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Review: His Dark Materials Episode 203, “Theft”
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Check In: What are Game of Thrones Cast Members Up to in 2020?
When Game of Thrones ended in May 2019, I went into an underground bunker to mourn its loss, and didn’t come out for fresh supplies until this morning. Has anything happened in the months since I left? ….Oh…I see…hmmm…. Well – More time to hunker down and read the next book in A Song of Ice and Fire! When did The Winds of Winter come out? Surely, sometime in the last year? ….Oh…I see…..hmmm… Well, then it must be time to catch up with the one-time cast of Game of Thrones and see what they’re up to these days!
Tywin Lannister’s Charles Dance, one-time father of the year, and regretful chamber pot-sitter of an unlocked privy, caught The Huffington Post up on how what he’s been up to in 2020: He’s been hard at work on a secret project for Netflix; “I’m very lucky, especially at the moment when the world’s turned upside down and people from all walks of life are struggling in one way or another.” Eventually conversation turned – as it always does – to the heavily chided (though not by me) final season of GOT. “I have to say, personally, I was underwhelmed…It was decided by committee and I thought, ‘Oh, no, no, no, no, no.’ I wanted it to go out with a bang…Anyway, it’s just nitpicking…I wouldn’t have continued to watch it if the show hadn’t been good. It raised the bar when it came to television drama.” Well, at least he acknowledged that GOT is in the upper echelon of TV, even if he didn’t like its conclusion.
Khal Drogo’s Jason Momoa, one-time Khal of a Dothraki horde turned Atlantean King with a trident, lamented recently on how he didn’t fare so well after filming the first season (before GOT went on to be a phenomenon: “I mean, we were starving after Game of Thrones,” he says. “I couldn’t get work. It’s very challenging when you have babies and you’re completely in debt,” he told InStyle. Luckily, he’s booked through 2024 with various projects.
Ramsay Bolton’s, Iwan Rheon, one-time holder of the title of the most sadistic man in Westeros with the absolutely dreamiest eyes (you know it’s true), shared a couple of his thoughts on his sojourn to Westeros in several interviews more recently. Sharing with Metro, Rheon revealed that the worst day of his career was the day he had to film the infamous wedding night scene with Sansa Stark: “That was horrible. Nobody wanted to be there. Nobody wants to do that, but if it’s telling a story then you have to tell it truthfully…They didn’t sensationalise it or anything. It was very, very hard watching. It’s a horrible thing that happens, unfortunately, and it shouldn’t be.” And while I’m sure many will agree with his sentiment, he had least had a more optimistic experience on the final season than did many of his former castmates: “I felt that they made a very strong decision to where they thought the season would go and I think they went with it and told the story really well…I thought the Battle of Winterfell was absolute genius, the best television I’ve ever seen. I thought it was really brave and they went for it,” he told NME And then when prodded to call out Charles Dance, he refused to submit: “I’ve got no problem with him [Dance] saying what he wants to say, and what should anyone? It’s his opinion.”
Lastly – and here’s a fun one – Jojen Reed’s Thomas Brodie-Sangster, one-time keeper of King Bran’s confidence, and fun-to-be-around doomsayer, has an opinion on the final season of GOT that he shared with NME. Well, more like a lack of one: “I’m still halfway through season four…I don’t have the right channel and just lost track of it a bit… I was thinking the other day I should probably watch it again, because it was really good.” I’m…not quite sure I have a follow up to this.
You can find Charles Dance in the upcoming 4th season of Netflix’s The Crown, and David Fincher’s upcoming Netflix movie, Mank.
You can find Jason Momoa in Dune, currently due for release towards the end of 2021, and an upcoming Netflix movie called Sweet Girl.
You can find Iwan Rheon appearing at some point in an upcoming British show called The Snow Spider.
You can find Thomas Brodie-Sangster currently appearing in Netflix’s acclaimed miniseries, The Queen’s Gambit.
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George R.R. Martin updates us on The Winds of Winter and House of the Dragon
George R.R. Martin who, last we heard was “deep in the heart of Westeros,” has taken to his Not A Blog to grace us with some juicy updates on The Winds of Winter and House of the Dragon.
He begins his Not A Blog post with a touch of salt, observing, “Sometimes I do get the feeling that most of you reading my posts here care more about what is happening in Westeros than what is happening in the United States.”
I admit, the first time I read this I worried that this was a thesis statement, that the entire post would be an examination of why some people (#NotAllFans) prioritize fictional politics over real ones. Fortunately, I was wrong. Martin doesn’t mention the United States again. Rather, in the very next sentence he assures us that he is still plugging away at The Winds of Winter.
“No, sorry, still not done, but I do inch closer. It is a big big book. I try not to dwell on that too much. I write a chapter at a time, a page at a time, a sentence at a time, a word at a time. It is the only way. And sometimes I rewrite.”
Specifically, he says that he’s been “spending a lot of time with the Lannisters,” especially Cersei and Tyrion, and has journeyed to Dorne and Oldtown. He’s also been revising chapters he’s already written, including ones that he read at cons “ages ago” and even posted online as samples.
This is particularly intriguing to me, because the eleven sample chapters that have been released in one form or another (Theon I, Victarion I, Tyrion I, Tyrion II, Arianne I, Arianne II, Barristan I, Barristan II, Mercy, Alayne I, The Forsaken) have been hitherto treated by the fandom as canon.
Now to be clear, Martin describes his revision process as “tweak[ing] stuff constantly, and sometimes go[ing] beyond tweaking, moving things around, combining chapters, breaking chapters in two, reordering stuff.” Nothing in his description suggests a complete overhaul of content. Still, we know that Martin takes the gardener approach to writing, letting his characters and plot lines grow organically. Who knows what changes have “grown” since 2011?
“On other fronts,” Martin writes “[W]ell, aside from Covd-19 slowing everything down, we are making great progress on the HBO prequel HOUSE OF THE DRAGON. Ryan [Sapochnik] and Miguel [Condal] are in London, casting has begun, it is all looking very exciting.”
He expresses less optimism, however, for other television projects that he’s involved in.
“I wish I could say that things are also going great on all the other television and film projects I am involved with, either as a producer” (*cough* Who Fears Death *cough*) “or as the author of the original source material (i.e. novels and short stories). I can’t. Very little shooting is taking place, and almost nothing is being greenlit. Of course, development continues… but there’s a reason they call it ‘development hell.’ Sigh.”
Martin ends his post with “Hang in there, friends,” and I don’t think I’m reaching when I say that a sense of exhaustion and stress is palpable in this post (who in the world isn’t exhausted and stressed right now?). But his updates are encouraging and I’m especially tantalized by the revisions he’s making to the chapters we think we’ve already read.
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