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First off, let me apologize for not posting a One Step yesterday. I’ve been a little out of sorts and distracted. I might post up a late one tonight when I get my thoughts together on it. But that’s not what we’re here for today. It’s Friday and that means Entertainment news, and boy has it been a week for some entertainment, from TV, to video games, to tabletop gaming, and , of course, E3! Huge post incoming.
Let’s start with Game of Thrones. After the deliciously gruesome end of The Mountain and the Viper we retreat to the wall for an entire episode for even more bloodshed and tears. Jon Snow really starts to show his leadership abilities in this one. *SPOILERS* The formerly off-screen death of Ygritte happens right in front of Jon for extra gut wrenching effect. Holy Crap, the Scythe! No wonder The Wall has never been breached. And my main man Sam Tarly really mans up. Knowing some things that are coming this next week it’s going to be one hell of a finale and another agonizing wait for season five.
The last couple of weeks I’ve also managed to catch AMC’s newest offering, Halt and Catch Fire. Set in the 1980’s and focusing on the PC boom it’s almost like this show was targeted directly at me and my kind. The show focuses around three people at a software company in Texas’s Silicon Prairie. First we have Gordon Clark(Scoot McNairy), a software engineer and family man with ideas about open architecture. He’s been burned on his ideas before and tends not to take risks, but it seems all he needs is a push in the right direction. That push comes from Joe MacMilan(Lee Pace), a visionary, salesman, mastermind, playboy who has anger issues with a world that fails to see his vision. With eyes on the prize regardless of consequences, Joe, a former employee of IBM, wants to use Gordon’s open architecture ideas and reverse engineer an IBM PC to produce something twice as fast at half the price. When inevitable legal issues arise they hire on a proto-punk programming prodigy, Cameron Howe, played by the gorgeous Mackenzie Davis, to write the BIOS from scratch. The chemistry between these three is phenomenal, as is the supporting cast which includes Gordon’s wife Donna played by Kerry Bishé, who previously starred alongside Scoot in Argo. Seriously, if you haven’t seen Argo yet I highly recommend it. It looks like AMC has another smash hit on their hands if the first two episodes are any indication.
I have yet to see the finale of Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey. My Sundays got wrapped up in other activities for a while and I have some catching up to do. I’m a little young to have caught the original Sagan show having not really broken into my nerdier lifestyle until the millennial turn. What I have seen of it though is a fascinating and remarkable show, a real boon for today’s society. Neil deGrasse Tyson brings just enough of an everyman quality to some complicated topics, breaking them down to a more comprehensible level. Even without having seen all of the episodes I can safely say that I am hoping for a second season.