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Category Archives: Game of Thrones

3 Body Problem

Friday, March 22, 2024

Last night I watched the first episode of Netflix’s new “3 Body Problem.” It looks very promising. It’s smart and complicated, and it focuses on dialogue and drama rather than action. The series is based on a book by the Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin. The Netflix project was done by David Benioff and […]

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Foundation?

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Whatever this is, it’s not Foundation. If Foundation is what it’s supposed to be, then it’s a complete failure. It’s something entirely different from Foundation. Whatever the difference is supposed to be, it’s nothing new. After watching the first two episodes, I find myself angry, partly because it’s not Foundation and partly because it tries […]

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Season 8, the final episode

Monday, May 20, 2019

Ken Ilgunas and David Dalton are reviewing each episode of the final season of Game of Thrones. Check the “Game of Thrones” category to list all of these posts. Many thanks to all who have come here to read these posts, and to all who have commented. It has been a lot of fun, and […]

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Season 8, episode 5 (2 updates)

Monday, May 13, 2019

Ken Ilgunas and David Dalton are reviewing each episode of the final season of Game of Thrones. Check the “Game of Thrones” category to list all of these posts. David: Mornin’, Ken … We just watched, I believe, the most extraordinary television episode ever made. It wasn’t just the spectacle, which topped all the previous […]

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Season 8, episode 4 (4 updates)

Monday, May 6, 2019

Ken Ilgunas and David Dalton are reviewing each episode of the final season of Game of Thrones. Check the “Game of Thrones” category to list all of these posts. David: Mornin’, Ken… This beautiful episode reminds us that in spite of Game of Thrones’ achievements in world-building, plot-spinning, and politicking, it’s the characters that really […]

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Season 8, episode 3 (two updates)

Monday, April 29, 2019

Ken Ilgunas and David Dalton are reviewing each episode of the final season of Game of Thrones. Check the “Game of Thrones” category to list all of these posts. Ken: Morning David. I might like to re-watch it, but here are some quick first impressions, which are mixed… — It was a visual feast. It […]

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Season 8, episode 2 (updated)

Monday, April 22, 2019

Ken Ilgunas and David Dalton are reviewing each episode of the final season of Game of Thrones. Check the “Game of Thrones” category to list all of these posts. David: Mornin’, Ken … Well, was I ever wrong last week. I expected treachery at at Winterfell. But I didn’t realize that we were right on […]

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Game of Thrones: Season 8, episode 1

Monday, April 15, 2019

Ken Ilgunas and David Dalton are reviewing each episode of the final season of Game of Thrones. Check the “Game of Thrones” category to list all of these posts. David: Mornin’, Ken… I greatly enjoyed this episode, and what struck me is how the moral middle ground of former seasons is gone. Now the forces […]

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Game of Thrones countdown

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Since its beginning in 2011, Ken Ilgunas and I have made a tradition and a sport of watching and subsequently deconstructing each new episode of Game of Thrones. If Ken was here, we watched it in the evening and started our “Thrones talk” at breakfast. If he wasn’t here, we did it in email. As […]

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