11/28/2022 0 Comments War of the roses kane show![]() ![]() ![]() Given that I had grown up reading Thor and Captain America, this should have been the movie to really do it for me.Ĭertainly, it had the rest of the world leaping up and down in excitement. This week also marked the release of the final installment of The Avengers film franchise. Not only is it gripping and unpredictable, but it makes you care about characters. I could give you a million reasons why I like the show (the budgets, the acting, the special effects etc.) but the real reason is the writing. (My money is on Arya Stark but knowing how this show works they may well kill her off in a couple of weeks.) Despite my earlier hatred of historical fantasy I am now a GoT addict and can spend hours discussing who will finally sit on the Iron Throne. The first was the long awaited release of the final season of Game of Thrones a fortnight or so ago. I was reminded of all this by two events. I never dreamed that I would live in a world where super-heroes and comic book characters would dominate popular culture or where the biggest grossing movies of all time would be comic book pictures.Today super heroes have taken over the entertainment industry. So a proper Superman picture was a big deal. But these seemed directed at children (as the Batman TV show had been in the late Sixties) and were rarely worth watching. There were always comic book adaptations on TV: Wonder Woman, Spiderman and The Hulk had their own low-budget TV series. The big moment in the Eighties was when the first Tim Burton Batman picture came out. What I did read were comics - an indication perhaps of how stunted my brain is compared to all the Tolkien fans- and my big moment in the Seventies was when the first (and still the best) Superman movie was released. Geddit? It took me a while to get the joke.) The Lord Of The Rings was considered trendy and graffiti on the walls read “Tolkien is Hobbit-forming”. ![]() ![]() In the years when I was at University, everybody read JR Tolkien. I had no interest in fantasy (science fiction bores me out of my skull), and even a tale based on the historical War of the Roses did not seem appealing. But even if I had, I doubt if I would have read the books. I have to say that I had never heard of George RR Martin and A Song of Fire and Ice till the Game of Thrones TV show started. ![]()
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