I'm up to EP 7 or 8... never read the novels so for me it's a total discovery and it's so full and complicated that more than once I found myself online checking out the wiki to know who's who and from which house and who screwed whom, etc.
I find Ned a very strong presence as you mentioned (but then I'm a Bean fan so I'm biased) but you just know that his damn honour is going to cost him, and at the end of the last episode I watched last night, with the Robert dead, I think he's about to find out just how much.
I love the portrayal of the imp and I think the little tomboy, Ned's youngest daughter, is simply delightful. Can't stand the other one but that's probably the whole point. Jaime and his sister, I think it works. They're conniving, manipulative players but their badness is slowly getting more nuanced maybe, with them being given more than the boring two-dimensional black and white evilness to work with. Though I can't find myself liking them, except maybe the fact they have the strength of doing what they see has needing to be done. I think that goes for all Lannisters really. As opposed to Ned.
The ones I've enjoyed the most are Daenerys and Kahl Drogo, and that fallen knight... his name escapes me. But of course, all this is from a viewer's standpoint, as I've never read the books.
What do you think, now that the show is further along? Enjoying it?
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Date: 2011-06-16 02:11 am (UTC)I find Ned a very strong presence as you mentioned (but then I'm a Bean fan so I'm biased) but you just know that his damn honour is going to cost him, and at the end of the last episode I watched last night, with the Robert dead, I think he's about to find out just how much.
I love the portrayal of the imp and I think the little tomboy, Ned's youngest daughter, is simply delightful. Can't stand the other one but that's probably the whole point. Jaime and his sister, I think it works. They're conniving, manipulative players but their badness is slowly getting more nuanced maybe, with them being given more than the boring two-dimensional black and white evilness to work with. Though I can't find myself liking them, except maybe the fact they have the strength of doing what they see has needing to be done. I think that goes for all Lannisters really. As opposed to Ned.
The ones I've enjoyed the most are Daenerys and Kahl Drogo, and that fallen knight... his name escapes me. But of course, all this is from a viewer's standpoint, as I've never read the books.
What do you think, now that the show is further along? Enjoying it?