Ever watch a video and think, "They captured my essence in this short film!  This right here is the expression of my soul!" I felt that way when I watched the following video, which you should watch, especially All of You.

Herein we shall all be unsurprised that my soul is pretty violent and loves books.

Safe for work with headphones.  Safe for older kids but not little guys.

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10/24 '15 17 Comments
I love Axis of Awesome.
Every time we hear a car go past blaring loud music we start singing Axis of Awesome...
Matt loves to walk around and randomly scream at people gushing over the show,"I READ THE FUCKING BOOKS".
(He's a little bit nutty. He wanted to be a history teacher, and he told me he really wants one of his students to walk up to him and say "Mr. Bowerman, I would do anything for an A" and he'd reply "Anything?" and she would say "Yes Sir. Anything." then he'd lean in real close and say very loudly in her ear, "YOU CAN FUCKING STUDY"

I told him his career would be epic and short lived. )
Archer and I laughed so hard at this comment. It was the laughter of people who are totally on board with Matt's history teaching plan.

I READ THE FUCKING BOOKS!!!
I wish I had liked the books well enough to have done, but I couldn't stand them. They read too much like, well... TV Show treatments with a lot of excess digression. I mean, they start with a cold open.

Harry Potter: the books were better inversely with the movies. Goblet of Fire hits equilibrium.

Hunger Games: The books are unreadable.
The Hunger games were awful. I really hated Mockingjay the most though. I haven't read Maze Runner as friends have said the same thing to me. That the books were awful. (Haven't seen the movie either.)
I do love both the books and movies for HP and GoT.
(But I am hearing you on those two books in GoT Leah. I still haven't finished Dance with Dragons yet. I keep losing interest around the 300 page mark. And it gets to the point that every time I see Tyrion say "Words are wind" or "where the whores are" I want to throw the book really hard at GRRM's face.)
I really like the Hunger Games movies-- it helps a LOT that we are not in Katniss's head the whole time.
YES. Being in Katniss's head is so depressing. Also, the actors in the Hunger Games movies are all so talented and easy on the eyes too ...

Last night I got to tell Archer that President Snow's kid is Ace from Stand by Me. :)
I liked A Feast For Crows, but A Dance With Dragons was tough to get through. If you compare the descriptions of the landscapes and castles in AGOT to ADWD, they are so much sharper in AGOT and rambling in ADWD.

I tried to watch the Game of Thrones show, but it didn't hold my interest, and then after I heard about some of the reinterpretation (Jaime rapes Cersei in the show, he does NOT rape her in the books, and that interpretation not only tears down his motivation for all his bad acts and makes him seem like a mustache-twirling villain instead of a complex character, it makes Cersei seem like the weaker of the pair, which lessens her and also changes the power dynamic between the two of them from intricate to yawn - man overpowers woman with force), I wasn't motivated to go back and try again.

That said, AGOT through ASOS rocked and I have read them more than twice!
They seem to be kind of embarrassdly trying to forget that thing ever happened-- I mean on the showrunner level.

Personally, I adore the show. There's some problems, yes, but it's really well done television. I could watch nothing but the Arya and Tywin at Harrenhall bits pretty much forever (I know it's Roose Bolton in the books, but damn is it awesome with Tywin), and I love that Sansa actually makes sense and it not a complete twit in the show, but she's an abuse victim with PTSD from dealing with Joffery.

tl;dr-- they collapse the cast a lot in the show, but it makes a lot of sense that they do. The fact that Bran has a chance to let Jon know he's north of the wall, and chooses to go to the Children of the Forest instead is kind of neat as well.

That said, Dany struggling with people being idiots while she tries to hold Mereen together is exhausting in whatever medium.
More Tywin is never a bad thing for the audience (readers/watchers), even though it usually sucks for the characters. Also, what's his name? Charles Dance? The white suited bad guy in Last Action Hero (one of my favorite movies that I always forget about and then am super excited when I find it again) - perfect casting choice!

I'd watch that, probably. And maybe I will try to watch the series again, but speaking as the woman who is four episodes behind on Criminal Minds (my favorite show on TV right now, though it's in close competition with The Good Wife) ... not inspired to pick up the AGOT DVDs any time soon.

We are also watching The Walking Dead (also episodes behind there), but Walking Dead has never been my favorite show because it's inconsistent. Some episodes are gripping and exciting and fantastic to watch and some are just slogs, it's very bipolar.
<3 The Good Wife <3

We are bad Atlantans and are not watching the Walking Dead.
It's good, but you don't have to watch the show to enjoy the BLR videos, which both you and Brandes will LOVE.

Watch the first four in order on this list:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bad+lip+reading+walking+dead

You can't handle the flow, son.
I already love 'em.
La jiggy jar jar doo.
"GET A FUCKING LIBRARY CARD!"
I know, right! It's like they bugged my house!!!!
Damn friggin right. Although I wish my kid wouldn't insist on waiting to read a book he won't actually get around to reading and therefore doom us to not seeing the movie in the theater together...
Sometimes it's better to see the movie first, or at least not worse. Sometimes the movie is like a teaser for the book.