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| JennyorAlice | Sep 4 2017, 08:39 PM Post #1 |
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Do you prefer watching the show versus reading the books? Why or why not? Which is better in your opinion....the tv show or the books? |
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| TG09 | Sep 4 2017, 10:56 PM Post #2 |
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Even though I have them all I've yet to read the novels. I'll only be doing so once the television series comes to an end as that was always my plan. |
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| Cinnamon | Sep 4 2017, 11:04 PM Post #3 |
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I've read the books, and loved them, and watched the show and loved it. In some ways, the books give you a deeper appreciation of the show. For example, Although Sansa was a whiny little princess in the show, and for the first little while in the books, she was so much more, with an inner strength to her that made her one of my favourite characters. I don't think you really got that in the show until much later. |
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| JennyorAlice | Sep 6 2017, 01:44 PM Post #4 |
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I haven't watched the show yet. I've begun reading the books and am enjoying them so far. I have a plan to watch the tv show once I am finished with the books because I don't want the show to corrupt my views on the books. |
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| Fadelical | Sep 10 2017, 05:38 AM Post #5 |
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I've considered reading the books, but then I realized that Jerome Flynn won't be in them. Not to mention that the wait between the books are, as Donald Trump would put it, yuuuuuge. So I'm content with just watching the show for now... And viewing those heavenly naked bodies of women.![]() |
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| Cinnamon | Sep 10 2017, 07:40 AM Post #6 |
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It was pretty awesome, in the beginning, when something huge would be about to happen, and I'd know it was coming. Everyone's reactions to some of the huge events of the first few seasons were almost as entertaining as the show itself. Now I have no clue what's going to happen, because the show has moved beyond the books, and that's just as much fun, because I love to think about theories and what ifs. |
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| Fadelical | Sep 10 2017, 04:19 PM Post #7 |
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Hm, in that regard, would you say that the quality of storytelling and overall character development has diminished greatly in these new seasons? Or do you think that those aspects have remained relatively the same, considering the fact that they have to accommodate a shorter schedule and a larger-than-life storyline? |
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| Cinnamon | Sep 11 2017, 05:58 PM Post #8 |
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I don't think the character development or storytelling has diminished at all. The last season was shorter, yes, and a lot of stuff felt 'compressed'. For example, when we met Dickon. We met him, and had to have an opinion about him so that his roasting had more impact, so we had that nice little moment between him and Jaime and Bronn, and a couple of other little 'ooh, Dickon, can't wait to see him with that armour off bits' and then he was crispy all of a sudden. But does that give it more impact, that we all kind of thought 'oooh, new character, omg look at those shoulders, he's smokin'' and then he was smokin'? Maybe it does, because of the shock value of his death, and everyone was all 'omg, we just met him, and he's dead'. Maybe that was the point. As far as the main characters go, most of their big character development is done, imo. Arya, Sansa, Jon, Dany, Tyrion, Cersei, Jaime .....we know them all, and what they've become, and so we should, after seven seasons. Just the tweaking left now. No one was really surprised by Jon being honourable and refusing to lie, just like no one was really surprised that Cersei did lie. Even Jaime leaving, although it was a surprise moment, really wasn't out of character, was it? Jaime has been becoming more and more disallusioned by what his sister has become, so you see, we are still seeing character development, but not on the same scale. |
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| JennyorAlice | Sep 11 2017, 08:49 PM Post #9 |
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I think the wait between the books wasn't all that long in the beginning, however, it has grown longer and longer as the series has progressed. I've heard that some people have grown angry with George R. R. Martin for the fact that he seems to be taking his sweet time in between books now. |
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| TG09 | Sep 11 2017, 10:10 PM Post #10 |
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His mind has most certainly been elsewhere with cameos in this and that, other adaptations he's been commissioned to do for HBO and others, etc. It really is a shame because none of this would be happening had it not been for his ASOIF series, so one would think that he would be focused on it more than anything else. |
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