Re: your last post, I'm curious what you think of S3 of HOTD and TVL? I haven't watched TVL yet but I've been enjoying this season of HOTD so far.
Hii! I guess I haven't really been talking about them here, have I?
I'm actually in the opposite boat - I've been watching TVL but haven't gotten to HOTD yet. I'm not worried about HOTD spoilers though, so I'm "watching" it through gifsets haha.
Most of the grumbling I've seen there is about how it's diverged from the source material, but I don't really care about that. I think it's wonderful they've found a way to keep putting Alicent and Rhaenyra in the same room.
And this is apparently controversial, but I really like TVL. It's very, very different from IWTV. It truly might as well be a different show. But the books also change really significantly after IWTV - the tone is so different, a lot less brooding and a lot more bombastic - so I was prepared for the change.
There's a lot of valid criticisms to make but also - the first time I heard "Long Face", I knew this was going to be a season where I'd turn my brain off a bit. That might sound like I mean mean it's "bad", but I think of it less as poor quality and more as brain candy.
The tone went from fine dining with your genteel vampire grandpa to cramming Snickers and LSD and brandy down your throat with your rockstar vampire cousin. It's a totally different experience, but still an enjoyable one, imo. That shift isn't going to work for everyone, but I'm having fun.
Sadly most of my longtime fandom friends are among those who aren't enjoying TVL. One silver lining of that is that it's helping me spend less time on tumblr because negative posts about it make me feel a little sad, lol.
Anyway! Thanks for asking! I'm really excited to watch HOTD. As soon as TVL ends, I'm re-upping my HBO subscription.
