Hic Sunt Dracones “Fire and Blood” Game of Thrones HBO, Sundays, 9 PM Written by Daniel Benioff & D. B. Weiss Directed by Alan Taylor “Heads. Spikes. Walls.” — Tyrion Lannister As a metaphor for the entire series Game of Thrones, the dragons are perfect: they took their time getting here, they are not impressive, but they have enormous long-range potential. I guess that the drawn-out pace of this series was required to introduce audiences to an entire new fantasy world, to set us up for the heavily complicated politics of medieval warfare, to present a very large cast of complicated characters.…
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Fringe: “Northwest Passage”
Peter from Boston By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2010 by Sarah Stegall Fringe Fox, Thursdays, 9:00 PM “Northwest Passage” Written by Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz & Nora Zuckerman & Lilla Zuckerman Directed by Joe Chapelle My area of expertise is weird. —Peter Bishop At last, we get an episode showcasing Peter Bishop. From being completely invisible in the episode named after him, he goes to center stage. Joshua Jackson delivers a solid, convincing performance that teaches us more about Peter than we learned in the first half of this season. We start with a mild flirtation between Peter—now…