A Game of Thrones

One of us. One of us. One of us.

Okay, I didn't read the entire thread, but how many more books of this thing are there going to be after A Dance with Dragons (supposedly coming in July)? I was under the impression that that one was going to wrap up the series, but now that doesn't seem to be the case. I'm not sure I can sustain interest in this thing if it's just another Wheel of Time (author dies before series wraps up) or Aubrey-Maturin (author gets really tired and falls off in quality as series nears end) thing in the making.

Never read the books but I enjoyed the first series looking forward to the next,someone is going to get their butts kicked when blondie turns up with her pets

I have watched the show and succeeded to read all 4 books before season ended.

I wan to thanks all people on Ustream chat that said GoT is worth of watching. They wear right!

..........and finished book 4 tonight. Come on July, 12th!

Ok, I was talking about it with my sis-in-law and she seems to think Joffery knows or suspects about is uhm, unique parentage. I don't think so. I don't want to know before the fact but was wondering if anyone else got that vibe from just watching the show? Oh, and he does not get killed, maimed, destroyed sometime in the future seasons i will burn it all down!

Just to let people know I still haven't watched any episodes, and I have the entire first season there waiting to be watched.

I really think I'm just burnt out on fantasy, pseudo-fantasy and political intrigue stories these days. I stopped watching Dexter after the third season because I started wondering why it was I was empathising with a serial killer ('but he's a good serial killer!'). Dexter's a power fantasy in the end, getting away with murder. Everyone's had at least one dark fantasy like that, Dexter just embodies it.

I think Game of Thrones to me is an extension of that; we'd all like to be clever, devious people who come up with clever ways to get rid of our rivals. I admit freely that's just my impression without reading the books or watching the show. It's never gotten my interest enough to watch one episode yet.

That might change, but I feel burnt out on a lot of tv shows because they feel all same-y or don't last long enough to get your interest. I had a friend joke to me that Game of Thrones will just go the way of Rome by getting two seasons and then cancelled because it's too expensive to make or the initial interest dies off. Rome I really got into, but I'd always had an abiding interest in the Roman culture.

I also admit, there was something disincentivising for me in hearing from a friend 'well, what happens is that Martin makes these compelling and interesting characters, and you'll get attached to them...and then they'll die. He'll just kill them.'

I'm not sure what the appeal is in that? Would I want to see characters I like get killed off abruptly? Again, without reading/seeing it, it feels like 'shock storytelling'. Like the story isn't interesting enough in itself, so a sudden shocking death will keep you interested. But again, this is what happens in so much of the tv I can't bring myself to watch anymore. Stargate:Universe was a show I couldn't even watch one episode was because the concept was all 'hey, we're all screwed up in some way and some of us are gonna die, just like in Battlestar Galactica'.

I'm a grownup, I know things don't always end cheerfully or with a happily ever after. I experienced a sudden brutal death in my real life when my mother died after a horrifically short six-month battle with myloid leukemia. And maybe that's the crux for me; stuff like that isn't interesting, it sure isn't entertaining and you'd do anything not to be a part of it. I feel it's hard for me to take interest in how brutally unexpected life can be when it's the last thing you'd want to do. And it feels a bit masochistic, too. But hey, that's just me.

I dunno, maybe someone can engender some interest in the show for me.



S.

Like I said the first time. Watch it, or don't. It's no-one else's place to try and convince you to do anything, and I don't think I even understand why you'd want someone to. Either you're interested enough, or you're not. There's already a metric ton of info about the show out there and the quality of both the writing and the performances. Make a decision, and accept that it's you that made it if it turns out you didn't like it...no "well, that sucked, I'll never listen to those people again!"

Watch it, or don't, like I said, but if you don't, don't bother commenting on what you think the show is like...because that opinion has no meaning, when you get right down to it.

And in other news... A Dance With Dragons comes out tomorrow. I have it pre-ordered on Kindle; anyone know if I can download it at 12:01 or something like that? I'm going to read until I get sick.