Soooo... What'd Everybody Think?

[Ursa major]

Have you considered that all that nudity is there to stop people like you (garbophiles?) drooling over the costumes...?

[Mesanna]

@JenJen I think you should try reading the books. I am enjoying the TV show tremendously, but it doesn't give you a tenth of the character development that the books do. Plus, there is nowhere near the same amount of sex in the books. I think the only actual sex scenes that take place in the book (so far) are Dany's wedding night with Drogo, and Jaime and Cersei in the tower.

[Nesacat]

I've read the books and watched four episodes. Don't know how I am going to find them now that I am back in Malaysia. I watched these in Europe where friends had them. I loved them and how they had been made. I understand and accept that some things, though attractive had to be removed. I really appreciate that the resulting storyline flows pretty well, is well cast and looks awesome. I look forward to the rest.

[Quick Ben]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

I've read the books and watched four episodes. Don't know how I am going to find them now that I am back in Malaysia. I watched these in Europe where friends had them. I loved them and how they had been made. I understand and accept that some things, though attractive had to be removed. I really appreciate that the resulting storyline flows pretty well, is well cast and looks awesome. I look forward to the rest.

If you have plenty of download bandwidth and interested in watching the show then PM me

[JenJen]

Originally Posted by Ursa major

Have you considered that all that nudity is there to stop people like you (garbophiles?) drooling over the costumes...?

Hahah! Garbophile I'm so gonna remember that!
But seriously. A lot of thought has gone into the clothes. The different textures and materials depending on where the people are from. Different colours and patterns. Someone's been having a lot of fun with it.

Originally Posted by Mesanna

@JenJen I think you should try reading the books. I am enjoying the TV show tremendously, but it doesn't give you a tenth of the character development that the books do. Plus, there is nowhere near the same amount of sex in the books. I think the only actual sex scenes that take place in the book (so far) are Dany's wedding night with Drogo, and Jaime and Cersei in the tower.

My partner told me to read the 20 first pages of the first book, so I did that last night. There was instantly so much more -action- than there's in the series so far. In the series I feel like I'm watching people talk about what happened in the past ('remember that war?' 'Oh yes I do. Wow it was so cool and exciting.' 'I knooow' 'Remember those dragons?' 'They were massive!') and what's gonna happen in the future ('watch out for the winter.' 'Winter's coming.' 'there's gonna be war again. It's gonna be awful. Lots of dead people and fighting and action.'), but rarely -doing- anything interesting (well, other than humping eachother, if you like that sort of thing :P)

My man said that he liked the first book and the third. The rest of them struggle to actually get the plot moving forward with all the characters not doing much, or it's just not structured well.

But hey, we've got some more episodes to watch tonight. Better go get some wine.

[Nesacat]

Originally Posted by Quick Ben

If you have plenty of download bandwidth and interested in watching the show then PM me

Thank you very much. Morpheus says he will get them for me

[Esioul]

I enjoyed this series, best thing I've watched for a while- even managed to get non-geek friends obsessed with it! Now I am going to buy the book...

[Starchaser3000]

So far I think the action scenes and acting are well done. Its a little plot heavy for my tastes. And the subplots are mind numbing. But I think that is because I have not watched the episodes consecutively yet, outside of random HBO reruns. I'm still going to watch season 2 without watching all of season 1 because I believe I already got the gist of what is going on anyway.

[paranoid marvin]

Not read the books , just seen the tv series; and I thought it was epic on a scale grander than Jackson's LOTR trilogy. Magnificent , and along with Boardwalk Empire, one of the few programmes worth watching these days.

[Warren_Paul]

HBO have definitely outdone themselves with Game of Thrones, its a masterpiece and keeps true enough to the original story not to upset the fans, unlike the disaster that was Legend of the Seeker.

there were only a couple of scenes I didn't really think much of, firstly the scene with Petyr Balish in his whore house obsessing over Catelyn while he interviews the whores. Secondly the scene where Pycelle is talking to the whore he just had sex with and then doing his exercises.

I can understand putting the naked woman in the scene with Pycelle to keep certain members of the audience entertained through his 'info dump' but the exercises were not necessary.

But the production quality of the show was second to none.