Warning
This is not a post for children. Kids, take a hike.
This post contains bad, foul, filthy and unacceptable language - the words that “will curve your spine, grow hair on your hands and maybe, even bring us, God help us, peace without honor.”
This is also not a post for those adults who are offended by this type of language. Do yourself a favor, and go read some of my cute stuff before moral outrage can kick in.Just about everything else on this blog is clean…Stupid sometimes, but clean.
End of Warning.
It is time for this years Dana Awards saluting profanity in television in its 7th incarnation. It is the the subsection of the 13th Annualish George Awards for profanity in film.
The two shows that get the Dana Awards this time are repeat winners. Not only that but another mythological show by the creator of the first, and the actual show of the second were the inaugural Dana Award Winners. (That should generate a whoop-de-fuckin'-doo or two.)
The first Dana Award goes to the second and final season (2025) of The Sandman. Television is a very different medium than comics and they did a fantastic job focusing the show on the tale of Morpheus. Yes, it would have been cool if they had done a whole bunch of "done in one" or side stories like the comics that were only tangentially connected to the main narrative. But it also would have felt like a shitload of meandering, with a anthology feel that would dilute the main story.
One thing that was kept in the show from the comics was an understanding of the multiple different mythologies that came into play in the various characters. This included an representation of the true nature of the various deities in Norse Mythology. Marvel has sugar coated what many people believe to be Thor, god of thunder.
The version in Sandman, subject to various ridiculous abuses by Loki (Shit covered squirrel story! Bwa ha ha!) who shows up bedraggled and battle scarred at the door to Dream's Castle violently demanding entrance was much truer to the Mythological source material.
If
you don't open this motherfucking,
fart-sucking
door,
then
Mjölnir and I…
*BOOM
BOOM BOOM*
will
smash it into toothpicks!”
The second Dana Award Winner fir this year is a return for the Witcher. But first a bonus one from "Trial By Ordeal" in Season Four. (2025) It is always easy to salute one of the greatest users of profanity in screen history - Yarpen Zigren played by Jeremy Crawford who greeted his old Friend Jaskier with the unique phrase of:
"Well boil
my balls and call it tea.
If it isn’t the wallopin' fuckin’ bard."
However, for a grand illustration of the true emotional power and venom profanity can contain, we look to the moment when Ciri turned nearly feral in defense of her new "found family," the Rats, who were getting their barely skilled asses handed to them, yet again, this time by the guards in "Twilight of the Wolf." When she stepped in with her Geralt Trained sword wielding abilities she had some choice words for those threating her new family. It is one of many moments this season displaying how Freya Allen has grown into a true lead on the show (and in other places where she was featured in this year's George Awards) and who will likely be the driving force behind the final season.
Her assault was accompanied by focused screaming in a louder and louder crescendo the whole time she was violently and repeatedly stabbing one of their attackers.
FUCK YOU!!
FUCK YOU!!!!!!"
That's all for this year's awards. Since they're so late, I already have some ideas for the next sorta annual outing.
Meaning,,,
The George Awards Will Return.
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