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[TV] Game of Thrones, presented by HBO - NO BOOK DISCUSSION.
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I actually pictured him VERY similar to the shows portrayal. Odd.
Yeah, the show's portrayal is almost spot on for me. Where the hell did that albino stuff come from?
In related news, the show's portrayal of Robert is identical to my second choice, as initially I pictured him as something close to Brian Blessed, with Mark Addy with a beard as a second choice, so that was pretty much spot on for me.
This is patently untrue, but it would need to be merged with Dance since much of the 2 books happen concurrently
Most of Feast was going to be skipped over in a BSG style "three years later" wasn't it? I could certainly see only a few of the strands getting full attention and a lot being glossed over in the way they were originally depending how significant they are in the later books.
It's 850 pages and could stand to be a good deal shorter. A lot of the book was each of the characters in-transit to a destination, which is great if you have to flesh out a world but doesn't work as well in television.
Feast for Crows spoilers:
Merging it with Dance would likely supplement a lot of the agency that is missing though, I'll grant that.
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I've been turning it over and trying to figure out what you mean by Brotherhood. Nothing comes up that relates to the first book. Mind clarifying what you mean?
Oh, of course. Now I feel silly
She seems much more cold and openly opposed to the things going on around her.
I think ultimately this will jive with her personality later on and will only strengthen the character and her reasoning in the series.
I do think any discussion of Feast should have been spoilered but I think discussing differences between the books and the show with things like characterization (if you were referring to the discussion I was just having with Drez) are inevitable and don't really spoil anything beyond that character not dying between the episode you just watched and the beginning of the next.
You already clearly ruined the series for your roommate by overexplaining and infodumping, maybe give it a rest?
To me she has always been a bitch, the tone just didn't come through in the books as well for some I guess but that is exactly how I imagined her, except in my head she is much hotter.
I think its fair to ask that maybe you could please take it from a 10 to about a 3 in terms of hostility.
I don't remember you posting at all in this thread before so I think its a silly for you to say that people are ruining the tv thread by discussing the tv show insofar as it relates to the books.
I guess maybe bring something up? Discussion about the show itself isn't being overtaken, and I'm sure if someone started talking about the show a bunch of people (myself included) would be happy to talk about whatever was brought up.
Also I answered questions my roommate was asking me. In this thread I'm answering questions that people are asking. I really don't understand why you're so bothered. You started out annoyed that people were spoiling the books (which hasn't really happened at all) and now you're mad that people are talking about the books vs the show. I think it'd be more productive to start a discussion about the show itself rather than lead a crusade to kill the discussion in the thread.
Watching the show necessarily spoils the book for you, up to the point in the story that has been shown. This is a very faithful adaptation, and that was expressed by the book's author himself. So, as anal as I am about spoilers, and I am quite anal about them, I think it is rather excessive to call us "inhospitable" for discussing adaptation differences.
Technically, you are right. It is inhospitable to someone who has not read the books but is watching the series, and prefers to avoid total discussion of the book content. But, it is just as inhospitable to tell those of us who have read the books and are watching the TV series that we cannot contrast or compare the two. And it is just as controlling. So, should we have a third thread for people who have read the books and the TV series? Plenty of readers do not have nor want HBO, so discussing the TV show there would be just as "inhospitable" by your standards.
So let's be reasonable. Reasonable: Expecting people to spoiler-tag discussion of future events, characters, or changes in characterizations that have already been shown in the TV series that they are pulling from their knowledge of the books. Unreasonable: Complaining because someone contrasted how a character is portrayed in the TV series to how that character was portrayed in the same content-span of the book. At least, that's my opinion.
I haven't even read Feast yet, for what it's worth, and I do think it is totally reasonable that any discussion of anything that hasn't been shown in the TV series yet be spoiler-tagged, but openly discussing differences between the TV series and what has happened up to that point in the book? Um...
Rickon was in the archery scene in episode 1, IIRC. He was on a horse, laughing at Bran.
edit: re-watching it, he's just sitting on an elevated saddle, not actually on a horse.
Ahh, thanks.
It's the same shot they showed introducing him in all of the previews and commercials.
But other than that, we haven't seen too much of any of the Stark children aside from Jon. Arya and Sansa have had brief archetype-defining scenes and Robb hasn't done much either.
realistically, if my brother comes up to me while I'm talking to my sister, and asks me a question, I wouldn't use his name; I'd just answer it.
Is that so, Tamin?
It is the benefit to an ensemble where people are always interacting that sooner or later a character name or situation will come up without that character initiating.
also: I'm slightly unhappy with their pronunciation of Arya's name. I've always called her "Aria" in my head.
More than any other scene it added some depth to Tyrion. So far we've seen him reading, whoring and drinking. Even his scenes with John do very little to establish him as anything other than clever. The way he interacted with the younger Lannisters was great.
One question I have that deals with the book spoilers (only book 1)
Yeah, I'm really liking their handling of things so far.
And for those that aren't book readers (and have an HBO subscription) and would like more backstory without carefully studying everything, try watching the first couple of episodes on HBOGO.
The video quality is great and the trivia track that pops up on the side does an excellent job of explaining things and people in short, easy to digest blurbs without spoilers or TMI.
Also, this:
Awesome cover of the intro music
Well, it was hard to notice Dany was wearing anything at all in the first episode.