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Game of Thrones - Season Final - Mhrysa..
Jun. 11th, 2013 09:18 pmJust finished watching the finale, I'm admittedly behind. Keep in mind I have to get up at 6am each morning, and GoT comes on around 9. Also was busy watching or trying to watch the godawful Tony's...beginning to think awards shows and I are unmixy things now? My tastes have changed again.
Before I do a review, a brief take on a discussion regarding GoT with a co-worker, regarding the books and tv series characters:
So here's the thing - which may explain a lot to people who have read me over the years? I don't care about the morality of fictional characters, well I do but not to the degree some apparently do, I care about how the fictional characters actions are explored and more often than not flawed characters, deeply flawed ones, are explored better than morally upstanding/perfect characters. I don't know why this is. It just is. Maybe because the writers find them more interesting too? (shrugs) This isn't always the case. I find Superman and Buffy interesting.
( Game of Thrones - season finale, eh spoilers...and most likely for the books in the comments and in this post, so unsullied beware, book walkers abound in them there woods. )
This was a great season, the best to date. It echoes the books in that respect. And they are giving me hope for later seasons by bringing forward certain events from latter books, and tightening the story. It's not quite as sprawling and tedious as the books were in places.
Co-worker: I envy the people working on the series - they must know where GRRM is headed with the story.
ME: No, they really don't.
Co-worker: He had to have told them.
Me: He's not that type of writer. He writes intuitively, he's not a planner. He doesn't have them outlined way in advance. He sort of sees where it takes him. In short, he doesn't quite know where it is going and even if he does? He has a tendency to change his mind.
Co-worker: Arrgh.
Before I do a review, a brief take on a discussion regarding GoT with a co-worker, regarding the books and tv series characters:
Co-Worker (not the one who skipped Storm of Swords, entirely different co-worker - this one has read all the books, but got fed up because of how DwD dealt with her fav): How can't you like Davos and Jon Snow in the books they are morally upstanding characters...
Me: See, I read and watch things a bit differently than you do. I honestly don't care if the character is morally upstanding or not, or even if they have morals for that matter - they just have to interest me on some level. If they bore me...I don't like them. Which is why I wasn't a fan of Davos or Jon in the books or Bran or Ned Stark or Catelynn...
So here's the thing - which may explain a lot to people who have read me over the years? I don't care about the morality of fictional characters, well I do but not to the degree some apparently do, I care about how the fictional characters actions are explored and more often than not flawed characters, deeply flawed ones, are explored better than morally upstanding/perfect characters. I don't know why this is. It just is. Maybe because the writers find them more interesting too? (shrugs) This isn't always the case. I find Superman and Buffy interesting.
( Game of Thrones - season finale, eh spoilers...and most likely for the books in the comments and in this post, so unsullied beware, book walkers abound in them there woods. )
This was a great season, the best to date. It echoes the books in that respect. And they are giving me hope for later seasons by bringing forward certain events from latter books, and tightening the story. It's not quite as sprawling and tedious as the books were in places.
Co-worker: I envy the people working on the series - they must know where GRRM is headed with the story.
ME: No, they really don't.
Co-worker: He had to have told them.
Me: He's not that type of writer. He writes intuitively, he's not a planner. He doesn't have them outlined way in advance. He sort of sees where it takes him. In short, he doesn't quite know where it is going and even if he does? He has a tendency to change his mind.
Co-worker: Arrgh.