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Hier der erste richtige Trailer zur zweiten Staffel von Game of Thrones. Am 1. April geht das Gemetzel wieder los. Ich freu mich.

Die Satire-Seite Christwire hat 12 Gründe, warum man Game of Thrones boykotieren sollte. Und natürlich haben sie mit jedem einzelnen Grund recht. Hier die Kurzfassung:

1. Sexual abnormality, including incest and lesbianism, appears in graphic detail.
2. Witchcraft is presented as empowering while Christian values are utterly insulted.
3. There is far too much violence and this prevents the overall plot from ever becoming compelling.
4. Emilia Clarke is such an untalented actress that her only role in the show is to be eye candy for pedophiles.
5. By depicting the traditional heterosexual family unit as dysfunctional and a socialistic revolutionary army as an ideal alternative, the show reveals its underlying communist bias.
6. Actor Peter Dinklage, who plays a dwarf on the show, has become the poster child for sodomy amongst America’s youths.
7. At times, the series appears to be little more than an excuse to display illicit homosexual scenarios.
8. The Irish actors willfully glamorize severe alcoholism.
9. Pet wolves and dragons mirror demonic spirit guides in pagan cosmology.
10. The show is incredibly difficult for adults to understand.
11. There are no positive role models.
12. The moody, dark cinematography will make teens depressed.

12 Reasons to Boycott “Game of Thrones” in 2012 (via io9)

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Netter Zusammenschnitt der Effektarbeiten an der derzeit besten Fantasy-Serie. Und, um die Wartezeit bis zur zweiten Staffel noch ein bisschen unerträglicher zu machen: HBO hat angekündigt, die komplette Saga zu verfilmen, solange Autor George R.R. Martin die Vorlagen schreibt, auch über einen Zeitraum von 20 Jahren. That’s a whole lotta Lannister.

According to the news coming out of TCA 2011, the HBO network is in for the long haul with our personal favorite of their television line-up, “Game of Thrones.” Though only the first season has aired so far, Entertainment Weekly reported on the event and has the news that the show will carry through to the end of the book series it is based on.

“We told [author George R.R. Martin] we’d go as long as he keeps writing,” HBO co-president Richard Plepler said.

While we might disagree with HBO programming president Michael Lombardo saying he hopes the show lasts for “20 years” (we’d give it 10 tops since there will only hopefully be seven books), it is good to hear that HBO isn’t planning on jumping dragon part way through their retelling of Martin’s saga.

‘Game Of Thrones’: Unlike Winter, Cancellation Is Not Coming

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Ich habe am Wochenende die meisten Meldungen von der ComicCon weggeklickt, habe aber am Rande mitbekommen, dass es dort (fast) nur heiße Luft zu sehen gab. Aber: Für alle, die – wie ich, trotz neu gestarteten True Blood und Breaking Bad – Game of Thrones vermissen und unvorstellbarerweise fast ein ganzes Jahr warten müssen… hier das komplette 40minütige Game of Thrones-Panel.