from that salon article "Patterson is one of the sharpest, funniest TV reviewers out there"
oh plz.
― Mordy, Monday, 18 April 2011 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Hating Danaerys as she is cast. That part needs a true Scandanavian ice queen with wisp-fine white-blonde hair and hauteur she can wrap around herself like a cloak to shut out her inside from the outside. Not a cheap bottle job with brown eyebrows and too much blusher.
Everything else otm^10.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Monday, 18 April 2011 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
wife and i thought the pilot was great btw and we're totally onboard for the time being. so is this supposed to only be six episodes as the opening season (like walking dead) or is it just that reviewers have only seen the first six episode and we're going to have a more 13 episode season. bc it seems that with the cast of characters they've got, and the amount of written content Martin has produced, they could easily write episode after episode of compelling material.
― Mordy, Monday, 18 April 2011 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
wikipedia says 10 eps
― just sayin, Monday, 18 April 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I believe the first season is going to be ten episodes.
― allmypulp, Monday, 18 April 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Ian! We'll review the first ep next week -- maybe we need to ALWAYS re-watch the prev ep before the new one is on? Makes a nice evening with good company even a bit longer.
Plus I want to AWWWWW at the WOLF PUPPIES again.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Monday, 18 April 2011 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
haven't watched this yet, hope to tonight
did ppl dig it?
― fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Monday, 18 April 2011 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Loved. Loved.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Monday, 18 April 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i kind of want to watch the first episode or so of this, i feel like the combination of it being about elves and shit + apparent shitheap of gratuitous nudity = it will be a hard sell for the other half, i think
I watched this while my wife futzed around with her phone, her comments were something along the line of "every time I look up there are boobs wtf"
thought the eps was disappointing overall. the opening sequence was *really* well done, pretty much the main reason I tuned in after seeing the preview. set design + cinematography + acting were top notch but I don't get all the hurrahs for the script. characters were weakly written. and the danerys + drago sequences came off like some harlequin skinemax weaksauce.
haven't read the books but it seemed like this would only appeal to someone who loved them?
― if u see l ron this weekend be sure & tell him THETAN THETAN THETAN (Edward III), Monday, 18 April 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not about elves and shit.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Monday, 18 April 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
wolves and shit
― if u see l ron this weekend be sure & tell him THETAN THETAN THETAN (Edward III), Monday, 18 April 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
laurel i've read them, i'm just saying that the look they've gone for with this pretty broadly telegraphs ELVES AND SHIT. 'dragons and shit' would have accomplished the same admittedly
― thomp, Monday, 18 April 2011 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
And had the advantage of being accurate.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Monday, 18 April 2011 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Waiting for Carcetti to arrive
― calstars, Monday, 18 April 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i hated what i read. the show has the advantage of not being written in terrible fantasy trope language. (gritty fantasy or not.)
― Mordy, Monday, 18 April 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
and some of the cgi is so impressive that it's more like LOTR where you don't care that it's a theme you've seen a dozen times. like the guard riding out past that huge wall was OMG impressive.
not being written in terrible fantasy trope language.
Man, if you think GRRM is "terrible fantasy trope language", you better just stay away from the genre completely, because, imho, he's one of the least worrisome offenders for this type of thing.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 April 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I agree with Mordy.
I like fantasy more on screen than on the page, generally.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 18 April 2011 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
this show seems ok
― ─►.butt.tko (Lamp), Monday, 18 April 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I have never read the books and haven't read much fantasy, but I enjoyed this. Some problems that I'll write off as pilot-issues but I'm looking forward to the rest. We'll know in the next 3 or 4 episodes just how much being a fan of the book matters.
― Gukbe, Monday, 18 April 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
also theon never does anything interesting
― ─►.butt.tko (Lamp), Monday, 18 April 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
martin's not a great stylist, but i stopped noticing/caring about 1/3 of the way into GoT - that's not really why you read this stuff anyway
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Monday, 18 April 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i had a hard time getting into Book 1 but was looking forward to this. It's great so far but have to agree with this:
"and the danerys + drago sequences came off like some harlequin skinemax weaksauce"
also, drago wedding fight scene was some Star Trek : TOS lolz but with tits and rape.
― akm, Monday, 18 April 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
the title/credits sequence with the little clockwork gameboard showing all the locales is v. awesome imo. and supposedly it changes from episode to episode depending on where stuff's happening
― ciderpress, Monday, 18 April 2011 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
really? thats a nice touch!
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure if thats true, i just remember reading it somewhere
― ciderpress, Monday, 18 April 2011 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i hope it's true...we'll have to check the next set of credits to see
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Monday, April 18, 2011 11:51 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^word up
― the zing cheese incident (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 April 2011 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
This is why I don't read much fantasy lit. Wish I could get past it but I can't.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 18 April 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
martin's prose is functional but he certainly does like to tell you what color people's doublets are.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 18 April 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
he likes to say "nearly a man grown"
― the zing cheese incident (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 April 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
at least westeros' weird seasons thing invalidates the "she had seen barely thirteen summers" sort of thing because you just know he'd be dipping in that well like once per page
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 18 April 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
dude is a perv tbh
― the zing cheese incident (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 April 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
strikethrough, pimp, http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JjTZojojDPI/SxPR-ffvWkI/AAAAAAAAAok/bzrrZEsb1T4/s1600/0007stfc.jpg &c &c
― ─►.butt.tko (Lamp), Monday, 18 April 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I was surprised to learn that he uses the word "fuck" in the books.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 18 April 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
The robe completes the outfit. and he kind of looks like the playing robert baratheon
― allmypulp, Monday, 18 April 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
for anyone who's watching this without reading the books and wants to get all the characters/houses/history straight, HBO has a great little viewers' guide that doesn't appear to spoil anything that's not pre-episode-1 backstory:http://viewers-guide.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/#!/guide/houses/
― ciderpress, Monday, 18 April 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Video podcast with cast interviews and stuff: http://skyatlantic.sky.com/game-of-thrones/thronecast
― Walter Galt, Monday, 18 April 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
this was terrible. so much hair gel. so many stupid accents. and the horselord wedding reception.
― adam, Monday, 18 April 2011 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean http://mimg.ugo.com/201103/9/8/6/183689/cuts/gameofthrones-targaryen01-screencap-11_288x288.jpg
― adam, Monday, 18 April 2011 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
rather http://mimg.ugo.com/201103/9/8/6/183689/cuts/gameofthrones-targaryen01-screencap-11_288x288.jpg
It was distracting how white Drogo's teeth were.
― calstars, Monday, 18 April 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah, the third book goes into great detail re: Dothraki dental plan.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 April 2011 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i just watched the 25 minute making of that's on the HBO site (still having not seen the first ep) and I gotta say the guy who plays Drogo seems like a bro in all senses of the word.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 18 April 2011 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
dude is a klingon
― akm, Monday, 18 April 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Dude is also going to play Conan later this year.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 April 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
He was in Stargate Atlantis, too. Nerd cred.
― Walter Galt, Monday, 18 April 2011 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone else I was watching it with said this! What I noticed mostly was that his breasts are bigger than Danaerys'.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Monday, 18 April 2011 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Xpost aha that's where I recognize him from!
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
OK watched it - was good! Also posts very much in character but Laurel otm re the wolf pups omg. The end was great too. I didn't have a problem with the nudity/boobage but I was a bit fan of Rome which has tons of that sort of thing so maybe I'm just used to it. I want the next one already! Damn.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link