What I have been watching

[scripsi]

I have watched the first episodes of Games of Thrones! Several yeasr after everyone else. The thing is I was convinced I had tried to watched it and started reading halfway through. That’s my lackmus test for new shows- if I pick up a random book (and there are always random books around me) and start to read, then I won’t watch more. Dracula went that way and season two of True Detectives. But the other day husband went to bed early and I thought I was going to continue re-watching Deadwood. Only I found out when I was already installed in the armchair with a cat in my lap that the Kid had watched Games of Thrones. So lazy as I am I decided to give it another try. And realised I never did try to watch it- I wonder what fantasy series it was that I dissed…

Anyways, what I know about Games of Thrones is that there is a lot of gratuitous nudity, sex and everyone dies. I’m three episodes in and the first two has certainly held true. I don’t get offended by it, but I find it rather boring. But apart from that I find myself rather interested in the various plot-lines and will watch on. At the very least I will get some knowledge of a pop cultural phenomena. :)

Doctor Thorne was low-key nice and the costumes got better fitting by episode two. Not spectacular in any way, but nice.

We are five episodes into season 2 of Daredevil. I found the first episodes a bit slow go, but now I’m enjoying it. I still find Matt rather bland, but I like Foggy and Karen and when the Punisher got a background story and became more than a killing machine he got more interesting too. I like that Claire has turned up again and I enjoy the nods towards Jessica Jones.

Comments

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I always feel like HBO has somewhere in it's contract that you must have x minutes of nudity each season and I feel like GoT tries to cram it all into two episodes sometimes LOL. I always compare it to Battlestar Galactica in that, while it is technically a fantasy, it's really just about politics. But with dragons. Also, Season 1, the women are sorta okay, but by the end, they are so much more.

Curious to see what the second half of DD holds. First half was interesting but I felt like that was pretty familiar ground for a superhero story. I hope the Elektra story is more engaging.

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

I always feel like HBO has somewhere in it's contract that you must have x minutes of nudity each season

Good Point!

so far Electra hasn't grabbed me at all, but she still feels ratehr one-dimensional to me. Hopefully she'll be better rounded as the series progress. :)