SPOILER ALERT! So am I the only one excited about a new round of GoT?

[Charlie_]

Charlie_: Is the local bowyer Steve Ralphs?

Just look it up, yes it is!

Just looked up the article online to find out, here's the quote from it by the way...

"It is the hit television series known for its bloodthirsty plot lines, and the inventive ways in which its main characters are killed off."

Inventive? I'm counting THREE characters who have been killed by being unexpectedly stabbed through the head from behind now, one of them through a helmet! What a stupid way to kill someone!

[Silent Invader]

I've got a couple of recurve bows made by Steve.... About 15 or so years ago after he worked on Gladiator.

Regarding GoT, I guess there's the book audience, the book/TV audience, and the Tv audience. It's not hard to assume that the TV audience massively outweighs the other elements of the GoT market.... And what pays the piper etc.

By modern movie standards (it is rated 18 IIRC) it's not particularly excessive. Thing is, I guess, it gets compared to TV when it's really more comparable to a series of movies.

[OSHIROmodels]

I've got a couple of recurve bows made by Steve....

And there's another layer of the onion...

 

 

cheers

James

[Elk101]

I definitely agree that the character development in the books was richer and that the subtleties (or not) of the politics was a highlight. I read that GRRM said that he didn't like typical novels because you always knew that the bad guys would get their comeuppance and the good guys would win in the end, thus making the stories predictable and mundane (I'm paraphrasing the gist rather than quoting!).  GRRM response to this was to create a more believable world where bad quite often bested good but my personal perspective is that he went so far in the opposite direction that it became predictable in that any character you had any sympathy for would be brutally treated and quite often killed. I couldn't put the first two books down but by book three I just got fed up with it, even throwing down the book in disgust at one point. It was a shame to leave such great characters behind but it had become a sort of fantasy version of Eastenders (a relentlessly miserable UK soap opera). I didn't even watch the first two seasons of GoT because I thought there was no way it could capture the feel and depth of the books. When I did watch them I found I enjoyed them, possibly because the misery has less time to build then dwell with the pace of the shows.

[Elk101]

I can think of a few people who wont be surprised, though.
 

I just nodded and read on 

[Silent Invader]

I'm pretending to ignore you all    

[Hupp n at em]

I'll still be watching every episode of course. 

Forgot to say that this goes for me too, for better or for worse...   

[Hammers]

Here is a spoiler which may tilt the balance of a few sceptics among you: Carice van Houten is showing her bosom to the camera again.

[tomrommel1]

I have seen it and I must say that there are interesting story lines in the parts of the show that left the books behind now!!! I won't say more but I think it is well worth watching ! And I read all the books!

[Brummie]

I think this season will be pretty entertaining.

More Undead people AND it looks like there will be a few major battles near the end that will be worth a watch!

[Malebolgia]

Here is a spoiler which may tilt the balance of a few sceptics among you: Carice van Houten is showing her bosom to the camera again.

That's one way of describing that scene...

[Hammers]

S6E2, it is good, innit? I was glad to see they expanded into the furneral use of painted eye stones.

[Elk101]

I keep forgetting that I don't have to wait until 21.00 to watch it! "Kids do you fancy watching something other than Bubble Guppies?"

[manic _miner]

 Episode two was very good.Lots to like.

[Hupp n at em]

Episode two was very good.Lots to like.

Agreed, made me forget all the bad feeling I had after Episode 1.