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That may never happen!

 

I don't often read fantasy unless it's "classical" (e.g., "Lord of the Rings"), so rather than indulge in Game of Thrones I reread Dan Jones' "The Plantagenets." That lot was brutal, and they didn't need a dragon to add to the sense of menace.

 

Though the nineties and a good part of the aughts I used to believe that the 'skins would make the playoffs so I know all about fantasy.

 

And, of course, we have the "optimism " thread" as our bow to fantasy.

 

Um no it means the show went beyond the realm of being watchable. It did at that point for me.

 

I found out that Stark dying was how the books did it later. I still disagree with that. It is personal preference. That would not be the first time a book "jumped the shark" for me. The third book in the Divergent series did the same thing.

 

There was a third book in the Divergent series? I thought there was a tangentially-related book that neither took place in Chicago nor made a great deal of sense that ended on a whimper because the author had no idea where she was going with her high school clique metaphor.

Seriously, where is my adaptation of Westerfield's Uglies series? That at least had an interesting sci-fi world.

Wait, am I not on the io9 comments board now? I mean, uh, "woo, soccer!"

 

Going to have to disagree with you here. The show is not unwatchable, and has gotten even better after Season 1. To give up because Ned Stark died is only causing you to miss out on amazing television.

 

Compare the Nights Watch to DCU'S hardcover Supporters Groups and/or the club itself:

1. Members wear all-black.
2. In it for life- no going back.
3. Crumbling infrastructure.
4. Under-funded as a whole.
5. Under-appreciated by the rulers [SG members v. ownership]
6. Assumption that "they" will always be there for "us" [SGs ---> owners]
7. Increasingly, they [owners] don't give a crap.

How much more "drama" do you want?

 

Damn family and sex and stuff.

 

True that. William Shakespeare definitely got some mileage out of that little 100 year dispute between the Plantagenets and the Lancasters/Yorks. Henry VIII, for example, was one nasty piece of work and I've enjoyed watching the Six Wives of Henry VIII, the Tudors and Wolf Hall during the past couple of years as well as reading the Hilary Martel books.

P.S. I wouldn't bet against Tyrion or the Mother of Dragons. I do think that Jon Snow is dead but there's a good chance that he may become either a reanimated zombie-like ghoul or a White Walker.

 

Frankly it has turned into an 80's slasher flick, wondering which character is going to be killed off.

 

I was thinking the same thing but a picture is worth a thousand words.

 

But no violent deaths yet.

 

We do get raped by other MLS teams from time to time. Not as often as characters in Game of Thrones, though.

 

And sometimes we rape them.

 

I see your point, but in this metaphor, aren't the SGs the Nights Watch? Isn't it Srdan, et al., who should be watching their backs to avoid knifings?

 

Or be wary of cold blooded zombies dragging them off into the night too.

 

I think the DU are thought of more as Wildings by the FO.

 

Speaking of local tv, does CSN do any news coverage of DC United now that they don't carry them? I've realized that lately I watch CSN as often as MASN which is never.

 

I've seen very little of United on CSN-TV, and there is zilch on their website. There is a direct link to every other DC area team, but United. And if you go to "Other", then "Soccer", you still don't get any direct link to United, only the occasional box score, or game summary.

I've sent an email to whomever receives emails at CSN, asking them to cover a, you know, local DC team, but it appears to have been to no avail. Perhaps if others do too, they might get on the stick, but I doubt it.