game of thrones (catching up)

[afuna]

Have finished the second episode of Game of Thrones -- just in time for the third episode which just came out *g*

(the bad parts I'd heard about weren't as... painful as I'd feared they'd be. Though that's mostly because I came in heavily spoiled and anticipating the painful bits.)

I'm revising my opinion of the suitably of many of the actors sharply upward: those I was on the fence about before, I'm now very happy about. I guess it just took more exposure :D

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I feel like I shouldn't say this, but Jon Snow kinda makes me want to go "...awww" and pet him. I think it's the curls and the eyes. I mean, I feel like he's all serious and whatever, but every time I see him onscreen I just feel like his eyes are so dark and brooding and liquidy and his expressions are so forlorn and I DUNNO. I laugh because I love, really! And I love because I laugh, pretty much.

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The wall is my favorite piece of architecture.

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OTOH, I'm in the middle of the third book right now. It's somewhat disorienting bouncing back and forth between book and series.

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This is a reread, but the last time I read the books, I read them a couple chapters at a time stretched out across several weeks, so I'd forgotten what had happened at beginning once I reached the middle and end.

Reading them quickly over a short enough period of time that I actually still remember the details from the previous books / chapters when I reach the next relevant POV chapters is very, er, helpful. I don't know if it's because of that, or if it's because I'm rereading so I have some idea of where things are going but I'm seeing the characters in a different light now.

Among other things, I actually like Dany's story, I have a lot more sympathy for Sansa and Catelyn, and a lot less sympathy for Robert Baratheon.

And I feel a lot more sympathy for Cersei, though I'm pretty sure that's the TV series, not the books.

Arya I will always ♥ Tyrion, I love the wit, blah at the skeeviness but I guess the wit wins as does the cynicism so *handwave*

Comments

[jumpuphigh]

I'm totally addicted to GoT now. I have the books on my computer waiting to be side-loaded and read.

[afuna]

HEEE. Yeah I did that too -- it was easier than lugging around my paperback copies which are quite thick. (Plus also as of right now, somewhat lost)

The series follows the books very closely in some, seems to miss the point completely in others. Have fun!

[starshadow_rivaulx]

I'm getting ready to marathon the first three episodes of this series, without knowing a single thing about the plot or characters except that people I know are raving over the books. *chuckle*

I have a feeling this is going to be a lot of fun.

[afuna]

Oooh I hope you enjoy :) (Have you been spoiled / do you need trigger warnings or no? I'd be willing to arm you with a couple warnings if you want them!)

[starshadow_rivaulx]

Not been spoiled, but I'm a spoiler hussy, so not to worry about that where I'm concerned. *grin*

[afuna]

Hee okay.

I think that the most ... something to warn about are sexual assault and sexual assault triggers just because they're this really major part of what happens in the first two episodes especially (I haven't seen the third!) so maybe it would help to go into that forewarned

And then there's other stuff BUT MOSTLY that one is what deserves the most forewarning I think!

[pne]

Bit of trivia: all I've read of GoT is the Dany chapters of the first book.

As you might know, the studio hired someone to create the Dothraki language for the film, and I was one of the judges who evaluated language proposals by applicants before a shortlist of creators was presented to the studio for their final decision. So I had to know about the canon use of Dothraki words, but not much of the remaining story. Might have to read the entire book one of these days :)

[afuna]

Oooh that is pretty cool :-) I didn't know that the studio had put so much effort into creating the Dothraki language though! I thought they might have used whatever was in the books *G*

(Any impressions even on just the Dany chapters? They're so far distant from the other chapters in terms of events that I have sometimes wondered how they'd stand on their own)

[pne]

I didn't know that the studio had put so much effort into creating the Dothraki language though! I thought they might have used whatever was in the books *G*

Well there you go! The book only had a dozen or so phrases and about as many names, not very much material - and they wanted a proper language, with grammar and vocabulary and all. Makes for more realism.

I think the Language Creation Society, who brokered the deal, and the conlanging community (or at least the part I'm aware of) would have liked this to have been something to bring constructed languages and professional language creation into the public eye - we were a bit upstages by Avatar with Na'vi, though :)

Anyway, perhaps learning Dothraki will catch on anyway! And perhaps they'll even sell a printed Dothraki dictionary and grammar, the way Paramount did with Klingon.

(Any impressions even on just the Dany chapters? They're so far distant from the other chapters in terms of events that I have sometimes wondered how they'd stand on their own)

Without reading any of the rest, I did get the impression that it was a fairly stand-alone story, yes; I don't think I was missing anything.

And quite a turbulent story!

The bit where the king lost his mind was gripping, and how she was burned and emerged unharmed with her eggs, too. And the conflict with her stopping a soldier from assaulting a woman and having to deal with the "that's how we've always done it here" and then expecting the woman to be grateful but getting spite in return.

[mmmpork]

<3 game of thrones! Been torrenting them. I'm also about halfway through the 3rd book, holy crap. I don't like how they are portraying Cersei, she's just not evil enough. And Dany is way meeker than she was even in the beginning of the books. I'm sad they didn't have her take off and ride with the horse, that was like the first spark of her awesome. I also am not a fan of the casting for King Robert, I just imagined him a lot fatter and his features a lot darker. Overall though I'm really impressed by the casting and the costumes and well, everything. Arya is also my favorite character. She's the only Stark that's totally chaotic neutral, the rest of them are just too lawful good for their own good.

[afuna]

I like thinking that Cersei isn't always evil, but yeah I agree, she's just... I dunno, way too vulnerable in public, where I'd expect her to show either a blank face or fury.


And yeah, they took away a lot of the scenes where Dany is taking control, and I don't even know why.

I thought for a while that King Robert and Ned Stark were about the same amount of fat (in the show not the books!). But it turns out that was just the furs.

I love Arya <3 I have a comment about the Starks and their lawful good BUT I worry it would be a spoiler unless you're past a certain point, so I won't say!