon Snow, aka you know nothing, is supposed to be tiny in person. I guess I thought she was tall because next to him she looks like some kind of comic book rendition of an Amazon warrior or something.

And that, kids, is the ridiculously tall guy making a short joke while stressing out over social distancing. You’re welcome.

Friday

There is no hockey game tonight. That blows. I hate this two days between games crap. It’s torture, especially when your team lost the last game. We need a game tonight, damn it!

Hey, guess what. Today is the first day of summer. Yesterday was a beautiful day to send off Spring and now we have Summer. Today is the longest day of the year (sunlight wise), which to an eternal pessimist means: It’s all down hill from here. Or as folks in Game of Thrones would say, Winter is coming.

So I’ve watched every episode of Game of Thrones. When does it get good? No, really. It’s not bad. I wasn’t forced to watch three seasons (10 episodes per season… screw you and your crap HBO. How about 26 episodes per season the way the real networks do it. Jerks). It wasn’t bad. It’s just that so many people told me it was the greatest thing ever. I guess it just didn’t come close to living up to the hype. There are some characters that I really like (forgive me for not trying to spell first names) the dwarf Lannister (sp?) brother is the best part of the whole show. He’s smart, manipulative, and damn funny. I thought they under used him in season three. Hopefully that changes. Same thing with the younger of the Stark daughters. I expect her to be running things when the story ends, but she was sort of boring in season three. She did end with a bang though.

All in all, the show is okay. I’m not in a hurry for the next season to start, as I am with The Walking Dead, but it’s just sort of… okay. Why then did I start listening to the book on tape of the first book? Why? I know it’s just okay. Why? Urgh.

Happy Summer.
Go Bruins.

Marathon Monday

Happy Boston Marathon day. Also known as Patriots Day. Also known (for this year at least) as my father’s birthday. Also known as the day the Red Sox game starts at 11:00am.

The Red Sox just won their game on a Mike Napoli walk off RBI double in the bottom of the ninth, following an Andrew Baily blown save in the top of the ninth.

The Red Sox are a whole lot more interesting this year than they were last year.

The Bruins have been boring for much of the season, and the last couple of games have been especially painful. I can live with boring and winning, but boring and losing to Carolina is something completely unacceptable. Fortunately, Patrice Bergeron might be coming back tonight. It will be nice to see our best player on the ice again.

I am roughly 4.5 work days away from a week long vacation. All things revolve around that fact.

I said the other day that the first few episodes of Game of Thrones hadn’t really gripped me. I’ve watched a couple more, and it has gotten better. Things have actually happened, believe it or not. I’m not on the bandwagon yet, but I’ll keep watching at least. It ain’t no Walking Dead.

On the watching television shows via iTunes front, I have decided to start pre-gaming for Star Wars Episode VII by picking up the first season of The Clone Wars television show. I’d seen a few episodes here and there. Nothing special, other than the landmark fact that there are lightsabers involved… even if they are cartoon lightsabers.

That’s it for me for now. Back to today’s haul of urgent tasks at work.

Happy Birthday, Dad!