So Sansa had a little talk with Joffrey and, when I left Ned, he was sitting in the dark. From what I understand, so long as Ned acknowledges what happened, everything’s going to be okay.
So there’s that.
Now, *MY* take is that it seems to me that the Lannisters would be better off sitting on the sides with the pursestrings than actually sitting on the throne. There’s a lot of stuff you actually have to put up with when everybody sees you as “the guys in charge” that you can just deflect when you’re just another family at the court. It’s not like they can say “this is the Dragon’s fault!” or “this is Robert’s fault!” for more than a month or two.
I imagine we’ll get to that, though.
I also saw the Denzel Washington/Ryan Reynolds vehicle Safe House. Ugh.
So… what are you reading and/or watching?
Gone with the Wind. Which has some serious difficulties for me. A book from 2002 called Natural-born Cyborgs. And the next volume of, like, every last fluffy fantasy series that I abandoned when I started grad school.
Rewatching Sports Night, which is always a fine time.
I love Sports Night. One of my great regrets in life is that there’s never been anyone at work to be the other half of Casey-Dan patter. Alan Sepinwall, who’s a very perceptive and funny TV critic, has reviews/discussions of the first season episodes here.
I’m still reading Wolf Hall because I’ve been working 50-60 hours a week and I just pass out when I get home. But I wanted to ask (and this seems like a good post to do so), someone lent me the Twilight trilogy; should I even bother reading them? I’ve seen a few clips from the first and third movie and I’m just not that into it.
I only ever read them when I was so ill and feverish that I didn’t have to work at suspending disbelief. So I can’t necessarily recommend it? That said, once the suspending disbelief thing was sorted (by being quasi-delirious), they were kind of fun.