"We Light the Way"
Can a TV show be considered a "text?" In the English and American Studies departments, they certainly are. The word "text" can be applied to basically anything. A video game, an essay, a piece of meat in the freezer, an aquarium.
Whatever the case, things that I'm watching are going to live in the Reading section of my personal website, my digital garden — my everlasting gift to the world, that will continue on in my stead. How high and mighty of me to go there. To care.
"I am the crown, Sir Christin."
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Princess Rhyneira
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This show doesn't have the heart of its predecessor. The memorable and huge personalities. It has a sensitive and ineffectual king.
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The timeline moves very quickly. But the show itself is slow.
"Is it not better to live in peace than to have songs sung of you after you are dead?"
- I like Daemon. The weird uncle who pops up out of nowhere.
- The beginning of the royal wedding feasts, aka. The jocks always get the girl in the end. And things always end badly in a GoT wedding.
- Which they did, as Sir Christin absolutely wails away on Lenore's beau - and we get a classic partially broken open gory head shot.