I've never watched A Game of Thrones. What am I missing?
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Fair enough, but why would you read them if you thought they were awful?...if I read the first book of a series and thought it was awful, I wouldn't read the 2nd one, let alone all 5!
You can have cersei lannister but Daenarys Targaryen is mine
What gilly expects
What he actually gets
the real one is all mine!
Comes to something when a show as mediocre as this is hailed as the best thing ever, it's ok and that's all it is, the acting in the main is utterly dire and if it wasn't for the intriguing story I'd have stopped watching it after the first few episodes.
The first book showed a lot of promise and I read them on the assumption that the other 4 books would deliver. Unfortunatley I feel they fell short of what could have and maybe even should have been tale of epic proportions.
I felt the author tried to weave too many stories together in one grand epic and at times the narrative felt as if it have become lost and disjointed. Too many characters dissapearing for huge chunks of a books only to pop up again seemingly at random. Would have been better broken up a little similar to what Robin Hobb did with her Farseer/Tawny Mann/Liveship/Dragon Keeper books.
As I have not watched the series though like I said I cannot comment although I have heard good things and the fact it is in its 3rd season means it must be at least half decent.
/Salsa
This is due to 2 of the books happening concurrently (time wise) but to try and cram all characters POVs into one book would be too confusing. I agree its not perfect but thats why.
Sounds like your wrong and 337,465 people are right
Ratings: 9.4/10 from 237,465 users
I realise why it was done and it is explained at the beginning of one of the books (storm of swords?).
Even making allowances for this however I just felt that the story never delivered the intrigue and blood promised by the first book and felt a little flat throughout.
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You can have cersei lannister but Daenarys Targaryen is mine
That's alright.
I'll take Emilia Clarke
You can have Daenarys.
No idea what you'd want with a fictional character anyway
P.s. OP she has a rocking body and boobs. Watch it and you'll agree
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No, I have an opinion that doesn't follow the trend, that doesn't make it wrong.
Individual opinions are neither right nor wrong, but collective opinions kinda are...
What rubbish, popular opinion held that the world was flat once too.
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That's what all those Evangelicals says about the existence of God.
And
When everyone in the world thought it was flat.
And
We thought cigarettes was safe
I could go on.
Point is, for TV, it is good there are actually a lot of talking and not much action.
The sets are pretty, the acting is kinda decent, the story is interesting, you do care about some characters so that much credit has to be given.
Out of 10, I say a solid 7, or 8 when that dwarf is on screen, he steals the show IMO.
9 would be pushing it a bit too far.
BSG Season 1-2 was a solid 9 most episodes, Game of Thrones is not in the same league.
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Hmm, i'll put it this way: if Lord of the Rings is the epitome of "classic" fantasy then A Song of Ice and Fire is the epitome of "modern" fantasy. In Lord of the Rings you have the good side and the bad side in this intensely detailed universe. In ASOIAF almost every character is quite clearly morally grey, and the story revolves not around the fight between good and evil but around the complexities of the characters themselves, and the perhaps surprisingly interesting politics they're involved in.
My irony meter is overloading a bit here, because you're countering my argument for popular belief being correct with a popularly held but provably false belief that people once believed something. I'm not entirely sure which of us is proving the other wrong at this point.
Is it?
Raymond Lin said:
Except they never did.
Raymond Lin said:
Don't.
I'll clarify... Opinions are subjectively held beliefs. An individual might feel anything about a show based on their personal likes and dislikes. However, once you factor in a large number of people, particularly a large number of people on a site like imdb who have self-selected as people with strong feelings, opinions, and probably not a small amount of knowledge and experience of such things, you will gather a strong collective opinion, which will asymptotically approach something like truth or correctness.
What is this I don't even
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