The saddest news I’ve heard

I’m a big Game of Thrones fan, I’m an even bigger “A Song of Ice and Fire” fan. Jon Snow has been my favourite (as well as other characters) since I read the first book  – before watching the first season.

Like many other people I didn’t like the last season, I wasn’t a fan of season 7 either but on a different scale. I felt, above it all, my favourite characters weren’t being portrayed fairly. Tyrion wasn’t his smart witted self for about 2 or 3 seasons; and Jon was more mysterious and quiet by each episode. Of course all of this comes from the lack of knowing what Jon is thinking the last two seasons, the lack of the books.

I felt manly angry, angry that the show had so much potential and it did so little in the end, it felt ridiculous, almost like a joke at times. I don’t like being a hater, I tried and tried seeing the creators point of view. I never voiced how I felt about the show online. In general I’m very careful about what I post on social media and I didn’t want to do or show another angry post about GoT or another meme.

The saddest thing of all this it isn’t how the show was a let down at the end. It even isn’t the possibility of the books never being published (I mean, George RR Martin isn’t getting any younger, we never know). The worst thing, the saddest and the most heartbreaking situation of all this was the news that Kit Harrington (the actor who plays Jon Snow) had checked in into a wellness clinic due to stress, exhaustion and abuse of alcohol. It’s devastating for me that the actor who gave life to my favourite character has been dealing with mental health issues.

Everything else becomes irrelevant with these news. Of course I’m glad he’s getting help, that’s amazing, and I hope he will get better. But I know the pain of dealing with mental health issues. I know enough pain and heartbreak not to wish it on anyone, let alone someone I think so dearly off like Kit.

I hope he gets the help he needs and I hope the internet calms down about GoT. And as always with these stories, at least it brings more light into how important mental health is.

 

Sherlock

Let’s talk about BBC Sherlock last episode (at least of this season) how great it was and how it affected me. It may contain spoilers, nothing major, but still read at your own risk.

This season had a slow start, in my opinion the first episode was the weaker of the three, still a great episode, maybe just not up to the standards I was used to with Sherlock. What I’m trying to say is that the episode took a while to get me gripped but when it did wow…

The 2nd episode was magnificent but let’s get right into it, the 3rd one… How to even begin? This episode turned Sherlock into a suspense, sweat inducing, almost tear-dropper amazingness.

The whole episode had me gripped to the screen, it was extremely engaging, nerve wrecking, clever writing and so but so good. It was like everything coming in full circle, exploring Sherlock relationships with everyone, John, Mycroft, his family, Molly, the woman *wink wink* – the main reason I want this show to return is to see Sherlock relationship with Irene Adler develop.

One thing I loved about this episode was the feeling no one was safe. In various times some of our favourites were in life threatening situations and I legit thought they could and possibly would die. It wasn’t like in some shows or movies when that situation comes you think “oh no way they gonna kill that character, that’s impossible” and you watch safely as the character gets himself out of whichever situation. But on this episode I feared for the life of everyone, including Sherlock.

Who else wasn’t surprised about the Redbeard reveal… it wasn’t just me, right? Like midway through the episode or 3/4 through it, I said to my brother: Redbeard is not a dog is the 4th brother… Now that turned out not to be true but I wasn’t that far from it. I think this has been done before and I can’t remember where, not sure if it was an original Sir Conan Doyle story that I’ve read or just the similar plot in another tv show or movie… Either way I was already expecting it. Not to say it took the surprise element out of it, the episode was full of surprises from beginning to end and I could not look away.

Sherlock is a great show and once again it surprised me and made me realise why I love this show so much and why I don’t mind and in fact appreciate that it takes so long between seasons. Oh almost forgot Benedict acting is A+, just fantastic.

Can you believe this show started 7 years ago?