March 6, 2012
Game of Thrones (HBO)
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Just starting episode 9. I cannot believe this thread only has 75 posts in it and much of it has nothing to do with the actual show itself. What an incredible show. Could be the best HBO has ever done IMO. Good good stuff.
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Oh, I think it's easily the best show HBO has ever done and that's without considering the nudity. And IMO, the nudity alone deserves at least 75 posts. Hopefully, it will continue at or near this level throughout it's run. My own tastes run to a happier world but this is too good to ignore.
Steve
I am so glad I read the book first because there is so much going on with so many different characters that even though HBO did a great job in capturing everything, they still can't hit it all.
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I have to go with season 1 of Rome. Can't beat it.
Stout
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I agree. These are some of my favorite fantasy books, and the show is an incredible enlivening of the books. Rome is still better. Rome is probably the best show I will ever see in my entire life, IMO. Just absolutely incredible, and on an everyday Roman life level, so accurate as to be pretty much the same.
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Ok I know that stark probably dies in the books. But damn if that didn't piss me off. Far and away one of the characters on the show and now just gone. Wow wow wow.
To top it off I'm not so sure about baby dragons? Totally dull. Not impressed with that at all.
To top it off I'm not so sure about baby dragons? Totally dull. Not impressed with that at all.
Haven't watched that.
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You definitely need to check it out. Season 1 is awesome. Season 2 is great as well, but it felt rushed (they ended up canceling the series after two series because it simply cost too much). Amazing TV in those two seasons. Check out the Youtube clip I posted. How can you not like that?
Stout
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Hehe, you're REALLY going to have fun with the rest of the series
Season 2 was still incredible, and perhaps a bit rushed. Still, how do you make more seasons when it ended with the Pax Romana? I mean, you'd have to get into the Augustian family squabbles, but that's already been done perfectly in I, Claudius.
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If the TV show holds true to the books, it will rival the Sopranos/LOST (combined) with its sheer number of shocking deaths. And I am only thru page 100 on book 5 (of a planned 7)...
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The Wire > Rome
Stout
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Really? F yeah! I just started watching and I'm exactly 4 eps in--and I already love it. If it stayed at this same pace I'd still be really enjoying it...I'm psyched to hear it gets even better.
They're doing a good job of not making these characters into caricatures--which would be easy to do with such a large cast, I would think.
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dude... just wait. I thought I knew were things were headed and would have been happy if they did but they flipped every expectation I had on it's head (except one) and it made the show so much stronger.
I can't think of another first season show which took as many risks as this one did (and yes, I know credit goes to the author of the books!). seriously balls out choices that make perfect sense but I had no idea they were coming.
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It blew me away.....
It shook me for weeks......
I will never forget how I felt or where I was when I watched those last 4 episodes.
Amazing.
It shook me for weeks......
I will never forget how I felt or where I was when I watched those last 4 episodes.
Amazing.
Stout
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Whoa baby, you are in for a wild ride! A person I knew who had watched one episode said, 'yeah, it stinks...you can tell exactly who the good guys and bad guys are, and they're all stock characters.' As you have seen, and as my friend was shocked to discover, that is certainly not the case. The books can be frustrating, but they're always good.
Have you read all of them, Cheese, or are you taking it a season at a time?
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one season at a time. as a writer, I know i'm probably missing a TON of **** by not reading the books, but I love the visual medium to death and would rather see it unfold visually at this point.
Stout
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crisper57
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I felt the same way and I had read the books before I watched the show. Those episodes didn't have any less of an impact. I cannot wait for Season 2.
I really loved the first season. I do have a slight gripe in the amount of magic that reared its head in the last couple of episodes. I know it's a fantasy series, but I liked that for the most part it was rooted in "reality," that is, that there WEREN'T dragons or wizards. Then, in the last couple of episodes, there are both.
I was hoping the white walkers beyond The Wall were natural rather than supernatural threats, and that the talk of dragons were either mythical beliefs or metaphorical.
Anyways, a minor beef. I still really, really like the show. Anyone know when it's supposed to air again?
I was hoping the white walkers beyond The Wall were natural rather than supernatural threats, and that the talk of dragons were either mythical beliefs or metaphorical.
Anyways, a minor beef. I still really, really like the show. Anyone know when it's supposed to air again?
My thoughts exactly...fantastic till the mythical fantasy stuff was brought in..IMO the dragons were just over the top. The ending was no shocker to me. Just a big disappointment. Stark getting beheaded was far and away the best episode ender in season 1.
The magic and dragons followed the book.
FWIW - in my opinion, the opening scene of the series is one of the greatest I have ever seen - when the rangers came upon the camp. It is so haunting. I could almost feel the chill in the room as I was watching it.
FWIW - in my opinion, the opening scene of the series is one of the greatest I have ever seen - when the rangers came upon the camp. It is so haunting. I could almost feel the chill in the room as I was watching it.
