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Date Posted: Friday, June 24, 12:33:35am
Author: Kim
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Subject: I haven't seen it yet
In reply to: AurraSing 's message, "No comments on the finale of "Game of Thrones, Season One"??" on Thursday, June 23, 11:35:44pm

on my to do list for tomorrow. Then you can point out all the subtle things I always miss while trying to keep up with the big stuff! :)

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[> As I am not raving about the show I prefered to be quiet -- Chani, Friday, June 24, 06:12:35am (81-65-192-252.rev.numericable.fr/81.65.192.252)

I was a bit underwhelmed by that finale but there was some good stuff.

For instance I like the Varys/Littlefinger scene and how the Pycelle/Roz scene proved that the two cunning schemers who thought they were smarter than anyone else actually don't know that there's a bigger player in town. Pycelle told the whore nonesense that seemed to go against everything we have seen and to point out how much a fool the old man was, and just after Roz left Pycelle stopped being a feeble old men (hence the gym moves!), and it's only when he put his "costume" on that he resumed his role before opening the door, echoing the conversation between the other two. They all have a role to play indeed, and Pycelle is the best actor of all hence his surviving!

Another scene that apparently wasn't in the books, so I have been told. The scenes I always prefer are usually not in the books! Adaptations are a tricky matter.

To me when GoT doesn't work it is because it often seems to be more a faithful adptation and copy-on-screen rather than a good tv show; it mostly seems to follows the structure of the books instead of translating a book 'verse into a tv verse, a book language into a tv language. I guess it's because they think that their main audience and target is the die-hard-fans of the book.

But when they do it differently, it starts becoming a tv creation and it's interesting instead of just being pretty with good production value, and entertaining. Let's hope they'll do it more in season 2.

Jaime was very Sawyer-like. BTW he's much more handsome when dirty and covered in blood.

I liked Robb and Catlyn and I liked the King of the North scene (especially the last shot with the witnesses observing from afar).

I liked the girl who was carrying Bran, and I liked the Sandor/Sansa moment. The relationships could turn interesting.

I must confess that I'm a bit annoyed by the "fellowship of the wall" thing, too much stuff stolen from Tolkien and therefore very cliched(the Rangers, the Samwell stereotyped fat best friend, and there's even a guy named Pyp!) but I guess it isn't the series' fault but the fault of the books' author. I like more creativity in my shows.

Cersei is shagging another relative?! That woman really trusts her blood only.

The finale didn't really look like a finale, since there wasn't any closure, and they must have been very confident about getting a second season (almost arrogant) to end the season like that with all those people going to somewhere else. It looked like a beginning, not a finale (and the first season therefore looks like a prequel where characters like Ned and Robert had to die to set things in motions), which probably fits in the books' theme (the story really "begins" with the young generation, doesn't it?)but is weird tv wise.

The only storyline that was kinda resolved was Daenerys' because we had been waiting for her Dragon genes to kick in (after all the teases throughout the season about her being heat/fire-proof)and for the bloody dragon eggs to hatch since the first episode. She ends up the season naked, the same way she started it, not in boilig water but in ashes and with three babies. OK. At least I'm glad that the silly cliched romance with Drogo is done.

Now the big question is. Will HBO have enough money to provide decent CGI during season 2?


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[> [> Closure really isn't part of Martin's universe, at least this 'verse. -- AS, Sunday, June 26, 09:18:39pm (d207-216-60-9.bchsia.telus.net/207.216.60.9)

I was talking about the Dany/Drogo romance the other night with Don (who has been reading the books) and we agreed that Dany really did end up loving her Khal but perhaps it was more because she truly is a Dragon at heart and not a princess. The great horde that Drogo commanded was never truly visualised in this tv adaptation, more to do with budget constraints than anything else but he commanded a group of warriors much more akin to the armies of Ghengis Khan than the nomadic tribesmen we saw onscreen. She came to respect and love him, partly for what he eventually showed her (respect and his pride in her) and partly because in his own way, he was a Dragon, a warrior who had never been bested and a leader.

Jamie has just started his journey, which is interesting because if they play it right, he'll become a much more interesting character than his sister ever gets to be....but then it's hard to tell for readers of the series just how much closure we end up getting on Cersei's fate anyhow,lol!!

I think HBO will be spending more on the series, there are a lot of battles it would be nice to be seeing more of!!


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