Game of Thrones (TV series) excitement

[Sammich]

The valuable thing I learned from watching these historical dramas is that it was the ancient Romans who invented the f-bomb. I feel saddened and betrayed by my high school latin teacher for leaving out that fact.

[Neil]

Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers) directed the episode "Blackwater" to be shown in two weeks...

[AcesandEights]

Looking forward to Blackwater, but this was one quick season

[krisvds]

watch the first 15 minutes of the pilot. the opening pre credits scene and the introduction of ned stark and his kids will either sell you on both books and series or confirm worst taste of the year all years Ok. It took me a while, but last week I decided to sit down and watch the season one pilot. Over the past six days I saw every episode. What a great series. The only criticism I can think of is that ten episodes per season just isn't enough. It's quite obvious the books must be really dense. Some episodes feel like they are rushing through the source material to fit everything in at the expense of build up/suspense/room for characters to 'breathe'. Will have to read those books soon. Favourite characters: Arya and the Mother of Dragons with the name no one can spell correctly without looking it up. That 'warlock coup' scene of a while back was fantasy gold. Love it.

[Neil]

^^ I'm going through the first book at the moment, and I have to say, so far its clear the series has been quite faithful to the books!

[AcesandEights]

^^ I'm going through the first book at the moment, and I have to say, so far its clear the series has been quite faithful to the books! The first book and season match up exceedingly well! Second season departs a bit, for--what I consider--(usually) understandable reasons.

[Neil]

Only real difference has been (as I mentioned before) the ages of the younger folks is lower in the books. I suspect this is because sexual activity and violent activity involving 14yrs olds isn't TV friendly... So they're portrayed as lates teens or early 20s!?

[ogk7garcia]

This is an amazing show. I started watching the first season only two weeks ago and I'm already caught up. Its really interesting show.

[CoinReturn]

Hot damn I can't wait for tonight. Blackwater time!

[Danny]

been getting some friends to watch my season 1 blu ray every sunday, just got to episode 9, they all lost their shit. 1 more to go for them

[clanglee]

Blackwater was the bomb in Phantoms Yo!! . . . seriously though. . . it was so amazing. My favorite hour of TV ever probably.

[CoinReturn]

I rewound my DVR and watched it again immediately last night. Lena/Cersei needs to be drunk every episode, she really nailed it last night. Was good that Sandor got plenty of screen time too; seeing him going from unstoppable killing machine to frightened man was fantastic. Also:   How fucking great was that??

[AcesandEights]

Blackwater was the bomb in Phantoms Yo!! . . . seriously though. . . it was so amazing. My favorite hour of TV ever probably. It was GREATLY satisfying.   Oh, and to have all that time revolving around a single pivotal sequence, while getting not only great action, but excellent face-time with individual characters was so awesome. -- -------- Post added at 08:37 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:34 AM ---------- Also:   How fucking great was that?? Loved the look of it! I said wow a lot during that scene.

[shootemindehead]

Ummm...anybody else get the feeling that the last episode felt rushed? I was seriously expecting it to run into next weeks.

[krisvds]

^^ The ending felt a bit rushed to me as well. Could have used a couple of extra minutes there. But still, that feels like nitpicking after one of the greatest episodes of the series up to now. Neil Marshall did an excellent job. Staying in one location was the best way to do it. Recommending this to anyone who hasn't seen it yet.