I can’t remember if I mentioned this or not because I am old and mentally infirm, but I am rewatching Game of Thrones (just finished season 2 tonight), and I guess I had forgotten how really, really good the show was and is.
Having fun, googling maps of Westeros, etc.
dmsilev
Nobody tell him how it ends.
Manyakitty
@dmsilev: lol. I remember rewatching it, thinking how good it was, and then they ran out of books. Alas.
Eric NNY
@dmsilev: the world would be better with dragons.
MaryLou
The books are even better! And they’re thick – will fill some hours. George R. R. Martin writes well.
UncleEbeneezer
Truly one of the best series I have ever seen. I mean, there are so many WTF twists/scenes/episodes that we still talk about all these years later. And the acting performances were first-rate really from the entire cast.
cain
@dmsilev: IT DOESNT END ! THE BOOKS WILL NEVER END ! WE WILL NEVER KNOW HOW IT WILL REALLY END !😑😡😡
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
This would threaten the passage of the endangered species act.
Trivia Man
Spoiler Alert: It ends at Season 7.
I SAID, IT ENDS AT SEASON SEVEN
Jay
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
It would have sped it up, as “we” would have been one of those endangered species.
oldster
Yeah, there are some wonderful characters in it — brilliantly written and acted.
My favorite scenes are the indoor interpersonal ones — Tyrion battling with Joffrey in the Small Council, Margery mocking Cersei for being the Dowager Queen, that sort of thing. Smart people trying to outsmart each other, and sometimes being too smart for their own good.
And of course every scene with Diana Rigg.
eclare
I gave up after about four episodes, it was too violent for my taste. But wow does it have fans worldwide! I found that out on a vacation to Croatia, where parts of it were filmed. Glad you’re enjoying it, Cole.
ChicagoPat
For anyone needing catharsis after Season 8, watch “Game of Thrones Season 8 Pitch Meeting” on YouTube.
WhatsMyNym
@MaryLou:
Good suggestion, I looked at my e-library (on libby) and they have them available. So I’m going to read the first one and see how it goes.
TriassicSands
@eclare:
It was simultaneously very good (until it wasn’t) and gratuitously violent coupled with too much gratuitous nudity, which rarely moved the story along. But tastes vary, and I can imagine someone not wanting to watch so much violence.
Peter Dinklage was probably the best thing about the show. (But tastes vary.)
sab
My only problem is the actors’ accents don’t make sense for figuring out who is from where in Westeros. A tiny nit to pick but I’ll pick it.
Why do all the Stark kids who grew up in the same remote castle each have a different accent?
Why do Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon who grew up in opposite ends of Westeros have the same accent?
Also, George Rr Martin is a genius, and I would rather have him actively involved in Dark Winds than finishing GOT books.
sab
@Jay: All his major animals were endangered species. He had sea cows in their Arctic, and then I Iearned we also used to have sea cows in the Bering Strait.
eclare
@TriassicSands:
IIRC he was the only individual actor nominated for an Emmy who won, although the show as a whole was nominated many times.
sab
@oldster: Brilliant as George Martin is, his adult women were shallow. The tv series allowed adult women actresses to bring these characters alive in a way the books didn’t.
cursorial
I’ve also been rewatching the series for the first time since it originally aired, and enjoying it. The nudity is gratuitous, but the violence, I think, is almost always purposeful. It’s unfortunate how the mammoth setpieces of the later seasons overshadowed the intrigue and worldbuilding that made the show so engaging when it started.
Jay
@sab:
thank you, another deep dive into the Stellar Sea Cow created.
Quinerly
Martin is a part owner in Sky Railway here in Santa Fe. It’s a tourist train that runs from the Railyard District in Santa Fe through my neighborhood in Eldorado to the village of Lamy, NM. The train is painted like a dragon and is pretty cool. His group bought the 1880’s train station in Lamy which Amtrak also utilizes and thus leases from Martin’s group. Half the station is a cool bar, for some reason being run on a shoestring, even though the building is now owned by millionaires. (They won’t even pay the modest BMI/ASCAP licensing fee to have music…..can only have bands who will play their original music for tips). Martin was actually hanging out there on some Sundays, summer of 2022. He was never friendly with us locals….always with an “entourage” of mostly young Asian over dressed groupies….think red cocktail dresses and highheels in a bar in a village with dirt streets, no A/C, flies, peanut shells on the floor, horses tied up, and dogs wandering in and out. I am a huge fan of Tony Hillerman’s books and the AMC series “Dark Winds,” which Robert Redford and Martin are involved in. So summer of 2022, one time when Martin was in the bar, I went up to him….I paused, starting gushing fanlike to him…..”Mr. Martin, I must tell you how much I love the books and writing of…….Tony Hillerman….so glad the series was made.” I went on and on about how great those books are and that series was. He grunted and left shortly after that. As far as I know he has never been back.
Jeffery
I got the show from the library after it was all over. It was during the pandemic shutdown. I got the first three seasons at once and binged watched them. The actors made the story come alive for me. The books bored me.
Netflix is currently broadcasting Six Feet Under. I remember liking that. Am liking it even more this go round.
Don
I am not a fan of dragons, zombies or magic, but GoT overcame all of that prejudice. Absolutely amazing. To anyone who hasn’t seen it, if you get past the first season, you’ll not stop watching the rest. My favorites are Game of Thrones, Deadwood, The Wire, The Shield, and Better Call Saul–substituting for Breaking Bad, because I thought it was better, which is a hard-to-believe statement itself. I just started watching Six Feet Under for the first time, and what an interesting, weird show.
Honorable mention for Bosch and The Bear.
eclare
@Jeffery:
I’ll have to give Six Feet Under a rewatch, I remember really liking it. Especially the episode where the bikers have a funeral on Christmas after one of their members, dressed as Santa, died.
Narya
I have and am willing to give away the GOT paperbacks.
Matt McIrvin
I spent the long weekend taking my daughter to Rochester to visit RIT, which was having a massive open house. I rented a Chevy Bolt as our car for puttering around town. I have to say, there’s a part of me that misses driving a dinky little car, and being able to maneuver in tight spaces and squeeze in anywhere. It reminded me of my old Honda Fit, only electric. Didn’t have the cargo hauling capacity of the Fit though.
There wasn’t a charger that was really convenient to our hotel so the rental company probably dinged me with the bullshit charging fee–that was the only down side, but when I rent gasoline cars I usually just spring for the “fill my tank” fee for the same reason anyway
The food scene in Rochester is surprisingly good, lots of ramen and pho and boba tea around.
RevRick
When Game of Thrones came out on HBO, my son said, “Dad, you have to watch this!” He had read the books. So, it became our Sunday night family thing. And after the first season was done, I said to him, “Okay, let me borrow the books.”
That was a busy summer of reading.
Paul in KY
@Trivia Man: Agree :-)
agorabum
The Meereenese Knot remains undefeated, unfortunately.
The tragic part is the showrunners and writers actually improved on the books and added several great scenes and discussions. But dropped dialogue for spectacle at the end