Hey, I'm back! I've spent the last month traveling a fair amount to have a ton of sex with my friend (who, coincidentally, looks like Jon Snow) because I am a genius and have mastered what neither Ashton Kutcher or Justin Timberlake could. Also, I got into grad school! So I've been celebrating and not watching too much of the television. I'll be moving to LA in August to get a Masters in Cinema and Media Studies from UCLA, and until then I'll try to keep up with the ol' Hedgepig blog a little better because once school starts my writing will be heading in a whole other direction. I'll probably end up posting more since I'll be writing so much anyway, but who knows what'll happen. So stay tuned! Exciting changes ahead.
Speaking of things that are ahead...winter is coming! Winter is almost here! As everyone on the internet already knows, the third season of Game Of Thrones premiered on Sunday, and it was FUCKING AWESOME. Weirdly, for me (because I love A Song Of Ice And Fire with all of my heart and I love Peter Dinklage just as much. Holy shit he's so goddamn hot. I had a dream last night where I got to make out with him and YES JOEY YOU CAN HEAT UP YOUR COFFEE ON MY LOINS because they are ABLAZE.), I hadn't watched most of the second season until Sunday, when I luxuriated in a full-on GoT marathon after returning home from my spring break sexcation. And...dude. That show. It's just The Best! Like, I'm not sure how it could be better. Well, Lena Headly's eyebrows are horrible and SO distracting, but that's it. That's the only thing I'd change.
I'm a big stickler for adaptations remaining true to their books, but I also recognize that film is a different medium and so some changes are necessary. The Harry Potter movies (at least 1, 2, 5, and particularly 6) are a perfect example of movies that made tons of unnecessary changes with huge adverse impacts on plot and characterization (don't even get me started on Harry not being under Petrificus Totalis when Dumbledore dies because I will get angry and you'll be like, "Lauren, I agree with you, stop ranting" but I WON'T because it's The Stupidest Thing Ever and it completely destroys the meticulously constructed storyline UGH ok sorry I'm done now). However, Game Of Thrones pulls its adaptation off with greater skill and dexterity than even Lord Of The Rings. With George R. R. Martin involved with the show, he seems to be using it as an opportunity to expand on stories and characters that weren't completely fulfilled in the first two books (which he wrote almost 20 years ago). The episodes, for the most part, remain very true to the books, but when they diverge it never feels forced or constrained. Rather, the show allows new perspectives and reimaginings without razing what was already written.
