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TheFuriousWombat:
dude, it Entertainment Weekly. Lack of substance is kind of their thing.

blanktom:
DEAR GOD HOW HAS ANYONE NOT POSTED ABOUT SEASON 2 YET?

 I'm liking it. I've only recently read book 2, and I can't work out whether things just move so much faster on television or if they've shuffled some of the events around, chronologically. Either way, as mentioned a bit further up in this thread, the way Martin sets out the chapters means there are several things going on at once, so it makes a bit of sense to jumble things around a tad.
 A couple of points to note for me are;
-Jon Snow being so DAMN BROODY all the time. Kit Harrington does a great job of this, but sometimes I feel it may be a little over-acted.
-Peter Dinklage is still awesome as Tyrion.
-Really not overly keen on the way they've animated the direwolves, particularly Grey Wind in the scene with Jaime Lannister. It looks like they've filmed a normal wolf, then used the corner-drag tab to just drag it a bit bigger. I suppose it was that or just CGI one from scratch, but the seams just looked a bit too obvious.
-Holy Jesus Hodor has a massive dong.
-Peter Dinklage is still so damn awesome.

So, how are we all feeling?

schimmy:
I'm quite liking it so far.

You're right about the dire wolves, but I can't think of a way that they could do it well, beyond showing them as little as possible. CGI just doesn't look realistic enough yet for it to be used in live-action video, unless it's used (as GoT does) to create stuff that you're not looking directly at, or stuff that moves too fast for you to notice.

I think they have jumbled stuff up a bit. SPOILERS: Isn't it in the second episode where Stannis' Maester tries to poison Melisandre? I seem to recall that happening in the prologue.

Stannis doesn't look quite right to me. I imagined him being more physically imposing, with thicker features and dark hair. To be fair, though, I have no idea how he's described in the books.

blanktom:
I dunno, I kinda like Stannis, but I'm sure Davos was supposed to have longer hair. The Maester trying to poison Melisandre was a little way into the first episode, but you're right, it is in the prologue of the book.

One thing that struck me when I started reading the book is how much younger most of the characters are, especially the Stark kids. There is no way Robb Stark is meant to be 15 in the television series. I don't mind, I guess it would have been a bit more difficult to cast.

One thing I forgot to mention is how awesome I think Jack Gleason is as Joffrey. I fucking hate that guy, which means he's doing it right.

TheFuriousWombat:
Regarding the ages of characters on the show vs. characters in the book, I watched an interview from around the time Season 1 started (I think) where he explained that discrepancy. He said it had to do in large part with the sexual stuff children in the book - notably Dany - are involved in, and to a lesser degree the violence. In the book, Dany is really young and there was no way they could have her having sex with an adult. So they made her older but as a result, all the other kids had to be older as well since there's an established timeline to the world that Martin and the show's producers didn't want to mess with too much. It seemed better to keep everyone proportionally the same age than throw off that whole timeline, even if that meant the characters all being a few years older than they should be. I think he also said something about how people would be uneasy if Arya was going around murdering people if she was eight but were more ok with it if she was 12 or 13.

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