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shapinglightThought I might as well carry on with these reviews, even though there's no one much on LJ to talk about the show with any more. :(
Okay, I know that the first four episodes have leaked all over the 'net, but I'm just going to talk about episode 1, as that's all I've had time to watch so far. In fact, over the next three weeks, I won't talk about anything that's not been in the already aired episodes.
So, episode 1: first up, a very odd thing indeed...
spoilers behind cut obvs.
...is that, though there was the customary GoT ripping off of clothes, for the first time in the show ever, the female nudity was less, or equal to, the male. Unless I've forgotten something, I counted three half-naked girls in one of the Meereen scenes, and three - yes, three! - naked men.
What is going on?
Ah, I expect it's just a one-off - a bone thrown to any female viewers who might have moaned off at the producers about female characters in the show getting their kit off at the least provocation (or no provocation at all), and the lack of male characters doing the same.
Apart from that, the episode was pretty much a combination of finishing off stories from the end of the previous season (the scenes at the Wall and at Tywin's lying in state in Kingslanding) and scene-setting for what's to come - the Dany and Tyrion scenes, also those featuring Sansa and Littlefinger.
God, Littlefinger's creepy. He always has been of course, but it didn't escape me that, by dyeing Sansa's hair black to disguise her, he's made her look more like her mother. So he's got himself his perfect woman - Catelyn when she was young. Sansa looks very hard-faced now. I can only cross my fingers and hope that somewhere down the line she'll stab Littlefinger in the back - maybe if he lets slip that he betrayed her father to Cersei.
Other characters haven't changed much either. Melisandre is still setting fire to people at the drop of a hat, and Stannis's nutty wife is still getting off on it (even more than Melisandre, it looks to me). I just hope that one day down the line Melisandre will try to set fire to Dany, because I really, really want to see the look on her face when Dany just shrugs and complains that it tickles.
Speaking of people getting their comeuppance, I know the books aren't big on that, but since the show has now gone off-piste from the books (as it were) I hope we're going to see some. I, for one, cheered when Stannis said he was going to kill all the horrible Boltons. God, I hope that happens.
Part of me wants to see Cersei get her comeuppance too (and it looks like Margaery definitely plans to make that happen) but I sorta kinda like her, even though she's so awful.
As for Dany, I'm still cross with her for driving Jorah away, so she deserves her teenage dragon troubles (not so much stroppy teenagers now, in fact, more like juvenile delinquents with a string of ASBO's), and I'm sure she'll sort it out in the end anyway.
So, nice to see the show back. A solid start, and it doesn't hurt at all (as far as I'm concerned) that the episode was fairly short on violence as GoT goes. Nobody actually got burned to death in the end after all.
Doubt it will last, though.
Hmm, suspect there won't be much in the way of icon-making for this series since so many fans have decamped to Tumblr (meh!) and no one uses them there. I may have to make my own.
Okay, I know that the first four episodes have leaked all over the 'net, but I'm just going to talk about episode 1, as that's all I've had time to watch so far. In fact, over the next three weeks, I won't talk about anything that's not been in the already aired episodes.
So, episode 1: first up, a very odd thing indeed...
spoilers behind cut obvs.
...is that, though there was the customary GoT ripping off of clothes, for the first time in the show ever, the female nudity was less, or equal to, the male. Unless I've forgotten something, I counted three half-naked girls in one of the Meereen scenes, and three - yes, three! - naked men.
What is going on?
Ah, I expect it's just a one-off - a bone thrown to any female viewers who might have moaned off at the producers about female characters in the show getting their kit off at the least provocation (or no provocation at all), and the lack of male characters doing the same.
Apart from that, the episode was pretty much a combination of finishing off stories from the end of the previous season (the scenes at the Wall and at Tywin's lying in state in Kingslanding) and scene-setting for what's to come - the Dany and Tyrion scenes, also those featuring Sansa and Littlefinger.
God, Littlefinger's creepy. He always has been of course, but it didn't escape me that, by dyeing Sansa's hair black to disguise her, he's made her look more like her mother. So he's got himself his perfect woman - Catelyn when she was young. Sansa looks very hard-faced now. I can only cross my fingers and hope that somewhere down the line she'll stab Littlefinger in the back - maybe if he lets slip that he betrayed her father to Cersei.
Other characters haven't changed much either. Melisandre is still setting fire to people at the drop of a hat, and Stannis's nutty wife is still getting off on it (even more than Melisandre, it looks to me). I just hope that one day down the line Melisandre will try to set fire to Dany, because I really, really want to see the look on her face when Dany just shrugs and complains that it tickles.
Speaking of people getting their comeuppance, I know the books aren't big on that, but since the show has now gone off-piste from the books (as it were) I hope we're going to see some. I, for one, cheered when Stannis said he was going to kill all the horrible Boltons. God, I hope that happens.
Part of me wants to see Cersei get her comeuppance too (and it looks like Margaery definitely plans to make that happen) but I sorta kinda like her, even though she's so awful.
As for Dany, I'm still cross with her for driving Jorah away, so she deserves her teenage dragon troubles (not so much stroppy teenagers now, in fact, more like juvenile delinquents with a string of ASBO's), and I'm sure she'll sort it out in the end anyway.
So, nice to see the show back. A solid start, and it doesn't hurt at all (as far as I'm concerned) that the episode was fairly short on violence as GoT goes. Nobody actually got burned to death in the end after all.
Doubt it will last, though.
Hmm, suspect there won't be much in the way of icon-making for this series since so many fans have decamped to Tumblr (meh!) and no one uses them there. I may have to make my own.
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Date: 2015-04-19 07:32 pm (UTC)For example? In the books, Jamie gets back after Tyrion's trial. Brienne never meets up with Ayra. And it doesn't look like Tyrion and Dany are ever going to gaze on each other - per the books.
Which may explain why they went off book after a certain point. Dance of Dragons and Feast of Crows meandered and were at times, highly frustrating reads. Lots of characters wandering about, but not accomplishing anything. The television series in that respect at least is far tighter and more satisfying.
I've also read that the television series plans on killing off characters, Martin didn't kill, and keeping characters he did. So at this point...even the book readers are clueless as to what they'll do next.
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Date: 2015-04-19 08:11 pm (UTC)Seems to me they could have kept him and only didn't because they wanted to film that gruesome death scene.
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Date: 2015-04-19 09:33 pm (UTC)They couldn't keep him alive any more than they could keep Ned and the folks at the Red Wedding -- would sort of change the plot in some major ways. (Although they don't seem to mind changing other plot-threads.)
No, so far every character who died has furthered the plot.
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Date: 2015-04-20 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-20 10:28 pm (UTC)