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Game of Thrones Weekly Review: The Night Lands

Posted in Reviews, Television, tagged , , , , on April 9, 2012| 3 Comments »

Read The North Remembers Review Here.

The second episode of Game of Thrones was aired yesterday.  Fortunately for me, I was able to write this article in advance thanks to a leaked Dutch version of the show that aired the following Monday of episode 1, I would usually follow up and share the link to you guys so that we all my enjoy it, but unfortunately it was taken down very soon after it was leaked.  It was truly a glorious day for me, and hopefully the Dutch have made the same oopsie daisy as they did last time by the time this post is published and I’m able to take a look at episode 3.

Episode two picked up immediately after where the one left off.  As a whole, the episodes are still following a ‘set up’ format, where nothing is actually happening, but a lot of cliff hangers and unfinished conversations are being dropped here and there.  As a man who’s read the books, I can see why they include every conversation they had, but if I had not read the books, it would feel like an overwhelming drabble that holds no significance to so far.  So I advise the non-readers to truly try and perk up their ears, and even have a pen and notepad to right down names so you may remember if/when they show up later.  Also, the show’s penchants for sex doubled this week, notably.  As usual, no book spoilers here people.  Or under penalty of Bruce the Ape’s wrath, I shall end you [or at least give you a very stern talking to.]

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Morning Banana Oatmeal: Avatar: Legend of Korra episodes 1 + 2 are Leaked

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , , , on April 9, 2012| Leave a Comment »

A couple of weeks ago, I did a post regarding some cartoon television shows that I would still watch even if they are catered to children.  Avatar the Last Airbender series made the list and I even put the coming sequel time skip, Avatar: The Legend of Korra.  And it turns out, the series has begun to be leaked on the internet.  Episodes one and two have come out and are linked below.  The animation is as beautiful as ever and the soundtrack fits the series so well.  Korra is already a likable avatar, if a little hot-headed, and there are amazing political and social plots being set up that are definitely catered to the adult crowd.   Enjoy below!

Episode 1

Episode 2

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Community Cast Reimaginations

Posted in Movies, Television, tagged , , on April 5, 2012| 1 Comment »

Community X-Men

http://avivor.com/

See the individual pictures here

Here are some compiled some artist interpretations of the cast of Community in different universes.  I’ve shown an interpretation before as the cast as X-Men and I’ve included below in the gallery along with some other ones Warming Glow found.  Gotham Villains and Calvin and Hobbes be praised.  And I loved the whole Streets Ahead reference in the Street Fighter mash up.  I’ve also added links to their deviantart pages so be sure to support them by at least visiting them.

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South Park Still as Relevant and Irreverent as Ever

Posted in Reviews, Television, tagged , , , , on April 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »

They are truly one of the few programs on air that can get away with blatant racism...I love it.

South Park season 16 is about 4 episodes in.  A while back in the midseason finale for their 15th season, creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker hinted through Randy and Sharon’s marriage failure when it came to their ability to shake things up instead of hitting the refresh button was getting more and more problematic when it came to their marriage.  This was probably over analyzed as people saw it as a foreshadowing of how the South Park series was turning out, and people came to a panic that the beloved social satire program would come to an end.  And with Stone and Parker’s new broadway hit, The Book of Mormon firing on all cylinders, it seemed almost plausible.  But of course they said they’re still planning on continuing for at least 2 more seasons.  And that being said, season 16 premiered 4 weeks ago as I just said.  And it’s been an excellent premiere that’s got both my head tilting in thought and side splitting in laughter.

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Morning Oatmeal: Gus Fring will Star in Community

Posted in Television, tagged , , on April 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Lol, I tried Googling ‘Giancarlo Esposito’ and ‘Community’ and this came up, so I said to hell with it, I’m using this as my image.  A while back it was confirmed that Espositio, most known for his role as Gus Fring on AMC’s Breaking Bad.  Now for season 3, Dan Harmon had already booked the badass Michael Kenneth Williams, and I’d imagine they’d also book this scary character for an equally intimidating role.  It is rumored that he will appear as Pierce Hawthorne’s late father’s associate.  We can only imagine what he’d be like after meeting Pierce’s colorfully racist father.  Speculate with me.

Gus Fring will Star in Community

In case you need to really see who this man is, decent spoilers to Breaking Bad season 4:

Can’t wait to see this man do comedy.

 

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A Different Kind of Magic Carpet Ride

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , on April 4, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Normally this would fit into a single image of 24 for the Weekend Funnies.  But seeing as it’s semi-movie related, I’ve decided to give it’s own slot to appreciate the hilarious portmanteau [definition here] created here.  It’s reminiscent of other portmanteaus I’ve seen in popular culture, which I’m augmented this post with.

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Morning Oatmeal: The Best TV Dances

Posted in Lists, Television, tagged , , , , , , on April 4, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Dance sequences in TV is quite possibly one of the most mysteriously awesome things.  ESPECIALLY if the show isn’t about dancing.  While dancing in Glee is almost a given, Friends, Seinfeld, Scrubs, and other network sitcoms sometimes treat us with the main characters pulling a dancing routine right out of their asses.  Warming Glow has compiled some of the best sites in Youtube videos.  I almost compiled my own, but it would’ve been so similar to this list, it would’ve looked like I completely copied them.  And I’m trying to cut back on the illegal computer blogging rules.  So here’s the direct link instead.  While It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia makes the cut with their dance themed episode, I think the finale dance for season 7 might make the cut.  The video below the link

The Best TV Dances

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Breaking Bad RPG

Posted in Television, Video Games, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »

It might be out of taste because it’s totally so last year, but it doesn’t change the fact I stumbled into this amazingly well done RPG representation of one of the best dramas on television.  It beat out Game of Thrones last year in my opinion, and with filming occurring this year for it’s final season, it’s the only reason why Game of Thrones will probably nab my favorite spot.  I’m off topic, so let me circle back.  Today I give you two different adaptations of a Breaking Bad Video Game.  The one above was done by Johnny Utah who’s taken the Street Fighter Route to tastefully include small jokes made throughout the entire series, and the one below follows a more Japanese/Korean style RPG made by College Humor.  Enjoy them both.

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Game of Thrones Review: The North Remembers

Posted in Reviews, Television, tagged , , , , on April 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »

HBO’s Game of Thrones Season 2 premiered a couple of nights ago, and in true fashion, I was there to watch.  Expect a review every week of my take on each episode.  I will write these articles with no intentions of spoiling events from the book.  However, I will use my knowledge of the book to possibly clarify plot holes that the series might be leaving out to compensate for the 700 page turner.

There are obvious spoilers for those who aren’t caught up with the show, but seeing as HBO released a public image of Sean Bean’s Ned Stark’s head on a pike, I guess, all bets are off when it comes to not spoiling season one.  The 2-5 minute catch up seemed to me to be a good way to waste 2-5 minutes because it could not being to encapsulate the amount of things that escalated from season 1.  All it served was a purpose to take out 2-5 minutes of additional actual show time.  Hopefully, we won’t be seeing recaps anymore.  More show less recaps.

But I suppose I’ll start with a recap for you all right now before I start getting into the show’s meat and bones.  Ned Stark was beheaded for finding a scandal between the Queen and her incestuous relationship with her brother.  In turn, the land Ned Stark ruled is up in arms for the unjust murder and his eldest son is bringing 20,000 soldiers to the capital to kill the the man responsible for his father’s death.  Meanwhile the other Stark children are scattered across the country each facing their own difficulties, one disguising herself as a boy, one being crippled, the other North in the wilderness, etc.  Meanwhile, everyone’s favorite character Tyrion Lannister, the non incestuous brother to the queen, returns to the capital to clean up the mess the Queen and her son, who is now King, has made.  That’s probably the best I can do without writing another novel about it.

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Morning Oatmeal: 7 Ideas for Fantastic SNL Hosts

Posted in Television, tagged , , on April 3, 2012| 1 Comment »

I’ve only been marginally impressed with SNL this year.  Melissa McCarthy’s job as hosting provided the most laughs and very likely the season’s high so far.  There were a couple of people who tried their best to bring their A-game, enjoyable veterans like Steve Buscemi and Maya Rudolph provided solid, but slightly stale performances, there have been an extremely terrible show or two like the Lindsay Lohan and Katy Perry episodes.  And it’s a shame because I have a confessed love for the idea and publication of this sketch comedy show, and I’d like to see it shine.  So in response, Warming Glow compiled a glorious list of fresh ideas for hosts that I believe would breathe a positive wind back into the relatively stale show.

7 Ideas for Fantastic SNL Hosts

Also, Sophia Vergara will be hosting this weekend.  So prepare for cleavage…cleavage.  I had nothing else to say.  That’s more than likely the reason I’ll be tuning in.

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Planateers Origins: Magic School Bus

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , on April 2, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The internet always blows my mind.  When I stumbled upon this amazing find, I nearly sh!t my pants.  For all of you raised in the 90s, or raised kids in the 90s [I think that’s what my target demographic is], you more than likely stumbled upon both of these shows: Captain Planet and Magic School Bus.  Both shows employed children in supporting roles to a magical and mythical idol, Captain Planet and Ms. Frizzle, respectively.  Little did we know the the time these shows were set in.  But when you look at these two images, it’s clear one was a prequel to the other.  All we need now is the dark back story about how Ms. Frizzle was hell bent on finding 5 elemental rings to summon an all powerful force that had the ability to turn the entire planet green and into a forest, killing millions in the name of Mother Earth.  So she sent her kids to each recover a ring.  When they recovered all 5 and brought them to her, she tried to kill them to harvest the rings.  Threatened by their once insightful leader, kids banded together and ironically ran over her with the Magic School Bus.  Vowing to completely forget the trauma that happened, they burned the Bus afterwards.  Since then, industrial leaders have forever targetted the kids as green terrorists.  This in turn have made the kids use the rings to summon forth Captain Planet himself to defeat the industrial leaders.  Ms. Frizzle’s plan has succeeded.  A very relavent Funny or Die video after the jump.

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Game of Thrones Week Wrap Up

Posted in Maintenance, Television, tagged , , , , , on March 30, 2012| Leave a Comment »

After 14 straight posts, I can honestly say that I am tired to the bone of writing about Game of Thrones.  I truly can’t wait to get back into regular broadcasting, but I don’t regret that I did this week either.  And there wasn’t exactly a lot of traffic this week, but I’m hoping as more and more people get into Game of Thrones, they start peaking their curiosities and stumble upon this website.  I’ve talked about book differences, video games, parodies, and letters to the uninitiated, but it’s finally time to close out the very hard week.  But we’re not completely donee with it yet either.  Seeing as Game of Thrones season 2 starts this weekend April 1st, I’ll try and have a review posted for Tuesday’s main article for the next 10 weeks the show runs.  So if you have been visiting my blog for the pure Game of Thrones reasons, be sure to stick around and visit next Tuesday for my take on each episode.  Otherwise, if you’re a regular viewer, not into Game of Thrones, I refer you to here to change your mind, other wise, Weekend Funnies tomorrow will start us off for to the regular broadcasting.

-Banana Feed Team

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GoTW Day 5: One Final Message to the Non-Believers

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , on March 30, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Before Banana Feed returns to encompass all movie/television [and soon video game] news, I have one final thing to say to all my readers.  This article is catered to those who have pretty much ignored this week’s posts due to lack of interests.  Below, I’ve compiled a list of reasons why Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire can be watched/read by nearly everyone.  Please take them to heart, because I employ you to listen to reason and buy/pirate the first season and be prepared to catch up on the second.  For once this week, there are no spoilers in this post.

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GoTW Day 5: The Bane of My Existance: The Spoiler

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , on March 30, 2012| 5 Comments »

The more and more I talk about Game of Thrones, the more and more I need to do research and check my sources.  While the books are immediate help, it can be touch and tedious counting the number of chapters or narrators.  So to make things easier, I’ve just used Wiki sources and other online sources to help me in keeping up with SO many posts.  All the problems I’ve encountered concludes one very true thing: The internet is a dangerous place.

Spoilers are EVERYWHERE.  Whether they are voluntarily seen through wiki pages like the ‘A Wiki of Ice and Fire’ website like I’ve pictured above, or the dangerous waters of youtube video comments, one must be very careful where they tread so they not be spoiled.  I try to include as many times as possible that if there are spoilers ahead, but the rest of the internet is not so kind.  I’ve taken small glances into the youtube comments and seen just a glimpse of ‘_____ dies’ and I’m automatically ruined forever.  Biased as I read the books, this is such an unfortunate thing to be affected with.  So as season 2 unfolds and the internet, I warn you to be careful.

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GoTW Day 4: Things the Book Drove in Better than the TV Series

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , , on March 29, 2012| 1 Comment »

This is pretty much the reverse of the earlier post.  Now I’m going to cite what points the book drove in better than the tv series.  As the source material, I understand that there are an infinite ways the book is better at developing than the tv series, but what I’m trying to focus on here is my personal experience.  The problem with just soley the TV series is that they try to cram so much mythlore and characters into a one hour block, that certain names don’t stick, and things you’re supposed to realize get lost in the constant perpetuation of trying to figure out what’s going.  So here are some points that I thought were far better explained the in the book.  More spoilers, as always.

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GoTW Day 4: Things I Learned in the TV Series that Weren’t in the Book

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , on March 29, 2012| 2 Comments »

I’ve been going on and on about the book vs. the series this week.  And I’m actually rather glad that I was able to compare them hand in hand.  It would be unfair to say the book is everything [even if it is the source material] because the TV series sometimes relays things that simply went way over my head.  Hindsight bias tells me that ‘well duh, there’s the reference to _____’, but I’ll be honest, if I didn’t see it in the TV series first, I might’ve never known it was true.  I just simply can’t wait to watch this season and be astounded what I forgot to read between the lines.  Below are a couple of moments that the TV series taught me something the book didn’t.  Obvious spoilers from season/book 1.

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GoTW Day 4: George R.R. Martin on the Climax, Stark Brutality, and Character Influx

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , on March 29, 2012| 1 Comment »

George R.R. Martin on the Climax of the Season and Stark Brutality

George R.R. Martin Worries About the Character Influx

These are two articles posted on similar days about George R.R. Martin final worries before the season kicks off.  There are spoilers relevant to the second book, but I don’t think much else is given away besides the names of some characters and the name of the major battle of book/season 2.

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GotW Day 3: Disney’s Game of Thrones

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , , on March 28, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Dorkly created this awesome trailer recut with Game of Thrones and popular Disney characters.  It’s very well done and sends shivers up my spine none the less.

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GoTW Day 3: Some Differences Between Book 1 and Season 1

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , on March 28, 2012| 2 Comments »

Compressing a 700+ page novel into a 10 episode series is no easy task.  That’s 70 pages of material in one hour.  There is a lot that goes on in the book, and while making the book a TV series is the best way to represent it to encompass as much information as possible, producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss still had to cut corners to make both budget and time restrictions.  So after both watching the series and reading the book, I’ve managed to find some key differences in scenes.  I kinda hoped I wish I had a pen and notepad while I read to truly find every nitpicking detail, but I’ll just try and recall the biggest things off the top of my head.  Obvious spoilers, bah doy doy.  Spoilers contained within the first book.

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GotW Day 3: The In-Production Video Game

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , on March 28, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Another step closer for this website also becoming a video game blog, Cyanide is in the process of making an RPG based on the universe created in A Song of Ice and Fire.  It’s available for pre-order now.  I’ve tried to dig up what it’s about, but I’ve only come up with the Wikipedia article that claimed it to be the journey of a either a Red Priest or man of the Night’s Watch as the events of the book series unfolds.  The website below is the official website.  But it’s actually a game itself where you can journey and complete quests.  It’s pretty high end, slowing my poor laptop with it’s space age technology.

http://www.gameofthrones-thegame.com/#/pages/frozenWall/subPage1

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