Category: Game of Thrones
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I Finally Watched Game of Thrones (Season 2)
The first season of Game of Thrones certainly lived up to the hype. It did a fantastic job adapting the material of the first book onto the screen. The question is: did season two do as well? Yes. Mostly. Season two is an adaptation of the second book of the Song of Ice and Fire…
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So I Finally Watched Game of Thrones (Season 1)
It’s easy to forget that Game of Thrones was a cultural phenomenon. After the disaster that was the eighth season, the love and acclaim the series had enjoyed for almost its entire runtime almost instantly evaporated. Nowadays, no one mentions how good the earlier seasons were. They focus exclusively on how bad it was in…
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A Clash of Kings: The War Begins
Man, it’s been a hot minute since my Game of Thrones review. Not the show Game of Thrones, I mean the first book in the Song of Ice and Fire series of the same- oh, forget it. A Clash of Kings picks up right where A Game of Thrones left off. After the death of…
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Reflecting on the First Book I Ever Wrote
I had a terrifying realization today. Let me tell you a quick story from my youth. When in the sixth grade, I was a pretty aimless kid. I never thought about my future, at least not any further than after that school day. My priorities at the time were simple: get through the day, go…
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A Possible Successor to Game of Thrones (TV Thursday)
Game of Thrones has finally come to an end. Sure, it ended in disappointment for roughly ninety-nine percent of the audience (at least according to my social media feeds). But it cannot be denied that it was a cultural milestone. One that has left a hole in the landscape of television as a whole. A…
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