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10 Bullets: Awkward Moments from Game of Thrones Season 3 Episode 3

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Totes Awks

Spoilers

  • The Awkward Moment when your flaming funeral arrow misses the boat coffin… three times
  • The Awkward moment when you then return to the castle to be chewed out by your nephew for being an idiot
  • The Awkward Moment when your game of political musical chairs ends with you getting a thankless job in charge of the national debt
  • The Awkward Moment when you don’t recognise that your goodbye brown bread gift is shaped like a wolf
  • The Awkward Moment when you find a pile of horse heads that Neil Buchanan of Art Attack arranged into a pretty pattern
  • The Awkward Moment when your host at the house of incest implies that you’re overweight and that your travelling companions should eat you
  • The Awkward Moment when you have to return all the whore money to your boss because you were so amazing in bed (wait, that’s not that awkward really)
  • The Awkward Moment when you offer a dying slave some water and he’s all like “naaaah”
  • The Awkward Moment when you realise that your dragon totally wasn’t worth swapping for an army of nipple-less slaves
  • The Awkward Moment when somebody chops off your hand for using the word “unbesmirched”
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Arrested Development Season 4 Character Posters

One for each character. The Tobias one is my favourite.

Just over a month to go now. I can just taste those meaty leading man parts in my mouth.

View them all here

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Why The Walking Dead and Toy Story are the same

Here’s a very well-laid out argument for why the first three seasons of The Walking Dead are the exact same as the first three Toy Story movies.

It’s bizarre, but hard to argue with. Thanks to Joe vs the Volcano for pointing me to this.

Click the image below and then keep pressing “next”.

Spoilers for Toy Story 1-3 and The Walking Dead 1-3.

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Game of Thrones RoadMap Recap

This is a good way of recapping everything that happened in the first two seasons of Game of Thrones, because let’s face it, there’s a shitload going on in that show. It’s a road-map that runs through the places and events of both seasons and will keep updating with the new one. You’ll find it…… behind these words. (And obviously, spoiler alert)

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Alternatively, you could just read the books. I keep meaning to do that, but there’s never a good time.

Also, here’s a new trailer for Season 3 if you haven’t seen it yet. It does a good job of upping the anticipation and the only spoiler is that dragon CGI isn’t as easy as you’d think.

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Frankly Frightening Fun Fact Friday Fun-time Phact

This isn’t really frightening, but I didn’t want to mess with the alliteration. But the last word counts, because it’s fact with a “ph”. That’s the “cool” or “hip” way of spelling it, I’m informed by the groovy cats on the street, yo!

This phact is for phans of Game of Thrones and 90s English pop music duos, so it should appeal to almost everyone.

I recently discovered that Jerome Flynn, who plays Bronn in the excellent Game of Thrones is in phact Jerome from Robson and Jerome – English TV stars of Soldier Soldier and one-time pop wonders.

So this Jerome of Robson and Jerome….

… is this fire-starting badass mercenary of Game of Thrones:

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Where’s he been all these years? Apparently he took up with some strange religion called Ratu Bagus, got scammed in a massive ponzi scheme  and is now in Game of Thrones. There you have it. He’s so unrecognisable that I’m convinced Robson must also be in there – maybe playing one of the dragons.

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Bullet Points: Why The Walking Dead’s Return was Underwhelming

The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 9

  • Stiff acting from the newcomers
  • Overacting from everyone else
  • The ridiculous speech from Andrea
  • The ridiculous extras during Andrea’s ridiculous speech
  • Nothing happened
  • The dialogue was sharted onto a page by an illiterate monkey
  • Andrew Lincoln has decided to attend the Al Pacino school of “acting crazy”
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Dave’s Faves 2012 – TV

This was the hardest list to compile, by far. There was more good TV on in 2012 than a back-to-back marathon of Magnum PI and Murder, She Wrote (don’t forget, Jessica and Magnum once met, and it was the greatest moment in history, televisual or otherwise).

There were some real surprises for me this year – the biggest one being that my no. 1 show of last year didn’t even make it to this year’s Top 10. That’s not to say I didn’t like its second season, but I didn’t love it. Also, it degraded into utter farce faster than a back-to-back marathon of Magnum PI and Murder, She Wrote.

Another surprise was that one of my least favourite shows on television has become so good that it’s now my no. 3 favourite show on television – proof that a change of showrunner isn’t always a bad thing.

Also, I wish I had room for Girls, American Horror Story Asylum (parts of it anyway), A Touch of Cloth and Archer, but I don’t, so… ya.

2013. Bar. High.

(To clarify, I’m saying that the bar is set high for 2013, not that we should all go to a bar and get high)

Top 10 TV 2012 Dave watching stuff

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The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 1: Some Thoughts

Damn, there’s a lot of good TV going on right now. Homeland has taken some crazy sidesteps in eps 2 and 3, Dexter is finally interesting again and Fringe is looking to finish out strongly.

But I’ve gotta hand the award of Best Season Opener to The Walking Dead. I’m glad I stuck with this show, despite its horrible characterisation and occasional tedium. The show-runners finally picked up the pace halfway through Season 2 and it looks like they’re gonna keep on running – things actually seem to be working better without Darabont and the show has finally found its stride.

Here’s some of my thoughts from on incredible opening episode, in bullet point form (which is the orderly form my thoughts occur in). Spoilers, obviously: Continue reading

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The Long Night of TV: Dexter, Fringe, Homeland and Ice Cream

There’s so much TV happening lately that myself and my girlfriend decided to sit down and plough through most of it in one sitting.

Here’s how our evening of TV-binging broke down. Some spoilers for Fringe, Dexter and Grey’s Anatomy.

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This is one of the most consistently excellent shows being transmitted down the tube wires. Why aren’t you watching it if you are one of the many people who don’t seem to be watching it? It’s got Kelsey Grammar shouting at people in that amazing voice of his, and I would be so bold as to say it’s nearly as good as The Wire. Neeeeearly.
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