Game of Thrones: Season 4 Episode 8 - The Mountain and The Viper

Hello fellow Westerosians and welcome back to the Game of Thrones!  THAT. WAS. AWESOME!  The whole episode was fantastic, but the Trial By Combat exceeded my expectations!  It certainly is difficult to withhold information like that for Non-Book Readers (I'm told the term across the interwebs is "The Unsullied"), but totally worth it when you get to experience it for the first time.   And of course book readers get to see these things they imagined in their heads come to life.  Game of Thrones has a good batting average of not disappointing in my opinion.   Anyway, we're getting ahead of ourselves.  Let's dive into the quick recap!  

SPOILER ADVISORY: As always, I'm always very protective for the "Unsullied" non-book readers and only speak of book plots when the events occur in the TV Show.  I like to speak to differences between the show and book but I will never intentionally spoil upcoming plots.  If I do, the spoiler warnings will be clearly labeled.

TV Discusion: Week of 6/1/2014 - 6/7/2014

Hello TV Addicts!  This is our weekly place to discuss all non-recapped shows.  Game of Thrones will have its own discussion area/mini recap.  After that show ends, I'll probably just post a Summer Discussion thread.  See you in the comments!

TV Discussion: Week of 5/25/2014 - 5/31/2014

Hello everyone! As always this is a place to discuss all non-recapped shows. Once Game of Thrones is over I'll probably just post a summer discussion thread.  See you in the comments!

Revolution: Season 2 Episode 22 - Declaration of Independence

Hello and welcome back for the last time to the Revolution!  It was a decent show that got a very surprising 2nd chance.  It was a 2nd chance that gave us hope that we never should've had that it might be able to stick around for awhile.  It certainly improved over the 2 years as it was allowed time to figure out what works best, but the viewers were already gone by the time they figured it out.  The series finale certainly had moments that made it feel final, but it was really just bringing closure to the season 2 arcs and maybe some of the season 1 stuff.   But, clearly they left things open for future stories.  The cliffhanger pretty much indicated what we had already speculated would be the larger battle of the show.  My guess is that Kripke and crew wrote the finale knowing that it probably could be the end, but with a glimmer of hope that they could get renewed or picked up by another channel/service.  I just don't think there will be enough demand to make that happen though.   So, I promised that I would write a recap of this show and I'll do a very brief one.  But, obviously there's not much point speculating on a show that is over!  Here we go:

Game of Thrones: Season 4 Episode 7 - Mockingbird

Hello fellow Westerosians and welcome back to our Game of Thrones discussion!  We had another fantastic episode last night.  Most of the episode was setting up some major plot developments for the final 3 episodes, which I've heard are nothing short of amazing.  It may get tiresome to hear, but having read the books, I'm a little bit "in-the-know" of how much is left to cover in those 3 episodes and can pretty much figure out how they're going to sparse it out.  Normally there is a 9th episode to look forward to every season where something crazy is going to happen.  I'd go ahead and expect excitement in 8, 9 and 10 this year!   Of course, that doesn't exclude the 7th episode that we just watched.  Many speculated the ending sequence in this episode would have been the final moment we would see this season.  I can think of several others that can/will surpass it.  Anyway, enough preamble.

Spoiler Warning: As always, I will compare the TV Show to the Books for material that has been covered by the TV show.  I will indicate "SPOILERS" very clearly when I want to talk about upcoming book stuff.  The trend has been that I won't do this until the comments section!  But, if I feel like it's worth bringing something up in the recap, I will label it.

 Let's dive in!

TV Discussion: Week of 5/18/2014 - 5/24/2014

Hello TV Addicts! Here's our weekly place to discuss the non-recapped shows. See you in the comments!


Note: Game of Thrones discussions will be split into a separate post!

Revolution: Season 2 Episode 21 - Memorial Day (Discussion)

Hello and welcome back to a very short lived Revolution!  I regret to inform you of a couple things. First, I am still out of town with the newborn so am unable to provide a recap for Revolution this week.  Also, I'm sure you have heard by now that the show has been canceled by NBC and will not return for another season.  There's always hope of a save from Netflix, Hulu or someone else, but due to the lack of buzz around the show I wouldn't count on it.  I still hope to provide some kind of recap for the finale next week.  But for now, I will just have to join you in the discussion below when I get a chance.  See you next week!