"Liz, by the end of this episode, you will be bawling your eyes out...for Hodor." "Do not be ridiculous, Hodor is an undeveloped, one-note character who's there, sadly, for cheap laughs, and to be The Big Dumb One. It is not a character trope that delights me. And this is not a particualrly interesting interpretation…
Month: May 2016
Game of Thrones 604 Book of the Stranger
In my concerted effort to Finish A Thing this week, I managed to forget to write lovely words about last week's Game of Thrones. It's Doctor Who all over again! (I will finish writing about last season, I WILL.) Anyway, here we are now. And IIRC correctly - it's only been a week so I…
Game of Thrones 603 Oathbreaker
Wheeee! So after a spiffy episode last week where there were amusing deaths and I felt seriously pandered to, this week feels a slight drop off. This is isn't to say it's a bad episode or sod all happened, but it wasn't terribly interested in moving along the story of most of my favourites, so…
Game of Thrones 6.02 Home
One of the most frustrating things about Game of Thrones - books and telly - is as the story goes on, the plotlines multiply to such an extent that a full book/season goes by and you feel like sod all happens. It's nudge, nudge, nudge, EXPLOSION, nudge - the sort of pacing which, oh, I…
Lizbeth Myles 