http://www.thingsithinkarecool.com Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:38:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thingsithinkarecool.com/sci-fi-fantasy/a-game-of-thrones http://www.thingsithinkarecool.com/sci-fi-fantasy/a-game-of-thrones#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:31:16 +0000 admin http://www.thingsithinkarecool.com/?p=2178

It’s actually going to happen. HBO is finally bringing George R. R. Martin’s “A Game of Thrones” to television on April 17. And it looks as if it might actually be good. Yipee! “A Game of Thrones,” the first book in George R. R. Martin’s fantasy series, “A Song of Ice and Fire,” rocked my world when I first read it in 1997, proving you really shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Thrones is an awesome, unexpectedly rich story that twists and turns all over the place, constantly surprising and challenging readers to keep up. It’s truly one-of-a-kind and deserves to be made into an amazing television series. HBO seems to agree. It certainly has devoted a lot of time and energy to the series. The network acquired the rights to Martin’s books way back in 2006 and has been working on the series ever since, hiring such notable actors as Sean Bean, Peter Dinklage and Lena Headey and shooting on location in Malta and Northern Ireland. According to Martin, HBO has remained very faithful to his books and previews look very promising. I’m very excited to watch the series unfold on April 17.

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If I hadn’t been stuck on a long plane ride with nothing else to watch, I would never have given “The Big Bang Theory” a chance. Reason being, CBS does a very good job of making the show look painfully bad in promotional commercials. The premise of the show: two nerdy physicists share an apartment and an unlikely friendship with their “beautiful” neighbor with whom one of them is infatuated. There is a laugh track. The nerds are over-the-top, unrealistically nerdy. The neighbor is a blonde bimbo-looking waitress. Having watched the promos, there was nothing about the show that appealed to me (and I like sci-fi and geeky things). Yet despite the poor marketing, the show is laugh-out-loud, refreshingly funny. No matter how you spin it, it’s hard to do “The Big Bang Theory” justice, so I won’t even try. But it’s one of the only shows on big network television, other than “LOST” and “30 Rock”, that I enjoy. **A few days later… Watched an episode on TV last night and I liked it well enough, but the laugh track is super annoying.**

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I’m more than a little embarrassed that I hadn’t seen “Freaks and Geeks” until now.

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I cannot frackin believe it’s taken me this long to post something about Battlestar Galactica. It’s only like one of the coolest things EVER. What the fuck is wrong with me?

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