it all goes back and back

one thing about grrm is that he will write a self-insert and then punish himself for it by making them suck absolute ass

watched the odyssey in theaters. liked it more than i thought i would. i think the trick is enjoying it as a nolan movie foremost, not as an adaptation of homer's odyssey. all the bad things they say about the movie are true: the characters are robotic, the dialogue is gratingly modern, the bronze age collapse talks feels like it comes out of a textbook. and yet the theme of memory and the nonlinearity of remembrance and the price of broken oaths plays out coherently throughout the movie. there is effective use of exposition here: every set-up has a payoff. i will say, penelope just did not work for me as a character; the depiction of her rage and frustration should have made her more rounded, but it seemed to flatten what i enjoyed most about her character. overall, it's interesting as an adaptation. it's like asking a painter to paint a painting, and comparing what they draw with the original.

nolan's odyssey believes in monsters but not gods. i don't know what to make of that, but i know it's significant

they put the ormund hightower poppers edit on a billboard

new sentences being constructed every day

i consume asoiaf in a far more morally superior way than you. i think all of these characters should be put to death for being part of a feudal society and thus morally complicit in the violence inherent to the system. yes even the little children

my first decree as president will be to appoint a scheming evil vizier to every fast food restaurant across the land. my second decree will be to kill all small business owners

religious zealout, homosexual, homophobic, groomer, diva, kingmaker, crashout king, addicted to fragrances, scholar, ballad composer, tapestry collector, has the most beautiful armor in westeros and an eye for tasteful corpse arrangement, meria martell/dorne/corlys velaryon stan, walks naked in public, obsessed with his boywife that he keeps locked in his dark lord's mansion. may or may not self-flagellate in secret. ormund hightower may be the asoiaf antagonist of all time

harrenhal play halfway across the world you understand me. it's just you and me and several thousand playgoers against the world