Galactica: Two Years Later
In a conversation with Zé about the current lack of good scifi shows, Battlestar Galactica was mentioned.
Two years after it goes off the air, scifi-wise there’s nothing nearly as good as BSG on television. Meh.
ThunderCats 2011
I loved the original ThunderCats when I was a kid and I was afraid that they would mess everything up on this remake, but I’ve watched the first couple of episodes and am potitively impressed.
The character design is good, even though Cheetara is slightly on the anorexic side of the Force, and the animation is decent enough.
None of the story changes bothered me much, although *spoiler* I was a bit surprised Tygra is Lion-O’s brother. Maybe he’s adopted. /bad pun
A Game of Thrones – TV Series
So, I haven’t talked about the A Game of Thrones TV series here since last September when there still wasn’t a show to watch and chat about.
I’ve been enjoying it a lot and I haven’t minded some differences between the show and the novels, because so far they’ve kept the important parts of the narrative there. The cast is great. The actors playing hate-inducing characters are doing a great job, as are the ones playing the characters I love. I always imagined Eddard looking like Viggo Mortensen and I thought I wouldn’t like Sean Bean in the part, but it turned out he’s doing great.
If there’s one universe in which I haven’t been able to pick just one favourite character, it’s George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. The complexity of the characters is such that it became impossible not to like one detail or another from several of them.
No differently from the novels, to me the most interesting characters are Tyrion for his wits and his particular views on life, Daenerys for growing into who she truly is, Arya who reminds me so much of how I was at that age – a tomboy who didn’t behave very well, and to a point, Jon Snow, the outcast who hasn’t quite found his place yet. Eddard is also interesting, being honorable and idealist, but I’ve been finding him less appealing in the show than he was in the novel.
One thing that makes me enjoy the show more is, strangely enough, that I forgot a lot of details of the story. I read the first novel about eight or nine years ago, and the important parts of the plot and characters remained in my memory, but the little details keep coming back as ‘surprises’ when I’m watching the show.
The opening. I loved the theme and the CGI. Kind of steampunky and not something I’d expect in a fantasy show, but maybe that’s why it works marvelously. They got me at ‘clockwork’.
Still about A Song of Ice and Fire and George R. R. Martin:
The good news: There’s going to be a season 2 (not actual ‘news’ – it’s been known since the first episode ratings came out)
The bad news: The first season ends on June 26th and I’m sure we’ll have a long wait ahead of us.
The great news: George R. R. Martin is coming back to Portugal, on April 2012, according to his site. I hope to be able to go see him like last time he was here, and hear what he has to say about all the craziness that’s now surrounding this universe. It’ll also be a chance to get the new, hardcover, versions of the first three novels I got for my birthday last year autographed. And also, A Dance With Dragons which is coming this year, of course.
