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Slowly reading some of the first book (I'm not great at reading a bunch in one go), and I love the whole multiple POV aspect. The show can't do that, for understandable reasons, but it adds a great deal to the relationships. I do think in some cases the more clear POV in the episodes adds more power (for instance, Lady's execution was more powerful for me on the show), but it helps add such detail in the books for characters like Tyrion. There's a great scene, just gorgeously written, where he talks about his childhood, the first time he'd gone to King's Landing. I don't think this is a spoiler, but for people who don't want to hear anything about the books. There's also a scene where

The 1996 episodes being uploaded are now up to May 1996, with Lucy and Alan-Michael marrying at Universal Studios, and Philip returning (in the Frankenstein costume). The wedding was hugely panned in the soap press as silly and tone deaf. I have to admit I liked it. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD9ZQME7mFfaEid7Qowlq9Q

Thanks. Happy for Judith that she's in a mainstream movie. I hope that means we may see more of her on TV soon!

Trying to remember some of the things that were said in Cogman's interview... - the Craster's Keep scenes as written and filmed were more extreme than what was shown in the episode - he wasn't expecting the show to actually film the scenes with Stannis and Davos on the boat, going under the statue, etc. and was thrilled that they did - in the trial scenes, he wrote more of Tyrion attacking Tywin over his childhood, but was glad that was trimmed - when asked about recasting roles, he said they just do it, it's not a big deal. He said that UK audiences accept this better than American audiences, because UK audiences are more used to it (I'm not too sure about that...) - he refused to answer question about characters from the books they won't bring into the show, but finally just gave up and said Tommen's other cats won't be appearing - he had a very hard time writing for Dany last season, as her story was about her pure mission and purpose, and he couldn't connect to it. Now that her story is more complicated, he has an easier time writing for her - he agreed with the hosts going on and on about how villains like Locke and that Burn Gorman character are brought in to be killed off to balance out the deaths of popular heroic characters

She did bring back some people for visits, and she helped get people like Maeve Kinkead back, but that's a fair point.

About 8 and a half minutes of Shawn Stevens singing in his role as Zach Anders. The version of the Steve/Liza song is very very pretty. Sherry Mathis features a fair amount in this too.

The ladies do, although you never know. I wish Linda had more acting work.

He was EP in her last year or two on the show and I don't think she was happy with his firing Michael Tylo and the hideous Buzz amnesia/Nola stalker plot.

For anyone who wants to see more of the infamous Eric the Clown story, two of the episodes VintageAMC uploaded heavily feature it.

Lisa Brown refused to return with Paul Rauch there. I'm just glad she came back for the end. The soap press was so busy making fun of Ellen Wheeler for crying and for being a Mormon that they never said anything about all the work she did to get people to come back for the end. As for the Labines, I would have preferred them at ATWT. In theory their style should have fit GL, but the "wacky" comedy and the mobsters just didn't do for it for me. Blake becoming the new Lucy who was the new Delia felt jarringly wrong. And they had big tonal problems.

Thanks for asking. I can see where some would steer clear (some of my friends quit watching Supernatural once they introduced angels).

Well, it's something that is tough for me to describe without giving spoilers away, but I will try: There are supernatural creatures in the show. Some good, some bad. The show starts out very straightforward, with just hints of beings that are of another world (things like winter zombies - no, not Bucky Barnes - and direwolves who have special and spiritual ties to their owners). In the second season, the supernatural world opens up, due to certain events. You get dragons, warlocks and witches, men who change their face and have wish-granting powers, etc. There are multiple religions on the show. Most of the characters believe in The Seven, which is the maiden, the mother, the stranger (death), the warrior, and some others I"m blanking on. They build huge septs (houses of worship) for The Seven. Some characters believe in the Storm Gods, who rule the oceans and use their powers of lightning and waves and thunder to create vengeance upon the land. People who believe in this believe that when you die, you will live beneath the oceans and fight giant creatures like sea dragons and what have you. Some believe in the Old Gods, a religion mostly descended from their ancestors who lived in the forest and communicated with trees. The one religion that believes in one true god is the Lord of Light. He is a fire god, as his believers believe fire is purity and clarity. People who worship this god worship him in different ways. Some of them believe in sacrifices and that non-believers must be burned alive as sacrifices. Others don't have a lot of interest in burning people alive, and worship him more for reasons of holiness and justice. Fire is life in this religion, and fire unleashes a host of supernatural abilities - precognition, resurrection from the dead, birthing of what amounts to shadow assassins that carry out your orders, etc.

It's still 10. In the interview Cogman and the sycophant hosts were talking about how it had to be 10, you can't do any more than that, because so much is already packed into those 10. I don't mind 10 episodes, although I have to laugh when I see people who insist that 10 is STILL too many because there is still "filler." Idiots like this who turn shows into purity contests do not seem to realize that even if a show has only a few episodes a season, there will be filler. Any show will always have filler. The last Sherlock season had tons and tons of filler and that was only 3 90-minute episodes.

There's lots of good stuff in the two episodes I've watched so far - some early Casey/Lyla (as Craig and then John learn about the relationship), Gregg Marx's last days as Tom (some poignant scenes where Lisa tells him he has to mourn his lost child, and then Margo asks if he would be leaving town if she hadn't lost their child), tying up the Brian/Beatrice story (including a weird, psychosexual-esque scene where James threatens her), Meg transferring her money obsessions to Tonio, and paving the path for the reveal about Sabrina (Rick Ryan's return, John making secret payments). And as a bonus, you get Iva's awful haircut.

I won't give any spoilers, but I still have "Rains of Castamere" waiting to watch. I just haven't been able to face it

Pedro Pascal interview. http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-feed/2014/05/game-of-thrones-prince-oberyn-interview.html Bryan Cogman interview, talking a lot about the writing and filming of Oathkeeper, including the difficulties of writing and filming the Craster's Keep scenes, and talk of the reason why Jon Arryn's murder reveal was written the way it was. This is a podcast so that means a lot of host blather. There's also some talk about this past week's episode. http://winteriscoming.net/2014/05/14/game-owns-bryan-cogman-returns/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvHK6blDJaQ

They said that episode was his first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDMk6zeai0Q They have several full episodes up from November 1978.

HBO did with Game of Thrones and CBS did with Big bang Theory. The closest parallel to Glee is ABC and Drew Carey Show. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drew_Carey_Show#Ratings

I think the idea was supposed to be that she gave up on Theon, rather than lose more of her men, after he attacked her and refused to leave. That he is now dead in her eyes. I can't help wondering if they changed their mind on some parts of the story after last season and they were just looking for a reason to get her back out of the plot. I wish they'd just never had her go look for him and instead shown her in the Iron Islands (and surely something must be happening there, as Melisandre and Stannis name-checked Balon last season in their leech burn). I think someone at the show said they had change the format this season and decided to have less characters per episode and more airtime for the characters in those episodes. So that's why you have lengthy set pieces like the trial, the wedding, etc. That makes sense, but then it makes the characters who are isolated, like Arya "have you heard my list today?" Stark, seem even more isolated.

Is that a websoap? Kim Rhodes was on NCIS last night. Lindsey McKeon was on Supernatural last night, likely for the last time, as her character was killed off.

Lily Allen says she was asked to play Yara Greyjoy, but declined, as she didn't want to be groped. Given who was playing Theon, I can see why. http://www.mtv.com/news/1824585/lily-allen-game-of-thrones/ I just love the woman who plays Yara (I don't know her name), so this worked out well.