Game of Thrones [HBO & Sky Atlantic] **Spoilers** (Read Warning Post #1)

fitz

Richard Dower wrote: »

I still maintain it's an adult version of LOTR....but with less trolls.

Couldn't disagree more.
Beyond the fantasy setting, they're absolutely nothing alike.

TwoShedsJackson

Richard Dower wrote: »

Show *needs* a budget increase, there be dragons now + we need some epic battles.

We really don't, you can get epic battles in countless films and numerous TV shows.

I'd rather they did what they've done so far in this and what they did in Rome, show the before/after of battles and use the time and budget for the characters, frankly.

Kettle316

Richard Dower wrote: »

I still maintain it's an adult version of LOTR....but with less trolls.

I tought the same thing coming in to the shows (I hadn't heard anything about it either, since the show finished I've read all the books....TWICE ) but the 2 are hugely different from each other!!

I'm a big fan of LOTR but everything is black and white in terms of who is good (The Fellowship) and who is bad (Sauron)....in ASOIAF universe it's all grey!! There are maybe 3-4 characters throughout the series who are truly evil the rest are bad but have some redeeming qualities that make you feel for them and vice versa with the "heroes" of the story!!

Also add in the constant politicking going on in Westeros (Littlefinger, Varys, Cersei etc.) is like something from The West Wing......very little of this is seen in LOTR!!

pixelburp

Well it's all very well having all your characters scheme against each other & have shades of gray all over the place - and maybe it's just me - but I find that it can make the inevitable betrayals & moral slides of characters less dramatic if everyone else in the show is doing it.

For instance - and I haven't read the books so I don't know if this will happen - Rob Stark (and his house in general) is about the only moral & noble leader / faction left at this stage. But because everybody else is scheming, betraying & screwing each other, I'm already girding myself to see Rob & family get betrayed, or they themselves slide into moral ruin. It seems the going fashion in Westeros, so I just assume it'll eventually happen Rob too.

Orizio

Richard Dower wrote: »

I still maintain it's an adult version of LOTR....but with less trolls.

Please stop.

Richard Dower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kLSYTHQbm4

"sean bean is a spoiler on two legs"

Tordelback

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

We really don't, you can get epic battles in countless films and numerous TV shows.

I'd rather they did what they've done so far in this and what they did in Rome, show the before/after of battles and use the time and budget for the characters, frankly.

Absolutely. One of the greatest pseudo-historical dynastic-intrigue TV adaptations, I Claudius, was entirely studio-based (despite the many wide-screen events of the books), and didn't suffer at all.

As others have pointed out, ASoIaF isn't really about the big battles anyway (at least as far as I've read, which is A Feast for Crows) - apart from

the Blackwater, the Fist of the First Men and Rayder's attack on the Wall

, most of the large scraps happen between chapters, or at some distance.

Gauge

Another few vids here:

Coordinating fights and stunts (see if you can spot

Brienne!

)
Arya Stark's new look.

WolfForager

Gauge wrote: »

Coordinating fights and stunts (see if you can spot

Brienne!

)

There's something disturbing about The Hound smiling and giving the thumbs up...

Gauge

WolfForager wrote: »

There's something disturbing about The Hound smiling and giving the thumbs up...

When I look at The Hound I find it hard not to see the character he played in Hot Fuzz YAAARP.

Richard Dower

Season 3??.....http://www.digitalspy.ie/ustv/s151/game-of-thrones/news/a355202/game-of-thrones-season-three-to-begin-filming-may-2012.html

DarkDusk

All these sneak peaks are teasing me... I can't take it anymore!

Professional Griefer

''Good News. A new Game of Thrones Season 2 teaser will air this Sunday on HBO before the Boardwalk Empire season finale.''

From their facebook. Dying for this to come back

WolfForager

Ix Deadmau5 wrote: »

''Good News. A new Game of Thrones Season 2 teaser will air this Sunday on HBO before the Boardwalk Empire season finale.''

From their facebook. Dying for this to come back

I shall await it on the youtubes.

DarkDusk

I hope it's not as bad as the one on youtube now!:p Just finished A Storm of Swords btw, brilliant book, with an even better ending...:D

Professional Griefer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBrsM_WlfV8

Was hoping for better, guess it is just a teaser though.

April is coming..:D

mufcboy1999

Looks good can't wait for this and spartucus in next few months!

Richard Dower

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

Looks good can't wait for this and spartucus in next few months!

+1 ya here...both must see shows for 2012

Owryan

Richard Dower wrote: »

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

Looks good can't wait for this and spartucus in next few months!

+1 ya here...both must see shows for 2012

Been reading the game of throne novels thanks to an e novel I found . Cant wait till season two kicks off. Any idea how many episodes as a hell of a lot happens in the book.

As an aside, kinda worried bout spartacus as the guy who played him was so dominant onscreen the new spartacus actor migjt not have the same presence

MitchKoobski

Three sounds of the horn at the end there....:D

WolfForager

MitchKoobski wrote: »

Three sounds of the horn at the end there....:D

Thanks for pointing that out. Missed in completely!

Denerick

Ix Deadmau5 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBrsM_WlfV8

Was hoping for better, guess it is just a teaser though.

April is coming..:D

OMG!

OMFG!

I've never been this excited by a tv show. Its like I'm ten years old all over again.

Shlippery

For some reason, Iain Glen "Ser Jorah Mormont" is at NUIG engineering building..being filmed for something? Just met him there. Closest thing I'll get to Game of Thrones while waiing for the next season..

Owryan

On the moncrief show today they were talking about books for kids and one guest recommended "game of thrones" as a good fantasy type book for preteens. . Pmsl.

Average-Ro

The Red Leper wrote: »

For some reason, Iain Glen "Ser Jorah Mormont" is at NUIG engineering building..being filmed for something? Just met him there. Closest thing I'll get to Game of Thrones while waiing for the next season..

He's shooting Jack Taylor in Galway at the moment; coming to an end soon though.

I know a guy who worked on the second season of Game of Thrones, could not be more jealous....

scudzilla

Somebody seriously dropped the ball on this one, i'd have thought it would have been a cert to be out on dvd/bluray for Christmas

stesaurus

scudzilla wrote: »

Somebody seriously dropped the ball on this one, i'd have thought it would have been a cert to be out on dvd/bluray for Christmas

Yeah seems a bit stupid but it's HBO's policy. They only release the DVD's a month or so before the new series starts again.
Would have loved to have had the Blu-ray boxset for xmas though.

Jumpy

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

Looks good can't wait for this and spartucus in next few months!

I thought he died. Did they find a replacement?

Gauge

So some of the GoT fansites around have been getting fairly cool press kits:

Winter is Coming.net got a stark themed one.

And it includes a small video that will be part of a 24 chapter thing on the History of Westeros (narrated by Michelle Fairley/Cat and Isaac Hempstead-Wright/Bran).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQDpIB6S4ac

I wish I had a Blu Ray player... or the money to buy one! Guess the regular version will have to do.

DarkDusk

Not sure if anyone's seen this yet but anyway... (not the best of quality!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql6kqCK_85g

don ramo

Gauge wrote: »

Winter is Coming.net got a stark themed one.

i want one

DarkDusk

don ramo wrote: »

i want one

Me too, but imagine how expensive it would be - worth it though.

TwoShedsJackson

Jumpy wrote: »

I thought he died. Did they find a replacement?

He did. They did.

DarkDusk

Better quality for the original video I posted if anyone's interested.
Link

Richard Dower

Filming wraps in Belfast, dunno about the other shooting locales:

http://www.makinggameofthrones.com/

DarkDusk

Big Nelly

Hey just wondering where Game of thrones has gone on Sky Atlantic? was Sky + recording it but seems to have gone now and can't find it on TV guide?

boobar

Anyone know when Season 2 of Game of Thrones is starting.

Just saw an ad for it on TV but it didn't say when it was due to start

Leeg17

April 2012 according to the Wiki page here, although it's very much open to correction.

tvnutz

Ye its april,latest trailer released just before Christmas said April 2012

tvnutz

Just saw on Facebook, April 1st in the US so Id imagine very soon after that on Sky

boobar

Thanks guys,

Something to look forward to.

Mad Men in March, Game of Thrones back in April.

Walking Dead back on in February....

Varied taste.

telekon

This is going to be bloody amazing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBrsM_WlfV8

fizzlepurplefuz

Game of Thrones Season 2 premieres in the states April 1st

If it follows the same schedule as last year we should have it on sky atlantic on the 2nd heres hoping

Only 79 days to go

Big Nelly

Any chance they will replay series 1 on SKy before then?

Miprocin

Probably, yes. They repeated Season 1 of Boardwalk Empire before Season 2 started.

Tenger

Big Nelly wrote: »

Any chance they will replay series 1 on SKy before then?

I would expect so. Sky will like the extra ratings before Season 2 even airs.

However I would expect it to start pretty soon in that case, maybe with Ep 10 the night before the Sky premiere?

calex71

After finishing the books recently I'll be interested to see season 2, this is the one book in the series I would say will benefit from TV making it shorter and more compressed. Found it very hard work to read up until the last 1/4 or so.

For me it's a case of hurry up and get season 2 out of the way so we can have season 3 sooner !!!!!!!

don ramo

Big Nelly wrote: »

Any chance they will replay series 1 on SKy before then?

any chance wed have a damn forum by then,

breaking bad just got one and its heading into its final season (and long overdue i must say, the forum, not the show:D),

c'mon

WolfForager

Currently reading "Blood and Gold" and have to say I really don't think that each TV series will be specifically set to one book. If they did, people who haven't read the books wouldn't have a feckin clue what's going on.