thistlechaser | TV: Old and New

TV: Old and New, or TV: Good and Bad. Take your pick!

The old/good: I'm rewatching Stargate: Atlantis and it's even better than I remembered. I'm in the middle of the second season, and I'm really quite impressed with the storylines thus far, and wow do I love the characters! I can see how easily I fell into the fandom at the time, and boy what was my then OTP sure has chemistry! (Shepherd/McKay) I could easily read it either way though, it would totally work as "just" friendship as well. But I sure wouldn't need much convincing of more!

The new/bad: Game of Thrones. "Oh ho ho," you say, "What's this? The most popular show on current TV? Bad?" This week's episode was, yep.

Know what? Rape for the sake of the thrill annoys me.
Rape called consensual sex by one of the directors of the episode annoys me a hell of a lot more.

I'm no SJW, please don't mistake me for one of those, but know what? If a woman says no, it means no. No ifs, ands, buts, or "she eventually got into it!"s about it.

Know what also annoys me? This ruins Jamie's character. What about all the building up they did last season? His protecting Brienne from being raped only to turn around and rape his own sister?

Something should be done about that director.

I'm almost done with the current book I'm reading. I don't think my reading pace could get any slower. I've been at 75% done for four days now and 80% done for two -- and it's not even a long book! I wish I knew where my drive to read went.