Game of Thrones? More Like Dame of Scones!

[spectralbovine]

A series as dense and complicated as A Song of Ice and Fire could never be made into a proper film series and still retain most of what makes the books so great, so it's good that we live in a golden age of television, where HBO can throw its support behind a television series and actually have George R.R. Martin involved. And what they have

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[anoel]

See I read the second book RIGHT before S2 started so I think most of the changes in S2 were for the worse. I still think S1 was a MUCH better adaption although the opening episodes were certainly hard for a non book read (me at first) but upon rewatch, I was super impressed with even the changes. However a lot of the characterization, dialogue and plot changes in S2 I found unnecessary and sometimes OOC or giving the wrong impression and it really bothered me. The biggest problem being how they fucked up House of the Undying, I am still LIVID and horrified and how they just took out so much of the best stuff from it. Not to mention as a vidder, it took away so much great material

[spectralbovine]

The biggest problem being how they fucked up House of the Undying, I am still LIVID and horrified and how they just took out so much of the best stuff from it.
It wasn't what I expected. I guess it would have been hard to recreate the scene from the book, and I realized that you couldn't really do the visions because they would have to be actual spoilers instead of cryptic descriptions. But they did their best to be a little surreal, and I really liked the scene with Drogo and Rhaego.

That Blackwater episode in particular was just wow.
SERIOUSLY. The wildfire was incredible, and drunk Cersei was amazing.

So you've read the third book but not the fourth and fifth?

[anoel]

No I've read all of the books, I love the depth of the world that he's created.

I'm not saying it needed to be spoilery but the atmosphere was all wrong and they left out important stuff and I wanted Targaryen footage and more cool visual stuff. The fact that they ADDED stuff is even more despicable to me when they could have used stuff that was there. If they hadn't build up the House of the Undying as this BIG thing, I might have been more fine with that but that combined with the fact that it was the scene I most wanted to see was a HUGE disappointment. I still have hopes that someday I'll be rich I can spend money to make sure it get filmed RIGHT.

[spectralbovine]

Yeah, it didn't really live up to the ominous portents. It was somewhat surreal, but it should have been really fucked up and disorienting.

[thetheatremouse]

Damn it, now I want a scone.

[catalyst2]

I will be the first to admit that I was really nervous when I heard that GoT was going to be made into a TV series but I hoped that the fact that GRRM was going to stay involved might keep it on course.

Similar to you, I found the first series curiously "off-pace" (if you know what I mean) but was still a close adaptation of the first book. Series two certainly moved a bit further away from the second book but was better for it I felt. Adaptation shouldn't mean reproducing something from another medium word for word, or at least I don't think it should (somewhat akin to how lifeless the 1998 Psycho remake felt -although that was same medium).

I tend to watch GoT the same way I watch Dexter - thinking of the books as a some strange parallel dimension with people who have similar names but that's purely coincidental! :-)