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It was fun while it lasted. Season four of “Game of Thrones” has been awesome–they’re just offing bad guys left and right, the Arya/Hound storyline continues to fill the Walter White/Saul Goodman-sized hole in my heart, we got to watch the most hated character in television history die in front of his entire family, and we were introduced to the loveable antihero, Oberyn Martell, the Red Viper of Dorne. I thought for sure he was going to be the guy who brought down the Lannisters. Nope.
NOPE.
Your Sunday night was ruined by the haunting visual of the Mountain crushing Oberyn’s head with his bare hands and splattering his brain matter all over the arena floor as his smokin’ hot wife/girlfriend/mistress looked on in horror. This also means that Tyrion Lannister is screwed (although, I doubt it’s that simple) and is going to get beheaded for regicide because his champion’s head got popped like a watermelon on the business end of Gallagher’s mallet. I was praying that “You raped her, you murdered her. You killed her children” was going to be the new “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
I’m still reeling from the visual and the all too familiar feeling that “Game of Thrones” continues to give me every spring and early summer. Oh, the horrible dashing of hopes with one swift swing of a sword or a few notes of “The Rains of Castamere.”
It got me thinking, though–what kind of payoff is this building toward? I don’t really even care after having to watch that. In fact, I’d rather watch these things before ever going through that again:
- An old man waiting for a friend who’s never going to come at a rainy bus stop.
- A lost dog wandering from stranger to stranger, looking for food.
- A naked wrestling match between current Jack Nicholson and Rob Reiner.
- Any Rob Schneider movie.
- An alternate ending to “The Shawshank Redemption” where Red actually kills himself instead of going to Zihuatanejo.
- A prison rules bar fight between Peter Dinklage, Jon Taffer, and Bill Murray, which I try to break up.
- “Hook,” directed by Michael Bay.
- George R.R. Martin stranglebating to anime porn.
- TBS original programming.
- Season nine of “The Office.”
The good news is that the season is only going to get better from here on out, and with the ninth episode of the season coming up, shit’s about to get crazy. What’s so special about the ninth episode in each “GoT” season? In the past three seasons, the ninth episode has included Ned Stark’s beheading, the Battle of Blackwater Bay, and “The Red Wedding.” Hold onto your butts.
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All of his teeth? Was that truly necessary?
11. According to Jim.
so. fucking. excited for the next episodes.
“George R.R. Martin stranglebating to anime porn.” this image will never leave my brain.
If Tyrion dies, I may just have to take my viewership elsewhere.
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k39/SericeousBurden/blog/1238157980_scanners_-_head_explosion.gif
gonna take my multitudes of mehs in stride but seriously….. how in the fuck do you get a .gif to post?
It’s a secret.
Typical.
(3) just so we’re clear, not meg ryan or ’74?
Can we meet the person from George R. R. Martin’s past that clearly hurt him so dearly? Did his best friend sleep with his girlfriend and then kill his dog? What causes a person to become so cruel?
When asked why his books are so violent and he kills off so many beloved characters, he responds that all his inspiration comes from actual historical events. The Red Wedding, for example, is based on two Scottish events: the Black Dinner and the Glencoe Massacre. He wants his characters to always have a real chance of dying because he wants us to actually feel scared when they are put in danger. It makes watching and reading a much more emotional and worthwhile experience.
There is a support group if you need someone to talk to: https://twitter.com/_GRRM_
It looks like next episode the Night Watch will finally do their, uh, job: protect people from Wildling hordes.
hahahahahahaha brian. no. this was great. the first one made me wanna die.
Come on McGannon, if last night’s episode didn’t get you going like the last time you got your dick touched in eighth grade then I don’t know what’s wrong with you.
It seriously was like a lightning strike hitting my penis.
Hey Brian you want to be a bro and inform me how to actually get my .gif to post? The scanners head explosion was basically custom made for this scenario
I’m trying to decide which would be more painful: having lightning strike my penis, or having the Mountain shove his thumbs through my eye sockets to tickle my brain?
The lightning would probably fry the nerves before you could feel it. The other thing… not so much.