and then there were moderate levels of detail
Thursday, April 26th, 2012 03:36 pmI've been brooding for a few days now Re: Game of Thrones Season 2, latest episode (was it three or four? I don't remember now). I don't care for Demon Pregnancy storylines to begin with, regardless of whether the character has solicited it and doesn't mind. (In a disgusting parody, Boorman's Excalibur, which we watched last night, had a very similar scene. That didn't bother me as much as Uther raping Igrayne while she thought it was her husband and thus allowed it to happen; or, like, the baby being ripped away from her and her screaming powerlessly about it for a while; or like, everything to do with Guenevere, as usual; but it still bothered me.)
Let me say this, though. I didn't really care about the shadow baby being born. It was needlessly gross, but hey, it's HBO. If I didn't see that coming, I'm just being intentionally ignorant at that point.
However. I really didn't enjoy the added, unnecessary scene of Joffrey's sexual perversions. Did this illuminate some previously unforeseen capability for cruelty and obvious wrongness in Joffrey for anyone? Because for me, it was an unnecessarily degrading scene of two women being held at crossbow and rendered helpless by a spoiled, insane boy, and one of them being forced to beat the other one to death with a phallic object that suggested he might instruct his hostage to use it in a sick parody of sex, as well.
Between that brutal murder and the torture scene with the rats and the heated bucket (gee, I always wondered what a 1984 movie would be like...), I have to say I didn't really enjoy myself, and I've been in a kind of bad mood about it since.
Anyway. Excalibur went way too fast and was kind of hilarious, but it did succeed in telling the ENTIRE Arthurian myth, so that was pretty cool.
My adventure to the Chiropractor was scary and weird, and I have an appointment to go back tomorrow to make sure I'm still okay, but it did help with the initial pain.
Of course, the terrifyingly sharp jabs into my spine have left a monstrous bruise in its wake, so I've been icing my back all day to ease it up. I'm kind of scared about going back tomorrow!
Let me say this, though. I didn't really care about the shadow baby being born. It was needlessly gross, but hey, it's HBO. If I didn't see that coming, I'm just being intentionally ignorant at that point.
However. I really didn't enjoy the added, unnecessary scene of Joffrey's sexual perversions. Did this illuminate some previously unforeseen capability for cruelty and obvious wrongness in Joffrey for anyone? Because for me, it was an unnecessarily degrading scene of two women being held at crossbow and rendered helpless by a spoiled, insane boy, and one of them being forced to beat the other one to death with a phallic object that suggested he might instruct his hostage to use it in a sick parody of sex, as well.
Between that brutal murder and the torture scene with the rats and the heated bucket (gee, I always wondered what a 1984 movie would be like...), I have to say I didn't really enjoy myself, and I've been in a kind of bad mood about it since.
Anyway. Excalibur went way too fast and was kind of hilarious, but it did succeed in telling the ENTIRE Arthurian myth, so that was pretty cool.
My adventure to the Chiropractor was scary and weird, and I have an appointment to go back tomorrow to make sure I'm still okay, but it did help with the initial pain.
Of course, the terrifyingly sharp jabs into my spine have left a monstrous bruise in its wake, so I've been icing my back all day to ease it up. I'm kind of scared about going back tomorrow!
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