HBO greenlit Season 3.
   
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Nay~!!! Pray to R'hllor !! burn the Seven!!

The night is dark and full of terrors!


well... i won't be surprise if HBO pull the stunt of cancelling the season half way... judging by JRRM haven't complete his final 2 books yet, and the expanding cast and budgets... soon it will be too expensive to film just an episode, especially for Peter Dinklage, as Tyrion still will be in the next few seasons as the main cast, you can expect his paycheck to increase as his fame increases as well.

Finally, Brienne...it seems to me that she is going to play a lesser role here. The actress's name is not in the opening credit but the end credit.
I like the TV version of Margaery, a lot more stronger than the one in the books.

I think I like Theon more in the show. I did not feel bad for him while reading the books but I feel sorry that Theon is struggling to get his daddy's love here.
Tyrion's way to play the games is very impressive, indeed.

The only thing that disappoint me in the episode is Arya scene. Guess I just have the wildest imagination of how it should happen.

i don't agree, i think they skipped the correct sequence in order to reserve the better ones - after Arya's capture

u can't expect them to make every scene in the book, it'll take too many episodes to do it.

The scene does achieve some plot advancement in the show despite of the lack of actions where the actions are much needed. At least, the queen will think that Gendry is dead.

I wonder why he always get the dead characters for his major roles
first saw him in Patriot Game as main bad guy, he died
then Golden Eye as main bad guy, also died
in LOTR as main good guy, died again
in GOT as main good guy, died again

maybe he just love dead characters

GOT history (Non spoilerish and supplemental to the story), special features from DVD & Blu Ray

General History of Westeros


The Rise of House Targaryen


The Fall of House Targaryen


History of Noble Houses

just done watching episode 6.
so i'm not reading the novel, but i need a yes or no answer.

saw halfway of season 1 epi 1... like quite boring only... is the action going to get better?

dang~! HBO did it again to potong steam
the siege of Winterfell aren't even close to anything i've imagine at all
I guess you still have to read the book for the finer details
finishing book1 in few more chapters, book2 here i come!

anyway.. ep6 feels a bit too cramp, filling too many plots in one ep, but it's nice to see the brutality of The Hound while saving Sansa
I kinda suspect The Hound has an affliction towards Sansa

from what i understand, they dont want it to be 100% like the book. they've written in additional characters, while writing out others. this seeks to streamline the story without removing key plots. of course, some details have changed, which i believe adds more depth without compromising the integrity of the story.

i personally like the northern whore character (cant remember her name though). she wasnt in the books at all, but somehow u can see her progress from the very first episode in winterfell, till she ended up in joffrey's bed in king's landing.

if they follow the plot of book 3 faithfully in S3, they gonna upset a lot TV GoT fans, especially the Red Wedding part
which I think they'll tone it down a bit

TV is different from books. in the books, the author can spend as much time as he thinks necessary on a particular plot and have as many characters attached to it as he wants. martin did this many times in the books. interestingly, all the side characters will somehow appear later in the book, or different books. some even get POV.

but in TV, they have to work within a specific time. rather than maintain the large number of characters, they reduced it and use the time to concentrate on developing the central characters.

for example, in the 2nd book it wasnt quite clear the intention of margaery wedding renly. he just hinted it. but in book 3, it becomes quiet clear she intends to be THE queen.

on TV, they made it absolutely clear her intent during the death of renly. even adds more scripts and all.

well soap has a totally different appeal. if u read critiques about soaps, u'll be interested to know that soaps defy most written theories about writing. but somehow soaps can just go on and on and on without losing its appeal.

GoT focuses on telling the story through select POV. the story is progressing quickly, and pacing is one of the most important thing in modern tv-series. u'd have to strike just the right balance to ensure people still can follow the story without getting bored with the same characters or vice versa.

look at cancelled tv-series. some actually have good concept/appeal but failed to deliver. not everything can go down the soap path and survive.

LOL laugh.gif how you can use those housewife soap opera with crappy, out of this world plot as an example?
I'm your lost father, sister, brother. I'm still alive, I faked my death. I'm your evil twin, and etc laugh.gif tongue.gif

GoT is based on adaptation of the SoIF books, I'll be the writers must have a hard time squeezing all those extra characters into the series

S1 is pretty easy for them, and it's almost exactly the same like the book1
S2 they've changed the timeline of some incident, took out a few important characters, add in some new twist
I wonder how they are going to do with the next few seasons? hmm.gif
as GRRM adds more new characters faster than the he killed the existing characters tongue.gif

oh yeah... until now I still wonder why in the show, they didn't create Tyrion with discolored eyes just like in the book
as it's very easy to do with just color contact lens
and with Tyrion's discolored eyes, I'll bet it will add in some extra dept in some of the scenes

IMO, 24 episodes per book for all books is a bad idea and 24 episodes per season is even worse. The story will lose its focus and too many filler in between plus the time constraint for 24 episodes means tera nova like special effect. I'm more happy if they adapt the smaller books into 12 to 16 episodes and bigger books into 16 to 20 episodes with each season lasts 10 episodes.
GRRM mentioned that the movie studios only wanted to do a trilogy of PG rated movie focused on Danaerys story. Hahaha! Sounds like a big joke.
I hope that we will not have to see it end this miserable way. I don't mind if GRRM wants to add another 2 books to the series though.