I go to trivia every week. This week, we won! The team efforts were superb (we came up, after much internal debate, with both Shaun White and Whitney Houston), and it was the best round of trivia I had ever been to.
One does not have to study for trivia. It's kind of the thing that you pick up while watching stupid TV (Millionaire Matchmaker?!) or retained from APUSH (Aaron Burr vs. Alexander Hamilton). And if you're lucky, the questions fall in your favor and you win!
However, early next month, some of my friends want to do a "Geeks Who Drink" trivia featuring the HBO hit Game of Thrones. Now, even though everybody and their mother watches Game of Thrones, I had never gotten that into it, mostly because it's the kind of show where people make frustratingly stupid decisions that affect things like who rules the (Seven) Kingdom(s). And UGH if everything could not have been solved if Ned Stark wasn't so blindly loyal. Anyway, because up until last week, I had never watched an episode, I decided to do some research on the matter, because, as far as I can tell, Geeks Who Drink trivia is intense. And...TV research is frustrating. I can usually retain much more information about TV than I can reading papers (in much finer detail), but when I'm actively researching a TV show, I can't do it. If I like a show, I'll gravitate towards it and marathon and remember everything. But, like I said somewhere in the last couple of posts, you can't be into everything. And GoT is not....my jam. I'm too angry at too many people for it to work convincingly for me. Even though I appreciate the artistry, I'm all about people's stories and people here make too many bad decisions for me to respect them. That's kinda how I felt during Downton Abbey when my favorite character, Mr. Bates, became just....frustrating. BATES. WHY YOU GOTTA DO THAT.
I'm currently about 3/4 of the way through season 1. Will I watch the rest? Probably. Blegh. Peer pressure.
One does not have to study for trivia. It's kind of the thing that you pick up while watching stupid TV (Millionaire Matchmaker?!) or retained from APUSH (Aaron Burr vs. Alexander Hamilton). And if you're lucky, the questions fall in your favor and you win!
However, early next month, some of my friends want to do a "Geeks Who Drink" trivia featuring the HBO hit Game of Thrones. Now, even though everybody and their mother watches Game of Thrones, I had never gotten that into it, mostly because it's the kind of show where people make frustratingly stupid decisions that affect things like who rules the (Seven) Kingdom(s). And UGH if everything could not have been solved if Ned Stark wasn't so blindly loyal. Anyway, because up until last week, I had never watched an episode, I decided to do some research on the matter, because, as far as I can tell, Geeks Who Drink trivia is intense. And...TV research is frustrating. I can usually retain much more information about TV than I can reading papers (in much finer detail), but when I'm actively researching a TV show, I can't do it. If I like a show, I'll gravitate towards it and marathon and remember everything. But, like I said somewhere in the last couple of posts, you can't be into everything. And GoT is not....my jam. I'm too angry at too many people for it to work convincingly for me. Even though I appreciate the artistry, I'm all about people's stories and people here make too many bad decisions for me to respect them. That's kinda how I felt during Downton Abbey when my favorite character, Mr. Bates, became just....frustrating. BATES. WHY YOU GOTTA DO THAT.
I'm currently about 3/4 of the way through season 1. Will I watch the rest? Probably. Blegh. Peer pressure.
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