And so the drama continues. This week on Game of Thrones, some key players had to eat a slice of humble pie. After ceasing the Stark’s home, Theon is reprimanded like a child, Robb loses a bargaining chip and Jon Snow goes from captor to captive. If anything, “The Prince of Winterfell” showed the importance of strategy in the art of war.
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The end is near for season two of Game of Thrones. This week’s episode begged the question, who is a “Man Without Honor?” On this show, there’s more than enough devious deeds to go around. Both men and women have plenty of skeletons in their closets. Is it Jaime for his nonchalant attitude towards killing and incest? Or is it Theon for his betrayal and heartlessness?
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This week on Game of Thrones, Theon betrays his former home and takes Winterfell, while Robb and Catelyn continue the good fight. Joffrey (unfortunately) survives an uprising in the streets after Cersei sends her youngest daughter off to marriage leaving Sansa for dead. Arya gathers valuable information while in the service of Tywin. And Jon Snow continues his cold journey beyond the wall. Oh yes, and someone stole Daenerys’ precious dragons!
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The Game of Thrones story is really starting to gather steam, with several chess pieces moving closer and closer to a cataclysmic collision of minds and matter. The tone in Season 2 has been a little starker than in Season 1, and it manages to do that while feature fewer Starks! As always, I am low on patience and high on anticipation for Episode 4 next week.
This second season of Game of Thrones has journeyed on like a bullet train capitalizing on its maiden voyage. There are still hordes of new characters and places, but the pacing needs less introduction and backdrop. It becomes less about what is Westeros and more about what happens in Westeros – which, as it turns out, is a collection of fascinating, character-building, and often depraved stuff. When you think about it, there are a whole lot of semi-bad people in this universe, and even the good ones have their touches of moral ambiguity.
Time for another round-up of this week’s entertainment bits and pieces. We’ve got the official trailer for Michelle Williams‘ Take this Waltz. Also, very cool Game of Thrones fan art courtesy of Unreality Magazine; and a gallery featuring Alfred Hitchcock‘s classics as Nintendo Games. All that and more below.
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Recently The Oatmeal did a cartoon about a guy wanting to watch Game of Thrones, and finding it impossible to do so unless he pirated a copy. Alas, this was printed a mere two weeks before the DVD and Blu-ray box set hit stores, leaving the cartoonist looking, well, like an entitled prick. It’s hard to know how long this cartoon took to draw, though that’s little excuse. Piracy is wrong, end thought, but it’s a tricky subject.
For those who are without HBO, but have been hearing non-stop about the greatness of Game of Thrones, now is your chance to own it legally! It leads the pack of new releases, which include such fall winners as Jack and Jill, The Immortals, and Footloose, and catalog greats from Eddie Murphy, Ron Howard, Alfred Hitchcock, and Monty Python. Check out the best of this week’s new releases:
Winter hiatus is coming to an end, which means some of television’s most prominent television shows are returning—we’re looking at you, Mad Men and The Walking Dead—including the dark fantasy drama program Game of Thrones, with the second season premiere hitting HBO on Sunday, April 1st.
