Game of Thrones: favourites poll results!!!!!!!!!! Season 1

[alexandral]

I have made a "Your favourite everything , season 1 of Game of Thrones" poll in game_thrones community. I am cross-posting the results so that I can keep track of this.
This is the second poll of this kind, the results of the previous run (created after the episode 5 of the season 1) can be found here.

Sub-poll 1: The character(s) you love the mostThere aren'

Comments

[meganbmoore]

One surprising result for me personally: Catelyn is still hated more than Gregor Clegane, Walder Frey, Alliser Thorne and the rest. Although, looking on the positive side - Catelyn hate decreased from the previous run.

Well, she's a girl after all. Probably why Cersei is before Tywin and Viserys, too. (Though, speaking of hated female characters, I would have thought Lysa would be higher up there. I don't particular hate her myself so much as I kind of forget her.) And that's not to say that she isn't an awful person-though I'm quite fond of her myself-but there are way, way worse. And why is Robert so low?!?!?

But I actually commented to ask: this is just for the first season, right? Because if so, Arya and Gendry's 5~ seconds of interacting either really influenced people, or there is cheating going on here!

I also suspect the casting of Dany and Drogo and the actors having chemistry have made people forget the actual going-ons there.

[alexandral]

I personally have a soft spot for Tywin. :D But I thik Tywin hate will increase in the future, he has not done anything too bad. This is a similar case as Baelsih - the actor is good, many people like him.

As to the others: Viserys came across as poor misunderstood woobie in the show.

In Lysa's case, I thought the show Lysa was too OTT cartoonishly disgusting to call for any strong hate (and we haven't gotten to her worst moments yet, not many people have read as far as the last book, methinks).

But I actually commented to ask: this is just for the first season, right? Because if so, Arya and Gendry's 5~ seconds of interacting either really influenced people, or there is cheating going on here! Arya is the fandom favourite and her ship is bound to do well as soon as any TINY possibility of shipping has arisen (see how high Robb's ships are? And he hasn't even done as much as looking at anyone?) . I don't thik it is cheating

[meganbmoore]

I think the concept of liking/forgiving a character just because you like the actor/think the actor is hot is one that completely eludes me. I mean, sure, I like Jason Momoa and Harry Lloyd, but I still anticipated their characters' death's like nobody's business. (For that matter, I'm also exceptionally fond of Seasn Bean, but while I like Ned in the books, he mostly annoyed me in the show.) I'm not familiar with Aiden Gillen outside of the show, but agree that he's an excellent actor

[alexandral]

think the concept of liking/forgiving a character just because you like the actor/think the actor is hot is one that completely eludes me.

Me too, but I notice the trend. I know Aiden Gillen from "The Wire".

But Viserys is interpretted as coming across as a woobie? Really? I mean, he was still an abusive creepster who liked to talk about how he'd let his sister get raped by an entire tribe without a second thought to get what he wants.

I still hate him too. But for some reason, I felt that the show looked with a slight sympathetic eye on this character, which was totally missing in the book. In the book I was all "Bring in the pitchforks now!" but in the show, I felt for Viserys a couple of times. This all said, I still hated him, I just think his representation was more sympathetic.

I also find it weird that Jaime, in discussions at least, seems to be getting way more criticism than a lot of characters I feel are more deserving? Like, I'm not a fan of Jaime at all (and agree with queenofthorns that the show has made him even less

[meganbmoore]

yeah, the show in general seems to be drawing a lot more of a a strict good/bad line than the books. I think some is for accessibility (as interpretted by the media) and also to have a more unifying effect? I mean, in general, as a group, the Starks are the closest thing to a straight up "good" group that there is, but in the books, they aren't really the "heroes," whereas I think the show is setting them up that way, esp. as they were largely promoting Ned as the cventral character, and that role can be interpretted as passing on to robb with his death. (This is one of my issues with the show, really.)

[alexandral]

Yes, i think the setting Starks as heros worries me too, and I have the same issues with the show as you, it seems. generally, I will see how the charcter of Robb (and making it bigger and bigger) will play out - I think we are in for some problems at the season 3. Some of the un-spoiled viewers were complaining when Ned died and in reality he was not so popular. But if the popularity of Robb continues to grow and then - BAM! At the season 3, what are they going to do then?