Quickie

[shipperx]

* Hope everyone who wanted one had a good Easter. I discovered that no grocery stores are open on Easter Day, so if you don't have food in the house you have to... resort to restaurants. Yes, in the illogic of our culture, the grocery stores were all closed for Easter but all the RESTAURANTS were open. Go figure. So I had Tatziki's roasted lamb for lunch, and threw my diet out the window and had slice of Cheesecake Factory Dulce de Leche cheesecake for dinner.

* Doctor Who came back (yay!) Enjoyed the episode though not a great deal to say. Like the new companion reasonably well so far.

* Saw Orphan Black. Whatevs. Not great, but nothing else is on during its timeslot so I'll probably end up watching a few episodes anyway.

* Game of Thrones is back! Some changes from the book. Some dialog bits left out I expect to make its way back later, same with Samwell Tarley. It probably makes sense to have a reminder first.

I was glad it was still Salador that picked up Davos, though. It had been so long since seeing Salador Saan (sp?) that I was afraid he'd be left out.

Speaking of, no Whitebeard, huh? I sort of missed that a little, though I understand why it was left out because it's more difficult to hide an identity when we can see his face. Still, I always liked that Berestan Selmy tested Dany's character before deciding to reveal himself and swear loyalty.

Is it wrong that I was sorry that they left out the killing of puppies in the training of the Unsullied? That was what really just drove it over the top for me. GRRM had the slavers making those poor kids slotted to become the Unsullied, raise then kill their own puppy, THEN be castrated. THEN go out and kill babies. Way to make the audience hate, hate, hate the slavers. Talk about stacking the deck in favor of Dany. So... I perversely missed the slaver talking about dead puppies (that makes me horrid, doesn't it?)

* Margery remains a clever girl.

* And, yep, there's the pontificating Tywin I knew in the books.

Overall enjoyed it.

Comments

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

Still, I always liked that Berestan Selmy tested Dany's character before deciding to reveal himself and swear loyalty.

Yeah, as it stands now, he would have kept serving Joffrey if J. hadn't kicked him out (which always made me side-eye Barristan a bit in the books!) and if Viserys were still alive, he would have bent the knee to him? Because that's what I was getting from the "I am loyal to Targaryens" speech. He doesn't KNOW anything about Dany; maybe she's as crazy as Aerys!

Also, I didn't think Tywin was pontificating so much as eviscerating Tyrion with his words. Poor Tyrion - and did you notice "The Rains of Castamere" played over the end of that scene? Wonderful touch!

[shapinglight]

I enjoyed it very much. And don't worry about the slavers. They came across as plenty evil, even without the puppies.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I think Orphan Black has possibilities. Scott said he'd read that for the 1st couple of eps, the main character was unlikable on purpose.