In the Game of Thrones, You Blow on the Cartridge or You Don’t Play
The final episode of the first season of Game of Thrones airs Sunday night. I haven’t talked about the last episode much — although if you haven’t been spoiled to what happened and still want to read the book/watch the show, GET OFF THE INTERNET IMMEDIATELY AND STOP PRESSING YOUR LUCK — but watching mass audiences freak the fuck out on sites like EW.com has been awesome. I like the people who are bitching that they won’t watch the show anymore (I’m guess they will, but I’m not sure if they’ll return for season 2) but I really like the people who are mad at HBO. I’d say there’s very little that better shows the why George R.R. Martin’s work is so compelling than people who get mad at TV station for not changing the most major plot point of a 16-year-old novel. Anyways, 8-bit Game of Thrones music!
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.