Game Of Thrones ! SPOILERS !
Is anybody watching the show? What do you think of it?
Found some connection with BG so I was thinking if people here are watching it.
I like low fantasy settings, so magic and supernatural elements are rare and not on every corner, so I gave it a try (also one of the reasons I liked BG1 over BG2). I think it started as very interesting but became a bit chaotic and I think a bit excessive. Later, especially in the second season, it started to feel like soap opera with so many new characters with similar personality, trying to keep it dramatic with raising sex scenes and more and more senseless violence. While I have nothing against these things, actually I like that it is realistic and not made in Lord Of The Rings way, but they became a bit exaggerated, as every single scene must end with someone dead or at least being threatened with death.
Also the author must have hated all the foolishly naive and obedient, good characters, so he killed most of them already in the first season. Guess Sean Bean got used to it already.
What do you think? I am at the half of the second season, so please don´t spoil me some major events of the end of the second season.
Found some connection with BG so I was thinking if people here are watching it.
I like low fantasy settings, so magic and supernatural elements are rare and not on every corner, so I gave it a try (also one of the reasons I liked BG1 over BG2). I think it started as very interesting but became a bit chaotic and I think a bit excessive. Later, especially in the second season, it started to feel like soap opera with so many new characters with similar personality, trying to keep it dramatic with raising sex scenes and more and more senseless violence. While I have nothing against these things, actually I like that it is realistic and not made in Lord Of The Rings way, but they became a bit exaggerated, as every single scene must end with someone dead or at least being threatened with death.
Also the author must have hated all the foolishly naive and obedient, good characters, so he killed most of them already in the first season. Guess Sean Bean got used to it already.
What do you think? I am at the half of the second season, so please don´t spoil me some major events of the end of the second season.
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I like it not being black/white, but so many shades of grey are as unrealistic as black/white. Not everybody is totally neutral without emotions and the story needs some clearly positive characters as well as those cunning, neutral ones. There are lots of arrogantly evil characters anyway, so what happened to all the humanity?
Unfortunately for me, I just had to cancel my HBO subscription to save money, so I won't be getting to enjoy season three until it comes out on DVD.
I read the books up until "Feast for Crows". I must say, I like the slightly lighter tone of the TV series better. I eventually abandoned reading the books, because I got tired of going to bed every night with all the graphic descriptions of violence and suffering and sexual abuse rattling around in my head. If you think that the series has graphic violence and sex, I'm here to tell you that the books are ten times worse!
My favorite character has always been Tyrion "the Imp". In the books, he is described as horribly homely and pockmarked and ugly, even before his axe wound. Peter Dinklage is the perfect Tyrion, but he is also a very handsome "little person", who does not even remotely resemble the "ugly dwarf" described in the book. Perhaps now that the tv series has gotten to his axe wound, they will apply makeup from now on that makes him more closely resemble his book counterpart.
I keep laughing at all the people who have expressed surprise and outrage at Ned Stark's execution in season one. Every person who has read the books knew that was coming. I was looking for that from episode one of the series! It is the event that drives the entire epic, so there was no way they could change that event if they were going to adapt "Song of Fire and Ice".
The brat playing Joffrey has the part nailed dead-on. I can only hope that he is doing that through masterful acting, and doesn't have a hint of such evil is his real-life personality! The actress playing Cersei, and the actor playing Jamie are also dead-on. In fact, one of the reasons that I think the series is loved by both readers and new viewers is because of the perfect casting and direction.
I know what is going to happen to Joffrey eventually, and I very much relish the thought of eventually seeing it played out in life action!
I have a hard time restraining myself from totally gushing about this series. I now much prefer the series to the books, no offense intended to the author.
Season 2 was great, the last episode for me was just ok. I didn't like the House of the Undying... thought they dropped the ball there. The rest of the season made up for it. I think some of the changes they made, for pacing etc. in Season 2, actually improved the story somewhat (I know, shoot me right?) I loved the idea of Arya being Tywin Lannister's cupbearer. How great was Jaquen H'ghar too?
Looking forward to Season 3!
I knew that Ned Start is going to die, but I was still annoyed with the way they made it. Everyone good had to be butchered before the end of the season and evil has to win in all the fronts. Maybe if I read the book, it will give me a new perspective of things.
On the other hand, horrible events of the end of the first season totally created backgrounds for typical heroic characters. I mean Arya. There is no way she is going to die any time soon. As a child, she was better with bow/sword than men and was eager to improve. Her father and those close to her were executed in front of her eyes, she became a thrall, a prisoner, still able to avoid death and act bravely, creating allies, which would help her (Jaquen,Gendry). If she won´t end as a heroine, than I stop believe into gods, old and new.