YOU WIN OR YOU DIE OF ALCOHOL POISONING: It's
Game of Thrones drinking game time! There's apparently a bar in NYC that holds weekly viewing parties with free shots for all whenever someone dies. Methinks this is not a sustainable business model, at least if the body count stays as high as it has.
I'm not spoiling anything by saying that the inspiration for this series of books was the Wars of the Roses. Thats war, as in people killing each other, and wars, as in more than one war. If you invent a drinking game where you give away free drinks and they drink them every time somebody dies on a show about a war (or some wars), it will be just like winning a real war: they will die and you will still be standing but you will have nightmares about it forever and it will have cost you a ton of money.
ReplyDeleteSo, does this mean when there's a big battle (aka Yoren's death scene from last week, when more than one person died) that you get a shot for EACH death? Because that's terrifying.
ReplyDeleteVague Spoiler:
ReplyDeleteThey might want to revise that policy before the end of Season 3.
LESS VAGUE SPOILER:
Are they going to try to get their money back if the person comes back to life?
The next ALOTT5MA NYC meet-up is Sunday night at this bar, right?
ReplyDeleteSPOILER ALERT, Aimee, SPOILER ALERT.
ReplyDeleteI vote "yes".
ReplyDeleteFor a minute there, I thought you meant the end of Book 3 (Season 4) and then I realized. Oh, my!
ReplyDeleteIt's apparently Professor Thom's in the East Village--first drink is also free if you show up in "appropriate attire." No word on if "naked, with paper-maiche dragon on shoulder" is "appropriate attire."
ReplyDeleteNot till June, but I will be attending the http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/268749313219210/.
WHAT??? These books, about (among other things) a huge rivalry between families named STARK and LANNISTER, are inspired by the huge rivalry between families named YORK and LANCASTER?? I feel so violated.
ReplyDeleteNot sure why this is, but of all of the things in all media, GoT is the one thing where a critical mass of people have made clear that before you say anything at all, you should first announce whether you will or won't spoil. It's gone so far that people who don't care about the source material in other instances basically draw a line in the sand and announce which side they are on: I AM A SHOW-ONLY PERSON; DO NOT MENTION THE BOOKS TO ME. I am one of Sepinwall's most dedicated fans and have been reading him for years and years, so this is intended as an observation and not a criticism, but he is definitely a SHOW-ONLY PERSON. Apart from his "nothing that hasn't happened yet" rule, which has served him (and we, his readers) well, he has had no qualms about people doing compare/contrast between shows and their source material. He does it himself all the time, most prominently with The Walking Dead. But there he is, threatening to murder his GoT comments threads if so help him god anybody mentions the books at all. It's his site, his rules, and they're fine with me. I just find it funny. Anyway, I just always feel guilty when I fail to say "spoiler/non-spoiler/book reference" before talking about GoT.
ReplyDeleteLet's find out. I'll totally make you a paper-maiche dragon.
ReplyDeleteI don't have Emilia Clarke's body. Or the wig.
ReplyDeleteSo, first, just to be clear, I wasn't poking fun at you on the spoiler point. I was just amused when I first noticed the consonance among the names.
ReplyDeleteSecond, a point that I'm hoping wins the record for most parenthetical asides ever: I suspect (and Alan can tell me if I'm wrong) (by the way, Alan, congrats on being called the Dead of the Recappers on the Slate Culture Gabfest this week) that things are (in Alan's mind, anyway) different when it comes to epic fantast (and scifi) than when it comes to even a beloved graphic novel, because nerds (and I say this as a nerd) can be obsessive and/or compulsive about tracking and complaining about the various ways in which an adaptation departs from the (sacred) source material. (I wish I could have heard nerds totally freaking out with how "X:Men: First Class" messed with the original stories.)
Um, "Dean of the Recappers," not "Dead of the Recappers."
ReplyDeleteAlso, as the owner of at least 4 volumes, I know that TWD is a beloved SERIES of graphic novels. Or, rather, a beloved on-going comic. It's late, and I'm still a bit high from watching the 21 Jump Street Movie, which effing ruled.
ReplyDeleteI think part of the problem that was happening with the GoT comments at Alan's site were book veterans spoiling future events. There's a very narrow line between talking about the differences between what has happened in the books to date and inadvertently going forward in the books' storyline. Also, since I get the sense that Alan himself hasn't read the books, policing the threads was making it hard for him to avoid being spoiled.
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