Yeah...that sounds like my vague memory of reading the first book. I never picked up the second book, and other than my initial squee of "ooh fantasy novels making it as a tv show", I haven't really had any interest in watching it.
I haven't seen the episode yet - waiting for someone with a computer to download it...
The books haven't finished as yet, despite everyone waiting for ever for book #5. The glimpses of people's humanity keep me going, but at the end of book #5 - things hadn't improved at all.
I've stuck with the books because there are a few characters who I've become invested in who *do* stay alive. The episode you just watched is probably the darkest point in the series; it's the point in the books where I just went, seriously? Did he just do that?!?
heh, you're talking to someone who gave up on the series by the first book, here. Hubby has read all of them (so far) and assures me that things do not get better. I myself can't understand the appeal--Martin seems to glorify rape and violence against women in particular, and showcases the worst of human excesses and vices in all his characters. It's just depressing as hell to me. I prefer books that have *some* faith in our species.
That episode will air here tomorrow (although I won't see it til Thurs because of reasons) so thank you for the heads up! I have been feeling much the same lately; it was what prevented me getting into it the first time I tried to watch. I gave it a second chance and got attached to some characters who were promptly slaughtered one by one and there are now two left and if either of them die I'm out.
I quit reading the books when my 2nd favorite character got killed (well he could be alive he was only significantly woulded at the end of the book). I couldn't take the sad hoplessness of it all. Hubby loves it because he thinks it's more realistic then a happy ending but I like my TV to at least have hope.
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The books haven't finished as yet, despite everyone waiting for ever for book #5. The glimpses of people's humanity keep me going, but at the end of book #5 - things hadn't improved at all.
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