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I binge watched the show and found it all easy enough to follow without having knowledge of the books.
I can imagine watching it in hurly chunks it was harder.
This series was very poor until the last couple of episodes, but it's heating up nicely again.
There are some major problems at the moment. It's great that the show is unpredictable in what will happen to some characters but the downside is we've lost so much charisma from the series. People like Charles Dance, Sean Bean and that bisexual guy were simply levels above a lot of the remaining cast in sheer acting ability.
At least three of the major story-lines are almost entirely devoid of charisma...the Daenerys one in particular. She has been boring the place out since the beginning and the boredom has reached profound levels. As an actress she is incredibly one-note and she is constantly in "emperor" mode. Same intonation, same conflicts week after week. Dull as dishwater.
There's also the Blonde Bore..is it Breanne? Or Brionne or something. The Knight, sworn to an oath who comes along and sends us to sleep every once in a while.
And the young Stark girl who just got married. The script seems to be written to keep her as subdued and uninteresting as humanly possible.
A more minor problem is that the good actors/characters left have been split up so their interesting interactions are now missing from King's Landing...people like Little Finger, The Spider etc. Their plotting holds little interest in of itself in a fantasy world...who cares what happens to a world that doesn't exist? The interest came from their human battles and witty dialogue.
Still an avid watcher, but they need to get some charismatic actors back into it.
I am current on the series and agree with much of this - although I think I like some of the earlier stuff much more than you did.
Like the Sopranos - I appreciate that they don't mind killing a character off here and there - it adds intensity.
I concur on the one beat actors versus those that demonstrated far more depth and interest - more of the latter please.
If I had to change one thing it would have been to nuke a few of the story lines are together. There are just too many of them which means that the juicy ones get short shrift and the tale becomes much more confusing then it need be.
I got the first book, as I was in a store trying to find my wife and gave up. Why is it you wander around searching for someone in a store, then keep seeing the same three people, but never the one you want?
Anyways, I gave up on seeing these three as they were beginning to suspect something I wasn't doing, so instead I picked up the first book to wait by the checkouts to catch her. My better half I mean, I wasn't looking for a victim or anything.
I'd read the start once or twice before and thought no, I'm not gonna get into this. There's too many books, they're too bloody big and it's too out there. There's dragons in it for the sake of fuck. Lordy.
But I was there for a while, waiting. So I read a few pages. This time I loved it. I could see it. I was there. I could feel it. So I bought it. I'm in about two hundred pages and it's fucking great. I can see the second book from where I type. My better half bought it for me. Despite the waiting she no so bad.
I've started watching the series again from the start. Have to say it's almost flawless. As Clive James said recently, or something along these lines, "I never thought I'd like anything with dragons in it, but now I'm hooked."
Hooked and sinkered. I read and I watch. It don't get much better.
Lots to like, even though I kind of thought we were done with Dorne. Guess not.
Another thing that bugs me -- they made such a big deal about Sansa and Reek jumping off that high castle wall. Even repeating the scene with "previously on..." Like it was a big cliffhanger or something.
Then they were just like, oh, here they are, running through the woods. No worries.
That seemed lazy. Maybe they had to make cuts for time?
I did like the final scene quite a bit. Nice middle finger to everyone who watches for the T&A haha.
I loved it overall. Lots of appeals to a broader audience with the action sequences and quips from the funnier characters. And indeed Dorne was lame in S5. But I thought it was cool how they kicked things off with all characters working from their most basic resources in pretty much every sense. Super stripped down, immediate and harsh, even for Game of Thrones. Couldn't be more stoked for this season.
Thought it was a solid start. Every character dropped down a peg or on the verge of completely broken, will be interesting to see them claw their way back. Are we at the point where the show is ahead of the books? Either way I have faith in David Benioff to keep things at a high level.
Thought it was a solid start. Every character dropped down a peg or on the verge of completely broken, will be interesting to see them claw their way back. Are we at the point where the show is ahead of the books? Either way I have faith in David Benioff to keep things at a high level.
I think most of the storylines are ahead in the show now.
I liked the opener from last night. And, my God Melisandre was spooky!
Not sure how this passed me by all these years, but I'm on it now.
I watched Season 1 yesterday and will have Season 2 done today.
Absolutely love it! Great characters, set pieces, action, story, violence, nudity, and most of all, acting. Great across the board.
I may be caught up by the end of the weekend at this pace, as this appears to be my weekend...along with a little libations.
Enjoy - just be prepared for the coming off cocaine type let down once you realize that your serial binge is over and you have to wait for new episodes like the rest of us.
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