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So I watched the first episode of Game of Thrones tonight.
I thought it was really promisingly good. My dad did not like it because he did not like any of the characters; I think he'll probably like Tyrion better when we don't see him drowning in whores, since his complaint is basically that nobody is likeable, and Tyrion has likeability in spades. I'm loving pretty hard on Peter Dinklage's delivery, too. I thought everything wove together really well and of course the production values were ridiculous and amazing.
My brother has reread the book far more recently than I (he spent the last week or so ensconced with it), and he reports a really high level of faithfulness (also, Summer totally looks like my dog Gravy did back when he was a wee antelope-looking puppy). Ned and Catelyn are really well done -- I might even hate her less now that she has a face, although I'm leaving the jury out on that. Arya will have a hard time winning me over, but I do like her eyebrows. (In some ways, okay, I am predictable.)
I really have no idea what is going on with Luwin's beard, and I visually had a pretty hard time telling apart Theon, Rob and Jon Snow (and okay, lean dark-headed boys are my thing, so it is odd to find it difficult to distinguish them). Jaime didn't look quite how I imagined him, but "The things I do for love" was pretty damned perfect.
I still can't get over the perfect casting of Khal Drogo and it was pretty much as I could have expected it. My stepmom was seriously turned off by the gratuitous amount of breasts that appeared in the episode. I dunno. We're watching a big smashy bloody show on HBO. You've seen Rome. I don't feel like the breasts should be surprising. Especially since, I mean, it's not like most of the female nudity was shoehorned in inappropriate places. The extra whores piling on Tyrion were maybe a bit much, but come on. Also, considering the quantities of terrible vampire smut she listens to on audibook all the time I don't really see where complaints about gratuitous nudity come in. Unless she was complaining that there was insufficient male nudity to go along with it. But again. I mean. We are watching HBO. And if Rome is to be our example, we will see naked men.
ANYWAY. I thought it was beautiful, remarkably true to the book, and the characters really came alive for me as they were acted. Sansa about killed me with her sheer early-book dumbheaded Sansa-ness.
Also, Viserys's delivery was eerily reminiscent of Gaius Baltar in parts.
I am excited for next week! Which I won't see until I am home from Norwescon. If my DVR does not work properly, I'm not that concerned about it, since apparently episodes of this show are going to snow the viewing public for the next few weeks.
I thought it was really promisingly good. My dad did not like it because he did not like any of the characters; I think he'll probably like Tyrion better when we don't see him drowning in whores, since his complaint is basically that nobody is likeable, and Tyrion has likeability in spades. I'm loving pretty hard on Peter Dinklage's delivery, too. I thought everything wove together really well and of course the production values were ridiculous and amazing.
My brother has reread the book far more recently than I (he spent the last week or so ensconced with it), and he reports a really high level of faithfulness (also, Summer totally looks like my dog Gravy did back when he was a wee antelope-looking puppy). Ned and Catelyn are really well done -- I might even hate her less now that she has a face, although I'm leaving the jury out on that. Arya will have a hard time winning me over, but I do like her eyebrows. (In some ways, okay, I am predictable.)
I really have no idea what is going on with Luwin's beard, and I visually had a pretty hard time telling apart Theon, Rob and Jon Snow (and okay, lean dark-headed boys are my thing, so it is odd to find it difficult to distinguish them). Jaime didn't look quite how I imagined him, but "The things I do for love" was pretty damned perfect.
I still can't get over the perfect casting of Khal Drogo and it was pretty much as I could have expected it. My stepmom was seriously turned off by the gratuitous amount of breasts that appeared in the episode. I dunno. We're watching a big smashy bloody show on HBO. You've seen Rome. I don't feel like the breasts should be surprising. Especially since, I mean, it's not like most of the female nudity was shoehorned in inappropriate places. The extra whores piling on Tyrion were maybe a bit much, but come on. Also, considering the quantities of terrible vampire smut she listens to on audibook all the time I don't really see where complaints about gratuitous nudity come in. Unless she was complaining that there was insufficient male nudity to go along with it. But again. I mean. We are watching HBO. And if Rome is to be our example, we will see naked men.
ANYWAY. I thought it was beautiful, remarkably true to the book, and the characters really came alive for me as they were acted. Sansa about killed me with her sheer early-book dumbheaded Sansa-ness.
Also, Viserys's delivery was eerily reminiscent of Gaius Baltar in parts.
I am excited for next week! Which I won't see until I am home from Norwescon. If my DVR does not work properly, I'm not that concerned about it, since apparently episodes of this show are going to snow the viewing public for the next few weeks.