BS: Winter has arrived! (Game of Thrones)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter has arrived! (Game of Thrones)
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Nov 21 - 07:16 PM

and two years later,
people are still binge-watching the whole series.
Especially during those sorrowful times
when there is a lockdown and it isn't safe to be out and about.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter has arrived! (Game of Thrones)
From: Charmion
Date: 18 Nov 21 - 12:10 PM

Y'know, I thought I would watch that series when I subscribed to the Canadian streaming service that carries HBO, but whenever I consider it, I just can't bring myself to tune in.

I read all the books when they were published and found it fascinating, but parts of the story are so grim and violent that I could hardly get through them in print, when I could flip to another chapter to see who survived (if anyone) before going back to catch up on the details. Some of the characters -- Roose Bolton, for example -- are so repellent that I emphatically don't want to see them brought to life. If the HBO version were not even gorier and sadder than the original, it might have more appeal, but it is, so it doesn't.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter has arrived! (Game of Thrones)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Nov 21 - 04:48 PM

Roose Bolton was not as bad as his bastard son, Ramsay, in the series. I read the books but can't remember if he was worse there :-( Roose was led astray by the red woman. Religion has a lot to answer for even in fantasy worlds! Ramsay was just a bastard in more ways than one :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter has arrived! (Game of Thrones)
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Nov 21 - 06:00 PM

I watched the broadcast of the opening episode.
Little Bran scrambling about and climbing walls like a little monkey.
Then the episode comes to an end with
Bran getting pushed out the tower window and CRASH.

I couldn't stand to watch Bran's father being beheaded.


It does seem to me that Bran's encounter in the far northern caves
with the spooky guy who is part tree root, part raven, and part human
goes differently in the book than it does in the TV adaptation.
And I got totally confused and lost concerning, what were they,
the children of the forest creating the Night King? I just gave up.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter has arrived! (Game of Thrones)
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Nov 21 - 06:15 PM

Its a world of so many pandemics and predations the soil is a rich and fertile compost of people, slaves, zombies, rotting white walkers, stone people and dragon barbecue.

All in all its better than nuke plants, mines, chemical plants and refineries.

I liked the charactor based on an old elevator joke. Hodor

Subject: RE: BS: Winter has arrived! (Game of Thrones)
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Nov 21 - 06:18 PM

Something I just read that was rather reassuring to me.

In Season One, an arranged marriage took place between
Daenerys Targaeryen and Khal Drogo of the, what were they, Dothraki?
The wedding night, in the TV show, included raping the bride.

George R. R. Martin, author of the books:
"Why did the wedding scene change from the consensual seduction ...
to the brutal rape of [actress] Emilia Clarke?
We never discussed it. It made it worse, not better."
(interview from 2020)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter has arrived! (Game of Thrones)
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Nov 21 - 11:53 PM

and for what it's worth,
GRRM let slip that the writing pace on that next-to-be-published
installment in the book series is
"hugely behind"

(there are some bad jokes waiting to crawl out of that quote)