A Game of Thrones: Get ready, Everybody! This is only the beginning of one long-ass, yet truly awesome, song (My thoughts on book #1 in the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin)

Let me start out this review on a bit of a tangent by saying that I’m a big fan of Lewis Lovhaug’s, who’s perhaps more commonly known on the Internet as Linkara, and his video review series, History of Power Rangers. If you haven’t heard of History of Power Rangers, it’s video series where Linkara does in depth reviews of each season of Power Rangers. At the time of this review’s posting, he recently released his review of Power Rangers Megaforce and Power Rangers Super Megaforce, so he’s now finally caught up with all of the seasons of Power Rangers that have finished airing. He will do his review of Power Rangers Dino Charge and Power Rangers Dino Super Charge at some point once Power Rangers Dino Super Charge has finished airing, but that probably won’t be for a while since Power Rangers Dino Super Charge apparently won’t be premiering until the end of January. If you’re interested in checking out his History of Power Rangers videos, you can watch them here. That being said, something that I’ve been thinking about a lot for a long time now is doing an in depth review series of either a TV show or a book series, similar to Linkara’s History of Power Rangers series, but in a written format. Since I’m focusing primarily on reviewing books for my blog these days, I think it could be a lot of fun to do that with the A Song of Ice and Fire book series since there’s a lot to talk about regarding the books and there’s the show Game of Thrones to talk about as well. With that said, here are my thoughts on A Game of Thrones.

Right off the bat, I have to say that I absolutely loved A Game of Thrones. I would even go as far as saying that it’s one of the best books, if not the best book, that I’ve ever read. I really regret not having started reading the A Song of Ice and Fire series a long time ago, because this book and all of the characters, along with the world that they live in is just truly amazing, in my opinion.

This might sound like a really weird and random book to compare A Game of Thrones to since they are in two completely different genres, but as I was reading A Game of Thrones, I found myself thinking a lot about the book The Bourbon Kings by J. R. Ward and what I thought about it when I was reading it. If you’re interested in knowing what I thought about that book, you can read my review for the book here. While I really liked that book, I definitely think that book had a lot of problems. One of the biggest problems that I have with it is the fact that pretty much all of the characters were very black and white, without any shades of gray to them. They were either good and likable people, or they were bad and unlikable people. Given the fact that The Bourbon Kings is essentially a soap opera in the form of a book, I really felt like the book should have had at least some characters that people could love to hate. 

Once Upon a Time: I may be losing interest in this show, but the creators sure do know how to convince me to keep watching (My thoughts on episode 3x21 “Snow Drifts” and episode 3x22 “There's No Place Like Home”)

I’ve wanted to write a review of the two-part season three finale, but for a variety of reasons, both in my control and out of my control, I’m just now getting around to it. That being said, here are my thoughts on the season three finale of Once Upon a Time.

As the title of this post suggest, I’m definitely starting to lose interest in the show, and not only am I starting to lose interest in the show, I’m also really starting to lose confidence in the writers. I’m starting to think that Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz don’t really have a long-term plan for the show, and perhaps they never have. The final scene of the season finale only added to my belief that Kitsis and Horowitz are just making stuff up as they go along. That’s something I don’t think that writers of a serialized show should be doing if they want people to view it as a good show, but I’ll talk about that more later.

Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz might not know how write the show in such a way that fills me with confidence in regards to their writing, but for the time being they sure do know how to keep me from giving up on watching the show completely. What’s kept me from giving up on the show completely at this point is the fact that there has been a lot of truly excellent material for Emma and Hook and the relationship between them this season in my humble opinion. Fortunately for me, both parts of the season finale revolved heavily around scenes between the two of them, with flashbacks of Emma’s past featured throughout both parts of the finale. Being someone who is a huge Captain Swan shipper, I absolutely loved that about the season finale.

At the beginning of the episode of the episode Emma was spending time with Mary Margaret, David and their new baby boy, who still didn’t have a name. Mary Margaret and David told Emma that they were planning to reveal his name at a makeshift coronation ceremony at Granny’s, saying that they would have had a coronation ceremony for Emma if they could have. Upon Henry showing up at Granny’s and accidentally spilling the beans to Mary Margaret and David that they are looking for an apartment in New York, Mary Margaret, David, Regina and Hook all stated their objections to the whole idea. Personally, I thought that Regina was a little out of line acting like the whole thing was her business. If I were Emma, I probably would have told Regina to piss off, but then again since she was the only mother Henry knew until he went and found Emma at the beginning of the series, it does make their whole family situation rather complicated. It’s especially complicated since Henry has said that he does still consider Regina to be his mom, or at least one of his moms now that he has been reunited with Emma.