After seeing all the amazing and wonderful stuff going on there, I would really like to make the trip to the San Diego Comic Con someday. Seriously, it's like a one-stop shop for all my pop culture geekiness! I decided to share some of the tidbits from my favourite TV shows, since SDCC is all about spoilers and teasers and other such awesome things!
The Walking Dead
We have Michonne, we have The Governor, we have the prison. Hell, we even have Merle doing his best impression of Ash from The Evil Dead 2 (probably couldn't find an actual working chainsaw). This season looks like it's going to be an epic post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested, instalment as the two factions of Woodsbury and the Ricktatorship throw down amidst all the walkers.
I'm curious how much time has past since Rick woke up from his coma to the Great Escape from the farm. A week? A month? It can't have been all that long, can it? That's a lot of shit to go down in a short time span. Does the human body just get used to the constant output of adrenaline, or would it eventually just give up?
Spartacus
Andy Whitfield was amazing as the title character, and I was very sad when he passed away shortly after that initial season. Gods of the Arena was actually pretty cool, using it as a prequel to tell the stories of how the House of Batiatus became what it was in Blood and Sand, but also as a space filler to try and let Whitfield recover from his cancer treatments.
Sadly, it wasn't meant to be and the series moved on with Liam McIntyre taking the lead role. I was actually quite impressed with the job he did in Vengeance, and I look forward to more sex and violence in War of the Damned.
I am kind of bummed that so many of the characters I really liked are now dead, with the exception of maybe three. Granted, they might all be dead by the end of the season, as War of the Damned is to be the final season. Just kill everyone off and be done with it! But make sure they all get to fuck a few more times before they do.
Breaking Bad
Watching Cranston's character, Walter White, evolve from a meek, mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher to the drug cartel kingpin we see today has been some of the best character development and storytelling I have ever seen on television. Who Walter was when he discovered he had terminal lung cancer is not who he is today.
The beauty of it all is this story has to end. Walter needs to die, be it from his cancer or being taken out by his competition, it has to happen. With a bang or a whimper – though I hope it's the former, but could see AMC doing the latter quite well – the series is finite, which is actually really awesome.
Looks like Walter and Jesse are heading back to the fancy lab to get their cook on. Saul doesn't seem to want o be involved anymore and Mike, who really has become my favourite character, is ready to ice everyone. I really cannot wait to see how this series ends, I really do think it's going to be epic.
Season 5, which premieres tomorrow (yay!), is being douche-ly split into two parts – half this summer and half next summer. What the fuck, AMC? You did this with The Walking Dead too, and it sucked balls! I'm just thankful you've never tried it with Mad Men.
Sigh. Moving on!
Dexter
Showtime didn't release a trailer for the upcoming season of Dexter, but rather gave us the first two minutes of the first episode, which picks up right where we left off in season 6. Seriously, if you haven't seen the end of season 6, which made the entirety of the season actually fucking worth it, then keep scrolling, because Immabout to get spolierific here.
Fucking finally! I'd been waiting six seasons for someone to find out about what Dexter does at night... to me, the above scene is the epitome of manipulation on Dexter's part. Never-ending stress, just trying to do is his job, bringing up Rita – he's playing Deb like a harp and will do just about anything to keep anyone else from finding out. Part of me kinda hopes he kills her.
That said, I didn't like the last season of Dexter. And I really wanted to like it, which makes the whole thing even more annoying. Maybe it's the never ending incompetence of the Miami Police Department that they've had yet to figure out there's a serial killer in their lab; maybe it's LaGuerta reverting back to her psycho-bitch self after making her an actually likeable character; maybe it's the fact that Quinn is probably getting written out and I actually liked him when he was introduced...
Oh, wait. I know what it was. it was the uber ickiness of making Deb in love with her adoptive (serial killer) brother!
Seriously, what is with all the incest on TV right now? Yes, I know he's adopted and therefore not blood related and yadda yadda yadda, but where would the series go if they actually acted on it?! They couldn't stay at the police force, let alone in Miami. They work together – EVERYONE in that building would know about it and I doubt they'd be very accepting. Maybe if Deb dropped the high and mighty spiel and became a serial killer too, they could go all Bonnie and Clyde or something.... still, it can't work, so please, for the love of fuck drop it already!
Game of Thrones
However, they did release a clip of the newest cast members joining all the madness in Westeros next season! Yay!
I'm gonna start off by saying that the choice of actors to play the Reeds – Meera and Jojen – are damn near perfect. Like, holy shit, he actually looks like how I pictured Jojen in my head when I read the books. Awesome.
Many of these character are pretty minor, but when you're in a series when the major characters are constantly getting killed off (Red Wedding, anyone?) the minor players can move up pretty damn quick.
Other new characters will include Selyse Baratheon (Stannis' wife), Edmure Tully (Father of Catelyn Stark and Lysa Arryn), Tormund Giantsbane (hilarious wildling warrior), Anguy (archer, runs with Lord Beric) and Qyburn (former maester, stripped of his chain).
I really am madly in love with this series, both the book and the show. Season 2 had some much packed into it, but they told the story as best as they could with a 10 episode season. Pretty much everything that needed to happen, happened, just in a more compressed way. It worked for the series, and I can't wait for Season 3.
True Blood
Eric is Sexy. Alcide is sexy. Roman is sexy. Do I really have to say anything else?
I do? Fine.
Russell Edgington is a psycho in the best possible way, goddamn I've missed him. The way he just chews the scenery is an art in and of itself. If he meets the true death this season, I'll be very sad.
I really don't care about Terry and Arlene – I've tried to care, really I have, but when that storyline about the Smoke Monster takes away from the vamps and weres, I just can't.
I'm enjoying The Authority, Chris Meloni brings all that intensity from Law and Order: SVU to True Blood and I am loving it.
I won't say much else until I've seen this week's episode, which looks like a good one!
And there you have it, not that anyone really wanted my opinion, but ya got it anyway!
Fangs and Walkers,
Ginger.
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