The Daily Knight #35 – Game of Thrones “The Red Woman” Review, “Moonlighting Syndrome” in Movies and TV
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Game of Thrones Season 6 Premiere, “Moonlighting Syndrome” in shows, Doctor Strange casting, The Killing Joke, Jason Bourne, X-Men: Apocalypse trailers, WHIH mock news channel leading up to Captain America: Civil War
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This is The Daily Knight for Wednesday, April 27, 2016. The Daily Knight supports Making Biscuits Cat Rescue, a 501c3 charity. If you like this podcast, please consider making a donation or adopting a rescue cat at makingbiscuits.org. I’m your host, Gerardo San Diego, and today I’m going to talk about the Game of Thrones season premiere and “Moonlighting Syndrome”….
Game of Thrones, Season 6 Premiere “The Red Woman”
- Aliser Thorne and his men killed Jon Snow, Melisandre visits while Ser Davos protects Snow’s body
- Eddison Tollett going to get help from the Wildlings
- Ramsay Bolton: “Buried, burned…she’s good meat. Feed her to the hounds.”
- Roose Bolton puts a little fear in Ramsay Bolton
- Brienne and Podrick save the day for Sansa and Theon
- Looks like Stannis Baratheon is truly dead–Brienne killed him.
- (I keep forgetting that Ramsay Bolton is now living in Winterfell.)
- Cersei finds Myrcella has been murdered–double whammy after her haircut and shame, shame, shame moment.
- Red Witch predicted Cersei’s 3 children would die–is Tommen next?
- Doran Martell is killed by Ellaria Sand.
- Trystan Martell is killed by Obara Sand (badly!) “You’re a greedy bitch, you know that?”
- Tyrion and Lord Varys take a walk through Mereen unprotected–are they doing this to flush out the leader of the Sons of the Harpy?
- Margery Tyrell is still in prison, chastised by Shame, Shame, Shame lady, then talks to High Sparrow.
- Ser Jorah finds Daenerys’ ring, needle in a haystack moment but then again there was a clear spot of grass in the middle of the horse-trodden grass.
- Daenerys taken to Dothraki camp. Dothraki wives don’t like her, wants her head cut off.
- Khal Moro is about to take Daenerys when she identifies herself.
- Since Khal Drogo died, Daenerys now has to live with the widows of the dead Khals.
- Blind Arya gets her first blind fighting lesson.
- Melisandre shows her real self.
- “What’s one redhead going to do against 40 men?”
“You haven’t seen her do what I’ve seen her do.”
Marvel defends Doctor Strange casting of Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One
- Article: http://mashable.com/2016/04/26/doctor-strange-ancient-one-celtic/
- Doctor Strange trailer–it’s freaking AWESOME!
- Cry of the Snow Lion documentary explains a lot of the rift between Tibet and China:
The Killing Joke trailer
- Joker and his victims are super creepy, hard for me to look at it.
- But overall trailer was kinda underwhelming, felt disjointed and pieced together.
https://youtu.be/iC8NdK2Cwd4
Jason Bourne trailer
- Alicia Vikander(!), Paul Greengrass, Julia Stiles, Tommy Lee Jones.
- Vegas car chase looks epic and typical of a Bourne “realistic” action sequence.
X-Men: Apocalypse final trailer
- People screaming into the camera
- Not as good as previous trailer
- Looks like they muted Apocalypse’s purpleness
- Jennifer Lawrence looks bored
- Nice Wolverine sneak peek at the end
WHIH News Channel on YouTube shows mock news reports that lead up to Captain America: Civil War — these are GREAT!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtJkDqZzoOFYbqwOIFn2Lng
“Moonlighting Syndrome” in Nerd Culture Movies and TV Shows
What is “Moonlighting” Syndrome: http://sites.psu.edu/capassion/2015/09/17/moonlighting-syndrome/
Snippet from above web page: Many believe that the decision to let the main characters get together in Moonlighting is what caused a decline in the quality of the show, creating the term “Moonlighting Syndrome” for when the audience loses interest in the main pairing when the they finally become a couple. However, by displaying a constant “will they or won’t they” theme, writers risk alienating viewers.
- Big Bang Theory (Leonard and Penny)
- Agents of SHIELD (Skye/Daisy and Grant Ward and Lincoln Campbell)
- The Flash (Barry Allen and Iris West and Patty Spivot, Caitlin Snow and Ronnie Raymond and Jay Garrick)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Han and Leia)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Finn and Rey)
- Scorpion (Walter and Paige)
- X-Files (Scully and Mulder)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark and Pepper Potts), Captain America (Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter), Thor (Thor and Jane Foster), Hulk (Bruce Banner and Betty Ross), Ant-Man (Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne)
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