Game of Thrones (War of the Roses)

[catalenamara]

I stopped watching "The Game of Thrones" in the first season (and from the howls I'm hearing from fandom I'm glad I did

Comments

[ariss_tenoh]

I haven't read GoT but am reading a Japanese mangaka's take on the war of the roses and she's much better at it.

Try Requiem of the Rose King by Aya Kanno, wherein Richard is a hermaphrodite^_~ with all the troubles that would bring in that time period.

[catalenamara]

Thanks, looks interesting! I ordered the first issue.

[ariss_tenoh]

You're welcome!

It does take a few volumes for the art and writing to improve since there's so much exposition and setting.

[gilda_elise]

I didn't find them to be that similar. People fighting over a throne has probably happened more times than we can count, so it did have some things in common with English history, well, European history in general, so similar but not the same.

[catalenamara]

In interviews, George R. R. Martin has said he based GoT on the War of the Roses. I remember reading one of those interviews when the first season was being aired. He was talking about his novels, of course. I don't know how faithful the show was to the novels.

[gilda_elise]

The show followed the books pretty closely, at least at first. But while based on the Wars of the Roses, there was a lot that was different. Basically, Medieval families fighting over a throne. Was Ned Stark Duke Richard Plantagenet? They died differently, in totally different circumstances. The same could be said for a lot of the other characters and plot lines.