Game of Thrones, I Miss You!
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shapinglightI should be working on the next story in my Spike/Giles season 7 series (I'm posting one for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
summer_of_giles in a week's time and need to get on with its sequel as quickly as possible, because it really wouldn't be fair to leave the three or so people who're going to read it hanging for too long), but I can't get my head around it yet.
The fact of the matter is, I want more Game of Thrones, and I want it now! :stomp:
Spoilers for the show behind cut
I could read the books, I suppose, but - silly though it may sound - I don't want to be spoilered for the show. The only TV show I've ever wanted to be spoilered for was BtVS, and that was only after Seeing Red.
I don't think I've been quite so in love with a show since the halcyon days of BtVS season 5, despite the annoyingly ubiquitous Roz. Okay, I will forever maintain that The Wire is the best TV series in the whole universe ever, and I do enjoy True Blood in all its OTT silliness, and BSG was a great show for most of its run, and Mad Men is still a great show, and I really enjoyed season 1 of Dexter, but this is the first time since BtVS/AtS I've felt that intense frustration and excitement you experience when you feel you need to know what happens next right now!
Ironically, as noted above, I could, if I read the books. But I think I want to see what happens next through the characters as interpreted by the actors in the show, who are those characters as far as I'm concerned. So I will have to wait. And just when I'd discovered some wonderful new icon makers too.
It's bizarre. There's still a part of me that thinks this kind of po-faced, high fantasy is faintly ridiculous and deserves to be made fun of (a la the Gandalf the Tartan sketch about LoTR in Dead Ringers), but the show was just so well done, so well acted, that I can't do that.
I was going to try and write a post about my favourite character and invite anyone who felt like it to do the same, but I find I can't do it - partly because I still can't quite decide which is my favourite character. So instead, I'm going to try and go for favourite scene. But that's horribly difficult too. So many great ones to choose from (though none featuring Roz, have to say), and I'm sure that when I rewatch I'll change my mind, but for now I'm going to go with the final scene of the finale. Daenyrys and the dragons.
What's yours?
summer_of_giles in a week's time and need to get on with its sequel as quickly as possible, because it really wouldn't be fair to leave the three or so people who're going to read it hanging for too long), but I can't get my head around it yet. The fact of the matter is, I want more Game of Thrones, and I want it now! :stomp:
Spoilers for the show behind cut
I could read the books, I suppose, but - silly though it may sound - I don't want to be spoilered for the show. The only TV show I've ever wanted to be spoilered for was BtVS, and that was only after Seeing Red.
I don't think I've been quite so in love with a show since the halcyon days of BtVS season 5, despite the annoyingly ubiquitous Roz. Okay, I will forever maintain that The Wire is the best TV series in the whole universe ever, and I do enjoy True Blood in all its OTT silliness, and BSG was a great show for most of its run, and Mad Men is still a great show, and I really enjoyed season 1 of Dexter, but this is the first time since BtVS/AtS I've felt that intense frustration and excitement you experience when you feel you need to know what happens next right now!
Ironically, as noted above, I could, if I read the books. But I think I want to see what happens next through the characters as interpreted by the actors in the show, who are those characters as far as I'm concerned. So I will have to wait. And just when I'd discovered some wonderful new icon makers too.
It's bizarre. There's still a part of me that thinks this kind of po-faced, high fantasy is faintly ridiculous and deserves to be made fun of (a la the Gandalf the Tartan sketch about LoTR in Dead Ringers), but the show was just so well done, so well acted, that I can't do that.
I was going to try and write a post about my favourite character and invite anyone who felt like it to do the same, but I find I can't do it - partly because I still can't quite decide which is my favourite character. So instead, I'm going to try and go for favourite scene. But that's horribly difficult too. So many great ones to choose from (though none featuring Roz, have to say), and I'm sure that when I rewatch I'll change my mind, but for now I'm going to go with the final scene of the finale. Daenyrys and the dragons.
What's yours?
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Date: 2011-06-22 07:44 pm (UTC)It's one of the few times, I'd say that the tv series is a great complement to the series of novels in which it is based. Favorite scene? I oddly like the subtle ones, the scene with Varys and Ned and that torch,
Jamie and Barristan discussing their kills in front of the King, Bronn and Tyrion's talk in the woods, and
Tyrion's chat with Jon Snow...as well as Jon Snow's talk with Aemon.
By the way? It's going to get a lot better, it's like the Wire, the story becomes more complex, with more characters added, yet true to the originals arcs. I agree, I loved the tv series as well. But I won't spoil you..;-)
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Date: 2011-06-22 08:56 pm (UTC)I am considering it. I'll definitely only read the first book, though.
By the way? It's going to get a lot better, it's like the Wire, the story becomes more complex, with more characters added, yet true to the originals arcs.
Good to know. And re the favourite scenes thing, to be honest I can only really think of one scene I actively disliked.
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Date: 2011-06-22 10:30 pm (UTC)The infamous scene with Little Finger and the whores? It's also one of the few that was not in the book and they created on their own.
For me - there were two maybe three scenes - that one (which was jarring and impossible to hear the speech - I almost turned on close-captioning), and a few of the Drokai scenes, but I had issues with the Drokai (Khal Drogo) bit in the book. (Which I'd forgotten about - because it really isolated to Game.)
Curiously to see what you think of the first book.
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Date: 2011-06-23 10:52 am (UTC)Yes, I gathered that. I thought they had added quite a few scenes actually, and people have been fairly positive about most of them. But not that one. It certainly wouldn't detract from our sum of knowledge if the scene were removed, so the exposition part of it is irrelevant. It's just there for the porn, which annoys me.