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Old 05-29-2012, 09:54 AM   #141 (permalink)
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Nope, I plan on watching the show after I read the books. I doubt the 6th book will be released by the time I finish the first 5, so I might start then. I'm kind of anal about separating books from TV/movies, but it looks like I might cave because of how long Martin takes to write the books. I do plan on watching it though.



A friend just told me this the other day and said that the second season turned him off the show a bit. How much do they stray from the book in the second season?
It's really not that much imo, I like the changes, actually.
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Old 05-29-2012, 04:37 PM   #142 (permalink)
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Got the series on Netflix. Watching the first episode right now, will report back with my feelings. I better be blown the hell away, what with you guys making so much noise about it.
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Episode 1 is a little confusing tho, just a warning
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I didn't really like the series until a few episodes in myself. Now I'm loving it.
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Got the series on Netflix. Watching the first episode right now, will report back with my feelings. I better be blown the hell away, what with you guys making so much noise about it.
I don't think you will, the series just doesn't have the depth of the books, you need to absorb yourself in the books and then just watch the TV series as an additional extra.
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Okay, so here we go.

It starts off really well. Despite the fact I have no idea what is going on, it is still an awesome atmosphere. Good, confusing stuff.

The Winterfell people and the King and his people seem rowdy, but cool.

The blonde incestuous brother is creepy as hell, and boy do I feel bad for his sister.

The Prince of Persia-esque tribe is horrifying and terrible.

And holy CRAP there was a lot of sex going on. It seemed like half of what was being discussed/shown/thought about was sex! Honestly, I don't really think it adds anything of importance and is kind of stupid. :/

All in all, it was... okay. I'm going to watch the second episode when I get home from work at around 1 am, and will push on, since everyone says that it gets better. Will report back later with my thoughts on the second episode.
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I would think that the best thing would be to see the series, then read the books. That way, you'll be able to enjoy the series without being too critical (from reading the books) and then you can enjoy the books and their added depth and detail afterwards.
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I would think that the best thing would be to see the series, then read the books. That way, you'll be able to enjoy the series without being too critical (from reading the books) and then you can enjoy the books and their added depth and detail afterwards.
When somebody is not crazy on a series, it doesn't always give them that much motivation to read the books.
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Which is silly because books are almost always soooo much better than their adapted counterparts
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A friend just told me this the other day and said that the second season turned him off the show a bit. How much do they stray from the book in the second season?
It's mostly just consolidating the cast of characters and some of the side stories. At first I was a bit annoyed, especially as the first season followed the book almost word-for-word, but after the fourth episode I started to like some of the changes.

Apparently the next two seasons are going to be dedicated to A Storm of Swords which has me wondering if they're really going to knuckle down and include all the material from that book. There's a lot to get through even if you do strip down some of the ancillary plots but they're also introducing Jojen and Meera Reed in this season, which has me curious as to how they're going to do that, unless they were already on their way to Winterfell.
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