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HBO's A Song of Ice and Fire

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StaedlerMars:
we so excited

Boro_Bandito:
Okay so I found this to actually to be pretty generic and I guess I just didn't realize about HBO but man they had me thinking "Oh yeah, there were a lot of those uncomfortable nude scenes in the book".


I'm kind of disappointed? Like, I feel like its a show I can watch for something to watch but I dunno, I'm just feelin' meh about it.

Alex C:
I'm just trying to keep in mind that the advance reviews indicated that the first episode is the weakest. I can believe it since they had an awful lot to establish just to get to the cliffhanger that starts the story proper. That's kinda why I find myself pointing at the nudity as the single biggest issue I have, since the rest of the stuff isn't really something you can tinker with short of tossing out characters entirely. And really, I think the issue for me was not so much the nudity itself but the way the scenes they were in made for some weird tonal shifts now and again. For example, they cut from Tyrion jokes & giggling whores to solemn dudes in mourning at one point. You have to be careful with that shit given that in the books it's generally easier to pad a transition.

Boro_Bandito:
Like, even that aside, I couldn't help but giggle a bit at the whole like Khal Drogo/ Daenerys stuff because they just looked ridiculous. Drogo had more eye makeup than an entire emo band and every time they cut to Daenerys she just had this "staring off into the sunset" look that literally me and my friends started laughing at.

Alex C:
The Dothraki stuff and the Daenerys plot line have long been one of my least favorite parts of the series for a number of reasons. It takes Martin's "Women have little overt power in low fantasy settings" theme and doubles up the awkward with a bunch of Noble Savage archetypes to boot. I mean, having the super exotic guy bed the crying lily white girl and not touching the plot again before the end of the episode is a rough hand to deal new viewers. It's one of those cases where even as I read the book I was beating my head against an entire wall of subtext. So I can't help but wonder what people who are new to the series think given that there's already a whole shit ton of other things for them to try to keep straight.


That, and yeah, shit looked silly.

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