For my recap/review of Game of Thrones Episode 11, please visit Rolling Stone.
(Yes, the official numbering of the episode is “Episode 11,” picking up directly after the ten episodes of Season One. Kinda neat.)
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Are you not doing your normal thoughts post as well on here? I’m super pleased you’ve wound up with such awesome GoT gigs, but there’s something about your stream of conscious heavily bullet pointed musings that’s just delightful. The Stones piece was pretty much pure recap, and in their house style. Which is fine, and you aped it well. It might even be a very good piece…it just doesn’t feel Sean Collins. I’m jealous of mad men watchers for getting the real thing on here.
Man, that’s really awesome of you to say, but sorry, that’s all you’re getting! I’d go crazy otherwise, I’m writing so much about this show for so many places. That said, I have to take issue with your characterization of the Rolling Stone piece. Like all my reviews will be for that site going forward, what it really is, is a post assembled from the skeleton of a traditional ADDXSTC “Thoughts” piece, only reformatted into straight prose and with just enough plot recap to qualify for the standard format for normal sites. Aside from introducing characters I’d just talk about without doing so here, I didn’t make any concessions to prose style either. I gotta be me! And that’s why they hired me.
Maybe it’s just “straight prose” which I find lacks so much of the delightful whimsy we find throughout the site. I mean, any given bullet point itself might run a few paragraphs which are great. But then there will be a bullet point that just says “Geoffrey: what a bitch. Can I elaborate? Not really.” Or something to that effect.
Anyways, I totally understand how with All Boiled Leather, Rolling Stone, MTV, etc. it would overwhelm. Maybe as the series goes on you can loosen up the structure a little? I always liked reading your commentary how it wasn’t strictly linear, and it would jump around through the episode, maybe begin with a comment about the end, as these sorts of articles often do. I felt I knew exactly where this article was going, as I’d just watched the episode. When I normally read your commentary, even though I’ve seen the show, I have NO idea what you’re going to write. And if you enjoy the writing, than that’s a joy for a reader.