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    • #6092
      Ttime42
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      I just started watching the first season of GoT. I’ve seen two eps and I’m super eager for more! The acting is good and the characters are pretty developed and intriguing.
      I started reading the first book by George Martin before I watched the series, and I really only made it a couple hundred pages in before I lost interest. I hoped the show would be better since I’d heard nothing but good things from lots of different people. Happily, they were right.
      If you don’t watch it, and are looking for new shows like I am, give it a try.

    • #6093
      Xanthe
      Keymaster

      Oh it’s wonderful! I couldn’t be arsed with the book either and almost gave up the show in the first 2 mins – i thought it’d be full of boring dungeons and dragons cliches, but it was wonderful! I watched all 12 eps in S1 in a single weekend with a good friend when I had my broken leg! We LOVED LOVED LOVED it and couldn’t stop compulsively watching the next ep! LOL! My favourite is Daenerys – but I adored the character Peter Dinklage played too – what a great actor he is!

    • #6094
      Ttime42
      Member

      Lol, I found the very first scene to be pretty suspenseful. I’m sure I’d have watched all 12 in a weekend too if I could! It really is a show I keep wanting to come back too. Daenerys IS a great character. I’m still only 4 or so eps in, but I really like how she’s starting to blossom despite her situation (trying to not be spoilery!) I also really like Catelyn. They made her a strong female character in a time when women were oppressed without her being a man-hater or annoying (which, in my experience, happens often with female characters who are supposed to be strong.) Peter Dinklage’s Tyrion is definitely intriguing. He’s pretty much the one Lannister I don’t totally despise! I think he won an Emmy, or Golden Globe or some award for GoT.

    • #6095
      Altyerre
      Participant

      I did ‘Clash of Kings'(second book in the ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series) as my book report back in year eight mainly because I was being a smart ass. The teacher specified a five page report that had to include Title; Author; Genre; Setting; CAST OF CARACTERS; Plot Synopsis. Needless to say I had the easiest book report of the class (for some reason my teacher wasn’t that impressed).
      I’ve got Game of Thrones on my to watch list at the moment. I’ve got them, I just need to find the weekend with which to watch all 12.

    • #6096
      Xanthe
      Keymaster

      I loved all the female characters, even the deeply flawed ones, because there were good reasons for their flaws. I loved Catelyn too. I think it just goes to show that you have to write women as people first in order for them to be strong and interesting – and that’s mainly what TV shows DON’T do. Maybe this one did better because it was a book first and had fleshed out the women in that. Because in most TV shows the women are there to be ‘hot and kickass’, ‘sex object’ and ‘strong in a man’s world’ (which usually means brittle, stroppy, and prone to needing men to rescue her in my experience) and they all end up as cliches – and incidentally widely disliked by other women. I really loved loving the women on GOT as much or more than the men because they were genuinely interesting in their own right. It’s a bit like Rizzoli and Isles – write them as the central characters and not there to be some cliche and we like them.

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