I just finished the first season. I absolutely loved it. The season finale got me so excited for the next season. I highly recommend anyone who enjoys fantasy in a sort of historical setting. Anyone else watched it yet? [video=youtube;5PxLidxnAE8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PxLidxnAE8[/video] I kind of want to read the books now, but I don't want to lose all the emotional impact of this series and the next seasons will have. What to do...
I enjoyed Rome, another HBO series so was expecting good things, I was not let down, 99% acting is great, the actor who plays the midget is excellent, enjoying it so far, in my option, this is actually better than lotr, best western show currently. It is over-hyped somewhat but still look forward to season 2.
The books are heavy reading, too much dialogue and not enough action. Either that or I read to much manga and cannot appreciate good literature.
^2012!!!! damn finished watching this series fucking amazing. It felt like dragon age to me even some of the things like dragonbone daggers and best of all Blood Magic soo fucking badass in DA here pretty crazy too! The story is insane and production values are wow! watch it!
I've heard people say similar things. I guess I can kind of see how the writing style might be boring for some. Personally I really enjoy the books and I'd recommend them for anyone who enjoyed the HBO series or fantasy novels. 2012 is just next year, considering it aired not to long ago it's not too long
not gonna read the books dont wanna spoil anything hehe...already got spoiled by some wiki character entries though thats why i don't really like shows representing books etc.
its always like that....so annoying when ur really into the series, have to wait for sucha long time for new season................ pretty awesome, a dutch actress will be in s2, Carice van Houten, great actress!
So, this is seriously one of the best shows I've ever seen and it gets more and more badass as the seasons progress. I just finished watching seasons 1-3 and am totally blown away. I hear the books are even better and plan to read them soon! Hopefully they will tide me over until season 4 starts. Seriously, I like can't even get over how good this series is.
Heh, well this is how George R.R. Martin responds to comments like that: "I get complaints sometimes that nothing happens — but they're defining "nothing," I think, differently than I am. I don't think it all has to be battles and sword fights and assassinations. Character development and [people] changing is good, and there are some tough things in there that I think a lot of writers skip over. I'm glad I didn't skip over these things. And that has been interesting, you know. Jon Snow as Lord Commander. Dany as Queen struggling with rule. So many books don't do that. There is a sense when you're writing something in high fantasy, you're in a dialogue with all the other high fantasy writers that have written. And there is always this presumption that if you are a good man, you will be a good king. [Like] Tolkien — in Return of the King, Aragorn comes back and becomes king, and then "he ruled wisely for three hundred years." Okay, fine. It is easy to write that sentence, “He ruled wisely”. What does that mean, "He ruled wisely?" What were his tax policies? What did he do when two lords were making war on each other? Or barbarians were coming in from the North? What was his immigration policy? What about equal rights for Orcs? I mean did he just pursue a genocidal policy, "Let’s kill all these fucking Orcs who are still left over"? Or did he try to redeem them? You never actually see the nitty-gritty of ruling. I guess there is an element of fantasy readers that don't want to see that. I find that fascinating. Seeing someone like Dany actually trying to deal with the vestments of being a queen and [dealing with] factions and guilds and the economy. They burnt all the fields [in Meereen]. They've got nothing to import anymore. They're not getting any money. I find this stuff interesting. And fortunately, enough of my readers who love the books do as well." -http://io9.com/george-r-r-martin-answers-our-toughest-song-of-ice-and-886133300
