End Game
I've now finished the first series of Game of Thrones. Now I just have to pray that my wife doesn't push me into having to watch the second.
I think what I dislike most about it is that it is almost everything I hate about fantasy literature, yet with lavish production and good acting. I watch the carefully constructed scenes, and I feel no sense of being transported to another world. Rather I feel I am watching some tableau -- especially in the case of the stagey crowd scenes. Over and above that, I feel no sense of wanting to know more about these people. Sod the lot of them. The only one in which I have a shred of interest is Lord Tyrion. And that isn't enough to make me eager for another sustained bout of gory misanthropy.
I think what I dislike most about it is that it is almost everything I hate about fantasy literature, yet with lavish production and good acting. I watch the carefully constructed scenes, and I feel no sense of being transported to another world. Rather I feel I am watching some tableau -- especially in the case of the stagey crowd scenes. Over and above that, I feel no sense of wanting to know more about these people. Sod the lot of them. The only one in which I have a shred of interest is Lord Tyrion. And that isn't enough to make me eager for another sustained bout of gory misanthropy.