Doctor Who 6.07 A Good Man Goes To War

So given that the last episode sucked, the episode before that sucked, the pilot sucked, and in fact the entire season, and the direction this season has been going, has sucked, I was not really expecting this episode not to suck so I didn't see it until relia badgered me into seeing it so she could complain about it to me. It lived up to expectations.

( 'I guess that's what happens anytime you put a woman and a black dude in charge of anything' )

Me: "It's like -- on the one hand, I know I'm never going to look like Michael Fassbender. But my consolation is, I'm also never going to look like Arthur Darvill."

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relia: "Fucking Moffat. ... And his fucking tuffet."

Game of Thrones 1.10 Fire and Blood

Hot damn. It's over. Ten entire weeks and now we'll have to wait a whole 'nother year for Clash of Kings Game of Thrones S2 to come out. I think I made a post -- ah yes, it's right here -- with a bouncing-minions macro and "please don't suck please don't suck please don't suck" just before the first ep came out. Now it's over and I can let out the last fraction of my metaphorical breath and say, no, it didn't suck. It quite didn't suck. It was very good. And it was probably the most successful faithful adaptation of book-to-screen that I've seen.

( No. I am your spoiler. )

I think once I get my act together I am going to put together my full thoughts on Season 1 of Game of Thrones, regarding which I was withholding judgment as a work until it was finished: there were a lot of things difficult to rate episode by episode outside of the context of the whole story. Now we have at least the first part of that. The task is a little daunting.

Hunh, it's over.