My guess is I’m not the only one watching Once Upon a Time. I mean, it’s not like I’m looking at the ratings or anything…OK, I do check on them from time to time…but Once Upon a Time seems to be doing fairly decent 9 episodes in, so I’m hopeful it will at least finish out the season and get renewed. Of course, I’m always skeptical about fantasy-style shows and renewals.
I had previously wondered whether or not I could concievabley spend $15 a month for HBO in order to watch Game of Thrones. It turns out that, for reasons wholly unrelated to HBO (more on that later), I can’t. There are, of course, other ways to “watch” a show, and so I have indeed seen all four episodes that have aired. I have no moral qualms about seeing episodes of a series on a “pay channel” without paying for said channel. This is due to the already admitted (on my part) fact that I will purchase the season one blu-ray the day it comes out. As I write this, I have a House Stark stein ($20 US) sitting on my desk that I will likely be purchasing tonight.
Directv is offering a “preview weekend” of HBO starting today. I don’t think I’m being over dramatic by claiming it is a plot solely dedicated to extract an extra 14 dollars and 99 cents from me every time I pay my bill. You are, no doubt, already aware that this Sunday is the premiere of the Game of Thrones series starring my long time man crush Sean Bean as Eddard Stark, defacto main character of the first book in George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series of epic fantasy novels…I was trying to think of a way to extend that sentence even further, but that was the best I could do.
