Game of Thrones 101 Winter is Coming
Thoughts on the pilot, with some comparisons to the book.
• I really need a GoT icon, lol. /note-to-self
• The title-intro-sequence thingy is WONDERFUL and really clever! The books have a map at the beginning of the book, and now the TV show have a map at the beginning as well. Genius! :D
• First of, PETER DINKLAGE YAYYYY! \o/
He's way, way, way too pretty to play Tyrion, but I don't care. The casting people didn't care. The audience doesn't care. No one cares. Peter's just way too awesome for anyone to care that he doesn't look remotely like Tyrion.
Also, it's TV. TV always prettify characters from books, it's like a tradition.
• LENA HEADEY, JASON MOMOA, SEAN BEAN. :D :D :D
Not only are HBO making a TV-show out of books I always thought were unfilmable (in fact, the author wrote them with the intent of making them unfilmable!), but they're also bringing these amazing actors back into my life? YAY.
• Emilia Clarke plays Daenerys, one of my favorite characters from the books (her storyline gets AMAZING). So far she's doing an awesome job! \o/
• The kid actors are doing a great job, too! All of the kid characters were one of the reasons I figured these books would be impossible to ever film, but the casting people did a fantastic job. I'm especially liking Maisie Williams as Arya.
• The Dothraki - WHAT'S WITH THE RACISM, HBO??? >:(
Seriously, I'm pissed off. Just - WHY DO THAT. All through the episode they made changes from the book, in order to fit 70 pages or so (IDK, I didn't count) into one episode, and they cut a lot of stuff from all the scenes. It's just that ... with the Dothraki, they cut all the stuff that's good about them, and kept all the stuff that's not good about them. The result is a one-dimensional clan of savages. WTF. >:(
Why cut the part where the Dothraki people give Dany wedding gifts in the form of pretty clothes and jewelery, and instead have a bunch of close ups of raw meat and a basket of snakes? WTF???
Oh, and WHAT'S WITH THE RAPE. In the book, he backs the fuck off for a while once he's noticed she's crying. If they're gonna skip over the part where Dany calms down and says "yes", why include the part where he even notices her crying? Not that the book isn't rape:y, it's just that this is making the Dothraki arranged marriages seem much worse than the Westeros arranged marriages. So I'm including that on the list of racist changes they made for the show. >:(
/rant
• While I'm ranting: WHAT'S WITH ALL THE FEMALE NUDITY??
Either needs more dick or needs less boobs. Right now, it's much too uneven.
It'll probably even out with a couple of more episodes, though, so I'm not exactly angry about it.
• On the upside, at least the scenery and castles and stuff is gorgeous.
• The White Walkers are creeepyyyyy. They're described differently in the book, but here I get why they made the changes. You can't have bad guys that move soundlessly and wear camouflage armor on TV, because then the viewers wouldn't be able to see them and the whole scene would make zero sense, lol. So I'm cool with the changes they made! The Wall looked amazing. I wonder how deserter dude got across The Wall, I can't remember from the book. Maybe he climbed, heh.
• This episode must have been pretty confusing for first time viewers. And it's only gonna get more confusing for a while, before the plot really starts moving in a handful of episodes. I'm worried it's gonna scare of viewers and kill the viewership numbers. :/
• They're like a tenth of the way into the first book. And I remember having trouble getting into this book, I put it down a bunch of times and only kept reading because of the hype. If it's the same on TV, that's definitely gonna lose the show viewers. :(
• Awesome way to end the episode!! Loved the delivery of the "the things I do for love" line. :D
That's always been one of my favorite "omgwtfbbq DID THAT JUST HAPPEN" moments from the books.
• I really wanna see the next episode now. I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS SHOOOW! \o/
OK I'm gonna go watch Doctor Who now. BRB. \o/
• I really need a GoT icon, lol. /note-to-self
• The title-intro-sequence thingy is WONDERFUL and really clever! The books have a map at the beginning of the book, and now the TV show have a map at the beginning as well. Genius! :D
• First of, PETER DINKLAGE YAYYYY! \o/
He's way, way, way too pretty to play Tyrion, but I don't care. The casting people didn't care. The audience doesn't care. No one cares. Peter's just way too awesome for anyone to care that he doesn't look remotely like Tyrion.
Also, it's TV. TV always prettify characters from books, it's like a tradition.
• LENA HEADEY, JASON MOMOA, SEAN BEAN. :D :D :D
Not only are HBO making a TV-show out of books I always thought were unfilmable (in fact, the author wrote them with the intent of making them unfilmable!), but they're also bringing these amazing actors back into my life? YAY.
• Emilia Clarke plays Daenerys, one of my favorite characters from the books (her storyline gets AMAZING). So far she's doing an awesome job! \o/
• The kid actors are doing a great job, too! All of the kid characters were one of the reasons I figured these books would be impossible to ever film, but the casting people did a fantastic job. I'm especially liking Maisie Williams as Arya.
• The Dothraki - WHAT'S WITH THE RACISM, HBO??? >:(
Seriously, I'm pissed off. Just - WHY DO THAT. All through the episode they made changes from the book, in order to fit 70 pages or so (IDK, I didn't count) into one episode, and they cut a lot of stuff from all the scenes. It's just that ... with the Dothraki, they cut all the stuff that's good about them, and kept all the stuff that's not good about them. The result is a one-dimensional clan of savages. WTF. >:(
Why cut the part where the Dothraki people give Dany wedding gifts in the form of pretty clothes and jewelery, and instead have a bunch of close ups of raw meat and a basket of snakes? WTF???
Oh, and WHAT'S WITH THE RAPE. In the book, he backs the fuck off for a while once he's noticed she's crying. If they're gonna skip over the part where Dany calms down and says "yes", why include the part where he even notices her crying? Not that the book isn't rape:y, it's just that this is making the Dothraki arranged marriages seem much worse than the Westeros arranged marriages. So I'm including that on the list of racist changes they made for the show. >:(
/rant
• While I'm ranting: WHAT'S WITH ALL THE FEMALE NUDITY??
Either needs more dick or needs less boobs. Right now, it's much too uneven.
It'll probably even out with a couple of more episodes, though, so I'm not exactly angry about it.
• On the upside, at least the scenery and castles and stuff is gorgeous.
• The White Walkers are creeepyyyyy. They're described differently in the book, but here I get why they made the changes. You can't have bad guys that move soundlessly and wear camouflage armor on TV, because then the viewers wouldn't be able to see them and the whole scene would make zero sense, lol. So I'm cool with the changes they made! The Wall looked amazing. I wonder how deserter dude got across The Wall, I can't remember from the book. Maybe he climbed, heh.
• This episode must have been pretty confusing for first time viewers. And it's only gonna get more confusing for a while, before the plot really starts moving in a handful of episodes. I'm worried it's gonna scare of viewers and kill the viewership numbers. :/
• They're like a tenth of the way into the first book. And I remember having trouble getting into this book, I put it down a bunch of times and only kept reading because of the hype. If it's the same on TV, that's definitely gonna lose the show viewers. :(
• Awesome way to end the episode!! Loved the delivery of the "the things I do for love" line. :D
That's always been one of my favorite "omgwtfbbq DID THAT JUST HAPPEN" moments from the books.
• I really wanna see the next episode now. I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS SHOOOW! \o/
OK I'm gonna go watch Doctor Who now. BRB. \o/