Tonight the bloodstained curtain falls on Game of Thrones, the epic HBO series based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books. In a fittingly meta twist, the final season’s harshest feud unfolded not between Starks and Lannisters, but viewers and writers. Denouncing television adapters David Benioff and D.B. Weiss as “incompetent”,... Continue Reading →
The Air-Speed Velocity of Ravens: “Game of Thrones” and the Importance of Consistency in SFF Writing
Spoiler alert: this post contains minor spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 6 “Gendry is obviously not Robert Baratheon’s bastard,” I observed to my Laddie during the most recent episode of Game of Thrones. “His father has to be The Flash.” After a few days' hiking with the wight-hunting party, our warrior-blacksmith seems... Continue Reading →
Lost (Interest) in Space: Two Sci-Fi Fans Watch Syfy’s “Dark Matter”
My Laddie and I both adore science fiction, so when the new series Dark Matter appeared in our Netflix queue, it caught our attention. A cursory review of Amazon showed high ratings. While we don't expect anything will ever fill the void Firefly left in our nerdy hearts, we decided to give the pilot episode a... Continue Reading →