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Real Life:
Have been looking to finish off my porch now that I have the doggy fence (and doggy has even appeared to learn that she's supposed to go outside on her own if I'm not here. Better, she knows to go outside to 'do her business' albeit the first several time her business ended up on the porch itself, but with a little of the spray to encourage business in the right place (which would be a stretch of grass) she seems to have made progress today -- yay! and : fingers crossed:
In other efforts to finish the porch Friday I went to an outdoor furniture show room that sells outdoor furniture and found a chair on clearance that I liked and a rug that I liked. Unfortunately, i did not buy them, so when I returned on Sunday, the chair had been sold. I bought the rug only to go outside and realize that the color it was in sunlight was not the color that it looked like it was under showroom lights, so 1min. after leaving the store with the rug I returned it. So, no progress made there.
Gardening:
I did go to the nursery I bought Angelonia and million-bell petunias for the planter next to the garage. Picked up several gold lantana to be planted beneath the crepe myrtle.
And I bought a sweet 100 cherry tomato plants, two tiny tim tomato plants, cilantro, and silver thyme. There was no basil that looked good so I'll still need to buy that, and I'll need Angelonia for the front beds as well, but I try not to buy more than I can plant at a time so that will have to wait for another weekend.
Fringe:
Cool episode. I when they go 'out there' so having a dystopian episode in 2036 worked for me. I'm guessing that this ties directly into the regular time plot. I'm not analyzing it much other than to say that I enjoyed it.
Game of Thrones:
My that was grim. Of course, the books are grim. Still, reading the "unspoiled" thread over on TWOP, having so many of the grim events happening at once was an overload for many. They should probably space that sort of thing where they can.
Harrenhal:
That said, I'll defend that Arya's plot was grim. This section of the book horrified me. It really did... but I also think it really needs to horrify you. To understand Arya's plot is to understand what she has to witness and go through. When reading the book "Harrenhal" became synonamous with 'hell on earth', in my head, with the way it was described and the atrocities going on there, it was Westeros's Aushwitz. It was important that it truly be horrifying.
King's Landing:
Joffrey and the prostitutes, on the other hand wasn't in the book. That said, I find it not at all out of character for Joffrey as in the book he was both torturing cats and randomly killing peasants for no reason at all. The stripping and beating of Sansa was in the book (and worse than they'd inflict on an actress of her age, where modesty was preserved for the sake of an actress who is a minor (and it was rightfully preserved). And I do think that showing Joffrey's sexual sadism is defensible as a story choice as I do believe it relates directly to a future development
with the Tyrells.
Grabbing the phallic scepter, however. Oh dear lord...
I wondered whether they'll be dumped on Tyrion's doorstep
(and if this is a way for Ros to replace Alayaya. (is that the way that it was spelled?)
Anyway, I was as glad to see Tyrion rescue Sansa in the show as I was in the book. And with the cloak and all it was nicely stage to foreshadow other future plots.
The Stormlands:
Cat was moving when she was given poor old Ned's bones. I wonder whether seeing her moved is why Petyr Baelish screwed up so badly. I don't think Petyr knows where his obsession with Cat ends and where his hatred of her begins. It's all some toxic slushie mix.
Hand Renly a prize for Tyrion-level snark with his reaction to Melisandre's "Stannis was born in smoke and salt" with "Is he a ham?" (Paraphrased) Also a wonderful character touch in Stannis correcting Davos' grammar. And the conversation between Stannis and Davos about chopping off Davos's fingers because a good deed dosen't change a bad shows what a raging hypocrite Stannis is. Although it also works as illuminating exactly how what Stannis does here isn't redeemed by Stannis ambitions.
Melisendre on the other hand reveals herself to truly be a zealot. Unlike Stannis who knows deep down that what he's doing is wrong, but is doing it anyay. She's a true believer. To her the means is justified by a 'righteous' end, so to her... she is right.
Shadow-baby is as creepy as shadow baby was in the book. The whole thing was a major WTF?! in the book as well.
And ... wherever Robb is...
There's Roose Bolton... on of the mos truly disgusting characters in the novels (only -- thus far in the books -- to be outdistanced by his son. :shudder: ;wretch: Perfect introduction of him. No fanfare. No foreboding. He looks so damn calm and ordinary. :shudder: Any book reader has as many nightmares about Boltons as they would anything else that happens in this episode.
Grim, dark episode. That's actually one of the things about GoT that show watchers alone think they are prepared for (and which I hope the show is comfortable with) because the books can be overwhelmingly grim sometimes. Even if it takes Lannister soldier's who are about to be eaten, there perhaps should be a few fart jokes.
Real Life:
Have been looking to finish off my porch now that I have the doggy fence (and doggy has even appeared to learn that she's supposed to go outside on her own if I'm not here. Better, she knows to go outside to 'do her business' albeit the first several time her business ended up on the porch itself, but with a little of the spray to encourage business in the right place (which would be a stretch of grass) she seems to have made progress today -- yay! and : fingers crossed:
In other efforts to finish the porch Friday I went to an outdoor furniture show room that sells outdoor furniture and found a chair on clearance that I liked and a rug that I liked. Unfortunately, i did not buy them, so when I returned on Sunday, the chair had been sold. I bought the rug only to go outside and realize that the color it was in sunlight was not the color that it looked like it was under showroom lights, so 1min. after leaving the store with the rug I returned it. So, no progress made there.
Gardening:
I did go to the nursery I bought Angelonia and million-bell petunias for the planter next to the garage. Picked up several gold lantana to be planted beneath the crepe myrtle.
And I bought a sweet 100 cherry tomato plants, two tiny tim tomato plants, cilantro, and silver thyme. There was no basil that looked good so I'll still need to buy that, and I'll need Angelonia for the front beds as well, but I try not to buy more than I can plant at a time so that will have to wait for another weekend.
Fringe:
Cool episode. I when they go 'out there' so having a dystopian episode in 2036 worked for me. I'm guessing that this ties directly into the regular time plot. I'm not analyzing it much other than to say that I enjoyed it.
Game of Thrones:
My that was grim. Of course, the books are grim. Still, reading the "unspoiled" thread over on TWOP, having so many of the grim events happening at once was an overload for many. They should probably space that sort of thing where they can.
Harrenhal:
That said, I'll defend that Arya's plot was grim. This section of the book horrified me. It really did... but I also think it really needs to horrify you. To understand Arya's plot is to understand what she has to witness and go through. When reading the book "Harrenhal" became synonamous with 'hell on earth', in my head, with the way it was described and the atrocities going on there, it was Westeros's Aushwitz. It was important that it truly be horrifying.
King's Landing:
Joffrey and the prostitutes, on the other hand wasn't in the book. That said, I find it not at all out of character for Joffrey as in the book he was both torturing cats and randomly killing peasants for no reason at all. The stripping and beating of Sansa was in the book (and worse than they'd inflict on an actress of her age, where modesty was preserved for the sake of an actress who is a minor (and it was rightfully preserved). And I do think that showing Joffrey's sexual sadism is defensible as a story choice as I do believe it relates directly to a future development
with the Tyrells.
Grabbing the phallic scepter, however. Oh dear lord...
I wondered whether they'll be dumped on Tyrion's doorstep
(and if this is a way for Ros to replace Alayaya. (is that the way that it was spelled?)
Anyway, I was as glad to see Tyrion rescue Sansa in the show as I was in the book. And with the cloak and all it was nicely stage to foreshadow other future plots.
The Stormlands:
Cat was moving when she was given poor old Ned's bones. I wonder whether seeing her moved is why Petyr Baelish screwed up so badly. I don't think Petyr knows where his obsession with Cat ends and where his hatred of her begins. It's all some toxic slushie mix.
Hand Renly a prize for Tyrion-level snark with his reaction to Melisandre's "Stannis was born in smoke and salt" with "Is he a ham?" (Paraphrased) Also a wonderful character touch in Stannis correcting Davos' grammar. And the conversation between Stannis and Davos about chopping off Davos's fingers because a good deed dosen't change a bad shows what a raging hypocrite Stannis is. Although it also works as illuminating exactly how what Stannis does here isn't redeemed by Stannis ambitions.
Melisendre on the other hand reveals herself to truly be a zealot. Unlike Stannis who knows deep down that what he's doing is wrong, but is doing it anyay. She's a true believer. To her the means is justified by a 'righteous' end, so to her... she is right.
Shadow-baby is as creepy as shadow baby was in the book. The whole thing was a major WTF?! in the book as well.
And ... wherever Robb is...
There's Roose Bolton... on of the mos truly disgusting characters in the novels (only -- thus far in the books -- to be outdistanced by his son. :shudder: ;wretch: Perfect introduction of him. No fanfare. No foreboding. He looks so damn calm and ordinary. :shudder: Any book reader has as many nightmares about Boltons as they would anything else that happens in this episode.
Grim, dark episode. That's actually one of the things about GoT that show watchers alone think they are prepared for (and which I hope the show is comfortable with) because the books can be overwhelmingly grim sometimes. Even if it takes Lannister soldier's who are about to be eaten, there perhaps should be a few fart jokes.
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