03-27-2012, 05:54 AM | #212 | |
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Ohmigod, ohmigod, ohmigod.
I am rewatching the first series with Ma. We watched ep 1 yesterday. Ma loved it. I actually enjoyed the first ep better this time around. last time I saw that on a really shaky connection, streaming at low quality.
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For anyone who has seen season 1 but did not read the books beforehand: did you feel overwhelmed by character information in the first few episodes, or were you able to keep it all straight? We were impressed with how much backstory they were able to pack in, but we already knew the whole story.
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Going to a friend's GOT party on Sunday. I hope to rewatch the entire first season before then.
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I thought it was funny that the three intro guys got full biographies in the Special Features section. They were non-entities, guys in red shirts who were just there long enough to die.
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The ages are different. Book Robb is 14 IIRC, tv Robb looks 16 - 18. Book Bran is 8, tv Bran is 12. Or there abouts. Theon, on the other hand, is much older than Robb, in the book, but they are contemporaries on tv.
Warning: above ages are all from memory, and may not be accurate, when performing a reality check, fictionally speaking.
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Sansa is prepubescent in the book.
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I'm pretty sure George R.R. Martin wouldn't let them go changing ages willy-nilly, this is supposed to be the most true-to-the-book adaptation of any story, ever.
TV Robb may look older, but I think they're still claiming he's 14-15. He and Jon are supposed to be roughly the same age. Sansa is definitely 13 in both book and TV, though she is technically prepubescent as well since she hasn't menstruated yet (this being a key plot point over whether she can be married yet.) I remember thinking when reading the book that 13 was not impossible, but on the rare side, for not having her period yet. TV Bran is declared to be 10 in episode 1, right before Jaime does his thing. Can't remember how old he's supposed to be in the book. I did have it in my head that Rickon was supposed to be, like, a preschooler, but I think that's me misremembering, because it seems pretty shocking to have aged him up to 6 in the show if he wasn't that age in the book. |
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They had to make several of the characters older in the show so it wasn't kiddie porn.
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I heard that they aged them all 3 years for the sake of propriety
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Arya is one of my favorite characters, and the actress is my favorite. I think they hit my mental images mostly.
King Robert was a miss... He should have coal black hair and bright blue eyes.... an integral part of the story.... and Varys is Lex Luthor.... Jon Snow looks too pudgy and emo... He's supposed to have 'the look of the wolf about him' Oh, and I had Hodor with blond hair in my mind. But the rest... yeah.. pretty close all around.
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I'm pretty sure all the characters are two or three years older. In one scene with King Robert in the first season they referred to the overthrow of Aerys as being 17 years ago, whereas in the book they refer to it as being 14 years ago.
I agree they made them all a bit older so it wasn't so weird. Danaerys was born after King Aerys died, which makes her 14 in the books. But in the show she'd be more like 17.
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Having not read the books first, I really loved the king. Thought he was great. One part dour Yorkshireman to two parts Henry the 8th.
You know that little girl had hardly done any acting before this? In fact I think it was her first role.
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Cannot wait!!!
I'm rooting for Danaerys and her baby dragons.
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