Peep Science

We were given some Easter candy that was essentially peeps on a stick, which led us to ponder why you’d need such a thing. Necessity really is the mother of invention.

Doctor Who started on Saturday and it was as awesome as I’d hoped. The series looks like it’s picked up some undetermined (but relatively long) time after the Christmas Special as Amy Pond (who now that she’s married I guess is no longer Amy Pond, but that has such a nice ring to it) and Rory are settling into married life and are lamenting not traveling with the Doctor. Of course, they’re soon reunited with The Doctor and River Song, are hanging out in America, and then things go WHOA. After that, we get to go see Nixon and run into Mark Sheppard then thnings go YEAH and more stuff happens and things go EEK and we have a cliff hanger until next week.

Overall, it was a really great episode with a lot of fun. I will always have a special place in my heart for Rose, but Amy Pond is quickly becoming my favorite Companion. The chemistry between her, Rory and The Doctor is just golden - perfectly suspenseful when needed and perfectly comedic every other time. A large majority of the scenes in the trailers for the season actually came from this episode, which meant there was a lot more crammed in here than I expected. It also means that there are a lot of things that we don’t know about. Both statements indicate great things for the rest of the series.

Also finally saw the premiere of A Game of Thrones. (I’m only a week behind schedule, that’s not that bad.) The show itself was fine, but can we talk about the credits sequence? The steampunk gear city map was the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. I’m assuming that as more cities get introduced, we’ll zoom around to those as well and I can’t wait to see how each one is depicted. They’ve aged all six of the Stark children by a couple of years to make casting easier (and I’m betting to make later plot points less creepy). Overall, I think the aging worked fine except for in Sansa’s case. In the books, Sansa’s obsession with making her life a perfect fairy tale is annoying as possible, but excusable since she’s only 11. In the show, they aged her to 13 and while that’s only a 2 year difference, there’s enough of a maturity difference there that her already grating personality seems even more grating. Other than her, all of the casting seemed like it would be a great fit. Lena Headey is going to be phenomenal as Cersei (unsurprisingly) and Peter Dinklage is a pitch perfect Tyrion. With the gory deaths and tons of bare boobage, they’ve established very quickly that this series is going to be extremely adult and extremely intense. I’m looking forward to it.