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So, finally got around to watching all of last week's Game of Thrones. Decided that it is best to keep three things in mind while watching this series, okay four:
1. Outside of the Dany scenes, shot in the desert, everything is filmed quite dark, so it pays to watch the series at night with the lights off.
2. Watch it early in the evening not late at night and not after an intensive mind-numbing day at work, or a stressful one for that matter, you are likely to fall asleep. Light and frothy cotton candy tv, it's not. It has a lot of characters to follow and track, which can be head-ache inducing if you have a difficult and mentally exhausting job which requires a lot of tracking of information.
3. At this point, any and all comparisons to the books upon which it is based are sort of futile. Somewhere around the tail-end of S3, the television writers decided to skew left, while the books skewed right. It's actually better if you haven't read them or forgot most of it.
4. Frigging violent series written mainly by heterosexual and somewhat war obsessed men. It's going to be grim and violent. And in this case even more than the books were, because hello, visual. This is not a fun fantasy series with unicorns and fairies or quippy jokes.
That said? I came to the realization while watching it, and reading comments elsewhere about it, that the characters I like in the tv series aren't necessarily the same one's I liked in the books. For example? My favorite characters in the books were Jamie, Ayra, Tyrion, and Samwell. I think that was it. Sansa was beginning to grow on me. As was Dany. But barely. In the television series - my favorite characters are Tyrion, Dany, Brienne, Samwell, Ayra, the Hound, Bronn,
the two younger guys - Daario and Dany's advisor who was also on Downton Abbey, and the Onion King (he's interesting here - not so much in the books.).
I find Jamie interesting in the tv series, but not quite as likeable - he's darker and nastier here. It's subtle, but I picked up on it. Not everyone did. We read and watch and think very differently - so not all that surprising. Why folks can't wrap their minds around that continues to bewilder me.
( spoilers )
Also saw Nashville on the On Record - which was a concert episode, where the actors discussed performing the songs with the songwriters. Was rather interesting and the songs were great. Learned during it that the actors playing Gunnar and Scarlet are British and use American accents in the show. Which heightened my respect for both.
On the fence about continuing with Arrow, The Tomorrow People and
Resurrection [ETA: Gave up on Resurrection, my attention kept wandering during it. It's hard to care about anyone. Everyone walks around as if they are really stoned. No emoting. Just a bewildered stoned look. The zombies on the Walking Dead have more animation.] - no one appears to be watching them on flist, not that that would influence me. Also wondering about Turn [ETA: not a good sign when you can't follow the pilot or care.] and The 100 [ETA: so far so good...and it hits my story kinks really hard.] - has anybody watched these? Are they worth watching? Should I just delete? My DVR is getting full of unwatched tv shows that I have no time for, but want to try. It's pathetic. Currently recording 28. Granted several of them aren't on at the moment...so there is that.
1. Outside of the Dany scenes, shot in the desert, everything is filmed quite dark, so it pays to watch the series at night with the lights off.
2. Watch it early in the evening not late at night and not after an intensive mind-numbing day at work, or a stressful one for that matter, you are likely to fall asleep. Light and frothy cotton candy tv, it's not. It has a lot of characters to follow and track, which can be head-ache inducing if you have a difficult and mentally exhausting job which requires a lot of tracking of information.
3. At this point, any and all comparisons to the books upon which it is based are sort of futile. Somewhere around the tail-end of S3, the television writers decided to skew left, while the books skewed right. It's actually better if you haven't read them or forgot most of it.
4. Frigging violent series written mainly by heterosexual and somewhat war obsessed men. It's going to be grim and violent. And in this case even more than the books were, because hello, visual. This is not a fun fantasy series with unicorns and fairies or quippy jokes.
That said? I came to the realization while watching it, and reading comments elsewhere about it, that the characters I like in the tv series aren't necessarily the same one's I liked in the books. For example? My favorite characters in the books were Jamie, Ayra, Tyrion, and Samwell. I think that was it. Sansa was beginning to grow on me. As was Dany. But barely. In the television series - my favorite characters are Tyrion, Dany, Brienne, Samwell, Ayra, the Hound, Bronn,
the two younger guys - Daario and Dany's advisor who was also on Downton Abbey, and the Onion King (he's interesting here - not so much in the books.).
I find Jamie interesting in the tv series, but not quite as likeable - he's darker and nastier here. It's subtle, but I picked up on it. Not everyone did. We read and watch and think very differently - so not all that surprising. Why folks can't wrap their minds around that continues to bewilder me.
( spoilers )
Also saw Nashville on the On Record - which was a concert episode, where the actors discussed performing the songs with the songwriters. Was rather interesting and the songs were great. Learned during it that the actors playing Gunnar and Scarlet are British and use American accents in the show. Which heightened my respect for both.
On the fence about continuing with Arrow, The Tomorrow People and