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But yeah, GoT. It's so gosh darned PRETTEH. In that kinda grubby lived in way but goddamn, the production on it. If they run out of money midway through book 2 a la Rome, I'm gonna be pissed. I mean I had to go back and watch that title sequence again because clockwork castles are cool.
Okay okay, getting away from production and casting and how correct everyone/thing looks... aaah. I think this is going to be hard for people to get into if they haven't read the books honestly, especially based on this one episode. Granted the book also had this problem, being that it threw fifty bazillion characters at you all at once and you pretty much spend the next, oh, four thousand pages worth of series trying to figure out what the fuck is going on and why and at the same time wondering in the back of your head if you actually care and this is with the forewarning I got about DO NOT GET ATTACHED TO ANY OF THESE CHARACTERS BECAUSE IF YOU DO SOMETHING HORRIBLE WILL HAPPEN TO THEM (quite true, btw). It's... kind of a large hurdle to get past even when reading it because you know there's at least a four volume (the rest aren't even written yet) slog ahead. It's a slightly more challenging hurdle for a TV series which does have to grab and pull in viewers outside of GRRM's considerable fan base, especially if HBO is going to maintain this level of production on it. I'm not quite sure this first episode accomplished that; hell I've read the damn book and I'm all "wait, who the fuck are all these people again and how are they related and who's the dead guy with the creepy eyeballs painted on rocks covering his eyes, and why does that guy have what looks like a metal cat head for an armor visor and who was that guy who looked creepily like Mark Hamill that hung out with the Stark kids but was never addressed by name (It's Greyjoy, btw) and why did the king travel all the way up to what looks like the Fortress of Solitude to touch a statue of a girl in an underground crypt and damn, that is Mark Addy under the beard innit? it's been a while since the Full Monty and HOLY GOD THERE ARE BOOBIES EVERYWHERE. PETER DINKLAGE IS JUST SWIMMING IN A PILE OF BOOBIES A LA SCROOGE MCDUCK AND HIS MONEY. AND WOW I HAVEN'T SEEN THIS MUCH BROTHER/SISTER INCEST SINCE, OH, THE LAST ANIME SERIES I WATCHED INVOLVING A HIGH SCHOOL. SRSLY. AND IS JASON MOMOA'S PECTORAL MUSCLE THE SIZE OF MY HEAD OR WHAT. (and I have a pretty big head.)"
okay seriously. Like I said, they throw a lot at you in hour one, and the only reason I didn't have that much trouble following was reading the book beforehand. Considering the book doesn't quite make things clear either, I suppose this isn't exactly a fail on their part, but that's not exactly going to reel in the new viewers. I think the PRETTEH and the SEXXAYTIMES and the occasionally CUTE CLEVER KIDDOS punctuating the action are meant to hold your attention for the few eps it's going to take for the story to settle out and get moving; by that point it's gonna get boring (oh, look, more bosom). Well okay, not boring but it won't be nearly as much of a lure as it is initially.
But all that, the usual complaints about the lack of color in most epic fantasy except in the context of "EXOTIC BARBARIAN HOOOOOOOOO" plot devices (which was expected, but still, eyeroll), and a few other quibbles aside, I did enjoy GoT and will keep watching. Worth the wait and the hype I think.
But yeah, GoT. It's so gosh darned PRETTEH. In that kinda grubby lived in way but goddamn, the production on it. If they run out of money midway through book 2 a la Rome, I'm gonna be pissed. I mean I had to go back and watch that title sequence again because clockwork castles are cool.
Okay okay, getting away from production and casting and how correct everyone/thing looks... aaah. I think this is going to be hard for people to get into if they haven't read the books honestly, especially based on this one episode. Granted the book also had this problem, being that it threw fifty bazillion characters at you all at once and you pretty much spend the next, oh, four thousand pages worth of series trying to figure out what the fuck is going on and why and at the same time wondering in the back of your head if you actually care and this is with the forewarning I got about DO NOT GET ATTACHED TO ANY OF THESE CHARACTERS BECAUSE IF YOU DO SOMETHING HORRIBLE WILL HAPPEN TO THEM (quite true, btw). It's... kind of a large hurdle to get past even when reading it because you know there's at least a four volume (the rest aren't even written yet) slog ahead. It's a slightly more challenging hurdle for a TV series which does have to grab and pull in viewers outside of GRRM's considerable fan base, especially if HBO is going to maintain this level of production on it. I'm not quite sure this first episode accomplished that; hell I've read the damn book and I'm all "wait, who the fuck are all these people again and how are they related and who's the dead guy with the creepy eyeballs painted on rocks covering his eyes, and why does that guy have what looks like a metal cat head for an armor visor and who was that guy who looked creepily like Mark Hamill that hung out with the Stark kids but was never addressed by name (It's Greyjoy, btw) and why did the king travel all the way up to what looks like the Fortress of Solitude to touch a statue of a girl in an underground crypt and damn, that is Mark Addy under the beard innit? it's been a while since the Full Monty and HOLY GOD THERE ARE BOOBIES EVERYWHERE. PETER DINKLAGE IS JUST SWIMMING IN A PILE OF BOOBIES A LA SCROOGE MCDUCK AND HIS MONEY. AND WOW I HAVEN'T SEEN THIS MUCH BROTHER/SISTER INCEST SINCE, OH, THE LAST ANIME SERIES I WATCHED INVOLVING A HIGH SCHOOL. SRSLY. AND IS JASON MOMOA'S PECTORAL MUSCLE THE SIZE OF MY HEAD OR WHAT. (and I have a pretty big head.)"
okay seriously. Like I said, they throw a lot at you in hour one, and the only reason I didn't have that much trouble following was reading the book beforehand. Considering the book doesn't quite make things clear either, I suppose this isn't exactly a fail on their part, but that's not exactly going to reel in the new viewers. I think the PRETTEH and the SEXXAYTIMES and the occasionally CUTE CLEVER KIDDOS punctuating the action are meant to hold your attention for the few eps it's going to take for the story to settle out and get moving; by that point it's gonna get boring (oh, look, more bosom). Well okay, not boring but it won't be nearly as much of a lure as it is initially.
But all that, the usual complaints about the lack of color in most epic fantasy except in the context of "EXOTIC BARBARIAN HOOOOOOOOO" plot devices (which was expected, but still, eyeroll), and a few other quibbles aside, I did enjoy GoT and will keep watching. Worth the wait and the hype I think.
