Current Events > Finally starting Game of Thrones after having read the books! *spoilers as we go

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First episode: winter is coming

Luckily I know most of the big events thanks to the books so there's no worry of being spoiled except after book 5 please.

Things I already knew:

• Sean bean is playing eddard stark. This actually spoiled his death for me when reading the books since I knew he was going to die, its Sean bean. Luckily I was still managed to be shocked/surprised because I didn't expect him to die right in the first freaking book (but man was he a noble idiot)

• There are dragons (wish this one would have surprised me but it was still epic/sad how it was done, dany losing her baby and husband and from the ashes, gaining new children ie dragons)

I'm so sorry.

Nah, just kidding. Seasons 1-3 are great.

I only saw season 1 and 2

but they were great

Honestly don't know why people were so surprised by the deaths. Not like it's uncommon in fantasy and fiction stories.

First impressions:

Damn they did the prologue scene from the books, they revealed those blued eyed snow zombies. Pretty much exactly how I imagined them.

in before people whine about the final season

Stop lying. You haven't read the books cause they're not all out yet, and never will be.

I Like the casting for bran so far but wtf they totally ruined the direwolves scene from the book! In the book jon convinces ned to let the 5 direwolves live and go home with bran and Robb and his other trueborn children, while sacrificing himself, and it was a heartfelt scene from bran's point of view.

Then after, jon finds a 6th direwolf, away from the pack, an albino direwolf with snow white fur and red eyes. Theon scoffs and says "an albino, this one will die before the rest"

And jon looks at him coldly and says "I think not, greyjoy. This one belongs to me"

This scene literally sets up jon's character, and is a fundamental part of why I loved jon (at least in book 1) and in this episode instead what we got was a dumb faced guy meant to be jon with the derpiest expression as theon says to him "the runt of the litter. This one's yours snow"

Wtf. This is the very first moment in the books and its literally what hooked me into the series, just how good that scene was playing out.

BlackBlueButts posted...

Honestly don't know why people were so surprised by the deaths. Not like it's uncommon in fantasy and fiction stories.

In the books it was fairly uncommon at the time, compares to the most popular series at the time, The Wheel of Time.

A lot of it was just how good GRRM was at writing characters. He could make them feel like real people very quickly. Ive read a ton of fantasy and GRRM is unmatched in this area. So it was surprising when they started dying left and right.

Sorry I dont mean to get worked up over it but its just built up in my head so much. This is the first time that I'll be watching something where I've read the original source material so I should know better that its not always 1:1

The rest of the cast and episode is pretty good.

Omg the girl they got to play arya is perfect, that is exactly the kind of tomboy personality that drives her mother to exasperation. Cat is super old here though like damn. I know they aged up the characters but even the adults too. Sansa is alright. The book character is already not given much to do besides being violently abused so there's not much to gauge yet.

Lena heady as cersei is interesting so far, she definitely has a queenly vibe since ages ago.

Noumas posted...

. Cat is super old here though like damn. I know they aged up the characters but even the adults too. Sansa

Yeah, I watched S1 before reading the books and it was really hard to picture Cat as 35 when Michelle Fairley was around 50.

Peter dinklage as tyrion is perfect in more ways than one, I'm expecting to like him just as much as I do in the books.

The jaime actor looks familiar, is he related to the blonde guy from true blood? He has a similar look. I immediately hate him just as much as I do in the books so good job on the actor's part.

But lol at Fred fucking Flintstone playing Robert Baratheon, the first of his name. They got the fat part right at least

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I really like the actor for viserys, real talk. Does anyone think he kind of looks like loki?

Dany has a bit of a "staring blankly" look to her. Also does anyone else feel the wedding night scene was a bit more... rapey than it was in the books? I mean yeah its still technically rape since she was like 14 and sold off to marry some khal, but the scene in the books was a lot more... tender.

I still can't forget first reading the books and reading jaime pushing bran out the window, knowing nothing about the series except there were many deaths. I almost stopped reading there from how horrified I was at the author actually killing kids, and from their point of view?

Was wrong about that death but right about others so.

Anyway finished episode 2: The Kingsroad. The direwolves are already grown up wow. I love jon and arya's relationship, just as adorable as I read in the book. Its so sad seeing all the stark children going their separate ways, this is gonna be the last time they're all together in one place (they've literally been separated for like 10 years now)

You know, jaime being a kingslayer isn't nearly as bad as him pushing a child out the window. What were they going to do with the mad king, throw him in prison? Sentence him to exile? Of course murder was the only recourse. Jaime should be known as child crippler, not king slayer. I hate that he gets away with it.

Also wtf at them spoiling jon snow's mother wylla in the very next episode of the premiere. If I hadn't read the books I'd be pissed, my friend was right about the show spoiling stuff that either wasn't revealed in the books or revealed muuuch later like in book 3.

I really like the actor for uncle benjen, great casting he looks so similar to Sean bean too (although it would have been amazing if they got faramir for this as well). I know his fate but can't wait for the show to reveal him as coldhands from the books since its a visual medium and they can't hide it like the books can.

They really make us hate Sansa as much as we do in the books, actually choosing this ugly ass Joffrey over her own family... sucks that her direwolf has to pay for her disloyalty.

What do you guys think the direwolves even symbolize? In the books half of them are either dead or gone, and I dont know if it's meant to foreshadow their owner's impending death or anything like that

The sex scenes (especially with dany) are more uncomfortable than erotic... maybe its just me but danaeras and drogo's relationship seemed almost romantic to me in the book, like a beauty and the beast type of situation. He was a warlord savage tribal killer yes, but he was also a gentle giant when it came to dany and being with her.

Here it was very uncomfortable watching him pound away like that, even watching it alone.

Also I know dany's handmaidens jiqiu and irri, but who the heck is this doreah, I dont remember her. Does she just exist for sex appeal, to "teach dAny the ways of the sex"

Watching the obvious dragon egg foreshadowing and I wonder how mindblowing it was for non book readers to see those dragon eggs turn into dragons... I almost want to skip ahead