Game of Thrones, I Miss You!

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I should be working on the next story in my Spike/Giles season 7 series (I'm posting one for 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?

Comments

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

Right there with you on Game of Thrones. I've fallen so hard for this show! I thought the last episode was outstanding, and really don't know how I'm going to make it through to 2012 without seeing any more of it!

My favourite character by far is Tyrion, but I also love so many others, including Arya, Bronn and Jorah. As to favourite scene? Hmm, there are so many to choose from! Almost anything with Tyrion would have to be in there, but I think if I had to choose one I'd go for the final scene on the wall. It was just so perfect and - as someone said above - incredibly epic.

I've decided I'm going to read the first book, but wait until after S2 airs before I read the second. Like you, I really don't want to spoil myself for this show. It's just too good!

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I thought the last episode was outstanding, and really don't know how I'm going to make it through to 2012 without seeing any more of it!

I know! It seems an awful long way off.

I think Tyrion is the favourite of most people. He is, in most ways, the most sympathetic, moral character, but moral in a pragmatic way. Ned was moral and it got him killed and a lot of other people killed, and his daughters in a terrible situation.

but I think if I had to choose one I'd go for the final scene on the wall. It was just so perfect and - as someone said above - incredibly epic.

It was a wonderful scene. I keep changing my mind about which was my favourite. I really don't think I can choose after all. And I need to re-watch as soon as possible.

I've decided I'm going to read the first book, but wait until after S2 airs before I read the second. Like you, I really don't want to spoil myself for this show. It's just too good!

:) Maybe we should start an online reading group for the first book? I wonder if there's an edition with a TV tie-in cover?

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

Indeed there is an edition with Sean Bean on the Iron Throne on the cover. Here you go!

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Yes, yes! I found it when I was surfing the web at lunchtime at work, and I have it on order.