ENGAGE with this content https://t.co/Zy7yuBAQaW
— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) March 7, 2019
(my hunger for candidate opinions about Star Trek is boundless; not since Cruz said he preferred Kirk to Picard have we been given such exciting Data)
— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) March 7, 2019
As has been said before: The more I read about Stacey Abrams, the better I like her.
And speaking of genre-ruling tv shows that have been part of the cultural conversation for some time…
I may have to start rooting for Kamala to pick Andrew here for VP ?? https://t.co/fOumTeFHlO
— Bacon Is A Spice (@WolvesforKamala) March 7, 2019
Are people still excited about GoT? Seems to be a certain amount of snark about the upcoming final season, but then, snark is the native tongue of the target audience…
“for instance, HBO actually completed *their* version…” https://t.co/OFjykEIVrn
— Olivier Knox (@OKnox) March 7, 2019
Vanity Fair:
When news broke last month that A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin had turned down a cameo in the final season of Game of Thrones, those who have been following Martin’s relationship with the show wondered if something other than work on The Winds of Winter might be keeping him away. Now, a new report confirms that Martin’s association with the show has grown more distant. Martin—who hasn’t actively worked on the HBO series since Season 4—neither visited the set nor even read any scripts for the final season. The author has also admitted that he has “mixed feelings” about the highly anticipated Season 8…
NYMag‘s Vulture subblog:
… [I]n something of a concession to Martin and the book readers, Benioff and Weiss also told EW that they’re not planning to reveal how exactly their version of events differ from the plans Martin had for his books. “Now that the show is ahead of the books, it seems the show could ruin the books for people,” Benioff said. “So one thing we’ve talked to George about is that we’re not going to tell people what the differences are, so when those books come out people can experience them fresh.” That might seem like a minor quibble, but there are important developments on the show that we know came straight from Martin (Hodor’s backstory, for instance), which means that, in the future, there’ll be plenty of twists that could be either his ideas or Benioff and Weiss originals…