Kathemy

Well, this was trash. Doux: The Fear Reaper

Everything is Gunnar's fault. Always.

Well first of all I'm a little tired of all the "Jaime is so bloody stupid" posts. Jaime didn't abandon his army and flee to King's Landing? Was that stupid? Maybe in a purely selfish perspective, but what is the reaction of the television crowd and the on-screen army to Joffrey doing just that at the siege of Blackwater? Second, the charge? Jaime doesn't consider himself an invaluable asset. To him, he's a soldier, and soldiers are expendable. More than that, he's a knight and has taken knights' vows of bravery. So he sees the dragon wounded and Dany dismounted. He hears the dragon screaming as Dany unsuccessfully tries to pull the spear out of him. How is he to know exactly how wounded Drogon is? Here he is presented with a dice roll - bad one, but a dice roll - to take out the pretender to the throne in one strike, and all it costs him is risking the life of one man. He may be too brave for his own good but that scene doesn't show stupidity. Second, Game of Thrones has never been the best at accuracy in battle scenes. That's why it's good that you have a two-hundred feet bloody dragon thrown into it. An undisciplined horde of light cavalry wielding short weapons charging straight at a heavily armored shield formation armed with long spears is a recipe for a bloodbath - and not for the Lannisters!!! But part of this is negated by Drogon blasting a mile-wide hole in their ranks, and the other half is somewhat negated by the scene being so bloody stunning in the first place.

I'm the reverse, I've begun to love Lena's portrayal so much I don't want her to die. Then again I know she'd act the hell out of her death scene.

<Doux Reviews> <The Queen's Justice> 'Twas my turn to cover an episode. So, there. Might be tripe but I did my best. :-)

Well, that's the first solid confirmation that the show was retooled during the third season, as I suspected.

I should've added the term "sovereign" to cut out any attempts at those technicalities... But I'll give you a better one if we're to play the game. Hitler's invasion of Austria. Tho, if we're to be technical, we might call that an "annexation." I'm pretty sure that came with a lot less suffering for the local population than the allied liberation of France.

Varys is your standard storytelling cruth, both for D&D and GRRM. He knows whatever the story needs him to. He wouldn't know water was wet if it didn't.

Yeah, we do, and I haven't seen anyone ever claiming there was "nothing bad" about it.

Nobody was raped? No villages were pillaged? No men died?

Can you tell me one time in the history of mankind where "foreign army invades your homeland" has been pleasant for the local population?

If you look at the trailer, the footage of Bruce in the mask and hood in the doorway reminds me much less of Batman than of Damian Wayne...

<Doux> <Gotham: Zero Year> My breakdown of the show thus far and the coming season.

Thank you!

They can't break their tradition as "most schizophrenic show about Feminist messaging on television."

I know you may not have meant it that way, but if she becomes a criminal of a similar order of Tabitha that will betray everything her character has ever been through 80 years of different comic canon. Tabitha Galavan is a sadistic murderer and she's an awful choice as a mentor for Selina, if we're speaking "character evolution" rather than "leather tights and whips".

Yes, I wrote a review on Parade's End a while ago. I thought it was a fantastic miniseries, and I also thought some reviewers sold her performance short (while none said she was bad, they didn't seem to appreciate it as much as I did.)

I have no problem with him "being a playboy", it's not like I didn't drink booze and date girls when I was 16. My chief problem is that they seem to be erasing what these characters have been for the last three years in order to somehow make them fit better into some misguided notion of "how Batman and Catwoman are supposed to be," even though there have been dozens of adaptations some of which far more ludicrous than Gotham. They're in danger of destroying what's unique with the show. And David pulling off an "intimidating Batman-type figure" at his age will take a supernatural feat of acting, but at least, I think that kid can do anything.

I think the concept that "Bruce and Selina's relationship will crumble" while "Batman and Catwoman is a different story", as stated by David, is ridiculous. So, they're really going with that? They're going with Selina not being able to recognize him just because he wears a hoodie? After having trained him, dated him, been his only friend for three years?

Like... Listen. It's very likely they'll go back to the "Scarlett and Gunnar are in love" thing. I don't think they'll ever stop going back to that old well. However, with the "caliber" of writing we've got lately, they'll probably do so without Scarlett ever even apologizing, much less admitting what a total <CENSORED> she's really been. And that's just infuriating. I genuinely thought the overthrow of the regime would be a good thing. I was wrong. I have to restrain myself in order to not shout explicits in my post that will get me banned.

Not sure how likely it is but it's a pretty cool idea especially seeing that Bruce had a tussle or two with Falcone in "normal continuity". Pax Penguina could refer to two things, I think. The one is "Penguin wtfpwnd all his enemies and now... we'll have... peace..." and the other would be a treaty between the remaining players. I'm betting on the former, though. It takes much less imagination, and the "easy explanation" is normally the right one.

Uh, who? Link?

I'd assume Persian soldiers are somehow relevant to Ra's Al Ghul's story. No real clue about the Russian gangster.

They're following up on the couple getting mugged? Maybe that family is significant after all, somehow? Also the Arkham inmates make sense both for Jerome and Jonathan Crane. That's where both should be.

Seriously though, Barbara's death scene felt a bit like "suicide by Tigress". Like, how idiotic could she be thinking she could take Tabitha Galavan one on one when she even got her arse kicked by Lee?