Spectacular show, I love it. The story is good enough to keep my interest from episode to episode. Some sex scenes do feel out of place sometimes, but I don't mind it. Don't take this show too seriously with it's dragons and warlocks, it's just a weekend eye candy and a good one at that.

Don't take this show too seriously with it's dragons and warlocks, it's just a weekend eye candy and a good one at that.

:-) I just think that it is not so good series. And absolutely sure that they dumped most good present in books.

Obviously Vitaliy represents a minority opinion on this one. The series has received wide scale critical praise and commercial success.

I am perfectly aware about it.
Series ratings and review PR support systems are really strong btw.

good call Vitaliy! totally agree.

Vitaliy totaly agree glad to know not alone. As much as I love Scifi/fantasy I'm beginning to not care if I see another episode. The production qualities and cast are excellent so they do deserve recognition for that.

I really enjoy the show, but yeah, based what I've read of the differences between book and show, I'm glad I've never read it. I'll never watch Walking Dead anymore because of how far they changed things from the comic. The vast majority of adaptations suck because most writers don't have the balls to NOT change things. News flash....if the book sold millions of copies, you don't need to make it "better" because chances are, you're not as good a writer as the original author and the further away to take it from the source, the worse it will be.

I dissagree....I've read Shawshank way before the movie came out AND, I've actually been to Zihuatanejo, before I ever read the books. But that maybe why I have a special place for it. And no, Zijuatanejo has no beaches that look remotely that nice. :P

EDIT: And part of the problem with authors adapting their own work is, because there's been so many bad adaptations, they're going off that recipe, so they also think they have to change things and "make it better". Plus since writers are at the bottom of the totem pole, and novel writers are below screenwriters, they have no confidence in themselves in a new medium or the power to keep things the same.

I thought series 1 wasn't great - and with all that money, what a horrible grade.

A 6 year old kid can watch it for 30 seconds and accurately tell who are the bad guys and who are the good guys.

Interesting :-) Have you read the books?
Bad-good simple division is not really common to them.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev No, haven't read the books. And I should admit I haven't made too much of an effort with the TV series.

I really like content like The Wire, because most characters are portrayed as simply acting out on the position they are in, and you can usually simpathize with most of them from time to time. It's the system that's fucked. No character always acts out on perfect moral principle, and no other character is always mean.

This "good-bad" simplistic way of seeing things makes people easier to manipulate. I remember almost throwing up when I watched the Pearl Harbour movie a long time ago. They show us half an hour of a few hundread pretty american boys being emotionally killed in those ships - and then in the end the hero goes and firebombs Tokyo and returns valiantly to an aplause (or something like that, watched it a long time ago). It's simple good v.s. bad.

I do understand that stories are told from different points of view. But what I really like about The Battle of Algiers for example, is that although you kind of sense that the filmmakers are simpathetic to the Algierian side, they still include close-ups of innocent french people who get killed in the action, and shots of ruinied houses after the Algerian side bombed some places. They don't hide the fact that war is really ugly. And you can take someone's side - but you have to do it for a good reason, not because they are morally perfect.

I'm a big fan of the show, but I haven't read the books other than for a brief period in the bookstore. Obviously, it is a very difficult problem to deal with the complexity of the books with the large number of characters and plot lines, within the confines of a ten episode per book season.

I found I was a bit frustrated in how quickly each storyline was glossed over in the second season and I would have been happy to watch a lot more of any of the storylines. It is almost as if they were desperate to fit in as much as possible but couldn't really do justice to all the story lines or characters. The new format of two seasons per book should help out in this regard.

As for who is clearly good or bad, I must admit the Lannister's are really growing on me even though they were initially set up as the bad guys in the tv series.

Still, all in all a good watch for me, with some exceptional acting performances.

Btw, good side of the books is depiction of Middle Ages. Series made also worst decision, as key thing in the book is the age of heroes.
As the authors, said, they believe that sex on screen is more important :-) And having 14 year olds fuck on cable... nope, we are not so far yet.

This is a series that has sucked me in. I even spent a lazy day watching 4 episodes in a row. I'm glad I read books very rarely otherwise a lot of movies and tv shows would suck more. It would just be one big spoiler alert. I want to watch something that keeps me surprised.