My recent doings and thinkings, in numerical points.

[monimala]

1. Game of Thrones' "Blackwater" was an amazing episode of TV. Unsurprising, since GRRM himself wrote the episode, and it was tightly focused to one set of characters and one event

Comments

[leobrat]

While Game of Thrones kind of disappoints me on another level, this episode really illustrated how herky-jerky the show usually is- it does feel very much like five wildly different stories usually.

[monimala]

I don't really mind it having wildly different stories going on simultaneously, because it captures, on a micro scale, what was going on in the books. But it's a nice change to have more *time* with a set of characters. It strengthens the emotional investment in them.

[leobrat]

I mean, I guess there's a good and bad with that. But what it feels like to me most of the time (both in the show and the books) is that just as I'm getting into one part of the story, we're swept away to a totally different corner. And there are parts that just don't interest me at all, and I find myself checking Facebook or something during those scenes.