Miracles happen

[frenchani]

Both Game of Thrones and The Borgias provided their best episode to last on Sunday, and The Killing has never been that good since the pilot!

No, I don't think it's my view or mood that have changed, the three shows were really much better this week, especially The Borgias.

For the first time the writing of The Borgias was really refined and

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[flake_sake]

Glad to hear you're getting more happy with the shows, I have to catch up on the Killing and the Borgias.

With Game of Thrones I'm so enamored with the books that it's harder for me to judge on how the series looks to people who are new to the material, but it figures that it took a while to get the viewer to feel for the characters, since there are so many of them.

But I thought this episode already provided so much material for meta, it should set off serial junkies.

[frenchani]

I am, but in my book they are still (far) behind Deadwood or Justified in terms of quality and providing tv thrills and excitement. And Moffat's Doctor Who provides much more food for thoughts

[flake_sake]

Still, it's not really possible in a show with a huge cast to develop everyone to the same level at once, as say breaking bad could with Walt and Jesse in the pilot.

Top layer is what shows first the rest is emerging slowly, just as with real people.
I agree that the blond is terrible on Lena Headey, but she still does an interesting job with her.

Jamie Lannister, mostly because he looks like a mix of Prince Charming from a Disney film and a playboy from a film for adults

Yeah, they did cast him perfectly, that's exactly what he is supposed to look like. He's the image of a knight, but as black as it gets on the inside, though he of course is not that simple or unchanging either.

[frenchani]

Still, it's not really possible in a show with a huge cast to develop everyone to the same level at once

Of course not, but even without "developing" them (Jesse for instance wasn't really "developed in the first half of BB's first season) the best shows manage to make the audience believe in(not necessarily know) several characters quickly with little details and situations so their emotional life and their "little world" sound true and draw the audience in. I agree it's very difficult to do so, and much easier when the cast is rather small like in Terriers or Justified.

Perhaps it's even harder with the fantasy genre or with a book adaptation because there are more constraints and other priorities.