Game of ThronesFollow

OMG the baby dragons are so adorable.

"Geeze, Are we Dorne with this stupid chapter yet? Dorne it, it just keeps going forever and for no apperent reason!"

I caught up with this on PPV recently and watched up to the season finale. I had originally watched parts of some episodes in the middle and was pretty lost but it's a good show if you start from the beginning.

Having never read the books I am feeling a tendency from the story to have too many characters and no central focus that reminds me a bit of The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (RIP). Sometimes just when you are into a character you really like they switch up and start talking about characters you don't really care about. My friends and I call that "Ohh crap another Nynaeve and Egwene section".

But so far non of the diverging stories in this series are too dull and they all have some interesting characters which of course will converge and effect each other at some point.

Waiting until spring 2012 for the next season is gonna suck. >.>

I guess I could start reading them. A series like this must be killer for book sales.

Plot armor?

Ah, gotcha.

SpoilerI kind of get that feeling about Tyrion and Arya (at least, for the forseeable future). I guess it's not due to the plot though. GRRM just seems to enjoy writing their parts more than others to me...if that makes any sense.

Edited, Jun 21st 2011 1:31pm by Eske

Mwahahaha...

Thanks for the further explanation. Heh, I'm so bad at noticing things like that. This probably why my girlfriend always knows the endings of mysteries almost immediately, and I always have to wait until the big reveal.

In my defense, I think it's more enjoyable my way. Ah, sweet, sweet ignorance.



Don't you even joke about them killing SpoilerTyrion. I'd have a fit.

?Someone else put it really well: GoT doesn't have a linnear plot. It doesn't go forward. It goes outwards.

The paceing was about right in the beginning, but it just seemed like they tried to compress everything too much towards the end. I think they could have extended the whole thing by 2 or 3 episodes and still managed to end each one at a good spot and would have ended up with a better end product, but that would have cost significantly more. I hope they keep that in mind for clash of kings. And yeah, Muri Maz Duur wasn't evil enough.

As far as other characters go, my thoughts:

Dead on:
ned stark, Arya stark, Sansa stark, Joffrey lannister (actually a bit more evil than the book even), actually all the lannisters so far (cersi has a different feel than in the book, but it works), the hound, visreys, magister whatshisname in kings landing, most of the nights watch, the kid that played robyn arryn, his mom, Danrys targerian, Drogo (was actually more of a chaacter than in the book) etc.

Needs work:
Caitlin stark seems a bit off from the book to me. I can't place why though. Jon snow, the fight with the dead thingy wasn't even close, so that annoyed me, though the character himself seems pretty close. Littlefinger is significantly different than in the book, but I understand why they changed that a bit. "the mountain" wasn't nearly evil enough. Robert and Renly both needed some work too. Theon Greyjoy just doesn't seem to fit my mental image of how he would react to some of the things that happened so far. Also, the dragons being wyvvern types annoys me.

I feel Cersei is quite different than what I expected. First of all, I expected her to be beautiful, and she definitely isn't (thinking about it, I think her eyebrows are weirding me out for whatever reason). She seems more "tweaky" than "solid," if that makes sense... kind of a mixture of her character in book 4 with her book 1 character.

My critique of Lysa is petty. She's supposed to be plump, if not fat. Instead she looks like a stick. Eh...

And I really like Littlefinger in the series, although I could do without all the monologuing.

It's true. HBO added a couple key scenes with her that paint her in a better, pitiable light. In the added scene between her and Robert, she asks him something to the extent of "Did you ever love me, even in the beginning?" He responds "No. Does that make you feel better or worse?" and there's a visible pause and twitch before she responds back with "It doesn't make me feel anything." that indicates some pain masked by a lie.

I believe she also remarks to someone (Ned, IIRC) that she loved Robert, and that the day of their marriage started out as the happiest day of her life, before Robert said "Liana" when they were in bed together.

I'm happy with those additions. In the books, Cersei skews a bit too much towards pure, overt evilness, in my opinion. The HBO changes make her more balanced, and provide an explanation for why she is the way she is. Really, she doesn't seem that bad in the HBO series so far.

I still need to stop being lazy and find that song so I can listen to it all the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxc0EQiwngE