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Best show on TV, closely followed by True Blood and Banshee.
Is Game of Thrones worth watching?
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agree but if you think s1 is a bunch of talking then season 3 will make you wanna fall to sleep im on e5 though ;(
I remember watching the first ep of this when it got aired. I watched it and just though pfft BORING... never thought about it again. Few more episodes got aired and my Brother kept telling me how good it was. So I watched the first ep again and still thought meh.... I forced myself to watch a 2nd ep. I thought ok not bad picking up a bit, then a 3rd ep and I was hooked.
This is what I also thought about a quarter of the way into the first book. It was all going very steadily then there was the incident with Bran, and I thought, Yes! an intriguing mystery whodunnit, this is going to take a fair chunk of the book to solve. but it was over in a very short while, with a as you say, very formulaic resolution. I was not that impressed to be honest, given all the hype the books have been given over the years.
But I stuck with it and like everyone says, it is the characters that really keep the book together, despite the fairly run of the mill story so far (half way through second book). Its them you want to keep reading for to see what happens next.
I have been spoiled on a couple of future plot twists unfortunately, so can only imagine the story does have some fairly radical turns to make in order to get to those twists. But for now I am reading it mainly for the character descriptions as they make their ways from plot A to plot B and so forth.
I've watched the first series and am keeping the second and third series on my box until I've read far enough. I gather from this thread that series 3 is probably not safe to watch until I've read all 5 books? What about series 2, at what point in the books does that series finish?
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If you don't like it now then you will want to throw your TV out the window half way through season 3...they talk even more later on, it's pretty much all they do.
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Don't listen to Raymond, he's so disappointed with the show yet still manages to tune into every episode each week 
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Don't listen to Raymond, he's so disappointed with the show yet still manages to tune into every episode each week
You cannot deny the fact that they do talk, a lot, which was what Camalot is concerned about.
I am not saying that is all they do, but it is most of what they do.
It is no 24 for excitment and the writing is not even half as smart as the West Wing. It tries to be grand and look big, it succeeds in part but it also fails spectacularly other parts.
It illustrates how bad television is these days if this is the best thing on the box. Behind the gloss and presentation of it all, Game of Thrones are quite shallow (in the show anyway), the fact that there are no major character as such means it is difficult to relate or care for any of them so it means each one of them a throw away. Th show also teaches you early on that no one is safe from the chop so you stop caring at that point, meaning, at least for me, I don't care for any one of them.
The other problem that the show is running to is the script, or the lack of it. I think it took the author 15 years or something to write 5 books, they have 2 years left before the show catches up with the book.....what on earth do they do then?
They also need to speed up the timeline somewhat for this show (but it is not a problem in the book), some of the kids on the show will probably be 20 years old by the time season 7 comes and fully grown and it seems to me that in 3 seasons of the show, merely months has gone by so in terms of continuity this just make the entire thing ridiculous. Imagine that Bran still getting piggyback when he is like a grown man.....
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You love it Ray, deep down you love it 
Er? I assume you mean who organised the attempted stabbing, not the pushing? And that we don't find out until book three. Books one and two have characters who believe they know who it was, but are wrong. Don't mix those two things up.
Er, no, as it happens. Too much info on the stabbing btw.
Too much? I happens about 25% of the way into book one. The only other incident with Bran was him being pushed, and we knew who that was when it happened. So I'm struggling to work out what this mystery is?
You lost me there
Your post describes what happens in book three. I.e. I can safely ignore any and all plot lines related to this particular plot thread in the book I am currently reading, Book 2, as you helpfully inform me those plot lines are irrelevant.
So what you are actually upset about is that I proved that your understanding of the books was wrong? And it's well over a decade since they came out, so how long am I supposed to keep this a secret? It's not like I told you who it was.