Originally Posted by TambaBerry:
I mean i'm not disagreeing with some of the takes in here just saying is all. I watched game of thrones when it first aired and thought it was awful. I then gave it another shot a couple years later and became hooked.
The problem with the entire idea, at least as a book reader nerd, is that the Targaryens just aren't terribly interesting characters. I've mentioned it before in some other GoT thread, but they were just mediocre Valyrians who happened to not be in town when the city went 'splodey. They were rulers by happenstance and not terribly good at it.
Look at the characters in GoT. Obviously Tyrion carried a lot of the weight, but Varys, Bronn, Sam, Davos, Littlefinger, The Hound, Robert - these are all characters that bring a different feel to the show.
This looks like you're gonna have a bunch of stoic and entitled Targaryen's with a dash of Ned nobility and Stannis obstinance sprinkled in. Plus a mis-cast Daemon.
The Targaryen's just aren't as interesting as the dueling families with their histories and their different personalities shaped by time/geography, etc...
It just doesn't have the depth of characters to keep things interesting. It'll have an Arya and Sansa and Robb and probably even a Jon sort of character. But those guys, while they often drove the story, didn't make the story entertaining.
It was the ancillary characters and their personalities/actions that made GoT interesting.
And Ros. Man oh man did Esme Bianco keep my attention... [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut: The problem with the entire idea, at least as a book reader nerd, is that the Targaryens just aren't terribly interesting characters. I've mentioned it before in some other GoT thread, but they were just mediocre Valyrians who happened to not be in town when the city went 'splodey. They were rulers by happenstance and not terribly good at it.
Look at the characters in GoT. Obviously Tyrion carried a lot of the weight, but Varys, Bronn, Sam, Davos, Littlefinger, The Hound, Robert - these are all characters that bring a different feel to the show.
This looks like you're gonna have a bunch of stoic and entitled Targaryen's with a dash of Ned nobility and Stannis obstinance sprinkled in. Plus a mis-cast Daemon.
The Targaryen's just aren't as interesting as the dueling families with their histories and their different personalities shaped by time/geography, etc...
It just doesn't have the depth of characters to keep things interesting. It'll have an Arya and Sansa and Robb and probably even a Jon sort of character. But those guys, while they often drove the story, didn't make the story entertaining.
It was the ancillary characters and their personalities/actions that made GoT interesting.
And Ros. Man oh man did Esme Bianco keep my attention...
I have not read Fire and Blood but, even at that I can easily see what you are saying. They went to Westeros with dragons, conquered it with dragons, lost it due to no more dragons and because cray cray, and then nearly won it back because dragons once again but, it slipped through their fingers because cray cray. (Sorry for the run on sentence)
Frankly, the most interesting Targaryen centric story I can think of would be coming to Westeros and conquering it. And even that story I feel like would have a fairly low ceiling for amount of creative story telling.
I’m still giving it a chance though, even after I determined I wasn’t going to because fuck anything GRRM until he finishes ASOIAF. I’m weak, whatever. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Detoxing:
Sheeesh guys it's been 1 episode and ya'll talking about lack of character development already?
I mean damn, give the series some time to breath first.
I'm saying they are honing in on a family that just isn't that interesting to begin with.
'Fire and Blood' is just a fairly run of the mill fantasy book - nothing much of note in there. Oh sure, there's a story arc and a climax, etc.... but it doesn't paint with the broad strokes that the ASOIF series did.
It's...fine. I don't see it as viable source material for some massive TV undertaking. That's why I have more hope for the Lord of the Rings prequel; the material to mine is just better.
But again - should they find a way to get Esme Bianco back in the show and keep her in various states of undress, it will cover for many sins. [Reply]
I thought the first episode was pretty good. I never finished the books but I did love the show until d&d had to figure out how to end it and completely ate shit and made everyone retarded. D&d having nothing to do with the new show is reassuring. I'm cautiously optimistic but I did lol at viserys telling rhaenyra about the white walkers and the long winter and how got handled that [Reply]
Originally Posted by mr. tegu:
People still think he’s going to finish the books?
I don't even think the motherfucker plans on finishing them. It wouldn't surprise me to hear that he stopped writing the book several years ago.
After he saw the reception to the end of GOT and how that ruined the entire show for a ton of people, I could see him being scared that people will hate it and tarnish the reputation of the series. I also think he just has too much going on. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
I don't even think the motherfucker plans on finishing them. It wouldn't surprise me to hear that he stopped writing the book several years ago.
After he saw the reception to the end of GOT and how that ruined the entire show for a ton of people, I could see him being scared that people will hate it and tarnish the reputation of the series. I also think he just has too much going on.
He would be a fool to finish the books at this point. He should focus on developing some prequel and spin-off TV shows while laughing all the way to the bank. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DRM08:
He would be a fool to finish the books at this point. He should focus on developing some prequel and spin-off TV shows while laughing all the way to the bank.
Yup.
Absolutely nothing to gain by finishing them and ultimately he knows this. [Reply]
