My self indulgent Game of Thrones observations

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Much like when I recently careened through the Walking Dead episodes, I’m curious to see if I’m seeing things as most of y’all, who’ve had years to discuss the show at length. It’s not the easiest thing to digest at a rapid pace, so some of the minor characters are harder to place in the overall picture and I’ve missed tidbits. No chance that I would read the books, much like I’m avoiding the Walking Dead comics.

 

So, I’ve barreled through the 3 seasons of Lord of the Pacific Rim Dragons vs Zombie Aliens in about 3 weeks. It’s certainly dense plot wise with a thousand different characters, most of which are very believable because I’ve never seen them in anything else other than Littlefinger who was the upstart mayor in The Wire. It’s certainly not a colossal emo borefest like the Lord of the Ring movies, so that’s good. In fact, what is there not to like? Lots of nekkid broads, lots of scheming, lots of violence, lots of nekkid broads, lots of family sex, lots of t!ts.

 

Some random thoughts on major characters, and I’ll return to toss in some thoughts on the minor characters thus far.

 

The Lannisters

 

The dwarf seems to be the breakout character on the show, and I like the little guy for the most part, as they scramble to make him likeable. The problem is that whenever a woman is kissing him, it’s like she is trying to stick her tongue inside a Jack O’Lantern. What a weird head. It amuses me the way he sh!ts on Joffrey. King Joffrey is a sociopath, which I can respect. Putting those crossbow arrows into the ‘tute was pretty cool. He certainly was cast well as he very much looks like a sickly product of the union of his mother and uncle. Now, I get really annoyed by Queen Eyebrows. Cersei has one constant expression: smirking. Between her distracting eyebrows which the Rock is envious of and the constant smirk, I can’t tell if her character is attractive. It is funny how she thinks she is smart but is actually a dope. Jaime’s story arc is crap. He throws a kid through a window to kill him, he’s focking his sister, he kills soldiers while a prisoner, and now that he is handless and has shown kindness to Andrea The Giant, we’re supposed to be on board. Bullsh!t. He’s a pussie that is going to eventually stick it into the Jolly Blond Giant. Tywin reminds me of Lance Henriksen, and plays his bad ass character very well, especially when he puts his fire plug son in his place. I like him, so he’ll probably die soon.

 

The Starks

 

Well, there were two recognizable starts in this show from the start, Sean Bean and Mark Addy, and both were dead very quickly, which I found to be odd. Ned Stark was a guy that had a certain set of rule that he followed, which is admirable until you realize the rules were pretty stupid in the first place. He turned his back on his lifelong principles and legitimized Joffrey’s claim to the throne. Yeah, I was happy when he died after that. His daughter Sansa is a spoiled rotten kid that deserves everything bad happening to her because she did not sh!t on Joffrey during the Butcher Boy incident. She doesn’t look 14 at all. Arya is kind of a cool character and I suspect she will eventually reclaim Winterfell and be a key cog down the road. Now that I’ve said that, she will probably die in the first episode of Season 4. She really needs to do something about her way to wide open eyes, as when you look at her, you expect the sounds to come out of her mouth to be Ribbit, Ribbit. Robb Stark was mostly milquetoast and there was nothing remarkable about his role. Catelyn Starke generally annoyed me with all her selfish actions, such as releasing Jaime Lannister. But when Robb started to act nice to her after the treason, it was clear that bad things were about to happen due to the resolving of outstanding issues. Talisa Stark had an odd attractiveness about her, but she almost got her brother killed and decided to leave her family to pursue noble deeds. Fock that. I’m glad she died too. Bran has X-Men powers and can teleport and see visions in dream. That’s cool and all, but why the fock are you going north of The Wall when it’s full of zombies. Dumb and crippled. Not a good combo. Ho-dor. Jon Snow..you know, they did this whole story arc with the Night Watch, and banging the hot Wilding girl, but during his last fight scene, there was only one Wilding dude left, along with his lady and a wolf helping Jon. The odds are heavily in your favor, like Anderson Silva getting ready to fight Verne Troyer. He risked his life on the Wall climb to save Ygritte. So, what does he do? He jumps on a horse and scrams, leaving the girl to probably die. That made zero sense. I’m glad the broad shot him full of arrows and hopefully the coward is dead.

 

The Baratheons

 

Despite the last names of the characters, there really aren’t many actual Baratheons, oddly enough. The drunken king Robert got killed by a boar. Eh, whatever. It set everything else in motion. Stannis is a self declared king under the spell of a Scarlet Witch, which I’m sure had nothing to do with adding Scarlet Witch to the next Avengers movies. The characters is boring, but a necessary threat to the Lannisters. The red head seems iffy. They really need her to have some rather emotionally evil moments, not just spitting out a baby smoke monster from her fish bucket. Gendry is a bastage, but he

 

Tyrells

 

The grandmother is feisty, in a good way. The queen to be Margaery is social climber and not likeable and not to be trusted by anyone. She is trying to manipulate Joffrey, the public, everybody around her. Her brother the h0m0 has the personality of a dead frog.

 

Targaryens

 

Daenerys, the mother of dragons. Well, her union with Drogo didn’t make any sense, but they killed him off early, so good. It’s remarkable the slow build they’ve done with the character throughout the entire show. Slowly building up her confidence and her power and her protectors. Dragons definitely help too. How can she possibly not claim the Iron Throne soon? Her brother was a clown, and got a hot golden crown. I liked the originality.

 

Eh, good of a place to stop as any. To be continued with other random thoughts on the other characters and plot devices.