Well, it’s hard to say that the Game of Thrones season finale was exactly action packed, and no one’s going to make a reaction video to anyone watching Dany crowdsurf on a bunch of brown people.

Rather, we’re still talking about the Red Wedding, which leads us to this hilarious reaction video above. It’s not like the others, having been filmed in the year 2000 when the only way to experience the Red Wedding was to read the books. This video tells the story of the very first guy to ever read it, and how frustrated he is when he finds he can’t talk to a single, solitary other person about it.

And damn, that Staind really brought me back.

“I’m out of minutes!!!”

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Above and below you’ll find a series of German-created, wallpaper-ish sized images of all the major houses of Westeros in Game of Thrones. All feature a the sigil, a bit of armor, and some dragons. Because dragons aren’t just for Targaryens after all.

They make great phone or computer wallpapers with the right cropping. I do think a few of these houses phoned it in when coming out with their words, however. “Our blades are sharp?” Come on, House Bolton, you can do better than that. Whose blades AREN’T sharp?

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Last week’s Red Wedding was such a tumultuous upheaval of an event for Game of Thrones, it seems that this week, with the season finale, the showrunners wanted to balance things out with perhaps one of the most subdued episodes in the show’s lifespan.

Game of Thrones tends to do this, positioning a rather eventual episode right before the finale (Ned Stark, Blackwater Bay), but even by past standards, this was a rather soft spoken farewell for the show, and is really just a bridge to a season we’ll now have to wait a year for.

The extended hour long episode had us traveling all over the map, and made sure we checked in with just about every major character before we bid them adieu for the year. Well, the ones that are still living.

We start in the immediate aftermath of the Red Wedding, and watch as Arya witnesses the sickening sight of her brother’s corpse with the head of his slain direwolf paraded through the streets. She takes off with the Hound, and some time later comes across a band of Freys bragging about how they sowed the beast’s head onto her brother.

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One of my initial posts on this site covered last year’s CW fall lineup, and let’s just say not a lot of those shows survived or are doing well as expected. While the CW is infamous among netizens for having cheesy shows, they still chunk out some enjoyable ones from time to time. Arrow, Nikita, Smallville, The Vampire Diaries (minus the annoyingly frequent makeout sessions) and One Tree Hill to name a few. Yes, I will also admit that I do enjoy watching America’s Next Top Model when I was younger.

Anyway, the CW released full trailers for their upcoming roster this fall. They’re almost three to four and a half minutes in length, so we have a lot of material to work with. Interestingly, all of the shows are science fiction, fantasy, or a period piece. Yey to no high school drama shows? Don’t kid yourself, it’s the CW and they will insert teen angst into almost any concept. However, will one of these shows to prove to be an exception? Or will they all be nothing but CW’s long string of cheesy shows? Continue Reading »

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Okay, now that that’s out of the way, if you’ve watched this week’s Game of Thrones you should be able to appreciate this video. It splices together the Red Wedding with scenes from The Princess Bride in a way that fits perfectly with how I’m assuming most people felt as they watched this unfold.

It really is sad to see this family repeatedly decimated on this show time and time again, but all that punishment is what keeps us coming back. But perhaps salvation will be found in the future.

Or Martin will just kill everyone and conclude the seventh book with a big “f*** you!”

I’ve made the casual observation before that I find episode-by-episode reviews of some programs to be problematic. I don’t say that to gripe about any writer, format, or even those types of review in general; rather, it’s a reflection on the difficulties of discussing individual stories told against a larger, richer canvass.

Not too long back, I did a piece on BBC America’s Orphan Black. I specifically waited to do it until after I got a handful of episodes under my belt. Why? Well, the pilot was terrific, but then the 2nd and 3rd episode mired the show very quickly in some horribly predictable elements common to ‘weekly storytelling.’ (If I could see it, no doubt others could see it, too.) Episode 4 was great – the writers went back to what worked so well in the pilot … but then they’ve pretty much spent the remainder of the first season wandering through situations and characters better suited for conventional TV dramas instead of the unconventional.

In fact, some programs have a way of getting caught up in creative overkill. They go to great lengths to establish a world and its characters knowing full well that there will be future payoffs. In the short run, these shows practically antagonize their audience by making folks endure nonsense that doesn’t seem to add up to anything worth watching.

Syfy’s always found itself in some very treacherous waters so far as this phenomenon goes. Right now, they’re airing Defiance, an ambitious (and expensive!) cross-platform entertainment experiment – it’s a weekly TV program, but it’s also an online game. The easiest way to explain the story is to say that it explores Earth’s near-future wherein our planet – destroyed by a star war – is now jointly colonized by humans and several alien species left here after the battles ended. Despite a steady leak of viewers, Syfy is standing strong in their commitment to Defiance (being ‘defiant,’ one might say), already green-lighting a second season. Continue Reading »

I did it. I stayed true to my word and didn’t binge watch all fifteen episodes of Arrested Development the weekend they came out. Rather, patience and other things getting in the way led me to have a more spread out viewing experience, and I finally wrapped up my time with the show last night.

As you may remember, I did stop midway through the season to write a post about what I’d discovered so far. I focused on that it was odd how disconnected the show’s characters felt, though I was assured that would get better as time went on.

Well, I made it through all of them, and now I’m able to give a more complete picture of my thoughts about what is undoubtedly the one season of television I have looked forward to more than any other in my life.

In short, I wasn’t disappointed. I know many were, and I will acknowledge the season does come with its fair share of issues, but the bottom line is that this was a great set of episodes and a fantastic project for the cast, creators and Netflix to bring to life. Continue Reading »

Last week you will remember our feature of Moshi-Kun‘s series of Game of Thrones characters from the ’80s and ’90s. They were such a hit that he decided to make a few more, and I’m happy to share them with you today.

He’s added Sansa, Arya and Brienne to his roster, and all are as fantastic as the others that came before. I particularly like Valley Girl Sansa and football playing Brienne who is practically an Abercrombie and Fitch ad. I get the 90s theme, but did football players really put Pepsi and MTV stickers on their pads? Maybe, I dunno.

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ATTENTION: DO NOT WATCH OR READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED THIS WEEK’S GAME OF THRONES.

I’m not going to say any direct spoilers anyway, as this entire post is before the jump, but still, better safe than sorry when it comes to these things.

Anyway, the rest of us know that some very important people met very tragic ends in this week’s The Rains of Castemere, and the Red Wedding went from a jaw-dropping literary event to a jaw-dropping television event.

There have been a ton of reaction videos posted to the internet by people who have read the books and decided to tape their friends or family reacting to the horror they knew was coming. The results? Fantastic.

But nothing is as amazing as Maisie Williams’ (Arya Stark) Vine reaction video.

I’m currently on an expedition to finally, finally catch up with Doctor Who ever since I started watching the show (the new series) about a year ago. Seven twelve to fourteen episodes seasons (with Christimas specials!) doesn’t seem like a lot, but it’s not really a show you want to binge watch too much if you ask me.

I’m about a third of the way into this latest season, and almost caught up, but that’s certainly more than enough to appreciate this Doctor Who Episode Generator which you can find here.

The episode I just created?

“There are a series of unexplained deaths on an underwater base, but Clara thinks she can hear a distant voice. Isolated from the Doctor, Clara goes on to discover the last Face of Boe. Clara’s love for the Doctor saves the day. One of the blokes off Holby City steals the show.”

Yeah, that seems about right. And really, the next eight I generated seemed plausible too.

I keep hearing that a Voltron movie is on the horizon, but I’m half convinced they just converted it into Pacific Rim and called it a day. But perhaps a real movie will come someday, and when it does it may look something like this.

This series is from Josh Burns who takes the characters of Voltron from rudimentary cartoons into animated, realistic works of art. He’s not exactly Dave Rapoza, but is pretty damn good in his own right. All the major players are casted, and now I see that Jack Black is probably going to end up in this movie…sigh.

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