Planning a Sunday Funday

I'm sitting at home listening to various Doctor Who soundtracks after a night of planning meals to cook up for the Game of Thrones premiere party on Sunday that my friend is throwing and I am helping cook up some meals for.

I'm giddy with excitement at everything that I just wrote.

First, Doctor Who. This is a show that I was reluctant to watch at first, but then I got in to it. Really in to it. The concept of the show is about a time travelling alien. I had read a lot of the spoiler type stuff on various comic and nerd websites, but I largely ignored it. Something told me that I would save it in he back of my mind, and that it was likely that I should keep that in mind when I got in to the show.

I think I binged so much after watching it at first that I was just amazed at everything about it. The time travel device, the characters, the writing, the British side of it, and everything about it. It has been on for over 50 years and it has a magic to it, a certain formula, that comes from the love of the creators adding to the mythos. The show and the cultural relevance of it was definitely something that is akin to comics for me, and specifically superhero comics. Something that has lived way beyond the original creators and was morphed in to this thing that has a life all on its own.

Game of Thrones was what I did for my first week in Austin. I was planted on the couch and caught up on the whole series that first week when I wasn't doing anything else. I got swooped in and now am a fan. I'm not as big of a fan as others, but I would describe it as something more than a fair-weather fan. I don't have the love for the books as some people do, but I consider it their books to my comic books and superhero movies.

In fact, I feel for the people who are the fans of the books. Here they get to see their precious source material adapted in to another median for the first time. For some, it will be a shock as to what got changed, for others, a blessing. As someone who has seen so many versions of each of his beloved characters, I sit back and watch with interests at their reactions. Change in how a story is told from one median to the next is something that has to be understood in the broader picture. There isn't going to be a direct book to film comparison where the book is used as the story board for the movie/show and it must be a direct reflection of one. What works for one genre might not necessarily work for the other. People who are going to be pissed off about the changes amuse me.

And on to cooking, and trying new recipes. I think I am looking forward to that out of everything. Forget the wine fest that will happen, forget the show itself, I think that cooking will be what makes my day.

Here is to what will be a good Sunday Funday, where making new friends will be the thing.