Game of Thrones has got off to an excellent start with all the blood, betrayal, and sudden death any self respecting viewer could want, that is not the problem. What I don't like is Thronecast, which comes on after the show on SKY Anytime.
It's introduced by Geoff Lloyd, who we should all welcome into the club of 'nowhere near as funny as he thinks he is'. Geoff gives us a rib tickling run down of the episode we have just watched. He starts with a sort of stand up comedy routine that is so lame you can almost hear the tumbleweed rolling through. For some reason we get a lot of different camera angles, no doubt to enhance the hilarity. Geoff does his skit in front of the Iron Throne and this is one time I would like to see King Joffrey sitting there to pass judgement.
Next up our master of mirth was joined by Annabel Port (no me neither) who proceeded to chat with some American 'super-fan' in Dothraki. The super-fan looked like the kind of person who has translated the works of Dickens into Klingon. That done Annabel departed and Geoff gave us a side splitting poem about something Game of Thrones related, I didn't hear it properly because I had a cushion pressed to my face in embarrassment. Thankfully the whole affair comes in under fifteen minutes so it's not much too endure; but what I ask is why does Game of Thrones need a humorous (and I use the term in its loosest sense) follow up show? Can't we have a more serious affair giving us insight and interviews?
Why doesn't SKY save this kind of show for Glee, where the comedystylings of Mr. Lloyd might be more appropriate, not necessarily any funnier, just more in keeping. Thronecast is on SKY Anytime now, so if you are a fan of feeling uncomfortable and suffering I suggest you give it a go.
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