Episode Two

Apr 24, 2011 19:15

Thoughts on episode two of HBOs Game of Thrones. This is cut for spoilers, in case anybody is worried.

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shadesong April 25 2011, 02:20:59 UTC
Yeah, it's way less rapey in the books.

And yes, all the kids and many of the adults are rocking this. Except I have no idea who Lena Headey's playing that happens to have the same name as Cersei but none of the personality.

As for names, yeah, that is so not helping my poor faceblind husband, who hits pause every few minutes to ask who that is, and half the time I'm like "$PERSON, but it's okay, he hasn't been mentioned by name yet."

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helivoy April 25 2011, 02:38:29 UTC
One of the few real surprises in the book was how gently Khal Drogo treated Daenerys. Very much not the expected cliché of "dark barbarian rapes blond princess until she learns to like it."

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shadesong April 25 2011, 02:39:49 UTC
*nods* Which makes it so much more disappointing that the TV show went there with it.

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winters_queen April 25 2011, 12:15:01 UTC
I haven't read the books so I'm going into this blind. the roommate has though.

I feel so badly for the wolves. they are so cute and they are getting the bum rap and i want to smack the queen and her incest children. (cause I totally looked up the charactesr and saw who the real father was.)

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yagathai April 25 2011, 13:53:36 UTC
I feel like they don't have the time to develop the Dany-Drogo relationship the same way they did in the book, especially without Dany's internal monologue. The choice they went with, while a lot less subtle, does the same narrative heavy lifting, showing how Dany subtly shifts the power dynamic with the magic power of her girl parts.

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