I just finished watching this series in two days and I liked it a lot. I'm going to get clash of kings to pick up the story where the tv series left off.
Has anyone read the books?
I know Nikanor and Dram watched the show too.
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Anyway, funny you should say that -- right before I clicked on GD, I had just set the whole first season to download. I hear the first few episodes are a little confusing, but after that it gets awesome.
you should read the tower of joy scene online somewhere as it didn't make the tv show and it's fucking awesome.
i'd probably suggest you read book 1 too, there are some differences in stuff that happens/the way characters are portrayed, although maybe it's not *strictly* neccessary, it goes into more detail on stuff than the tv show for obvious reasons.
also 5th book is out 12th of July!
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me/nik/ces/mina all watched the finale at goofbash together, actually, yeah.
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Anyway, funny you should say that -- right before I clicked on GD, I had just set the whole first season to download. I hear the first few episodes are a little confusing, but after that it gets awesome.
depends, you're used to ensemble casts as you watch a fair bit of tv so I think you'll be able to manage it pretty well. first episodes are still very good.
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My favorite book series. And the TV show is ridiculously good.
xRECKONERx wrote:Anyway, funny you should say that -- right before I clicked on GD, I had just set the whole first season to download. I hear the first few episodes are a little confusing, but after that it gets awesome.
There's just a LOT of characters to try to keep track of.
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Faraday wrote:you should read the tower of joy scene online somewhere as it didn't make the tv show and it's fucking awesome.
What's the tower of joy lol?
It's amazing that they casted Sean Bean as Eddard Stark
It's a flashback scene when Ned is imprisoned, and shows him talking with 3 of the Kingsguard of the time before fighting them, the fight isn't shown though. It's a very good part of a chapter which for some reason wasn't shown.
Not really. I'm not saying I knew about it before everyone else. Anyone who likes good fantasy had. I am saying the books are so much better than the show that its not even close.
I read the first book a while back (2 years ago?), but the fact that NONE of the loose ends in the plots are tied by the end of the book pissed me off a bit at the time.
Specially the two exiled brothers living with "the mongols", I was really digging that thread in the story, and then the book ends and they didn't interface with the main plot AT ALL
I might give the series another chance when I get some more free time for reading.
Discovered the series through the TV adaptation (which is excellent, and should be running away with the Emmys this year), and have now got into the books due to not being able to wait a whole year for season two (I am aware I will have to wait much longer for books six and seven, though). Just finished A Clash of Kings and will get my hands on a copy of A Storm of Swords soon.
I actually disagree with that. They can't compare to the books, obviously, but it's a fantastically done TV show and a really good adaption of the books. It was a bit rushed, as it had to be with the massive books, but I'm not sure how much better they could have done it.
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Claus wrote:I read the first book a while back (2 years ago?), but the fact that NONE of the loose ends in the plots are tied by the end of the book pissed me off a bit at the time.
Specially the two exiled brothers living with "the mongols", I was really digging that thread in the story, and then the book ends and they didn't interface with the main plot AT ALL
I might give the series another chance when I get some more free time for reading.
...I've no idea what you're talkiing about with this spoiler Claus. Are you sure you're not confusing it with something else? OH, unless you mean Dany, who's a girl. And remember it's a 7 book series, so.
@ CDB: Storm is the best book, in my opinion, enjoy.
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Faraday wrote:
...I've no idea what you're talkiing about with this spoiler Claus. Are you sure you're not confusing it with something else? OH, unless you mean Dany, who's a girl. And remember it's a 7 book series, so.
You are right, I meant brother and sister, my bad.
I know it is a 7 book series, but
I was expecting story lines within the same book to be connected in that book. To have two story lines completely in parallel, and never connect within the first book miffed me a bit at the time
It actually works out pretty well in future books, I mean there are sort of *3* distinct stories, the wall is pretty much seperate from the rest of the politics of westeros too for quite a while, that'll eventually all be interwoven.