Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones

"I am Daenerys Stormborn. Your Masters may have told you lies about me, or they may have told you nothing. It does not matter. I have nothing to say to them. I only speak to you. First, I went to Astapor. Those who were slaves in Astapor, now stand behind me, free. Next I went to Yunkai. Those who were slaves in Yunkai, now stand behind me, free. Now I have come to Meereen. I am not your enemy. Your enemy is beside you. Your enemy steals and murders your children. Your enemy has nothing for you but chains and suffering, and commands. I do not bring you commands. I bring you a choice. And I bring your enemies what they deserve." - Daenerys Targaryen

Above is my favorite quote of all time spoken by one of my two all time favorite characters. If either of them die, I do not think I could watch the show anymore through my grief. I am of course talking about the show that has destroyed many peoples hearts with the deaths of their favorite characters, Game of Thrones. My favorite characters are Daenerys (who according to the true line of succession should be the Queen of Westeros and the 7 kingdoms because she is the only living heir to the Mad King), and Tyrion Lannister, almost the only source of comedy in the whole show. I have a few other characters that I enjoy, but none as much as those two.

First I want to raise two points. 1) I have not seen the last three episodes of this season, season 4, so all of my opinions are coming from the knowledge of the episodes previous to those three. 2) I only have one true complaint about the show and that is the amount of violence towards women, specifically violence that was not originally in the book. I understand the urge to add sex and drugs to TV shows to interest people, but why does the sex have to be non-consensual. For example, the scene where Cerci is raped by her brother/lover beside their sons dead body (because that is a real turn on apparently) is not originally in the book. The scene in the book was originally consensual, but was turned into a rape scene by the show. The questions that I want to ask is why??? In a show that already has enough rape, what is the point of changing it? I feel like every episode this season has had a rape scene. I think the one that bothered me the most was all the daughters that was raped by the rouge Night's Watch. The main guy who was in charge (I forgot his name, I hated him so much) made the comment that they should rape the women until they die. I have never been so happy to see someone die when he died in the very next episode. Thank you John Snow!

Now for some things that I enjoy about the show. I am going to start with the current Sansa story line, as far as I have seen of it. So..... Sansa is now with Littlefinger and her aunt living in the Erie. The problem, which I saw coming from the moment Littlefinger started talking about how much he loved Catlin Stark, that he was going to make a pass at Sansa. Then the aunt (who is married to Littlefinger and in madly in love with him) threatens to throw her out the moon door (a cliff essentially). So I am thinking, this is it. Sansa is finally going to die, but then in comes Littlefinger to calm her down....or so you think. But then he tells says the cruelest thing I think I have ever heard:



Even though me as the audience already knows that that is true, I am still shocked by the fact that he said it. And then he throws her out the moon door! As much as it pains me to admit it, I felt a little bit of sympathy for her. She was crazy no doubt, but love has made a lot of people crazy right? I just think it is sad how completely and utterly in love with him she was, and he was only using her the entire time. We know the extent of this love because she was the one who sent Caitlin Stark the letter that started the 5 Kings War! And she did it under Littlefinger's orders. I have some very recent experience with being in love with a man who is in love with another woman and I know how much pain she was in, however I never threatened to throw someone out a moon door.

As for Tyrion, I have loved his character for the very beginning of the show. She is hysterical and all he wants is find a woman to love him and to get his dad off his back. However, now his father is trying to have him executed and the woman he is in love with is testifying against him. It seems to me after watching for 3 and a half seasons that Tyrion and Daenerys are the only two characters with any moral compass at all. Tyrion's twin brother and sister are sleeping with each other, and his father is an evil jerk to everyone. However, his family looks down on him for being a dwarf and "killing their wife/mother." I don't think I could make it if I lived my whole life being blamed for being born. Why does Tywin not blame himself for getting her pregnant? Or 'the Gods" for taking her? I guess it is easier for him mentally to blame Tyrion, but he does not deserve it. I feel like the mother would be so upset if she knew the way that the rest of the family was treating her baby. I think I feel in love with Tyrion as a character when he first slapped Joffery. While everyone else was sitting there bowing down, Tyrion was still treating him like the punk little kid that he is. For example, when Joffery wanted Sansa to strip naked so she could be beaten in front of the entire court, Tyrion is the one who shows up, puts Joffery in his place and saves her.

My other favorite is Daenerys because of her heart. She is the sweetest person on the entire show which is why she is so beloved by her army, who chooses to stand with her. I think there is a real strength in her that is shown for the first time when she learns how to love the man that scared her and essentially raped her. Then the sadness she felt and what she did to save his life, inadvertently killing her baby in the process. Then she comes back from all of that pain to save her dragons (now he children) and to free the slaves at each city she encounters. There is something wonderful about someone who wants to stand up for those that cannot stand up for themselves. When she saw the children hung to the crosses along the roads to Maureen, she stated that she would get them justice and asked someone to count how many there were. Then when she arrived there was a way that she could have gotten around the city without sacking it, and she refused, because it meant more to her to free the slaves than to be a Queen. I think of everyone on this show, she makes the best leader and would make the best Queen for the 7 Kingdoms.     

The Walking Dead

"That's the third time you are pointing that thing in my face. You gonna pull the trigger or what?"

So I had planned to write this post so much earlier than it is being written, but life kind of got in the way as well as school work. Plus, the show I am writing about this time around is a show I had just started when I planned to talk about it but now I am almost through the fourth season so my opinionated self has a lot to say. For this post I am going to be talking about The Walking Dead, so spoilers ahead.

First, I really, really like this show. One of the most important things that I like about it is that despite the fact that it is a show about a zombie apocalypse, there are still a lot of aspects that are true to reality. First of all, they aren't any easy beheadings. TV shows today make it look like beheading someone is so easy that it could be an accident if the knife was short enough. Truth is, it take a lot to hack off a head or a limb (both events happened to the same person, Hershel). Also, once someone is death on this show, they stay dead (except Lori, but I'll get to that later). No one miraculously comes back to life or heals which really adds to the suspense of the show. When you are watching you know, if someone gets bit or scratched, there is no coming back, so you spend the whole time worried that the character might die.

And then there's the drama. So lets start with the most obvious Drama, the Lori, Rick, Shane love triangle. First of all... I am not happy with the way that the show treated Shane. I feel like every single time there is a love triangle/affair it is never representative of the reality of what it is like for people who are in an affair. I had a best friend who fell in love with a married man. At first I didn't know what to think because I had known her since I was five years old and I had never expected that from her. She wasn't a bad person, and neither was he, and neither was his wife. They were all just in a bad situation. But on TV, there is always a bad guy, even in situations where there really in no bad guy. In the first season (only 6 episodes) it was representative, but starting in the second season they started to make Shane into a crazy person which killed me. I was much more in tune with his character than the Rick character and I felt bad for him. He was completely loyal to Rick when he found out he was still alive and then he out of nowhere goes crazy for a few episodes and tries to kill Rick? I just didn't like it nor did I find it believable.

Then there is the issue of Lori being a bad mother. That was the only thing that I knew about this show when I first started watching, and I have to say.... I AGREE!



In every single episode you see Lori asking someone else to watch Carl, or if she is watching Carl he is running around outside the house aimlessly. First, he steals a gun from Daryl's motorcycle. Where is Lori? Probably in the house doing laundry. Then he is throwing stones at a Walker (zombie) antagonizing it to chase after him, then it later kills a member of the group, Dale. Where is Lori? Again, no one knows, but not with Carl. Then when the walkers are swarming the farm and they have to leave, out comes Lori yelling, "WHERE'S CARL?" to which everyone watching responds with, "WHY DO YOU NOT KNOW???!" It's a zombie apocalypse! If I had a kid,  I would never let them leave my side.

Last thing I am going to discuss for this post is what everyone is obsessed with: Daryl Dixon. When I first started watching the show I was determined not to like him, because he was everyone's favorite. So I went in thinking, "I am NOT going to like this guy" and guess what? I fell in love. His childhood consisted of being beaten by his father (so much so that he still has multiple thick scars on his back) who has a heart of gold, but no way to express it. He was never shown any affection (as far as is noted in the show) until his short time with Beth. Beth is a complete and utter sweetheart and he is able to really be kind with her for a brief moment before she was kidnapped. There was also his relationship with Carol, but it was not quite the same level of affection. While this show is slow at time, I think is definitely worth the watch. I will definitely watch when it comes back on  in October.

House M.D.

“People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.” -Dr.Gregory House

Hello! My name is Megan and I am a TV show/Movie junkie. I guess part of the reason I love them so much is because I spend almost all my time between work and school and in my off time I need a hobby which doesn't require as much brain power as reading (although I love reading as well!). However, if you consider how much thought I put into the stories behind the shows and movies, it would seem I am putting almost as much thought into them as it would require to read a book. I work at a company called Coyote Logistics on the overnight 3rd shift (hence my blog title, lyrics to an Iggy Azalea song "up all night trying to get that rich"). I am a senior at Kennesaw State this year as an Accounting Major, so again, I only have so much brain power left over after school and work. So I thought that throughout this blog I would share my thoughts on certain series and movies that I enjoy or do not enjoy and discuss why I feel one way or the other (and believe me, I have PLENTY of opinions). 

 SPOILER ALERT!

House MD was an amazing show that lasted for 8 seasons and ended in 2012. What made this show so incredible was the main character, Dr. Gregory House's unwillingness to be a kind human being. He believed in truth above all else despite his famous quote, "Everybody lies." Every case he would take was purely because it interested him and he often mocked anyone he felt was being an idiot. He would have his team break into his patients homes to help his diagnostic process and would hire team members based on superficial reasons that he felt were important. He hired Dr. Allison Cameron purely because she was pretty and when she confronts him about this he replies with the quote listed above. This gives way to what I really wanted to talk about. Despite how cruel House was, he was never wrong. Cameron was a good doctor in spite of her looks because she worked so hard to get where she was. All he needed was one look to figure out that she was a hard worker. As someone who thrives from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (and note I did not say "suffers from" I am proud of who I am and all of my quirks) I can appreciate his ability to make snap judgements without questioning himself. He never once thinks, "maybe I am wrong" or "it could be any number of things." He makes decisions and he sticks to them which is something I envy because I simply cannot do that. I second guess everything I do and think and sometimes I do not speak my mind about things, even when I have been right about it all along. 

This brings rise to the question: Is it better to be right or kind? As someone who is also very blunt, I think it is better to be right. I would like to believe that there is a middle ground, where one can tell the truth and be kind about it. Unfortunately sometimes the truth itself if not kind and their is nothing anyone can do to change that. If House had been kinder and wasted time talking to patients, he may have been more like me and second guessed himself. Perhaps if he had created a relationship between himself and the patient then he may not have ordered the tests that were needed to save the patients life because the treatment was too risky. So is it better to be kind and hold the patients hand while they die? Or order a test that could kill them, but has the chance of saving their life? If I was the patient, I would rather have the chance to live. What was so astounding about this show is that made you want to ask those questions, and to accept that House was the way he was. When I think about it, this show could have tanked in season 1 because people felt that House was too much of a jerk. However it did not simply because people were fascinated by the thought of a doctor who was not there to help (he simply wanted to "solve the puzzle") but was going to save lives anyway. 

No discussion of this magnificent series would be completely without discussing the relationship between Dr. House and his best and only friend Dr. James Wilson. Wilson was an oncologist who knew House through everything and was the only main cast member other than Cuddy (the Dean of Medicine and House's ex) who knew House before the medical procedure than mangled his leg and got him addicted to Vicodin. According to Wilson, House was a jerk even before the constant pain in his leg, which is an ongoing to debate for other characters in the series. However through it all, Wilson stuck by him and acted as his conscience, no matter what crazy thing House had done. Throughout the 7 seasons we see Wilson stick his neck out to show that he and House are best friends. We also see House mess things up, be depressed about it despite the fact that he would not voice it, only to see the two of them make up. The bad guy House and the ultimate good boy Wilson who holds the hands of his patents and goes out of his way to not be mean to anyone always ended up friends again without too much effort on House's part. That is, until Season 8. In season 8 we find out that Wilson has Cancer and for the first time we see House having a heart and taking care of someone else. He administers a crazy amount of Chemo that no other doctor would in his living room and does not take Wilson to the hospital even though he knows that is what is RIGHT, purely because Wilson asks him not to. Then when the Chemo does not work and Wilson refuses to take anymore, House falls apart and tries to change Wilson's mind. Finally, he accepts that he only have 5 months left with his friend and he fakes his own death (to avoid going back to jail for revoking his parol after he drove his car into his Ex's living room) in order to spend those months with him. That was the crowing moment for House and the perfect ending to the series. It is a must watch and I highly recommend it!!