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Game of Thrones [HBO & Sky Atlantic] **Spoilers** (Read Warning Post #1)

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    jonsnow wrote: »
    As my name might indicate I,m a GOT fan and have been since 99.Simply the greatest fantasy novels ever written and amongst the greatest fiction ever written.I despair of it ever been completed however although i understand that George r martin is not my witch.

    I,d watched the 14 minute preview twice already and enjoyed them.For a fanatic like me it is clear that the series will be quite different from the books.Already characters, events and the script has been changed but I like that because I will have two different experiences of the story.

    The first episode is solid with some gorgeous visuals and great acting.Most of the actors nail their characters.I had a few minor gripes.The feast scene at the wedding looked kinda crappy like their was only 30 extras.It looked like a xena episode not a raucous gathering of 40000 warriors.Why did the other leave the black bother live.Winterfell did not look as impressive as I would have imagined it could.But I,m nit picking.It was still very enjoyable especially as I was watching it with my brother who was completely shocked at the ending.Roll on next week.

    The books have been on my to do list for a while, are they as "adult" as the show , I don't mean the sex etc but over all ?

    From the start of the show I was constantly reminded of the elder scrolls :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 35 p1000


    Enjoyed it. Lookin forward to more.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,460 ✭✭✭Orizio


    premise: the borgais and game of thrones are telling the same story

    the second faster and more explicit then the first


    I haven't see The Borgias but this is quite a perceptive post - the world of the Borgias seems like a very big inspiration Martin's books, far more so then LOTR.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,460 ✭✭✭Orizio


    calex71 wrote: »
    The books have been on my to do list for a while, are they as "adult" as the show , I don't mean the sex etc but over all ?

    From the start of the show I was constantly reminded of the elder scrolls :)

    Yes, probably more so.


  • Registered Users Posts: 673 ✭✭✭merlie


    I watched the first episode of GOT and although there were some good scenes, overall I generally thought it was ok. I was a bit disappointed by it there were not many actions scenes. The opening was great and then it seemed to dissipate some. I will continue to follow the series and see if it gets any better or slips into a darkened mire!

    I have watched The Tudors, The Borgias and The Pillars of the Earth. I wasn't interested in Spartacus as Gladiators and that time line don't really interest me. But having said that, I will say that the best series I have watched so far is The Tudors. IMO.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭JohnK


    merlie wrote: »
    I watched the first episode of GOT and although there were some good scenes, overall I generally thought it was ok.

    I have to say that was my overall impression too, that it was only ok but nothing special. Being perfectly honest there was nothing I saw in the first episode that has me looking forward to the next one.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 35,726 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I have to say, having just finished Season 1 of Rome, if people are deeply troubled by the nudity of GoT, they'd be in for a shock at the brazen amount of nudity in HBO's previous epic. I haven't seen that many wangs since ... uhhh, never mind.

    In any case, I think people are too precious about these things. It's just breasts.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭rocky


    Not too sure about the first episode.

    It looks like it has a big budget, but the acting lets it down IMO. I expected more... enthusiasm, more intensity. It felt like they were reading lines in a script.

    Also... Why is Arya called Aia? Or did I not hear properly?

    Looking forward to next week's installment anyway :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,270 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    did Sky cut any of it like they did with Spartacus and Deadwood?


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,839 ✭✭✭Jelle1880


    rocky wrote: »
    Not too sure about the first episode.

    It looks like it has a big budget, but the acting lets it down IMO. I expected more... enthusiasm, more intensity. It felt like they were reading lines in a script.

    Also... Why is Arya called Aia? Or did I not hear properly?

    Looking forward to next week's installment anyway :)

    Pronounciation I think, she's still called Arya.

    I thought the acting was spot on.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Lirange wrote: »
    I wasn't that impressed with the first episode. The best bits were the opening credits and any scene involving Tyrion the Dwarf. I did like the House of Stark and how the characters of the family were cast. However the same can't be said for the inbreeding Lannisters. Lots of T&A but bordering on gratuitous in a few places.

    Bran and Arya are great. Although apart from just being a dim little plank Sansa was annoying. Sean Bean was solid as Eddard as was the actor that plays Snow. Joffrey and Sansa, a decidedly hive inducing pairing for many reasons. Joffrey is inbred what's her excuse? Headey is a listless monotone actress. She was always the primary weak point of TSCC where she was even out acted by Shirley Manson playing a robot.

    Meanwhile over at Penthouse er Pentos we have scenes that were totally at odds in terms of feel and film making from the rest apart from the obligatory T&A. The scenes with Viserys, Daenerys, and Drogo seemed like they were from a cheap Vaudeville set. Drogo was like a wannabe Genghis Khan early Hollywood exploitation character. I thought these scenes were ridiculous. Although admittedly "there is no word in Dothraki for thank you" was good for a laugh. The giant colourful avocados were supposed to be petrified Dragon Eggs? There was a bizarre shift in tonality back in Winterfell like the show was trying to be semi serious again. I know this is a fantasy tale but they really could've done better here. But admittedly Viserys as the brother pimp was glorious in his pantomime villainry. Like a more effete version of Julian Sands only more annoying. It's good to have the bad people be annoying as well as evil that way we don't feel conflicted.

    The absolute moral of the story is that people with bad overbleached dye jobs are evil. I think it's racist against blonde people! Wait blonde people aren't a race. Nevermind. But notice they hate blondes so much they won't even pay real ones to play them. :pac:

    Best review out of everyones...well done Lirange! :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    I liked it a lot. Lena Headey did fine as Cersei, she's not much of an actress but she can do that cold emotionless thing fairly well, like Arnie is best when he's playing a robot :)

    The opening credits are fantastic imo, gorgeous music and the clockwork/board theme works really well.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭irish_stevo815


    Finally I have something worth watching on telly other than Fringe, which is coming ot the Season finale pretty soon.

    I really enjoyed the first episode and it felt like i was watching a movie rather than a TV show. It really seemed to set up the different aspects of the story. I havent read the books so I am looking forward to seeing how it plays out.
    I LMFAO'd at the "imp" getting blown by the escort. Quiet a bit of sex/nude scenes in it, but they don't just seem to be thrown in for the sake of a bit of boob, it all ties in with the story telling. On a side note, that Lena Heady one certainly can take it ;)

    Lookin forward to next week!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    My main problem with it was that I think it should have aired as a double episode to start off with. Would have allowed them to establish far more.


  • Registered Users Posts: 300 ✭✭nickcave


    calex71 wrote: »
    My main problem with it was that I think it should have aired as a double episode to start off with. Would have allowed them to establish far more.

    Agreed. I was disappointed with the rushed finish...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Momoa totally looks the part, i bet he's badass in a fight as well.
    Did anyone think the blonde twins were kinda like those twins from The Matrix Reloaded?

    :-)


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,839 ✭✭✭Jelle1880


    Holy crap, it's only because you said it that I realise it's Ronan from Stargate Atlantis :D

    Also casted as Conan in the new adaptation of the Conan The Barbarian, which makes sense I guess.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Confirmed....GOT renewed for season 2!

    http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/04/19/hbo-renews-game-of-thrones-for-second-season-premiere-grossed-4-2-million-on-hbo-sunday-night/89922

    Ratings: The heavily hyped debut of Game of Thrones couldn’t come close to the premiere of HBO’s last big drama series, Boardwalk Empire, yet it still turned in a solid number Sunday night.

    The first episode delivered a decent 2.2 million viewers for its premiere airing, then a rather strong 1.2 million for its first encore (the NBA playoff game between the Celtics and Knicks might have pushed some viewership to the second airing), and another 800,000 for the third telecast for an overall healthy total of 4.2 million. HBO then aired Thrones six times across all its channels Monday night, and those numbers will be added to this post later today.

    Thrones first telecast was down 54 percent from the premiere of 2010′s Boardwalk (4.8 million) which received an immediate second season renewal. Yet HBO always takes into account what Sunday show was used to ramp up viewers to the new program’s premiere, and Thrones had a weak platform — Mildred Pierce, which averaged around 1 million viewers, a number Thrones more than doubled.

    What’s perhaps the closest ratings comparison to a fantasy series like Thrones is HBO’s other genre drama, True Blood. A prestigious crime drama Boardwalk is much more in the traditional HBO viewership wheelhouse. Compared to the vampire show, Thrones did really well. Blood only opened with 1.4 million viewers, and similarly had no real platform to launch from, but then went on to grow week after week into a major hit for the network.

    So what does all this mean for Thrones? The premiere number is good, not great. HBO would have loved for the first airing of Thrones to have been in the 3 million range, but will definitely take anything in the 2s. The next question: How many viewers will stick around next week?

    http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/04/19/game-of-thrones-premiere-ratings/


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭rocky


    Watched it again with better speakers, still only hear 'Aya', no 'Arya'... I guess GRRM advised them on how to pronounce it. I'll get over it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    I thought it was excellent!

    Can't wait for the next episode.

    Away on holidays next week, was tempted to try get the book before I go, but I might end up spoiling the show slightly if I do that.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,258 ✭✭✭MayoForSam


    Solid rather than spectacular opening episode, might have been better if had been a double episode.

    But a very good adaptation of the book so far. This series will be a real grower over time I feel and suck people in with the excellent storyline. True Blood on HBO started off fairly low-key too and look at the success of that show.

    Interesting Google trends graphs comparing GoT to two other similar recent shows with a medieval/historical theme - Borgias and Camelot. GoT has really spiked in the last few days.

    http://www.google.com/trends?q=game+of+thrones%2C+camelot&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=0

    http://www.google.com/trends?q=game+of+thrones%2C+borgias&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=0


  • Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭RoRoCullen


    First episode was good, solid start for a new series!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭Rabidlamb


    It needs more nudity :D

    I enjoyed it but I preferred the Boardwalk Empire pilot.
    A few plot issues:

    I takes the King a month to travel to Knightfell looking for Sean Beans help.
    If your throne is in jeopardy you wouldn't leave it that long unattended.

    The incestuous Queen & her brother have a scene overlooking the waked body of the previous King.
    So that scene must have been a flashback before they left for Knightfell, over a month ago.

    The beheading of the lad for running away from his post seemed a bit harsh.

    I'm always picky so don't mind me.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,515 ✭✭✭matrim


    Rabidlamb wrote: »

    I takes the King a month to travel to Knightfell looking for Sean Beans help.
    If your throne is in jeopardy you wouldn't leave it that long unattended.

    It's Winterfell not Knightfell
    The incestuous Queen & her brother have a scene overlooking the waked body of the previous King.
    So that scene must have been a flashback before they left for Knightfell, over a month ago.
    The scene at the start with the archery and the beheading would be the same time that scene. Then it later jumps to a month ahead when the king is coming to winterfell. You can see this partly in the growth of the direwolves.

    By the way that was the old "Hand of the King" not the king (i.e the same as what Eddard (Ned) Stark is being asked to be)
    The beheading of the lad for running away from his post seemed a bit harsh.

    They swear an oath and part of that is that desertion means death. Also a small spoiler about them
    Being sent to the wall can be a punishment. So a murderer can have a choice of death or life on the wall. If they then try and escape they are killed.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭dr gonzo


    Been waiting for this show for a while now, huge amount of man love for Sean Bean so i love that about the show already but its brilliant in its own right. I absolutely agree that it should have been a double episode but i can tell already that its gonna pull me in completely.

    I agree with your man in the posted youtube review, the end is quite the shocker and Snow does seem like hes gonna be major.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Peter Dinklage is brilliant, loved him in the Station Agent and hes very good in this, his accent is pretty good, better than his tosser (:rolleyes:) of a brothers anyway. I haven't read the books, enjoyed the first episode. Couple of characters to really hate in it already which is a good start.

    Presumably the Direwolves will play a part later on. Looking forward to episode 2.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭dr gonzo


    Can't wait for the next ep myself, really looking forward to seeing what the repercussions ep 1's ending will be.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    I've never read the book or is that books? Some no knowledge and still interested to learn more about this wall and what the men are guarding against. Have an idea but want to learn more

    It realy could have done with a double episode to begin with, I often think the same for most any series
    Rabidlamb wrote: »

    The beheading of the lad for running away from his post seemed a bit harsh.

    Not realy, the lad was told the consequences and death for desertion was the usual punishment. Even in World War I, Irishmen in the British army were shot for this.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    I really enjoyed the opening episode. I've come into this knowing nothing of the books but I do love the "feel" of it. I'm hooked already.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Temaz


    I really enjoyed the opening episode. I've come into this knowing nothing of the books but I do love the "feel" of it. I'm hooked already.

    Nail on head!


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