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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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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.)

Re: Just got home from seeing it myself. cpip April 18 2011, 04:06:38 UTC

I'm looking forward for Tywin to die as he does in the books. They will get more points if they actually have Tyrion's actor vocalize the line about proving that Tywin Lannister does not, indeed, shit gold.

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