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Just me, blathering a few thoughts on tonight's GOT:

You know how in Lord of the Rings/Hobbit the Eagles just suddenly show up and deus ex machina all over the place? Any reason the dragons couldn't just fly to Eastwatch and torch the White Walkers? Or at least, send one dragon to snag a Walker and haul it back, easy peasy.

Joe Dempsie has turned into Christian Bale. This is not a bad thing.

Slow your roll on the whole 'Jon is the rightful King of Westeros!' thing. If Rhaegar did indeed get an annulment and marry Lyanna, that means that Rhaegar is an even bigger jerk to his wife than we already knew, and that Jon is legitimate. Fine. However, it doesn't necessarily make him King of Westeros. Daenerys is the Mad King's daughter, Jon is his grandson. Depending on how they do lines of succession (and Targaryens are big on weird family lines) Jon may well be SECOND in line, not the King yet.

Wonder how Samwell is going to find out about his family. He could be Lord Tarly now, if he wanted. (Doubt it.)

If I were Bronn...I think I might take a little non-King's Landing vacay right now.



Oh, and what is the appropriate discipline for a dog who decided it wants outside during the opening credits? And less than 30 minutes after the last outing?

Just saw part of it for the first time. Is it just me or is Martin Freeman's Bilbo a dead ringer for Billy Boyd's Pippin?

Just watched last night's ep. Highly amused by the myriad references to various films and television, especially the near-identical 'hobbits hiding from the Ringwraith' scene. Andy and Sarah, however, are just a wee bit...wrong.

So I figured I should give you a quick rundown on who you're dealing with :) 

Female, 40(!) and in Baltimore, Maryland, USA (for my new UK friends, I'm about an hour's drive northeast of Washington DC). I'm a klutz who keeps breaking bones and tearing ligaments, and presently I'm finishing up therapy for a shoulder injury. I'm an administrative assistant for a very laid-back debt collection law firm (we wear shorts, bring our dogs and get paid very little), and I live with my mother, who needs someone looking after her as she has Alzheimer's and is steadily declining. Her older brother had a serious stroke in March and will never leave the nursing home, so this isn't helping her state of mind. I also have two cute, awesome nephews who I don't get to see much unless their father wants free babysitting. Our other residents are my mother's dog, Roxie, a beagle mix and my mutt, CJ, who both the love of my life and on occasion the bane of my existence. They're both lovely dogs, but they hate each other's guts. So half my home time is devoted to keeping the dogs away from each other. Spiffy. Roxie on the left, CJ on the right.



I am, at least nominally, an artist/crafter and make some extra money from it, but between stress, the economy and a very arthritic drawing hand, I've done very little art in the past year. I have a web site with most of my art on it, but the web host changed their interface last year and I absolutely cannot figure it out, hence it hasn't been updated in over a year. I love dogs, the Baltimore Ravens, good television and playing board games. I worship the ground Joss Whedon walks on and the Lord of the Rings trilogy are the alltime best films on this Earth, but after that there's no knowing where my taste might run. My musical tastes are all over the board, I can't stand gangsta rap or really over-commericalized gunk but I'll at least try just about anything else. If the radio is on, it's on local public station WTMD, whose tastes largely match mine. Unless I'm listening to NPR, whose politics largely match mine. I gladly voted for Obama and I'd do it again, though I'd prefer him left of centrist pragmatism instead of right of it.

That should cover the important stuff. Proceed at your own risk :)

For the first time since I can remember, I lost at Monopoly. And not just lost. My brother just whipped the tar out of me. He traded me for New York Ave, put a hotel on it and then I managed to hit it 3 straight times. Game over. They're continuing the game without me now. Mind, this is the 'Star Wars - Clone Wars' version of Monopoly I gave Jack for Christmas. I would rather have played the Beatles Monopoly I gave Mike, but little boys rule on Christmas.

BTW, my Christmas haul included:
Seasons 3-7 of the West Wing, completing my collection
Season 4 of Lost
The Dark Knight
The Torchwood Archives book
a Torchwood calendar
The John Howe Workshop book
a black and purple winter hat (Ravens!)
the complete Tom Lehrer collection
and Good Old War's new CD.

Mmmm, fandom. Lots of fandom for me.