A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Guynemer]

Read all of the books
After the first episode
**** Lord Walder Frey

[Dinner]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jul/08/game-thrones-author-fans-killing-characters-comic-/?comic-con

I'm thinking I might go to comic con (if I can get tickets) just so I can meet George R. R. Martin. It's interesting that the TV adaption has kept relatively true to the book series plus Martin himself writes one of the episodes per season just to keep them honest.

[Flubber]

I just finished book two. My favorite character so far is tyrion. There is just something engaging about a very clever dwarf who has his own type of honor but is also brave, ruthless and an unabashed bedder of whores.

I contrast him with most of the Starks whose phrase should be " honorable but dumb"


I found the second book seemed to go more into mystical type stuff than book one. I'm not sure I like that so much. It just seems a cop out if the author can just have some key and well protected character killed off by a shadow or a demon

[Jon Miller]

I like Tyrion... but everyone else's pure love for him makes me pull away a bit. I think he wouldn't be my favorite anyways.

I liked Ned, Jon, and Arya... and later Jaime. Oh, and Brenne.

And Tyrion.

JM

[Imran Siddiqui]

I found the second book seemed to go more into mystical type stuff than book one. I'm not sure I like that so much. It just seems a cop out if the author can just have some key and well protected character killed off by a shadow or a demon

I believe, as others have pointed out, it is fantasy . Some fantastical elements will make their way into the story. I don't necessarily see it as a cop out, if the author can kill that person another way just as easily.

[DaShi]

Just finished watching this. I have to say that my favorite characters were the White Walkers. I'm just patiently waiting for winter to come so that they can march down to King's Landing reanimate everyone they've killed just to tell them, "**** politics!"

I have no plans to read the books, because I have no desire to sit on a six year cliffhanger.

Laz makes some good points with the horse people. This is brought up to ludicrousness when they meet the goat people. I'm hoping that eventually they'll travel farther south to meet the kangeroo people, "May you bounce over your enemies." Also, it took me awhile for me to notice that the horse leader was sick. At first I just thought he was going meta.

[Flubber]

I believe, as others have pointed out, it is fantasy . Some fantastical elements will make their way into the story. I don't necessarily see it as a cop out, if the author can kill that person another way just as easily.

Sinc e ghostly apparitions killed some folks in the very first chapter of the first book, I did understand its fantasy, But other than that the fantasy element was very underplayed in book one-- There was talk of white walkers and dragons and the like but there was relatively little of it.

In book two and so far partway into 3 there is much more of a fantasy element-- more focus on dreams and seeing through the views of animals etc etc. Its ok although I find that some of the I'm an animal bits drag on a bit

[Flubber]

I like Tyrion... but everyone else's pure love for him makes me pull away a bit. I think he wouldn't be my favorite anyways.

I liked Ned, Jon, and Arya... and later Jaime. Oh, and Brenne.

And Tyrion.

JM

I just got to the the first Jaime chapter and I like him-- I wonder if later there might be a Cersei chaptere of a Varys chapter so I could understand them more LOL--- I also hope to see Asha come into things more -- and of course Brenne could be someone the tv folks could have a lot of fun with

[Lorizael]

Just finished the first season. **** that was good. Need to go find a library now.

[Asher]

[Felch]

I can't believe you were watching Terra Nova before this.

[Lorizael]

I think I'm done with Terra Nova. Can you believe there hasn't been a single instance of midget porn on the show?

[Guynemer]

Shameful.

[Lorizael]

The library didn't have any of the books.

[Guynemer]

Your library sucks