HBO: A Game of Thrones (ASOIAF)

[Yeekim]

I'd say they have been more true to the "scripture" than I dared to hope. And on top of that, it works!

 

[Leoreth]

All you SOIAF fans that haven't read Malazan Book of the Fallen need to get out and get those books, I have about two hundred pages of The Crippled God left and it is by far the greatest work of fantasy I have ever read (and I've read alot!)

There are really Asoiaf fans who like Malazan? Don't ever dare to suggest that on westeros.org

Leoreth, where you been. The kids miss you. You really gonna let the turk chase you out of your own thread?

I'm consciously avoiding the RFC forums currently, because I fear that my responsibility will force me to continue on DoC if I do so. And I don't want to do that because my modding time is invested into another project - you should know what I mean

I have one question, I haven't read the book. My favorite character is the Dwarf. Do anyone know what is going to happen to him? *please insert a spoiler* In episode 4, he was arrested by the Lady Stark in some Tavern/whorehouse for suspicion of his involvement of pushing down the young boy from the tower and causing him to be a cripple.

Tyrion really experiences a lot of ups and downs during the story, and he's always entertaining at that. He's also GRRM's favorite character by his own admission, so take from that what you will.

They have already managed to compress a lot of things with scenes that weren't there in the books: Balon Greyjoys rebellion was summarised in two short dialogues, the story of the mountain and the hound was originally told to Sansa much later (and not by Littlefinger either) etc.
I didn't really like it that Littlefinger told her so early why Sandor has a burned face and that it's already established that he hates his brother.

I think they didn't know how to properly set up the Mountain in any other way, and his character is important to Ser Hugh's death: was he killed simply because the Mountain decided it was funny, was it a genuine accident, or did someone else hire him for it to stop Ser Hugh from telling whatever he knew from Lord Arryn?

That's cool. I can't help to think that his role is to be the character that foment trouble to every other main characters in the overall story, and at the same time remain only a spectator of their demise or triumph from whatever adversity that they may bring themselves into.

Must ... resist ... to comment ...

 

[North King]

and we also haven't gotten to see how Jon had begun to take on a leadership sort of role with some of the other recruits.

In the third episode they squeezed a little of that in.

 

[jammerculture]

Tyrion was, and is one of my favorite characters, but come on, you have to love Jaime... I loved him for being such and a$# and later loved him even more once you start to learn why he's such an a$%. We get to see a little bit of that in the last episode with his conversation with Jory, which IIRC isn't presented in the book in that way. Tell you the truth, however, I haven't read AGOT for close to ten years!

@Leoreth, I was hoping that's what you were doing, hopefully in a few months I will be in a position to lend a hand.

 

[Leoreth]

Hopefully in a few months I'm far enough to offer you something to lend me a hand with

And yes, I think Jaime's great too, but I even thought so before we got him as a POV character. "There are no men like me. There's just me." Grand.

 

[rehan123]

Special effects were well done, though nothing mind-blowing, but the scenery and props perfectly captured the feel of the novels

 

[Leoreth]

There wasn't much opportunity to introduce impressive special effects anyway. The only thing I could think of was Bran's famous three-eyed crow chapter, which I first thought was left out entirely, but now they seem to disperse it more subtly over the main plot.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

The direwolves don't look particularly dire, but they're still young. When they're fully grown the producers will have to switch to CGI. Why don't we ever see ghost ? Is it so expensive to paint a dog white and give him red eyes in post-production ?

There'll be need for special effects at the end of season one, and definitely in season two when the plot takes off.

 

[Freemanuncg]

I have a sneaking suspicion someone may get killed with a pot of molten gold in the next episode...

and i'm rather looking foward to it

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Judging from the the episode titles you're wrong, and maybe you should put that in spoilers.

Spoiler :

Next episode is titled "The Wolf and the Lion" when things begin to get nasty between Starks and Lannisters, episode six is "A Golden Crown".

 

[Leoreth]

Spoiler :

Since HBO is known for rather explicit scenes, I wonder how much of the "golden crown" they will actually show ...

And yeah, special effects costs will definitely go up in the second season. This is why I was so surprised it was made definite that early.

By the way, does somebody know how many episodes there'll be in the first season?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Wikipedia knows, it's just ten.
Seemed too little to me at the beginning, but if you leave out the exposition it's enough for the main plot points.

 

[jammerculture]

I had heard eleven, not sure where though. I am depressed now that it might only be ten Unless what I heard was eleven hours and the final episode is two hours.....


Finished Crippled God last night, there is no words.....

 

[Singularity]

The direwolves don't look particularly dire, but they're still young. When they're fully grown the producers will have to switch to CGI. Why don't we ever see ghost ? Is it so expensive to paint a dog white and give him red eyes in post-production ?

There'll be need for special effects at the end of season one, and definitely in season two when the plot takes off.

Did you watch the last episode? I thought Ghost looked great, particularly the eyes Don't think it was all CGI though.

And the early greenlight might be because the pre-production for season 2 is a whale of job...

 

[GoodSarmatian]

That's the thing. If he's not CGI why did they only show him once in four episodes. Ghost is supposed to follow John around, but he's never there.

 

[Scratch]

Last night's episode pretty much centered around events in King's Landing.

Overall, I found the stories of the tourney to be disappointing compared to how they came off in the book itself. I guess when I read the book I had imagined the tourney to be huge, and that there would have been a huge audience to witness everything. And somehow The Mountain just didn't seem so mountainous and threatening and dangerous as he came off in the book.

Nothing up at the Wall either.

 

[PeteAtoms]

What does the law say about children/minors acting in movies with such graphic scenes and adult themes? Are they not allowed to actually watch the whole episode or be anywhere near the set while those scenes are being filmed?

 

[Karalysia]

Heh this is pretty tame compared to Taxi Driver, Pretty Baby, Lolita, Blue Lagoon, Hounddog, and so forth. I'm not sure there are any laws regulating it.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Dagger through the eye is tame ?

 

[Karalysia]

Pfft, that's violence. Our children are exposed to graphic violence from a young age. No I was talking about sex. Taxi Driver has a child prostitute as does Pretty Baby, and Blue Lagoon involves sex between teenagers, and Lolita is about a dirty old man, and in Hounddog Dakota Fanning gets raped. All of them were pretty controversial, and one or two sparked Congressional investigations or something and some new regulations but as far as I know there's nothing in Game of Thrones that really crosses the line.