Sunday Night TV- Gigolos & Whores

[kmo]

 
It's helpful when my two Sunday night shows are united by similar visual motifs. 

Game of Thrones 3.03

- Great way of establishing the Edmure/Blackfish dynamic and what a giant tool Edmure is. Blackfish you are my favorite ambiguously gay tertiary character in asoiaf!

- Show continues to remind me that ASoS is my least favorite Arya storyline. It's all about her running around the riverlands getting kidnapped by by various people. Though the good-bye with Hot Pie was cute. Aww, gonna miss you, bro. I also like Gendry a lot better on TV. He can keep taking his shirt off. I'm gay not blind, HBO. The only thing I really hope they include (and it is so small, they probably won't) is Arya's meeting with Lady Smallwood of Acorn Hall. I can't even say why but that vignette just tugs my heartstrings. Lady Smallwood is my favorie quaternary character. 

- Jaime & Brienne! aswhajwkljwf! Please just give them their own spinoff buddy cop show where they run around Westeros being snarky, having sexual tension and solving mysteries. Like Bones but set in the Middle Ages. I want this almost as much as I wanted the Tywin-Arya-Jaqen H'ghar spinoff last year- My Two Badass Dads. 

- I also really liked the change in the rationale for why Jaime loses a hand. One of the big themes of the books (and will come up again at the Red Wedding) is people questioning power based on tradition/wealth/class. 

-DANY. You are the BEST. You are like Harriet Tubman with dragons. I can't wait for next week. 

-Confession: I have a soft spot for the curmudgeonly Stannis. This week's Melisandre/Stannis scene was the best yet, I think. Melisandre's amused shooting down of Stannis is the best thing I think she's done so far. Oh Stannis, looks like you need some cialis or some shit. 

That dumbass scene with Pod in the whorehouse. I can't even, HBO. Is this even necessary? Do you have to pay a fine or something if you fail to show a naked lady in less than two successive episodes.

-So last week I was sad there was no "Bear and the Maiden Fair." Erm. Thanks for hitting home, show, that this song is apparently a metaphor for date rape. I mean, I knew there was a beauty & the beast vibe to the story, but I felt like the song was presented more comically in the book. But with Bolton's men singing it right before Jaime tells Brienne they're going to gang rape her....yeah. 
 
I really don't have a lot of Mad Men thoughts this week. Other than I think Peggy and Stan's late night calls are my new favorite thing, and definitely the best phone calls since "Pizza House!" Oh and *slow clap* for Trudy Campbell. Trudy Campbell for the Iron Throne! Still, not enough Joan. Moar Joan. 

Comments

[kmo]

yeah, i'm also trying not to read a moral commentary on fighting back vs. not fighting back ("legitimate rape" and all that garbage). but i think, given the scene that came before where Jaime said he would make them kill him if he was a woman, and seeing Brienne put herself in a situation where her rapists might actually do that- Jaime was able to recognize a bit of himself in her.

i also think Brienne is coming across as far more quick-witted and snarkier than she does in the books, which i am also enjoying.

yes- i am ok with them mixing stuff up in general as long as whatever they come up with is equal to or better than what's on the page. so i don't mind the altered interpretations of Cersei & Theon or Tywin getting Roose Bolton's storyline because i actually like them better. still miss Roose's leeches, though. not gonna lie. ;)