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Game of Thrones

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Valyrian Plastic Jun 2024 9:42am, 17 Jun 2024 8,714 posts	Quote Pin Valyrian Plastic I stayed up until 2 in the morning to watch the new season premiere live (not sure if I'll be doing this for every episode). Without giving anything major away, I'll say that it's a solid first episode - not as good as the first season's but still more positives than negatives. A lot of new characters and locations were introduced that will be important later on. I'll probably do a more in-depth review on my blog once more people have had a chance to watch it.
Meglet Jun 2024 9:54am, 17 Jun 2024 24,745 posts	Quote Pin Meglet Have you read the book VP? I have it, which I’d forgotten, but not read it. After this series I may read the bits that have been covered but it’s quite nice to not know what’s happening! We’ll be watching tonight
Valyrian Plastic Jun 2024 10:00am, 17 Jun 2024 8,715 posts	Quote Pin Valyrian Plastic I've read it cover-to-cover and dipped in and out of relevant passages on my recent rewatch of Season 1. I don't consider it to necessarily spoil the show (though I was curious as to how that moment would play out), just because they've done a good job of fleshing out the narrative. Pretty much everything concerning Viserys was an invention of the show after all.
Nellers Jun 2024 10:52am, 17 Jun 2024 43,063 posts	Quote Pin Nellers Looking forward to watching it but not sure when with all this bloomin’ football!😉 I’ve read the book and this show is spun out from a couple of chapters so they’ve done a lot of expanding to make it work on screen. It’s also written as an in-universe history so there are a lot of details that aren’t mentioned because the historian writing it couldn’t have known, and also a lot that may be recorded because of the bias and intention of the historian. The show is supposed to be showing us what actually happened which led to that history being written, which is a fascinating and unique way to adapt a book.
Nellers Jun 2024 10:53am, 17 Jun 2024 43,064 posts	Quote Pin Nellers I’m also very curious about how they’re going to manage “that incident” on screen.
Meglet Jun 2024 12:59pm, 17 Jun 2024 24,746 posts	Quote Pin Meglet I listen to Dragoncast so have a bit of background, including the name of what I assume to be the incident, but no idea what it is. It was quite fun watching with my OH who hadn’t seen it, and see his reaction to some unexpected moments, like Damon vs Vaemond.
Hills of Death (HOD) Jun 2024 1:13pm, 17 Jun 2024 37,180 posts	Quote Pin Hills of Death (HOD) Bloody Football oooo game on at 2
Valyrian Plastic Jun 2024 4:21pm, 18 Jun 2024 8,716 posts	Quote Pin Valyrian Plastic My full spoiler-filled review is now up - fetcheveryone.com/blog-share.php?id=485077
Meglet Jun 2024 7:20pm, 18 Jun 2024 24,751 posts	Quote Pin Meglet Excellent review, thanks VP. I had heard of ‘B&C’ without knowing what it was. Tbh I’m quite underwhelmed at the realisation that decent was it. Though obviously shocked at the outcome, the sound effects were quite unecessary!
Valyrian Plastic Jun 2024 9:05pm, 18 Jun 2024 8,717 posts	Quote Pin Valyrian Plastic Meglet wrote:Excellent review, thanks VP. Thanks! I'm going to cover the whole season like this, though I'll leave it to someone else to get the conversation started on the next episode.