Game of Thrones (TV) - US Pace - NO BOOK DISCUSSION (that means NO BOOK DISCUSSION)

Solid opening episode I thought. Its been a while since I read the book but it seems quite faithful to it.

Tits and Trevelyan.

I'm going to like this show.

All very good, I thought, except for one thing:

Khal Drogo raping Dany.

I don't see why they just didn't follow the book there..


Opening credits were great, weren't they?

Brilliant, loved it.

Also, can we keep book chatter/spoilers out of this thread? I'm sure it's a popular enough series to justify it's own talking grounds (or just use the literature thread).

Decent starter, they did well to not make it too complex

Awesome start.

Finished where I thought it would too.


But still a very good start, and they did keep it fairly straightforward and not confusing at all. Can't wait for the next one.

Oh and Sean Bean is perfect as Ned.

Now back to the book!

Yeah, The Dothraki looked like extras from Hercules or Xena. Not very impressed.

But other than that I thought it was pretty good. Viserys is well cast I think though his part was a bit low-key this episode, and I liked Arya. Jaime Lannister looks like the live action version of Prince Charming from Shrek (which is pretty much spot on, really). The older Stark boys are all a bit interchangeable at the moment but hopefully they'll come into their own. Tyrion was the highlight (apart from all the boobs obviously) and Robert Baratheon was the lowlight - I just don't think he portrays any of the right qualities. He's meant to be a physically very powerful man gone to fat, not a plain old fat man. He wielded a strawberry floating war hammer for crying out loud! (Erm, didn't he..?).

Oh, and the Wall looked great.

I watched this last night having never read the books. It's rather pervy isn't it

Looks like the story is going to be rather deep, so I might rewatch each episode to keep up (with the story).

Forgot to watch this last night

Good old Sky+ though, it'll give me another excuse to not do any uni work today

Just watched it this morning. Really enjoyed it.

BID0 wrote:It's rather pervy isn't it

Is it too pervy to watch with your parents? My mum wants to watch it too but if it's full of tits and sex then I'd rather wank to it watch it in my room

There were lots of characters to follow, but this character/bloodlines map should help you decode who's who: http://i.imgur.com/w0i3N.jpg

(No spoilers in there for anyone who has seen the first ep, as far as I'm aware.)

Preezy wrote:

BID0 wrote:It's rather pervy isn't it

Is it too pervy to watch with your parents? My mum wants to watch it too but if it's full of tits and sex then I'd rather wank to it watch it in my room

Watching the last scene with your parents would be fine

Just saw the first episode and thought it was really good. Sean Bean . Who plays the Queen? I swear I've seen her in something before.

King Chaz wrote:Just saw the first episode and thought it was really good. Sean Bean . Who plays the Queen? I swear I've seen her in something before.

She's Sarah Connor from Sarah Connor Chronicles. She was in 300 as well, maybe.

Yeah she's gerard butlers wife in it

Yeah thats it thanks. I thought she was great in 300, plus she's pretty fit. Too bad about the Incest.

glowy69 wrote:

Preezy wrote:

BID0 wrote:It's rather pervy isn't it

Is it too pervy to watch with your parents? My mum wants to watch it too but if it's full of tits and sex then I'd rather wank to it watch it in my room

Watching the last scene with your parents would be fine

What was going on with the White haired siblings at bath time

If you've watched Skins with your parents before Preezy, then yoo should be okay.

Saw this yesterday and rather enjoyed it. Great start to keep someone interested from the very beginning! Seeing as it's HBO I was kind of expecting the stuff that I saw . I'll assume it's sort of like that in the books? I'm really bad with pilot episodes though, remembering names/places etc. (although i thought the opening credits were great and very helpful). Whilst watching it I'll check my phone or something and by the end I've realised that in those 20 seconds I've missed something big .

So, from what I could gather from this (hoping people can correct me where I go wrong or miss stuff) is:



I think I got most of it, as it wasn't exactly a complicated episode (which I was kinda thinking it would be), but I think I missed a couple of things that make it all come together nicely.

Either way I am looking forward to the next episode and will not allow distractions this time!

Ugh, I hate imdb. I went to check the cast to see their names in the show etc, but forgot it's got how many strawberry floating episodes they're in. I seriously have no idea why they have it like that. It's awful. No wonder I never use that tripe site.

SandyCoin wrote:
So, from what I could gather from this (hoping people can correct me where I go wrong or miss stuff) is:

Sean Bean is in charge of the north and the King (the big drunk guy) has come to the North to ask Bean to look after the kingdom in the capital so he can be a drunk whore chaser as he isn't really cut out for being King? Also, the Queen, the dude she plowed and the imp are brother and sisters, right? Who was the little kid who was perving over Beans daughter at the feast?

The creepy albino brother and sister were from a family who were banished I take it? He seems to think he's the rightful king so wants to amass an army of tanned rapists to invade the mainland. Am I right in thinking we don't know why exactly he thinks he's king yet?

Then I got rather confused at the end when Beans wife got the letter from her sister (not sure who her sister is) saying someone was murdered and then after that my mind went blank as the names flew over my head. Was this something to do with the stone statue the king was moaning about being in Winterfell? (was that his wife before he married this incest lover?

Just about, but a couple of things:



I hope that covers everything in terms of the episode, and I don't think I mentioned anything not stated in the show, though it's tricky, knowing the books to see what should and shouldn't be known at the moment.