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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Don’t Believe Your Eyes: Game of Thrones, Narration, and Adaptation
Aside from the usual problems, there’s one particular thing that makes George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire hard to adapt for the screen.
Build Your Own Child Assassin
Think Tank: The Economics of Death Star Planet Destruction
How does Death Star planet destruction affect the Empire’s GGP? (That’s Gross Galactic Product.)
Episode 147: How Did It Make You Feel when You Got Hit by The Kobold?
The Overthinkers tackle RPGs with special guest Zack Johnson of Kingdom of Loathing.
Open Thread for April 22, 2011
Thank you for calling Overthinking It. If you’re here for unstructured discussion of pop culture, say “Open Thread.” If you have a question about billing, please say “Accounts.” Para continuar en español, dice “español”. What goes on? “Weird” Al Yankovic … Continued
Episode 43: Post-Modern Royalty
Sheely and Wrather discuss the Modern Royalty episode of Gossip Girl and discover that they really like the listeners.
The Killing: Death as Surprise, Death as Interruption
The Killing is one of the few police procedurals where the protagonist knows something we don’t.
The Dragon-Haunted World: The Art of Science in “Tangled” and “How To Train Your Dragon”
Episode 146: Does Boromir Poop?
The Overthinkers tackle Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire.