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[Donkeymog]

Have yous guys been watching this shit?

Forever people have been telling me to read the books but I was all like "no ways, dudez! I only read serious books for serious people about serious things." And then I founds out that HBO were doing a televisual spectacular series and I thought I'd watch that instead.

And it's good!

Some of the acting is pretty weak, but that's kind of staple for fantasy stuffs. It's a bit slow and wooden in parts but there's a midget and he is awesome cool. So I just wait for him to come by whenever I'm getting bored and sure enough he comes and says something awesome and I smile and he smiles and for a second I get to imagine that me and the midget are friends on a heroic adventure with dragons. And then I look around and realize I'm just sitting in my dirty underpants eating cereal alone in a cold room and that each day I become more and more unloveable.

[Stars]

I've heard of the books but didn't know they were making a television series. I'll add it to my list of things to watch some day.

[Donkeymog]

Can't believe you guys aren't all of this shit. Easily the best thing on TV right now. The IMP!

[3DS]

I'm hearing a lot about this on school and everybody is telling me to watch this. I'm going to watch this in the near future, that's for sure. Apparently, in the second season there is dutch actress playing in this. Her name is Carice van Houten and she's a pretty good actress. She also played in Valkyrie with Tom Cruise.

[Monkeydog]

I've been meaning to watch it.

[Puffin]

I watch this with the rest of my family. I really like it, Tyrion is awesome, of course... But some of the scenes can bother me =/ specifically violent or gruesome scenes. (this last episode was chock full of them, too >.>; )

[kspr]

<<<<3 Tyrion. were i a dothraaki, he would be in a cage to entertain me. idk how you can watch this with your family, the sex scenes would be too uncomfortable with my sisters in the room...

[Donkeymog]

/><<<<3 Tyrion. were i a dothraaki, he would be in a cage to entertain me. idk how you can watch this with your family, the sex scenes would be too uncomfortable with my sisters in the room...

Especially as most sex scenes in Game of Thrones involve brother and sister.

[kspr]

i've only caught this once... i'm too stupid to keep track of all the character's names, and connect their faces...

[Puffin]

To be honest, after the first episode where there was an awkward sex scene, it was just like 'eh, whatevs.' It's not like anyone who watches it is young, anyway, we're all adults watching the show.

[kspr]

dis anyone else see that Time cover and immedietely think of that weird kid whose mom was letting him breastfeed in the throne room in the veil?

[Odon]

We haven't seen the last of the crazy mom either...or a lot of characters. Season Finale for Season 2
is this weekend. You better all tune in! I'm going to be holding your pokemans and ponies hostage!
Yeah people, if you're not going to watch this show, at least read the books. They're amazing
in their own right, and like Bean said a year ago, this is easily one of the best shows on TV
right now! (Or the internet if you know...you wear an eyepatch and say 'Arrr!' a lot. Haha!)

[Donkeymog]

Arrrr!

[kspr]

Seems legit.

[Donkeymog]

I was really enjoying Season 2 for most of it, but by the end I felt completely underwhelmed.

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The whole season had been building up the last battle and all it really amounted to was one CGI explosion, some awesome midgetry (which is a staple of the show by now), some woman-talk and a deus ex machina that restored the balance of power to the point it was at the beginning of the season. I mean seriously? Nothing changed since the beginning, only one character was killed off all season and he was completely forgettable anyways. For all the intellectual posturing of the show (including just about every character feeling the need to define power at some point or another) it just never seems to have any consequence.

It kind of reminds me of Lost in that it's constantly building things up to be concluded later, and when it comes to concluding them it's a bit of a let down and its resolved in the least dramatic way possible in order to stretch the story out further.

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Like the dragon chick's plot line this season has been really weak. The big dramatic pay-off being when the Dragon's breathe fire. I mean wow, really? Dragons breathing fire? Way to resolve a whole season's worth of character development.

And every time Rob Stark is on screen I let out an audible groan of displeasure, boredom and growing contempt.

It's frustrating because I've always been a fan of fantasy and have always been frustrated by the lack of truly great fantasy TV and I wanted Game of Thrones to be just that. But they just seem to fuck it up too often. I have no idea whether any of this is a reflection of the books or just the problems they're having with adapting it.

[Stars]

[Donkeymog]

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I think that's one of the problems I have. I was told by people who have read the book that George RR Martin is unafraid to kill off major characters, which I think it's good. There are lots of characters in Game of Thrones who I want killed off. But so far only one major character has been killed and that was the first season. Another minor character dies in season two but he was such a completely pointless characters whose involvement in the plot never really amounted to anything.

One of the problems with the show is the excessive cast of characters, most of which are actually really tedious. I spend most of my time waiting for one of the Lannisters to come on the screen, or Arya or Littlefinger or Vaerys. The rest just don't interest me and a few of the really central ones annoy me to hell (Rob Stark, Daenrys, John Sno).

[kspr]

who is vaerys again? there are too many characters for me too... but i would totally watch the Lannister Family Smile Time Variety Hour. Danarys is terrible too. she's just as big a child as Joffrey, who i think is awesome, but i can't stand her.

[Donkeymog]

/>who is vaerys again?

Should have spelt it Varys. He's also known as the Spider and is the bald eunuch guy who seems to be the only character with a complete picture of what's going on.

[kspr]

has anyone been watching it on an led tv? i tied to show it to someone with one, and it looked more real than real. it was an odd put off.