Criminals of Tokyo, watch out! The Special Crime Countermeasures Unit, led by American-trained Inspector Osawa, is on the job! There are just a few flies in the ointment. Osawa’s superiors hate her. To form her squad, she’s been given the … Continue reading
Currently I’m in something of an entertainment downtime. I finished Tactics Ogre a week ago, and I’m replaying it at a leisurely pace to see one of the other storylines, but I’m not particularly engrossed in any works of fiction … Continue reading
HBO has now aired three episodes of Game of Thrones in the US, and while it doesn’t show here until July (in time for A Dance with Dragons!), I have been following the discussion anyway. I am not at all … Continue reading
A new Game of Thrones teaser has been released, and this one is my favourite by far! Dark (quite literally), visually impressive, atmospheric. Check it out here.
The last few days have seen quite a few Game of Thrones-related news items. A recap below: A Game of Thrones will premiere in the US on 17 April. HBO has released new publicity photos, visible here. I particularly like … Continue reading
In real life, how often have you had to make an unpalatable decision because you felt it was the lesser of two evils? Characters in fiction, though, get off easy (especially if they’re the heroes). Often, they’ll find some way … Continue reading
As promised by HBO, here’s the long “Inside Game of Thrones” video! It’s also up on Youtube in ten-minute and twelve-minute versions. Mostly, it was the little things that stood out for me. Jaime Lannister’s ornate armour (go to … Continue reading
Right on the heels of my last post, here comes another teaser for Game of Thrones. This one is a full minute and again, looks pretty cool. Again, it focuses on the Starks, but there are cameos by others: Cersei, … Continue reading
More appetisers for those of us looking forward to HBO’s Game of Thrones! On the Making Game of Thrones site, HBO has recently uploaded twelve large stills that were originally featured in Entertainment Weekly, plus another short (15-second) teaser. On … Continue reading
How do we know when a favourite, but hitherto niche, hobby has gone mainstream? I’m sure there are many indicators. The most obvious is, have its sales skyrocketed? There are others: has it featured on a talk show? Are our … Continue reading
There is a saying, attributed to one Peter Graham, that “the golden age of science fiction is when you’re 12”. Now, assuming “12” is a metaphor for “when you first discover it”, I can understand the argument. I discovered … Continue reading
I’ve previously mused about the extent to which game-playing habits reflect real-world habits. That said, there must also be plenty of cases where the two don’t match. Take, for example, rereading books vs replaying games. As I noted yesterday, I … Continue reading
In the Stargate movie, and in the early seasons of Stargate SG-1, the bad guys are resplendent in animal-head helmets: Horus guards (from the movie) wore falcon-headed helmets, Apophis and his serpent guards from SG-1 make their first appearance in … Continue reading
As I make my way through season 6 of Stargate: SG-1, I’m glad that the show has addressed my key gripe. Some spoilers in the paragraph below…
Now that HBO has released a new teaser, a behind-the-scenes video and a “making of” subsite for A Game of Thrones, and since I had my copy of AGOT autographed by George R R Martin today, this seems an opportune … Continue reading
I’ve seen the first five seasons of Stargate: SG-1, and so far, I quite like it. The pilot episode was as close as we’ll ever come to a TV adaptation of UFO: Enemy Unknown/X-Com: UFO Defense, and although the following … Continue reading
