Sunday, December 4, 2011

REVIEW: HBO's Game of Thrones

 
George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series has been on my To Buy/Read list for a while now, so I couldn't resist watching the TV series Game of Thrones.

I don't want to say much other than I freaking loved it! I'm not sure how it would have fared in my opinion had I read the books first and I haven't asked anyone who has, but as a stand alone series, I thought it was highly successful. I think this is mostly due to the brilliance of the novels and their characters and plot, but I also held the actors and direction in high regard. Using a mostly unknown cast was a good move and each held their character superbly, notably Daenerys, Arya and Lady Stark for me.

As a fan of reading fantasy I did struggle a bit with the lack of detail which is inherent in films and TV series. I had to look up a map of Westeros to place all of the events and even some of the characters as it was hard to remember everyone's names without seeing them written.

I definitely mean to get on to reading the series as soon as I can, although I had originally planned to wait until the final two books were released. Upon finding out how long that could drag on for however, I could be waiting a while. I think I might order them for Christmas.

Reading wise, I am only halfway through The Alloy of Law due my graduation, holiday, work and now TV series but I'm enjoying it thus far.

3 comments:

  1. I thought the show was damn near perfect... I started a re-read of the series.. I have to know what happens in Dance with Dragons.. Rumor is there are some cliffhangers and I don't want to hear about them without reading it first!

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  2. I'm so glad you liked it!!
    I waited ages until giving in and watching it, because I love the books SO much and I was scared they'd be messed up - but oh my God, so perfect!

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  3. it was a nice show, not better than TUDORS, SPARTACUS and other classic epics, but very good. I especially loved Daenerys, John Snow and Sean Bean in the show.

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