04-19-2011, 10:37 AM
Breand Wrote:I thought it was pretty damn good, and yes I agree there will be a few episodes to really understand what is going on...but aren't all great series like that? I'm hearing the ratings weren't that good. Hopefully they will stick with it. Yes they let the Wire go on even with bad ratings, but Im guessing it was half the cost of this one.
It did pretty well on Sky over here in the UK as well and they have stated their new strategy is capturing more europe markets so hopefully that helps.
We should get at least 2 seasons for it, Carnivale had bad ratings and was really expensive and it got 2.. Rome was really expensive and got 2.. So hopefully that'll give it time to pick up, but the first two booksa re the best so if it gets cancelled early at least we'll get the best parts.
Quote:By biggest hangups are the casting really. Catelyn is not supposed to look like an old lady, she's still supposed to be youngish/attractive, probably around 35ish (Robb is 17...she would have been married around 16-17...) but they cast a 50 year old woman. How if at all will they play the Littlefinger angle with her? Even the star power of Leana Headley...she is 37 and Cersei is supposed to be what...25 maybe? Maybe I'm being sexist or something...but it's supposed to be medieval and all and these women would have been married off at like 16.
Yeah I understand why they aged up the children for legal reasons, but the mains shoulda been younger.. Then again back then you probably looked about 35 at the age of 18 anyway...
Catelyns personality was different too, in the book she wasn't whining about him going until after bran got hurt, she was actually the one telling him hes got to do it.