[General Battuta]

Okay enough of us are watching this we might as well have a thread.



here's my high content OP




spoilers for those who haven't watched it start here

Spoiler:

I'm pretty sure Ned Stark is screwed, the Lannisters have suction with the king and the king isn't gonna back him up when he explicitly said do NOT antagonize Tywin Lannister and rein your wife in. But maybe Tyrion will get back to King's Landing in time to head off disaster?

I do not have any godly idea where the Dothraki storyline is going but I assume King Robert's hit on Danaerys is gonna go down soon. possible baby death yes/no?

[Nohiki]

I've read the book after i saw the first episode, couldn't resist. Tyrion and Arya FOR THE WIN.

[Topgun]

book spoiler


Please no book spoilers. If it hasn't happened in the TV show, it hasn't happened yet. Please keep this discussion focussed on the TV Series. Thank you. -- The E

[Luis Dias]

Battuta, is that princess Leia in the background of your gif? I don't know what GoT is, so sorry for my stupid question

[SpardaSon21]

Spoiler:

I think the Lannisters had the previous Hand of the King assassinated because he knew Joffrey wasn't the king's son and was instead his uncle's son due to the Queen being an incestuous whore.  Something tells me the Lannisters will try to kill Ned Stark again because he's too close to the truth.

[mxlm]

I'd suggest that not only should there be no book spoilers, but no discussion of the books should be permitted, period. Every other forum I've seen that permits it, it gets out of hand.

So, book readers: No one cares that you read them. No one cares how they compare. No one cares that we ain't seen nothin' yet. Thanks

[Grizzly]

No one cares that you read them.

But we do care that you don't! .

Honestly, they are very good.

[Nohiki]

No one cares that you read them.

You're just jealous But as far as the series go, i'm really glad it is on HBO, because it has fairly good chance of NOT being cancelled, right? *cough*Sy-fy*cough*

[Pred the Penguin]

Personally I don't like the HBO series that much. It might be because I read the books 2 times over and I have my own ideas about what it should look like.
That's as much as I'll say about the books I promise.

eh, I have nothing much to say actually. I'll be gone from this thread then.

[Ransom]

This show has its ups and downs (the fourth episode was kind of awful) but so far it's a great adaptation. I'm impressed by both how faithful it is and how often the adjustments they've made have been for the better.

also,

[Grizzly]

Honestly, I shudder with the thought of how seeing that scene...

[karajorma]

I quite like the fencing master teaching the young Stark girl. He makes me laugh every time he's on screen.

Dead..
Dead..
Very Dead...

[General Battuta]

I've been watching this show alongside Season 1 of The Wire and it creates the most peculiar dreams.

[Ravenholme]

Battuta, what I will post in my spoiler box is an episode 1 based book spoiler, it's just about one part of the adaptation I didn't like.

Spoiler:

So, Drogo and Daenerys, I didn't like how the whole thing was implied to be somewhat more brutal than it was, as at the end [or beginning] of their wedding night she was actually willing to bed Drogo because he was surprisingly tender with her. They emphasised the brutal barbarian aspect too far in my opinion.

[General Battuta]

Yeah, there are a number of weirdly misogynistic changes from the already kinda misogynistic books. I wish I could dug up the article that enumerated them well.

[Ravenholme]

Yeah, there are a number of weirdly misogynistic changes from the already kinda misogynistic books. I wish I could dug up the article that enumerated them well.

Yeah, I think that's my problem with the TV series and why I prefer the books (Which are a good read, if really quite misogynistic). Not to say that the series isn't good, it's rather excellent.

[Pred the Penguin]

I just stopped watching after the first episode.

[Ransom]

Misogyny is part and parcel of the setting. I'm not sure I would say that makes the books or the series misogynistic. Wouldn't the role and strength of the story's women be a better metric?

I don't think that change was necessarily a bad one, anyway. They didn't really have the time to play their relationship like the book did without it feeling contrived.

[General Battuta]

I don't have any problem with misogynistic settings (hell, I like Scott Bakker), but friends I trust in the parsing of gender have described increasing discomfort with the books that speaks more to the narrative or the author than the setting.

I can see the argument for that change, but it's part of a pattern of alterations from the book to the series that make Cat look dumber or rob Daenerys of her agency - if I recall the list of changes right, she stood up to Viserys a lot more firmly in the book in scenes like

Spoiler:

his attack on her during the horde's transit through the grasslands.

[Topgun]

The only thing I find weird is that everyone is older than they should be. I mean, Bran is supposed to be 7, but looks at least 10, Joffre is also supposed to be 7, but in the show the kids look much older. Jon and Robb are supposed to be 14, they look at least 20. Though then again, since GoT has very different seasons then we do, with summer and winter lasting years, then maybe their years are longer than ours I just haven't picked up  on that in the books yet.