A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Hauldren Collider]

My main beef with the show right now is that they could probably make an entirely awesome and kick ass show with just the Night's Watch, which incidentally is far and away the most interesting plot thread in both the books and the show, and they're wasting my time with people like Danaerys who are almost as exciting as IRS regulations.

[DaShi]

Danaerys is boring, but I'd prefer to have more than the sausage-fest that is the Night's Watch.

[regexcellent]

Hey be fair they have uh...oh yeah, they have Gilly

I've come to the conclusion that Daenerys' actress is pretty awful. She seemed convincing at the whole getting raped gently loved by a swole Hawaiian guy thing but now that she's past that she appears to be stuck on the smug self-righteousness setting, which isn't working.

[Lorizael]

I don't really like Dany's actor, either, but I do like her costume designer.

[regexcellent]

Yeah I do agree the costuming in this show is pretty great. They figured out what details needed to be kept from the books and the dumb **** that needed to be left out (big golden sculpted lions on Tywin's shoulders, everybody's helmet having an animal soldered to it, that sort of thing)

[Lorizael]

Yes, that's precisely what I meant.

[regexcellent]

Okay, and her costumes in particular are good for other reasons too.

[Hauldren Collider]

Danaerys is boring, but I'd prefer to have more than the sausage-fest that is the Night's Watch.

They have a fat woman and a hot redhead too

[Imran Siddiqui]

she appears to be stuck on the smug self-righteousness setting, which isn't working.

To be fair, Dany in the books is pretty smug and self-righteous during this time of the show.

[regexcellent]

She's also insufferable at this stage of the books.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Besides, the Night's Watch stuff is mostly dull anyways. Every once in a while it gets interesting.

The King's Landing stuff is generally the best stuff, followed by the stuff that happens in the Riverlands and the Vale. Winterfell is ok as well whenever someone is in it. Also Dorne is pretty cool... and the Reach - Hell, everything Winterfell and below is interesting (FTR, the torture of Theon was only alluded to in the books and not shown over and over until it got super boring as in the show... and besides, I think the Dreadfort is slightly north of Winterfell, so it'd fit my map).

[regexcellent]

I like the Night's Watch in the show a lot, and it's pretty interesting in the books too. Especially since

Spoiler:

Jon is doing what he's supposed to and what the readers want him to do, whereas Dany just ****s around in Meereen for forever and ever, after basically everyone tells her "Hizdahr is obviously in charge of the sons of the harpy, the Shavepate is up to no good, no don't walk among the sick people, get the **** out Jesus Christ" but Jon Snow is protecting the Wall from the Others.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Spoiler:

Doing what you are supposed to doesn't make it all that interesting. I mean that's why Kevan Lannister was killed - Cersei makes KL much more interesting

Snow's sojourn with the Wildlings is cool and the Battle for the Wall is great, but then, its basically doing not much - Snow being elected Lord Commander is utterly ridiculous, but its something that we just have to go with

[DinoDoc]

GRR promises to murder you in possibly a ****ed up manner for a mere $20,000.

[self biased]

I like the Night's Watch in the show a lot, and it's pretty interesting in the books too. Especially since

Spoiler:

Jon is doing what he's supposed to and what the readers want him to do, whereas Dany just ****s around in Meereen for forever and ever, after basically everyone tells her "Hizdahr is obviously in charge of the sons of the harpy, the Shavepate is up to no good, no don't walk among the sick people, get the **** out Jesus Christ" but Jon Snow is protecting the Wall from the Others.

Spoiler:

Mereen 90210.