Starrfall on 5/3/2011 at 00:41
Ahahahah you crotchety bastards are still some of my favorite internet people don't ever change <3
Tocky on 5/3/2011 at 04:04
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Shut up, 2-bars. Katanas ain't shit compared to my big ass highlander style broadsword.
Ohgod I actually have two of them because just having one pisses off the person you are poking with it. I need to nerd rehab.
Renzatic on 5/3/2011 at 04:06
That's what I'm saying, Tocky. Friends with all their fingers ain't friends.
Scots Taffer on 7/3/2011 at 13:50
Super-nerdy but I have a script-link for the pilot, if anyone's keen to see it let me know.
d0om on 7/3/2011 at 14:00
Is it going to watchable on the internet / UK when its released? I'd pay small money (<£2) to watch the episode, but if I can't get it legally I guess I'll torrent it / wait for the DVD.
oudeis on 5/4/2011 at 06:59
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This post contains semi-spoilers)
First 14 minutes are (
http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html#/game-of-thrones) online. Caution: it paused to re-buffer about every 20-30 seconds when I watched it, so do not attempt to watch unless you are possessed of superhuman patience. Even better, it doesn't continue to download in the background if you pause it, so you will need to be forgiving of incredibly bad website architecture as well. Oh, and you should have your hand on the volume control because the sound designer apparently just learned about
DYNAMIC RANGE ZOMG111 and just had to share his newfound knowledge with the world.
SPOILERS BELOW
On to the content:
* the wall looked more like a glacial formation than the handiwork of man, but it was pretty imposing
* the watch dudes weren't as scummy or arrogant as I remember
* the cinematographer really went with the gray and dreary 'dark age of grimdark' theme
* Sean Bean is
not aging well
* the greatsword of House Stark looks like something from a jrpg
That's really all there was to the clip. If you're a fan of the series you'll probably squee at its fidelity to the material but what I saw felt uninspired and listless.
jimjack on 5/4/2011 at 21:08
You mean this wall?
Inline Image:
http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/game-thrones-wall.jpgI'm not a fan of the whole 'watch the first lil bit' gimmick, I've been re-reading the books and I just know that HBO won't fuck this up. I'd rather wait and catch something as a whole, but nice preview. I don't like all the changes they made from the book adaption but so far it seems promising out of the rest of the tv offerings and repeats.
demagogue on 10/4/2011 at 16:21
Good (
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/arts/television/game-of-thrones-on-hbo-from-george-r-r-martin-novels.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28) write-up in the NYTimes today.
One week to premier. Catch the fever.
Edit: quotes
Quote:
Though the writers were initially put off by the heft of the novels (which run about 800 pages each), they were won over by characters like Eddard Stark, a lord torn between loyalty to his family and his loutish king, and Tyrion Lannister, a high-born dwarf with a fondness for brothels.
Mr. Benioff, who described himself as a lapsed fantasy reader, said he had become tired of a field crowded with J. R. R. Tolkien rip-offs. “Whenever you have the epic conflict of good and evil,” he said, “it becomes the most predictable story line ever, because we all know who's going to win.”
But Mr. Martin's novels, he said, were “adult fantasy, and not in the ‘Heavy Metal,' giant-breasted Valkyrie way.”
Mr. Weiss added: “Nobody's doing something because they're evil or they're good. Everybody's doing something because they're following their own very realistic and complex self-interests.”
Recognizing that the novels couldn't be condensed into films, Mr. Benioff and Mr. Weiss sought to adapt them as a television series for HBO, but had to pass several trials along the way. The first was winning over Mr. Martin in a lunchtime meeting that was mostly collegial, but where Mr. Weiss and Mr. Benioff were quizzed about the parents of Jon Snow, a “Game of Thrones” character of mysterious lineage. (“We had a whole conversation about it,” Mr. Benioff said, “and George was pleased that we got the answer right.”)
....
The network's new management was also uncertain about “Game of Thrones.” “The books had what I'll call fantasy elements,” Michael Lombardo, HBO's president for programming, said. “I will tell you that my initial predisposition was, ‘Uhhhh, is that really HBO?' Whatever that means.”
But Mr. Lombardo said his doubts were dispelled by Mr. Benioff and Mr. Weiss's pilot script. “The story was so captivating,” he said. “I couldn't wait for the second episode.”
Scots Taffer on 11/4/2011 at 02:55
On the not so good side:
Quote Posted by NYTimes
Mr. Benioff broadly acknowledged that “there were a number of things” in the pilot episode “that were going to be unintentionally confusing to an audience,” but declined to discuss why some key roles were recast before the reshoots.
And from an (
http://blogs.indiewire.com/carynjames/archives/2011/04/08/gameofthrones/) ordinary TV viewer:
Quote Posted by in the link
...while the series does have lots of grownup drama, much of it lurid and some very sinister - incest and a plot to kill a small child among them - the entire project has a heart of geek that never lets the rest of us in...
I haven't read the novels, so I can definitively say this: don't let anyone tell you the series isn't confusing. It takes a couple of episodes before you can begin to sort out who's who, never mind why they're waving swords at each other.
