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A Song of Ice and Fire: The pilot is so close you can taste the incest.

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  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Damnit HBO I want this show now

    I think if given the choice of the show starting tomorrow or Dance being released, I'd go for the show

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  • valiancevaliance Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I like the actor they got for Tyrion, especially that close up photo of his face.

    he was the only choice.

    these pictures are awesome.

    jaime and cersei don't look enough alike for me, I imagined Jaime blonder. sort of like raphael from soul calibur was what was in my head I think. and a natural blonde for cersei would have been nice, though i do love lena headey (she just looks so much better with her natural hair color). both are missing their green eyes.

    generally the hair is a lot curlier than I expected--jon's in particular. he is rocking the jewfro. so is sean bean --and I expected darker brown almost black hair on all the starks.

    I think Tyrion is missing his heterochromia. otherwise literally perfect casting. I imagined Tyrion a bit rounder in the face maybe, but in my imaginary cast it was always peter dinklage (probably because I don't know enough little people actors?). he'd also be a really good doctor psycho in any future wonder woman movie...

    dany looks like jane of the jungle. what IS that outfit. and she looks much older than I expected. something like a 25 year old playing an 18 year old who is actually 14 in the books? I think emilia clarke's age is unknown (not on imdb anyway)

    I'll just say it: Catelyn looks much older than I expected. I thought she would be prettier and younger. i expected a contemporary of cersei. but maybe I'm just shallow.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    It is freaky how much Jaime looks like the Jaime in my mind.

    Freaky.

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  • Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I thought the Starks would have straight hair and long, thin faces.

    Distressing.

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  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Michelle Fairley does seem a bit old to be Catelyn, I thought she was supposed to be in her mid thirties? Since they're making most of the kids older I guess it works.

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  • ZoolanderZoolander Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Good god this is going to be badass.

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  • OdjnOdjn Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Turns out my cousin, on his eurotrip, came across the guys doing shoots and practicing swordfights. They hung around looking to be extras, but no one asked them. :(

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  • noir_bloodnoir_blood Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    So awesome. When does this come out again?

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Those images are great. Not necessarily how I pictured it but great nontheless.

    Also it is beyond me how anyone could want to get with that poisonous bitch Cersei. Yes she is attractive, but honestly, in every other way she is just a horrendous person, and she's not even good at it.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Isn't Tyrion supposed to have a hump? I imagined him much uglier and deformed.

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  • XeddicusXeddicus Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I doubt there is a large pool of dwarf actors to choose from.

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  • TimeSynchTimeSynch Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Isn't Tyrion supposed to have a hump? I imagined him much uglier and deformed.

    I'd imagine him being born a little person and the scar across his face were enough distinguishing factors for the character in a live action television show format. Any more and Tyrion might come across as Quasimodo or as a Bond villain, like that Le Chiff dude from Casino Royale.... facial scar AND he cried blood. I expect some liberties to be taken with characters when translating them to a different media, as long as his personality comes across the same I'm all for it.

    This TV series is shaping up to be awesome as get all hell. Can't wait til it premieres!

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  • TarantioTarantio Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I don't think Tyrion has a hump, but his forehead is supposed to jut forward, and his legs are stunted and often cramp.

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2010
    Why does Dany have white hair and black eyebrows? That looks weird as shit.

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  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    Why does Dany have white hair and black eyebrows? That looks weird as shit.

    On Caucasian faces, if you bleach eyebrows to the same level, they basically disappear. Not sure why they didn't go a few shades lighter, but there's a reason they're not platinum.

    Cersei's eyebrows are darker too, if you look at her image.

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  • Page-Page- Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Game-of-Thrones-cast_360.jpg

    Why does this one look like a bad photoshop job.

    ew

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2010
    I thought the same thing, Tyrion looks so out of place.

    I don't want to sound alarmist, but I hope they try and keep the show authentic and of high quality. I don't want to see any Dungeons and Dragons shit in here, fuck that movie.

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  • ParadisoParadiso Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    While this thread has a reasonable amount of talk of the Blackfish, I feel like it could use more.

    Also, hell yeah these pictures look good--except for that weird one with Tyrion.

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2010
    I just don't get the Dany look.

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  • CadmusCadmus Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    None of these look like they've gone through any editing yet, I'm sure it'll look better in the actual show.

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  • OdjnOdjn Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Paradiso wrote: »
    While this thread has a reasonable amount of talk of the Blackfish, I feel like it could use more.

    Also, hell yeah these pictures look good--except for that weird one with Tyrion.

    Why the fuck isn't the Blackfish a POV character yet?

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  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    I just don't get the Dany look.

    I look forward to looking on Dany with contempt throughout the entire show

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2010
    That is exactly what I get from the look of her character, in the books I didn't quite hate her, I definitely did not like her though.

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  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Her outfit is kind of supposed to be stupid though isn't it? I imagine she'll be in various finery until Drogo gets his mits on her and then she'll have to dress like Ayla from Chrono Trigger until
    after he dies

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  • SpawnbrokerSpawnbroker Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Her outfit is kind of supposed to be stupid though isn't it? I imagine she'll be in various finery until Drogo gets his mits on her and then she'll have to dress like Ayla from Chrono Trigger until
    after he dies

    Yeah, her brother was basically shopping around for a powerful man to sell her off to, it's not like she's going to be in classy outfits.

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  • OdjnOdjn Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    The problem with Dany is she's not naive in regards to how the world works EXCEPT her family, which she sees as some golden fairy king and queens. When literally she is descended from the worst king we've see thus far.

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  • SpawnbrokerSpawnbroker Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Isn't that the point, though? Every character in the story has at least one major character flaw. I'd say hers is the inability to think rationally about how terrible the reign of her family really was.

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  • TarantioTarantio Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    As I understood it, she'd been lied to about her father's reign all her life, by everyone she ever trusted. Why are people blaming her for this?

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  • XeddicusXeddicus Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Well, Selmy does clue her on some of the bad crap, but he focuses more on her brother and focuses on the not-insane stuff Aerys does because both of them don't want to hear it.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I approve of Daenerys' look.

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Uh, by the end of Storm Dany has started to learn of all about her families legacy of brilliance/madness. To the point she worries which side of the line she falls on.

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2010
    She worries but still continues her murderous rampage.

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  • TarantioTarantio Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    She worries but still continues her murderous rampage.

    She's been murdering slavers. How is that bad, and why would some of her family members having been crazy in the past have any bearing on it?

    Edit: Also, I don't have my copy of Storm of Swords at hand. How much has she been told about what her father did? I was under the impression that she still had no reason to think that the Barratheons were anything but power hungry traitors who were still trying to have her assassinated.

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2010
    With the goal of taking over an entire continent.

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  • LynxLynx Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    With the goal of taking over an entire continent.

    That's rightfully hers. And, even if one were to make the argument that it's not, she's no different from Robert Baratheon or Aegon the Conqueror.

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2010
    She is a lot different than Robert, Robert saved a nation from an insane monarch. Dany wants to steal the throne because it is hers because she says so.

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  • TarantioTarantio Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    She is a lot different than Robert, Robert saved a nation from an insane monarch. Dany wants to steal the throne because it is hers because she says so.

    And because the people that are on it have been trying to kill her for her entire life.

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  • OdjnOdjn Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Uh, by the end of Storm Dany has started to learn of all about her families legacy of brilliance/madness. To the point she worries which side of the line she falls on.

    No Selmy gives her a very whitewashed truth and then implies there is worse, but she doesn't pursue it.

    Also Selmy is still a righteous douche.
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    Fizban140 wrote: »
    She is a lot different than Robert, Robert saved a nation from an insane monarch. Dany wants to steal the throne because it is hers because she says so.

    And because the people that are on it have been trying to kill her for her entire life.

    Yet another thing Ned's honor fucked up. :(

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2010
    I forget what Ned did.

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  • OdjnOdjn Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    I forget what Ned did.
    Robert asked him to repeal the assassination attempts on Daeny as he was dying, but Ned fucked up a bunch of times because he wouldn't go against his honor and either A) team up with Renly or B) keep his fucking mouth shut and not tell Cersei to her face he was going to reveal she was a brothahumpa and her kids were incestbabies.

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