I'm half way through the third book right now, pretty surprised at how its keeping my interest so well.
Yeah, balls out is the only way to go for GoT. Going from whorehouse fucking to infanticide like that--maybe I Claudius comes close to those sorts of moments. Can't think of much else.
It's so cool to see those book moments actually put on screen. This isn't Lord of the Rings. lol Still not sure of where Roz fits in, just because she's not in the books. Everything else last night was pretty much straight from the series. The Dontos scene was awesome at the beginning.
Apparently they want to split book 3 into two seasons (good idea if you ask me). Then they can combine 4 and 5 into three more seasons. That'll give GRRM time to write his outline of Book 6.
So they're planning on 8-9 seasons of this show? That's a loooong run and I would imagine its exaggerated for a show with such high production value as opposed to a simpler comedy or even something like the Sopranos (which ran 6 seasons) which required little in the way of special effects, fancy sets, tons of actors, etc. I've got two hundred pages left in the third book, I think I know where they would cut off the first season of book 3 lol.
I'm a little behind this season, but I just finished Ep2 and they've already deviated quite a bit from the book. I don't understand why. I get why they would have to leave stuff out, but why change things? Bronn as the Commander of the Gold Cloaks? One of Dany's blood riders killed? Jon witnesses Craster giving a baby to the Others? None of this happened, or I don't remember it happening. They've also added a couple other scenes that I thought were stupid, with so much other good stuff actually in the books. Doesn't make sense to me.
They only hinted at it. There never was a part in the second (or third book) where Stannis fucked her. Just rumors mentioned by Davos and others.
Yeah I know they never explicitly said it but there was enough clues that I probably should have figured it out before I watched the show lol.
It's kind of like Renly being gay with Loras. The book only hints at it, but the show just comes out and slaps you in the face with it lol
Indeed, and the show doesn't do him justice. To really understand how fucked up he is, you'd have to read the books.
Renly-Loras becomes more and more obvious as the books go on. I swear there was no hints toward that at all in the first book and GRRM just threw it into the second book lol. And one of the unfortunate translations from the books to the show is that there is much less on Joffrey and more focus on Robb.
I think there might have been some very suttle hints, but you're right. I was completely blindsided when I saw season 1 because I hadn't gotten to the second book yet and I had no idea that Renly was gay.
