Game of Thrones 1.01
Apr. 19th, 2011 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardA very short reaction to Game of Thrones 1.01: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is PERFECT. I am pretty sure I am not supposed to say that I love Jaime right after he throws a young child off a building, but, um, Jaime Lannister is my favorite character in ASoIaF and Coster-Waldau does him just right. (And as ever, I heart Lena Headey.)
Sundays are for incest, apparently. On a scale of one to creepy on the incest scale, ranking Cesare and Lucrezia, Dany and Viserys, and Jaime and Cersei...well, Viserys wins for creepy, and Cesare and Lucrezia win for affectionate, and Jaime and Cersei for...
Wait. Is the message I'm getting on Sundays supposed to be that only blonds are incestuous? You must have at least one blond character to ride this ride? (And Peter is blond too! If we are going the Narnia route, though of course there is no actual incest and/or pre-eminent subtext in Narnia.)
There have been too many creepy sex scenes with teenage girls on my computer screen in the past twenty-four hours.
They aged all the Stark kids up three years, I heard? Since isn't Bran seven, originally? Was that for casting or are they going to do something terrifying with Sansa?
I am not one hundred percent sold on the choices made for costuming, but, eh, whatever.
I am also going to be very meekly in the minority here and say that I'm not in love with the opening credits -- they're way too mechanical for my taste. I love the burning flamy-thing that's going on at the very beginning and the end, but the main bulk of it does nothing for me. Which, I mean, it's the credits, whatever, but I heard a lot of raving about the credits and I expected something more, so I'm a little disappointed.
I don't have much of an opinion on anyone else right now. I wish we'd seen more of the direwolves, since we only saw Summer; I'm surprised they didn't put Ghost into the Jon and Tyrion scene. Wait, I do have an opinion -- I was surprisingly pleased by Jorah Mormont, I'd forgotten he showed up that early. So there's that. (And Benjen and Viserys, while I'm here! Since they're not important outside the first book. So it's cool that they get fleshed out; Viserys is hugely important in GOT, but since there's that unfortunate incident at the end and there are, like, ten million pages of more book where he's gone, he's easy to forget.)
I kind of wish they'd made the pilot an hour and a half instead of just an hour. I've read the books (several times over, in fact), so I have no idea how well the pilot worked for people who haven't read the books, but I am very glad we didn't get a ton of exposition dumped on us in the pilot.
Oh, I liked the little detail at the beginning, with the eyes painted on stones over Jon Arryn's eyes. (I like little details. Sue me. It's one of the reasons I love ASoIaF.)
In conclusion: JAIME LANNISTER.
Sundays are for incest, apparently. On a scale of one to creepy on the incest scale, ranking Cesare and Lucrezia, Dany and Viserys, and Jaime and Cersei...well, Viserys wins for creepy, and Cesare and Lucrezia win for affectionate, and Jaime and Cersei for...
Wait. Is the message I'm getting on Sundays supposed to be that only blonds are incestuous? You must have at least one blond character to ride this ride? (And Peter is blond too! If we are going the Narnia route, though of course there is no actual incest and/or pre-eminent subtext in Narnia.)
There have been too many creepy sex scenes with teenage girls on my computer screen in the past twenty-four hours.
They aged all the Stark kids up three years, I heard? Since isn't Bran seven, originally? Was that for casting or are they going to do something terrifying with Sansa?
I am not one hundred percent sold on the choices made for costuming, but, eh, whatever.
I am also going to be very meekly in the minority here and say that I'm not in love with the opening credits -- they're way too mechanical for my taste. I love the burning flamy-thing that's going on at the very beginning and the end, but the main bulk of it does nothing for me. Which, I mean, it's the credits, whatever, but I heard a lot of raving about the credits and I expected something more, so I'm a little disappointed.
I don't have much of an opinion on anyone else right now. I wish we'd seen more of the direwolves, since we only saw Summer; I'm surprised they didn't put Ghost into the Jon and Tyrion scene. Wait, I do have an opinion -- I was surprisingly pleased by Jorah Mormont, I'd forgotten he showed up that early. So there's that. (And Benjen and Viserys, while I'm here! Since they're not important outside the first book. So it's cool that they get fleshed out; Viserys is hugely important in GOT, but since there's that unfortunate incident at the end and there are, like, ten million pages of more book where he's gone, he's easy to forget.)
I kind of wish they'd made the pilot an hour and a half instead of just an hour. I've read the books (several times over, in fact), so I have no idea how well the pilot worked for people who haven't read the books, but I am very glad we didn't get a ton of exposition dumped on us in the pilot.
Oh, I liked the little detail at the beginning, with the eyes painted on stones over Jon Arryn's eyes. (I like little details. Sue me. It's one of the reasons I love ASoIaF.)
In conclusion: JAIME LANNISTER.
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Date: 2011-04-19 07:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-04-19 07:51 pm (UTC)