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puella_nerdii

Game of Thrones livebloggish thing

Apr 17, 2011 23:19

So I am back in Baltimore for a few days, and was despairing because my parents don't have HBO, which cockblocks me from getting my hands on the first episode of Game of Thrones. But as luck would have it, HBO is free this weekend, so I got to watch the premiere after all! And I have Thoughts on it, as you do.

( Have my real-time reactions to the episode! Spoilers for the episode, obviously. )

fandom: game of thrones/asoiaf, and there was much rejoicing, reaction shot

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megkips April 18 2011, 03:35:53 UTC

Tell me you've heard that HBO is picking up American Gods.

puella_nerdii April 18 2011, 03:37:09 UTC

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...who's attached to the production that will make it easier for me to decide whether it is do or do not want

megkips April 18 2011, 03:41:22 UTC

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbo-developing-neil-gaimans-american-178726

i-i am so okay with hbo/gaiman i can't even

except i'm horrified for THAT ONE SCENE with the queen of sheba because fuck, hbo would shove that in there.

cpip April 18 2011, 03:43:35 UTC

Hmmmmmmmmm. This could be awesome.

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Just got home from seeing it myself. cpip April 18 2011, 03:37:30 UTC

Jaime. Awesome. Also I want his armor so frickin' bad.

Dany. ...yeah. Pretty much you said everything I was thinking.

Tyrion. Hell yeah, though I think he's both drinking and whoring a lot more than I remember from the books -- but I could be forgetting.

Cersei. I have a terrible fear I'm going to end up liking Cersei now. The actress delivers such great looks.

Re: Just got home from seeing it myself. puella_nerdii April 18 2011, 03:43:34 UTC

His armor is gorgeous. He is gorgeous. He is every bit the asshole I should be, and I love him for it.

Upon talking to Mith and upon catching parts of the episode again, I'm pretty convinced that yes, they want us to be damn uncomfortable with how Dany is being treated, and no, they're not trying to sex her up, they're showing that sexing her up is icky. I could unpick this in more detail, but really, I don't know how often I can rewatch her scenes.

He drinks and whores a lot in the books! I think they're frontloading it more in the TV show, though. And yeah. Ugh. I DON'T WANT TO LIKE CERSEI. Hating Cersei is such a comfortable thing for me by now. But I have to give her actress props; her bitchfaces are magnificent.

Re: Just got home from seeing it myself. cpip April 18 2011, 03:45:38 UTC

Even allowing that Dany is in a terrible place, I cannot deny her actress is a lovely woman. However, for one brief early scene (around the bathtub) they didn't lighten her eyebrows like they did for some of the other scenes and oh god it stuck out.

See, I'm firmly in the Anti-Lannister camp normally; but the actors doing the Lannister kids are so damned good that I worry I'm going to root for them even so.

...also, the actor playing Jon Snow is too pretty for the role, I think.

Re: Just got home from seeing it myself. puella_nerdii April 18 2011, 04:05:30 UTC

I didn't notice that! But yes, Emilia Clarke is gorgeous. I will feel more comfortable perving on her later in the series.

So am I, generally, though I've always adored Tyrion. But Jaime grew on me to almost frightening degrees over the course of the series, and I kind of adore him now, even if he teeeeechnically hasn't built up enough narrative goodwill in the first episode of GoT for me to love him so. Oh well. (Cersei and Tywin can, however, die in a fire.)

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artillie April 18 2011, 04:04:26 UTC

From that preview you linked me on Twitter, Arya looks spectacular, I love her already. sitting on my hands, waiting for someone to upload it, arrrrgh.

puella_nerdii April 18 2011, 04:06:36 UTC

ARYA IS AMAZING THUS FAR. NO COMPLAINTS. NONE WHATSOEVER. God, I can't wait to see what they'll do with her plotline.

Someone will soon, I'm sure! The Internet is usually reliable about these things.

skelody April 18 2011, 04:05:47 UTC

For some reason the Unfortunate Implications of the Dothraki portrayal come through so much more clearly in television. Or has my memory faded, and it wasn't actually that bad in the books?

I feel the "no" dialoguebit doesn't really make sense if they made the changes they did.

puella_nerdii April 18 2011, 04:09:05 UTC

It's not great in the books, I think, but the visual nature of the medium makes the Unfortunateness a lot more evident. A picture's worth a thousand words and all that.

twistedsheets10 April 18 2011, 04:20:04 UTC

Theon is there, during the execution, I think.

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puella_nerdii April 18 2011, 04:36:52 UTC

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