Game of Thrones was last night and I have an odd relationship with the show and property in that I like it fine for the most part and that seems to really piss off a lot of people because that’s not enough to like it.  Not people here so much.  Well, not that they tell me.  More friends in real life.  It’s one of those things, when you don’t embrace someone’s favorite middlebrow work as the most epic piece of anything every conceived they tend to take it personally because they are deeply insecure.  And I get it, insecurity can eat away at you. I assume.  I don’t know, I haven’t experienced it, which is why I assume everyone so desperately wants my approval.  And I have a really, really long relationship with this property because I feel like for 20 years people tried to force me to read the books even though it’s a pretty well known fact that books are for nerds.  I was super busy doing things like kick flips and slam dunking basketball and banging hot chicks for that but the calls to read the series were so oppressive that eventually I took a break from jumping my motorcycle through rings of fire to read the books.  Which were pretty good but my core reason for not reading them (besides the afore mentioned issue with me being too busy being awesome) was that I am greatly distrustful of fantasy series because they never end.  Once they become a cash cow books get added and added and I at best only have like 50 more years on this planet.  And you know, turns out I was right there.  When the show came out I didn’t have a ton of interest but after every person I have ever met started showing up on my door to ask, “Why aren’t you watching Game of Thrones” I gave in.  I knew it was a bad idea because when I didn’t immediately declare it to be the single greatest thing in the history of all media, I was going to piss people off.  I am going through the same damn bullshit with American Gods right now.  The book was fine, I liked it, but I have never been passionate about Neil Gaiman.  I like him, I don’t love him.  I think we should just stay friends.  So I know once I give in the harassment and watch the show and don’t think it’s the greatest show ever made (which will be tough since there are like 8 shows people want me to watch because they are the greatest show ever made and I have to be honest, people are bad at language or there is something really strange going on with reality for so many shows to be the greatest ever) people will be very annoyed with me.  So you know, I watched Game of Thrones last night and I was like, “Hey, that was fun”.  And boy did that piss off some friends this morning who are very upset I didn’t think it was the greatest thing ever made.  So I am trying to find a middle ground here on something I feel has to be generally uncontroversial.  Emilia Clarke is beautiful.  Often when she is on screen or I see pictures I am just struck by how beautiful she is.  It really is remarkable how pretty she is.  Big thumbs up to her.  Today I want to fuck Emilia Clarke.