It's about time he looked the part:
Is it my imagination or is that sword ... bent?
Maybe just the shading.
Poll: Winter Is Coming - HBO's A Game of Thrones [READ WARNING]
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Is it my imagination or is that sword ... bent?
Maybe just the shading.
It looks like there is a slight kink in the hilt before it straightens out.
Or the bad guy from Goldeneye.
I've never read the books, but i thouht the first episode was interesting.
It started off on a high note, then went on very slowly/ With such a huge cast of characters, i can see why they would spend their time intorducing them slowly. Sean Bean definitely fits in, as does Jason Momoa as Drogo.
Will watch the next episode, i'm not hooked but it does look interesting.
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I thought it was watchable, but not much more.
Everything was going fine right up until the first shot of inside that town, and then it was obvious what level of production it was going to be and then I lost of a lot of my excitement. And I can't see the budget going up, down if anything because that was the pilot supposed to hook people.
I'll still be watching it though.
Everything was going fine right up until the first shot of inside that town, and then it was obvious what level of production it was going to be and then I lost of a lot of my excitement. And I can't see the budget going up, down if anything because that was the pilot supposed to hook people.
I'll still be watching it though.
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I'm amazed how faithful that was
I'm also amazed at how cute Daenerys is
I thought the final scene lacked the impact it should have had, seemed more comical.
I'm also amazed at how cute Daenerys is
I thought the final scene lacked the impact it should have had, seemed more comical.
or the bloke who starts to read in EquilibriumOr that bloke that doesnt know what colour the boat house is at hereford ?
.Anyway, I really enjoyed the first episode and I'm looking forward to the rest. Not sure whether to read the books now or not?? (with books being generally better than film/TV - watch a good TV series then read great books, or read great books and watch an OK TV series)
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The Song of Ice and Fire books are probably my favourite series of books to date, i'd definitely say read em!
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Well I thought it was really good. I do agree with drunkenmaster that fans of the books will initially like it a lot more than non fans. The family thought it was good but was "a bit slow and not much happened". I think had I not known what I do I might have shared that criticism... perhaps it should have been a double bill to better introduce new people. Overall 9/10.... and lets not foget the boobies
Yeah its weird because for me, he will always be Sharpe.
See for me, he was never Sharpe, it was a dreadful set of adaptations of my favourite ever series of books, made worse by Bean, who was terrible in them, screaming "chosen men" every 5 minutes and just being generally rubbish.
For me Sean Bean is the bloke who sticks out like a sore thumb in everything he is in, because he is usually the worse thing in it.
Give him credit for his bit in the LOTR, he wasnt as bad as he normally is.
Well to be fair, I would very much suspect that amongst his duties on Sharpe, writing the scripts was not one of them, hence I'd take a stab that having to scream "chosen men" every 5 minutes was not something that he decided upon.
- Sansa too ugly.
- caetlyn too ugly.
- tyrion very well played.
- Jaime seems too nice
- cersei too ugly
- Robert the king was very well played
- Targaryen bloke not weird/vicious and as much of a ****** as I hoped.
- dothraki represented averagely at best
- title sequence was rubbish
- story seems pretty true to the books if annoyingly shortened (no real direwolf story and no real mention of robb/rickon)
- overall sets are well done and well presented, more so than I thought they would be.
Overall:
meh. I love the books so much it will never compare to them but the episode was just rather average to my eyes. They introduced the characters poorly, i'm not really sure who was jon and who was robb, assuming someone was Theon but he wasn't mentioned. Just meh
nothing happened and as I said my missus who didn't read the books has no real clue who anyone was after watching the episode. I'll keep watching but average at best and got nowhere near fulfilling my expectations.
- caetlyn too ugly.
- tyrion very well played.
- Jaime seems too nice
- cersei too ugly
- Robert the king was very well played
- Targaryen bloke not weird/vicious and as much of a ****** as I hoped.
- dothraki represented averagely at best
- title sequence was rubbish
- story seems pretty true to the books if annoyingly shortened (no real direwolf story and no real mention of robb/rickon)
- overall sets are well done and well presented, more so than I thought they would be.
Overall:
meh. I love the books so much it will never compare to them but the episode was just rather average to my eyes. They introduced the characters poorly, i'm not really sure who was jon and who was robb, assuming someone was Theon but he wasn't mentioned. Just meh
nothing happened and as I said my missus who didn't read the books has no real clue who anyone was after watching the episode. I'll keep watching but average at best and got nowhere near fulfilling my expectations.
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I agree with a lot of what you say but still think it was a good episode, and the beginning of the book wasn't all out action from the get go as I recall, should get better as it goes along.
The only thing above i would disagree with is that I think Cersei is represented as I imagined her, but for the rest I think you're pretty much on the ball. I was especially disappointed in the Targaryen bloke, he didn't seem to play the part well. Daenerys was awesome though
lol how can you say they are "too ugly"
Beauty if such a subjective thing. ask people to give their own Top 10 most attractive women. I bet if you took 100 men you'd not get one list exactly the same.
And at the end of the day, its based on a book. There is no reference point for how "beautiful" they should be, only how you imagined them in your head.
Its not the directors fault, if the people he picked didn't fall in line with your ideas of beauty.
Daft criticism imo.
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Sansa too ugly 
I thought she was exactly as I imagined in terms of looks and personality. I imagined Arya a little differently though.
Cersai Im only not keen because I've seen Lena in too many things now, I'd rather it was an unknown actress, she's done fine so far.
Dothraki represented averagely?? We've only just met them, give it more time.
I thought the guy who played Jaime was very good, bear in mind we've only seen him in scenes with Cersai and Tyrion so far I'm sure we'll see him get a bit more vicious.
I thought Visarys (spl?) was just right as well, they've got his treatment of her as a tool down really well.
I thought she was exactly as I imagined in terms of looks and personality. I imagined Arya a little differently though.Cersai Im only not keen because I've seen Lena in too many things now, I'd rather it was an unknown actress, she's done fine so far.
Dothraki represented averagely?? We've only just met them, give it more time.
I thought the guy who played Jaime was very good, bear in mind we've only seen him in scenes with Cersai and Tyrion so far I'm sure we'll see him get a bit more vicious.
I thought Visarys (spl?) was just right as well, they've got his treatment of her as a tool down really well.