"Game of Thrones" - HBO Series Coming in 2011

[iv3rdawG]

Screen time for each character this past season (spoilered for size):

Spoiler

[wurwolf]

Really? Meera Reed got more screen time than Loras Tyrell? Or even Theon?

[Bob]

Really? Meera Reed got more screen time than Loras Tyrell? Or even Theon?

All Reeds deserve more credit

[wurwolf]

I must have totally missed this due to being on vacation, but about a month ago there was a casting change announced on Game of Thrones. Ed Skrein is no longer Daario Naharis. They have a new guy, and perhaps he will be more to your liking, Imrahil.



http://winteriscoming.net/2013/10/first-look-at-the-new-daario/

He looks a lot less Fabio and more like... well, a brunette Jaime Lannister. But these pictures aren't close ups so it's a little hard to tell exactly.

[modelmeg]

I'm basically happy to never see Theon again, so that doesn't bother me.

I actually think that it would have been more effective if they'd treated Theon's downfall like they did in the book. We hear almost nothing from him for a long time and the next time we see him he's been turned into Reek. That actually shocked me and I found his chapters incredibly hard to read. I think it would have been more controversial, but, in the long run, more affecting to the audience.

[wurwolf]

Are we sure that's daario, wurwolf?

The Hollywood Reporter cites "sources".

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/game-thrones-books-treme-alum-616705

So no, not sure it's Daario. I'm trying to think who else he could be, perhaps the Yunkish man she marries (can't remember his name)? This guy doesn't look like her husband in the books, though.

[wurwolf]

I'm basically happy to never see Theon again, so that doesn't bother me.

I actually think that it would have been more effective if they'd treated Theon's downfall like they did in the book. We hear almost nothing from him for a long time and the next time we see him he's been turned into Reek. That actually shocked me and I found his chapters incredibly hard to read. I think it would have been more controversial, but, in the long run, more affecting to the audience.

I agree with this a lot. I understand why they didn't do it that way (actors and contracts and other work) but I feel as though it really did a disservice to Theon's story. That had such an impact on me in the books, and I liked that GRRM skipped the nitty gritty of the torture scenes to give us Reek.

On the other hand, I feel as though Bran and Rickon's stories will play out better on tv than in the books (at least thus far).

[Tripe]

[The Lurker]

[wurwolf]

Short version: everyone dies.

[iv3rdawG]

I love Natalie Dormer:

Despite what the title says, no spoilers for non-book readers like myself.

[Sideswipe]

Just started watching.  Peter Dinklage is this show!

[Rainbow Dash]

[wurwolf]

I didn't get a chance to watch the video all the way through, so I don't know if this is on it, but I saw this on one of my Game of Thrones tumblrs that I follow:



Drogon grew up. I can't wait!

[Bob]

Since I have not read any of the books (nor have any desire too), I cannot say how closely they follow the books, but the production company does a great job filming it and the thing is full of good actors.  So those are plusses.

I have this feeling that that annoying kid king is going to live forever.

And the blonde dragon woman needs more topless scenes of course.

And if characters have the last name of "Reed", you know they will be great.