Game of Thrones tv
Apr. 19th, 2011 08:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kilroyI think I may have been oversold on this a little. I haven't read the books yet, but from what I understand a lot of what makes them so good is that the world is so richly dark-- full of violence, betrayal, grit, sex, and tragedy. It's very much the kind of series that belongs on HBO. The problem for me is that actually seeing someone's guts fall out or two people rutting like minxes snaps me out of the drama pretty much every time. In my imagination it's terrifying and sexy, but on screen I've never seen a severed head that didn't look fake and almost no nudity that didn't feel staged.
The first episode is also very much the flying overview of characters; the cast is enormous and there are a lot of people to introduce. My expectation is that we're going to get a hell of a lot of character development going forward, but it will take time. Like any other series, they're opening with the overture and we'll start getting the individual themes later.
It has the potential to be very, very good. It's extremely well put together television in all respects. But I'm not instantly sold and it wasn't realistic to expect me to be.
The first episode is also very much the flying overview of characters; the cast is enormous and there are a lot of people to introduce. My expectation is that we're going to get a hell of a lot of character development going forward, but it will take time. Like any other series, they're opening with the overture and we'll start getting the individual themes later.
It has the potential to be very, very good. It's extremely well put together television in all respects. But I'm not instantly sold and it wasn't realistic to expect me to be.