I’ve really been enjoying The Tudors, of which I just finished watching the first season. (I don’t watch TV shows until they come out on DVD, so sorry if this is old news for people.) Though I’m probably a bad person to be offering an opinion, since I’m a sucker for any kind of historical drama — anything involving swords, outlandish costumes, honorifics, and casual bloodshed — and I seem to like ’em all, even the ones that everyone else despises. I think I’m the perfect audience for historical dramas because I love historical settings and don’t care whether or not they’re historically accurate, which seems to be a rare combination. The Tudors is conspicuously low-rent compared to Rome, which was the last series I watched, and as with Rome they made the first episode basically a soft-core porn flick to grab people’s attention and then toned the sex way down in most subsequent episodes, so don’t let the first episode put you off the show (or, depending on your disposition, don’t let it set your expectations too high). Anyway, until HBO gets around to making their A Song of Ice and Fire series (if they ever do), The Tudors is probably the closest I’m going to get to seeing that sort of story on TV.
Speaking of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin has updated the “From My Readers” section of his website, in which people send him fan art as well as photos of pets and/or children that they’ve named after his characters, such as young Nymeria Daenerys Cersei Smidgrodski. (I think it would be awesome if George would name some minor character “Smidgrodski.” Then all four of this girl’s names would be straight out of ASOIAF.) Many of these kids have learned to walk and talk and have gone off to school in the time that George has been working on A Dance with Dragons (Book 5). He remarks, “Have we really been doing this fan page for four years??? That’s scary. Next thing I know these kids are going to be going to college. I do hope I’ve finished A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by then, at least.” It’s good to see that he’s not losing his sense of humor about it. Man, time does fly, doesn’t it? Has it really been seven years that we’ve been waiting to find out who Coldhands is? Why, it seems like only yesterday that … actually, no, wait, holy crap, it’s been a really long time. You’ve also got to love the fan with the Asshai Girls Make It Hotter T-shirt.
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