There are, don't get me wrong, buckets of extradiegetic fail in this thing (mostly around "the barbarians"), but the rest of it is the kind of brutal, grey area, claustrophobic world that really interests me.
[nods] I get that. The one thing that glared at me in the first ep and reminded me why I disliked High Fantasy is the way it's very clear who are the baddies and who are the goodies. And while it's obvious that everything is more complex and complicated, I don't like being told who I'm supposed to cheer for (one of my beefs with JKR and why I'll probably also be big on series-verse fanfiction of GoT, if I continue into the show).
I was told the whole "Barbarians" thing is more subtle in the books, but I haven't read them, so... *shrug*.
I'm not about to try and tell you ought to watch because hey, if it's not your thing, it's not your thing, but honestly, this: it's very clear who are the baddies and who are the goodies is really really not the case with this series, though it may appear that way initially. As the situation grows more complex, you meet the wider cast, and start getting introduced to different POVs, GRRM is able to turn a lot of first impressions on their head. It's one of my favourite things about the series, and I really hope it translates on screen.
Yeah, having read the books I'd say that's actually one of the things I /don't/ have a problem with. The point of view switches every chapter, usually not tapping the same character more than 2 or 3 times in the same book, and you get a lot of insight into all the characters, even those who at first seem like the clear 'baddies'.
But the Starks are definitely the ones we're supposed to like, and I think the show is trying to set that up before they get into the more gray areas.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rm
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2011-04-25 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-25 04:36 pm (UTC)I was told the whole "Barbarians" thing is more subtle in the books, but I haven't read them, so... *shrug*.
no subject
Date: 2011-04-25 04:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-25 05:06 pm (UTC)But the Starks are definitely the ones we're supposed to like, and I think the show is trying to set that up before they get into the more gray areas.
no subject
Date: 2011-04-25 07:41 pm (UTC)But the fact that the "barbarians" are brown does kind of eat at me.