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Consider the Viking.

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How to get that cut, wiry White Walker body after the jump (Image: Flickr)

Game of Thrones is a great show.

It’s a great show to watch – a great show to talk about – and a great show for theorizing. However. It’s going to be a while before we can do any of that.

Season 6 started in April 2016 – the news just broke that the anticipated Season 7 will premiere July 16th. At least is July of this year. So far. The reason for the delay is apparently due to weather – since Winter Is Coming, they wanted to shoot during winter months (in a show that has multiple computer-generated dragons, white specks are a dealbreaker).

So what do we do until then?
Figure out something else to scratch this itch until June.

Consider the Viking. Specifically, Vikings, the History Channel Norse epic.

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Do you even skirmish, bro? (Image: CSS History)

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Talkie Talk Ep. 5: Video Game Movies… Movie Video Games

Talkie Talk
Talkie Talk Ep. 5: Video Game Movies... Movie Video Games
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The fifth episode of The Media By Us pan-media podcast, Talkie Talk.

In this episode, we have Brent, Chris, TJ and David discuss their Watchlist/Playlist, some news from Brent’s News Corner before going into video game movies… movies that remind us of video games… video game adaptations of movies… and everything in between: we discuss it all and have a Real or Fake quiz about video game properties.

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And Then There Were Ten: 2008, The Box Office Hero

And Then There Were Ten – in which our intrepid hero goes back and expands the Academy Award Best Picture nominations to ten nominations, and goes about filling those hypothetical slots. This time – it’s 2008

Chapter 1: The Box Office Hero the Academy Deserves, Not the One It Needs Right Now (The Dark Knight) 

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This candidate is my entire reason for coming up with this series. And many believe that this candidate missing out is the reason for the expansion. If you want to drive ratings for the broadcast ceremony, you want to select a movie that people have seen – and seen again – to the tune of over a billion in global box office. That would be nice. It also helps when a well-known movie is good.

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