Game Of Thrones

The show what I watched last night was Game of Thrones on Sky on Demand. However, this episode was not from the current season (3). The reason, you see, is I have this annoying habit of being very slow to jump on the bandwagon. Hell, I'm lucky if I know the damn wagon existed!

For example, at the beginning of this year, I finally watched the first episode of The Sopranos! Yep only 14 years late to the party!  Now in my defence, I missed the first few episodes of The Sopranos way back in ‘99 and thought it was one of those shows you have to watch from the beginning and so there was no point joining halfway through. There was no ‘On Demand’ back then, so if you missed it and didn't tape it you were screwed,(also chips were 'alfpenny and you could go to the cinema, have popcorn and a drink and still have change from a pound note). So year after year I would miss the repeats and I could never afford the box sets.  However, finally I spotted Sky Atlantic was showing it from the very beginning and so I've started watching it.

Whilst I am on the subject of The Sopranos, last week I saw Season 3 Episode 2 and I really wish I had been forewarned that Livia Soprano was CGI’d for that episode,(unfortunately, the very fine actress, Nancy Marchand, who was just brilliant as the battleaxe, scheming Livia, died before season 3 was shot).  The writers wanted to give some closure to Livia and Tony’s relationship, which I understand, but the CGI was just, well,freaky!  Her head hovered, whilst her body stood still and it looked wrong.  I really thought my local Pizza takeaway had been using Fly Garretts again!  (Judge for yourself, actually it looks a bit better on a smaller screen, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeTJr7WiGmo)

Anyway,I digress, back to Game of Thrones and fortunately we now live in an On Demand era and when I saw Sky On Demand had series 1 and 2, I rubbed my hands and proceeded to clog up my Sky + box,(I've just realised I've mentioned Sky a lot, in the interests of fairness I should point out other TV service providers are available. Virgin Media,however,I wouldn't touch with someone else's).

So season 1, episode 1 was finally watched last night. A lot of fuss and critical praise has been heaped on this show and I must say after watching the first episode,I don't understand why.  It is a little bit 'talky'. There just seems to be endless dialogue, with more dialogue and not a lot happening. Characters are introduced and there seems to be a lot of them, certainly too many in one hit for my tiny brain.  Background after background stories are told, old alliances explained and re-explained and a dwarf gets a blowjob. Pretty run of the mill stuff on reflection. 

In fact there is a lot of sex in the show. A lot more than anyone had told me was in it and as I was watching this with the girlfriend, led to a red face, (do your own jokes about getting red other things) and glancing at my phone a lot. I don't think I've managed to convince my better half that I did not see a single nipple because a) they appear rather often and b) my phone wasn't switched on.

Overall it was very slow paced and felt a struggle to watch. I keep getting told by people whose opinion I trust how good it really is and I doubt two further seasons would have been commissioned if it stayed this snail like.  Had I watched episode 1 when it originally aired, I probably would not have watched episode 2.  But this, you see, is the beauty of not being on the bandwagon and the finger being well and truly off the pulse.  I can let others sort out the good from the Keeping Up Appearances and when I finally get my out of date arse around to finding them, I have a wealth of information as to whether or not I will like it.  Will I like Game of Thrones, time will tell......

Actually it had a dwarf getting a blowjob for crying out loud, I’m going to love it!

Game of Thrones season 3 is currently on Sky Atlantic,Mondays 9pm.

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