{"id":1292,"date":"2013-05-07T13:13:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T19:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2013-05-07T15:18:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T21:18:12","slug":"games-of-thrones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anyone else watching Game of Thrones?\u00a0 Probably all of you and it’s only my husband and I who are TOTALLY late to this particular party.\u00a0 In fact, recently,\u00a0my husband was even calling it Game of THORNS!\u00a0 (What?!\u00a0 That was just totally clueless, Honey.)\u00a0 But that just goes to\u00a0show you how out-of-the-loop we are on this show.<\/span><\/p>\n

You see, w<\/span>e\u00a0usually watch all\u00a0of the various Housewives series-es.\u00a0 But those shows have devolved into five-part reunions and lost footage episodes.\u00a0 Yawn.\u00a0 (Although\u00a0Housewives of NJ comes back next week and I gotta say I’m gettin’ excited about it.\u00a0 I’m morbidly fascinated by the train wreck that show has become.)<\/span><\/p>\n

If I HAD\u00a0been watching THORNS\u00a0since it started, I would know what’s going on.\u00a0 But by joining it in the last month or so?\u00a0 Not so much…and I feel like I felt in every episode I ever watched of Lost.\u00a0 But with Lost, I didn’t even know where that show was taking place.\u00a0 At least with THORNS,\u00a0I’m pretty sure it takes place in Middle Earth.\u00a0\u00a0Unless you’re watching that bizarre sub-plot where it’s taking place in Egypt.\u00a0 But during Middle Earth times.\u00a0\u00a0With that chick and her unnaturally blond hair and her army of 10,000 Unsullied (which she traded her pet dragon for…but then had the dragon bbq\u00a0the dude she traded the dragon TO\u00a0and she walked away with BOTH the Unsullied army AND the dragon.\u00a0 Brilliant!).\u00a0 Or that OTHER subplot where it’s taking place on that ice planet where Luke Skywalker got captured by the Yeti and taken to its ice-cave.<\/span><\/p>\n

But mostly it takes place in castles where they call the women “Mi’lady.”\u00a0 I love me some “Mi’lady!”\u00a0 I am a total sucker for it.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

One time my husband and I went out to eat at a high-end steak house for our anniversary.\u00a0 The waiter called me Mi’lady (“What would Mi’lady like to drink?”) and that was all she wrote (“Your special pineapple martini please, tee hee hee!!”).\u00a0 One of the best meals EVER!\u00a0 AND we left him a big tip!!<\/span><\/p>\n

But as much as I like all of the Mi’lady business…it’s kinda hard to take some of the actors seriously since these are the same actors who star in Dr. Who (not the super weird old one, but the slightly less weird\/slightly better special effects one from nowadays) and\/or the English version of The Office.\u00a0 I know that these\u00a0folks\u00a0actually work in an office with computers or can time-travel so I’m constantly wondering when they’re gonna trot out those mad skillz.<\/span><\/p>\n

And what’s up with John Snow?\u00a0 Who is he?!\u00a0 And why do we care???\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The following conversation about John Snow typifies every conversation my husband and I have during Game of THORNS.\u00a0 [Oy.\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 THORNS?!?\u00a0 It’s so dumb that I have to keep saying it and annoy myself in the process.\u00a0 Thorns.]<\/span><\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Who are those tweens in the forest?\u00a0 And that one with all the furs covering his legs.\u00a0 Can he not walk?\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Hubby:\u00a0 I dunno.<\/span><\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 And why is that epileptic one dreaming about John Snow?<\/span><\/p>\n

Hubby:\u00a0 He wasn’t having\u00a0an epileptic fit.\u00a0 He was having a vision.\u00a0 He can look through the eyes of animals and see what’s happening in another place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 Anyway…who IS John Snow?\u00a0 Is he that guy we just saw walking through the snow?\u00a0 And what’s the icewall he’s “on the other side of” from the epileptic tween’s dream??<\/span><\/p>\n

Hubby:\u00a0 I dunno.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

[cut to a scene where a red-haired chick keeps calling the guy she’s with, “John.”\u00a0 She’s mackin’ on him, but there’s no nudity – unlike ALL the other mackin’ scenes in the show.\u00a0 I suspect it’s\u00a0because they’re in the SNOW!\u00a0\u00a0 D’oh!\u00a0\u00a0 Nudity here would be gratuitous and dumb.\u00a0 Unlike all the other nudity which is totally necessary to move the plot forward.\u00a0 And now I’m starting to realize why my husband likes to watch the Game of THORNS.\u00a0 Oy.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s for the nudity.\u00a0 Not the scintillating Mi’ladies!\u00a0\u00a0 Which is what I’m watching it for.\u00a0 Anyway…I’m now almost certain the man-in-the-snow IS John Snow.\u00a0 Red-haired chick and Possibly-John-Snow just came through a harrowing incident climbing the snowy mountain where they slipped off and they were cut loose at the direction of their co-worker from The Office.\u00a0 But John Snow managed to save them both and they finally get to the top of the mountain.\u00a0 The clouds part.\u00a0 John and Red-haired chick look every which way.\u00a0 They see lush green lands and flowing rivers everywhere they look.\u00a0 Which is weird.\u00a0 Why would there be a snowy mountain in the middle of Africa?\u00a0 And why would they climb it instead of just going\u00a0around??] <\/span><\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Ok.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 I don’t get this.\u00a0 Why is there a snowy mountain in the middle of this warm place??\u00a0 This show is annoying.\u00a0 I can never figure out what’s going on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hubby:\u00a0 Uh…it’s a wall.\u00a0 It’s the icewall.\u00a0 John just got to ‘the other side of’ the ice wall.<\/span><\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 [Gaaah!\u00a0 Whatever, Mr. Mi’lady.\u00a0 Uh…I dunno…at least I never called it Game of THORNS!\u00a0 Oy.]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone else watching Game of Thrones?\u00a0 Probably all of you and it’s only my husband and I who are TOTALLY late to this particular party.\u00a0 In fact, recently,\u00a0my husband was even calling it Game of THORNS!\u00a0 (What?!\u00a0 That was just totally clueless, Honey.)\u00a0 But that just goes to\u00a0show you how out-of-the-loop we are on this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}