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Epsilon8
Canada173 Posts
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FyRe_DragOn
Canada2056 Posts
@ epsilon + Show Spoiler + no he survives | ||
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Drowsy
United States4876 Posts
On April 18 2011 13:09 floor exercise wrote: Started off pretty awesome but then it kind of took a turn for the smutty just for the sake of it. Throw in some electric guitar riffs and Jupiter's Cocks and it'd be like watching a Spartacus ripoff. If you haven't read the books I can't imagine you have any idea what is going on at this point, but there's titties and beheadings every 5 minutes so I'm sure you don't mind that much. Hopefully most of that is the result of how the beginning of the book had to be condensed. Don't get me wrong, I like Spartacus and I like titties I was just expecting something else. I never read the books but it seemed relatively coherent to me. I did watch the making of which explained a lot of things. lol@ electric guitars and "jupiter's cock!", so true. I was kinda hoping for more story on the white walkers, but I guess the books aren't written that way so whatever. | ||
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StorkHwaiting
United States3465 Posts
And yeah, people who are expecting literary depth in a TV show are gonna be in for major disappointment. Just look at True Blood. The novels were already smutty and romance formulaic enough as they were, HBO somehow managed to dumb them down and make them even MORE smutty. Great to just have the visuals though. And the action scenes should be great. | ||
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Jyvblamo
Canada13788 Posts
On April 18 2011 13:28 [GiTM]-Ace wrote: lol you cant compare every scene to what happens in the book. It's just not gonna happen and you're definitely setting your self up for fail if you do. I was responding to the people who are saying the episode was too smutty compared to the book, so I'm not sure what you mean. | ||
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xjoehammerx
United States191 Posts
On April 18 2011 13:09 floor exercise wrote: Started off pretty awesome but then it kind of took a turn for the smutty just for the sake of it. Throw in some electric guitar riffs and Jupiter's Cocks and it'd be like watching a Spartacus ripoff. If you haven't read the books I can't imagine you have any idea what is going on at this point, but there's titties and beheadings every 5 minutes so I'm sure you don't mind that much. Hopefully most of that is the result of how the beginning of the book had to be condensed. Don't get me wrong, I like Spartacus and I like titties I was just expecting something else. Well....if you actually ready the books you would realize that they are not being "smutty just for the sake of it". The books are just like that; people die left and right and guess what? There's lots of sex too. The first episode was very true to the book (since i've read all the books about 5 times i would know). If it offends you stop watching. I hope the rest of the episodes don't disappoint; I was very impressed with the first episode. | ||
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zemiron
United States481 Posts
On April 18 2011 13:37 StorkHwaiting wrote: Why the hell were the Dothraki portrayed as white people with some weird smatterings of African women? How does that make any sense at all? The Dothraki in the novel were most definitely Asiatic/Mongolian people. Again, typical American TV style to white-wash all the races and just throw in black for exoticism. And yeah, people who are expecting literary depth in a TV show are gonna be in for major disappointment. Just look at True Blood. The novels were already smutty and romance formulaic enough as they were, HBO somehow managed to dumb them down and make them even MORE smutty. Great to just have the visuals though. And the action scenes should be great. Ummm, the Dothraki didn't seem white to me. | ||
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Epsilon8
Canada173 Posts
On April 18 2011 13:34 FyRe_DragOn wrote: any1 know where i can download the first episode? dont have hbo lol @ epsilon + Show Spoiler + no he survives K thats awesome, I would probably have stopped watching if it happened for real.. lol. Someone said there's a lot of tragedy in it so I don't know how long I'll be watching for. | ||
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Jyvblamo
Canada13788 Posts
On April 18 2011 13:37 StorkHwaiting wrote: Why the hell were the Dothraki portrayed as white people with some weird smatterings of African women? How does that make any sense at all? The Dothraki in the novel were most definitely Asiatic/Mongolian people. Again, typical American TV style to white-wash all the races and just throw in black for exoticism. Well, GRRM is one of the executive producers and writers for this show, so I doubt that the presentation of the Dothraki severely contradicts his vision of them. Nowhere in the novels is it mentioned that the Dothraki were physically similar to Mongolians, as far as I can recall. | ||
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KaiserReinhard
United States554 Posts
On April 18 2011 13:33 SergioCQH wrote: For the prudish people complaining about the sex and nudity, the books actually had MORE nudity that this episode left out. Get your facts straight. Quoted for emphasis, from what I remember the series was very sexualized, which they managed to capture very well so far. You nerds need to stop complaining about tits.  Personally I really like the adaptation so far and am glad I finally have a reason to watch TV again. My only qualm so far is that the wolves aren't getting a lot of screentime, since they were one of my favorite aspects of the story. Still, really awesome so far. It's like Hercules: The Legendary Journeys for grownups. | ||
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Xinder
United States2269 Posts
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xjoehammerx
United States191 Posts
On April 18 2011 13:37 StorkHwaiting wrote: Why the hell were the Dothraki portrayed as white people with some weird smatterings of African women? How does that make any sense at all? The Dothraki in the novel were most definitely Asiatic/Mongolian people. Again, typical American TV style to white-wash all the races and just throw in black for exoticism. And yeah, people who are expecting literary depth in a TV show are gonna be in for major disappointment. Just look at True Blood. The novels were already smutty and romance formulaic enough as they were, HBO somehow managed to dumb them down and make them even MORE smutty. Great to just have the visuals though. And the action scenes should be great. dumbed down? really? after the first episode you can say that? I think the producers of the show are well within their artistic license. The Dothraki don't look like regular white people; they picked relatively "dark" actors to portray them, in fact Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa) is definitely not white. Also considering the fact that the Dothraki are known for taking slaves it is no surprise that they have random white people and black people (read Summer Islanders, who in the book series are described as having ebony skin) in their camp. I think you are definitely being too harsh. Also, how many "dark skinned Asian actors who stand over 6'2 are there in Hollywood right now? Besides Jason Momoa who is part Pacific Islander. | ||
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[GiTM]-Ace
United States4935 Posts
On April 18 2011 11:54 zz_ wrote: He's pretty much the best character in the series, period. That's not to say that the rest of the characters aren't good, George is a master of personalities, but Tyrion is in a league by himself. and yes tyrion is pretty much the nuts ever since book 1. | ||
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Mitsuwa
United States793 Posts
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Blisse
Canada3710 Posts
On April 18 2011 13:55 [GiTM]-Ace wrote: and yes tyrion is pretty much the nuts ever since book 1. I'd say Tyrion and Jon keep me waiting for more. The others are just filler and expendable. + Show Spoiler + I liked Arya until I couldn't follow whatever was going on across the sea, except the one scene with Sam. | ||
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shmay
United States1091 Posts
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fert
Canada71 Posts
From somebody who just read book 1 through the first time I think they did an excellent job with the show. Especially given that this is the first episode and there is a ton of material and backstory to cover. I actually watched it with two friends who have never read the book, and who I purposely did not tell anything about the backstory, and they felt the pace was just right. Only universal complaint we had was that the sets and feel of the Dothraki side had us thinking Xena would roll into town. But honestly a minor complaint, recommend this one to your friends! edit: Oh yea, it does need more direwolves, but I'm sure that will come, in the book there is almost no interaction of Aya or Sansa with their wolves until they start to head out to Kings Landing, so we've got lots of time. | ||
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smileyyy
Germany1816 Posts
 I cant wait for the first ep. Gotta reread the books too =) | ||
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Blisse
Canada3710 Posts
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bjwithbraces
United States549 Posts
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