Some good halloween cosplays I saw online this weekend
(Since there was obviously no Halloween this year.)
game of thrones
Happy International Women’s Day!
To celebrate the occasion, here’s some of my favourite ladies from fiction!
Row 1: Amy Pond (Doctor Who), Sephy Hadley (Noughts and Crosses), Gamora (Guardians of the Galaxy/MCU), Rose Tico (Star Wars), Elsa (Frozen/Disney), Melissa Chartres (The Last Man on Earth)
Row 2: Eowyn (The Lord of the Rings/Middle Earth), Quinn Ergon (Final Space), The Thirteenth Doctor (Doctor Who), Princess Bubblegum (Adventure Time), Jane Foster (Thor/MCU), Amy Santiago (Brooklyn 99)
Row 3: Brook Soso (Orange is the New Black), Nebula (Guardians of the Galaxy/MCU), Erica Dundee (The Last Man on Earth), Kitty Winter (Sherlock Holmes), Rose Tyler (Doctor Who), Briony Tallis (Atonement)
Row 4: Meredith Quill (Guardians of the Galaxy/MCU), Missandei (Game of Thrones), Rey (Star Wars), Donna Noble (Doctor Who), Carol Pilbasian (The Last Man on Earth), Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre Dame/Disney)
Row 5: Sansa Stark (Game of Thrones), Ash Graven (Final Space), Tiana (The Princess and the Frog/Disney), Sophia Burset (Orange is the New Black), Misty (Pokemon), Clara Oswald (Doctor Who)
Row 6: Bill Potts (Doctor Who), Mary Brown (Paddington), Mako Mori (Pacific Rim), Gwen Stacy (Spider-Man), Jackie Tyler (Doctor Who), Ursula Ditkovich (Spider-Man)
Row 7: Yaz Khan (Doctor Who), Mary Jane Watson (Spider-Man), Marceline (Adventure Time), Michelle (10 Cloverfield Lane,), Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow/MCU), Mantis (Guardians of the Galaxy (MCU)
Row 8: Eponine Thenardier (Les Miserables), Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls), Sandra Kaluiokalani (Superstore), Padme Amidala (Star Wars), Martha Jones (Doctor Who), Jasmine (Aladdin/Disney)
Row 9: Beru Whitesun (Star Wars), Nakia (Black Panther/MCU), Diana (Wonder Woman), Chummy Browne (Call the Midwife), Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn 99), Leia Organa (Star Wars)
GoT finale thoughts
In the finale, someone finally suggests democracy for Westeros and everyone bursts out laughing. Even Sansa smiles. Sansa! Now-Queen Sansa! So that was a wake-up call.
There is much I like(d) about Game of Thrones but this ending felt terribly anticlimatic. Daenerys is gone, in pretty much exactly the way I thought she would, Cersei is gone, Jaime is gone, the Night King is gone (so much for the White Walkers being a metaphor for climate change), Drogon is gone… also thousands of innocent people are gone. I really wanted Game of Thrones to show us a look at the ordinary non-nobles of the world and it never happened. How did they bury their dead? How did they rebuild? Wouldn’t it have actually been pretty satisfying (to me at least) if Daenerys had been killed by some random kid from KL who just saw her parents burn in front of her?
But we didn’t get that. I’d have liked it if, right at the very end, the show did flash forward those ten years Tyrion talked about and everything was… just the same. The bakers, crafters and smiths of Westeros are still trodden beneath various kings and queens. Then the camera zooms in to focus on a cart wheel, still turning away.
Some GoT thoughts
My relationship with Game of Thrones has had… ups and downs shall we say, but for this final run I’m actually relieved I stuck with it.
Episode 1:
– At this point, very early on in the final series, I suddenly remembered Daenerys is essentially a villain now! And then I sort-of loathed her for the rest of the episode. This is an odd kind of loathing where I respect her as a character but look forward to her inevitable death.
-Seriously, when she tells Sam what she did to his brother, ugh. Villain. Villain who’s gonna be torched by her own dragons if there’s any justice in Westeros, which there is not.
-Nice to see Arya sticking up for Sansa, aww, what a long way those two came.
-Sansa is still my favourite. But I don’t want her on the Iron Throne, I want nobody.
-At one point in the brothel (obviously there is a scene in a brothel) one of the women starts talking about a red-haired soldier called Ed (or something like it) who was burned in that last battle with the dragons. Wait a minute –
Ha!
Episode 2:
-Oh Missandei, I missed you. I hope you survive.
-Same to you, Gilly.
-There’s so many people in this episode whose names I don’t remember and sorry! But this was actually A LEGITIMATELY BEAUTIFUL EPISODE!
-Brienne’s knighting is probably the best moment the show has ever done, and I loved it, and I wish there had been more moments like it in the earlier days of the show.
-The Arya/Genry scene in a way feels WRONG because we knew her as a kid and ARGH but it was actually rather tastefully done. Didn’t even see anything. Nice to know the show has matured in that regard, thank god.
-The final marching-to-war montage felt like a rip-off of Return of the King, and it probably was. Didn’t stop it being a lovely, lovely moment. Oh god I love that melancholy song and I must download it now and keep it for ever. God damn it, show. A lot of the time I don’t care for you, just some of your characters, but then you go and do shit like this. That gorgeous sad song. Argh.