Game of Thrones Season 3

arieshorn

arieshorn

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Come on, I know I'm not the only fan out there! I love this show and the new season just started!
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Love the show as well. I didn't watch it for the first two year's but someone loaned me season 1 on DVD and I got hooked and DVRed season 2 and watched it to get caught up. I love the characters of Tyrrion and Ned Stark's younger daughter (Ariel?) and as a bad guy, Joffrey is well done. I am tempted to break down and buy the books but I am afraid that will ruin the show for me, so I have yet to do so. Looking forward to the rest of season 3
 
I've read the books, so it's a little different for me to look back at the show. I watched season 1 and kind of felt dirty afterward! So much of is just seems over-the-top for the sake of being over-the-top, and the story's interesting enough not to need that.

I would explain why I'm starting to lose interest in the story, but if you're only watching the show and haven't read the books, I don't want to spoil anything.
Suffice it to say that Martin's starting to tick me off with some of his choices...
 
That's interesting, Prodigal. I have generally admired the adaptations to the screen from the books. There is so much density of story and description in the books that wrestling the material into a a ten part series per thousand page book must be a Herculean task. I think they've done well.
 
I would say that watching Season 1, I never really felt like there were gaps in the story to the point where I thought "they really should have talked about...", so I think they did a very good job of condensing it - at least that season.

My main complaint would be that to me, it's lazy scripting to try and make a plot-disclosing discourse more interesting and riveting by... oh, say... having two prostitutes do a girl-girl sex scene in the room while the speaker is working through the details of the story. (And yes, I know many will say "but that's what made it brilliant!")
 
There is some gratuitous nudity, to be sure. There is also an enormous amount of exposition to be articulated to follow the plot. They could be more creative in finding visual ways to enhance expository speeches.

I think their strength as adaptors is in how they've streamlined the plots. In Season 2 they don't establish Riverun as a location but keep Jaime captive in one of Rob's military camps which is less confusing to someone who hasn't read the books. They do a similarly nice job of building a romantic interest for Rob which is actually an expansion from the books where all of that happens off screen.

Those are the choices I've admired. I don't feel cheated as a reader of the books.
 
Well just to be clear, the choices that have ticked me off have had to do with plot decisions by the author. Having read the books you'll probably have an idea about what those are so I won't elaborate and spoil anything. I'll just say that a lot of the things that drew me into the story line are no longer there to draw me in.

Having said that, I'm sure I'll get the next book too.
 
I do know what you mean about the books, and I agree. The author whines in the intro to Book 5 (in Book 4, too, IIRC) about it being a ***** to write. It was something of dog to read, too. His strength of creating new worlds and proliferating plots has begun to work against him. I'll also be buying the next book to see if he can wrestle this beast to the ground.
 
My son has read the books and is careful not to spoil it for me. I know a lot of my favorite characters are going to die (starting with Ned Stark in Season 1) and I guess I'm OK with it as long as there are other interesting characters for whom to root. I love Tyrion, Daenerys, Margary (fresh fave this season), Jon Snow, Arya and the rascally Bron. It's fun to hate Geoffrey and his mom.
 
The death of Stark at the end of the first season pretty much announces that anything can happen to anyone in the narrative. It made me interested enough to read the books. Picked up the first four at Costco for $20 and that's maybe the best reading bang for my buck I've ever got.
 
Holy smokes! Now we look forward to a trial by combat involving the Hound.

It was a bad week for detestable characters in the GOT -- the man who took Lord Varys manhood is now the socerer in the box, Craster, Theon and the slaver who ran afoul of the mother of dragons all having most unpleasant experiences.
 
Oh no poor Jamie! Oh no poor Theon! It sucks to be a bad guy in GOT these days.

I think a romantic fire is building between Jamie and Brienne of Tarth.
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Brienne is not one of the GOT beautiful creatures, but if you don't mind the 6'3" and armor, she'd do in a pinch. There are actually some pretty hot photos of the actress out on the internet, but she's not SI swimsuit issue material.The Link

She looks a lot less glamorous on the GOT.The Link
 
A TINY SPOILER AHEAD! [shocked]































Quite honestly I am still shocked with episode 9. It's like a punch in the gut when characters you grow attached to are now gone but to take so many
 
that episode was not a punch in the gut ... it was a punch in the groin.

GoT is definitely not a "good guys will triumph" type story, that's for sure.
 
I think it is pretty great that he kills of main characters. In fact that is usually my biggest complaint of most Hollywood movies unless they are historical in nature the hero/protagonist/main character nearly always triumphs in the end. But after all the uproar this week I see why Hollywood keeps putting out the same crap time after time.
 
Bingo.

Cana nails it.

I saw Star Trek Into Darkness yesterday and there was just about zero suspense as the crew kept escaping disaster after disaster with only seconds to spare. Yawn.
 
Killing off of main characters is nothing new really in original cable series dramas. The Soprano's really was the originator of the trend. Boardwalk Empire is another series that comes to mind....even The Walking Dead.... it's really who makes it the whole season that surprises you. BUT I have to admit the whole GoT "Red Wedding" was a bit shocking. lol But I do feel a little enlightened when a GoT book reader revealed to me a spoiler that though pisses me off he told me does some what ease my grief.
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A lot of home vids on YouTube showing people's reactions at "that" moment, apparently taken by others who had read the books. People screaming, crying, covering their faces, running out of the room. Traumatic, yet hilarious. I didn't catch it Sunday night, dvr'd and saw it Monday. Unbelievable. It stunned me more than t-dog getting chewed on, ***** getting killed, or any of the others, most of which you may see coming. Totally unexpected. Great tv.
 
Omar getting killed in The Wire was the only character I ever wished hadn't gotten killed when he did. Since it was near the end of the series it was a fitting end, but that was 1 really interesting character and if they ever resurrected that series it would need to be as a prequel.
 
I had already read the book so I knew what as coming. It was still hard to watch, In GOT it is win or die so who will Martin have as the last one standing?
 
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