Game of Thrones - Season 2
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UPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 22:18
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Season 1 was a gem, as good as tv gets. Season 2 though... is slow rolling. I think plot logistics and writing have dropped + the producers/hbo have decided to double up on the nasty bits. Too bad that comes at the expensive of story telling time. I'm still hooked, and still enjoying the production quality, but it's yet to reach the same level as season 1. I did see a review that said the second half of season to was a cracker.
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Season 1 was a gem, as good as tv gets. Season 2 though... is slow rolling. I think plot logistics and writing have dropped + the producers/hbo have decided to double up on the nasty bits. Too bad that comes at the expensive of story telling time.
Hmm, Ive yet to see episode 4, but the first 3 seemed to me to have less sex. Of course, I don't think of them as "nasty" so perhaps we have differing persepctives.
I also don't see how it comes at the expense of storytelling time. Every sex scene they've done has been there just to give some visual spice to an expository speech filling in some backstory or other detail. Thus the term "sexposition" coming into prominence. Never has any sex scene on that show been just about sex...
"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Having not read the books, I'm both addicted and a tad lost w/ this series.
All the houses and different characters...reminds me a bit of DUNE. ( Another series of books I never read )
Anyways... gotta do me some catch up now. A few eps behind already.
I felt the same way midway into Season One. Go here:
http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html
There are viewer's guides, family trees showing who's aligned with whom, interactive maps of Westeros, Essos, and more.
I'm also rewatching Season One on HBO Go, and it's much better now, having gotten some of the background straightened out.
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Season 1 was a gem, as good as tv gets. Season 2 though... is slow rolling. I think plot logistics and writing have dropped + the producers/hbo have decided to double up on the nasty bits. Too bad that comes at the expensive of story telling time. I'm still hooked, and still enjoying the production quality, but it's yet to reach the same level as season 1. I did see a review that said the second half of season to was a cracker.
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I've heard several people say that they didn't really get hooked until about midway through Season 1, as well. And I felt pretty much the same way about it, but I'm well and truly hooked now!
It really could do with a bit less of the gratuitous sex, though; there are many times it just doesn't seem to add anything to the story or move anything ahead, it's just there because they can do it on HBO.
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PIZMOBEACH
Season 1 was a gem, as good as tv gets. Season 2 though... is slow rolling. I think plot logistics and writing have dropped + the producers/hbo have decided to double up on the nasty bits. Too bad that comes at the expensive of story telling time. I'm still hooked, and still enjoying the production quality, but it's yet to reach the same level as season 1. I did see a review that said the second half of season to was a cracker.
Agree with Pizmo about season 2...
I've nearly finished all the books and love them. The first season was VERY true to the books but the second season seems to be skipping and glossing over alot of the details in the books, i guess thats bound to happen but after season one I was hopeful for more.
The characters are intoxicating. Tyrion is my favourite but after nearly finishing all the books i'm finding that characters that I disliked early on are starting to win me over despite being "not very nice".
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Quote:But it is expected from HBO, home of True Blood. Savagery and loveless sex with British, instead of Southern, accents. Erotic bread and circuses.
Originally posted by Kwicko:
It really could do with a bit less of the gratuitous sex, though; there are many times it just doesn't seem to add anything to the story or move anything ahead, it's just there because they can do it on HBO.
And the expensive spectaculars! Game of Thrones' main title design is an animated map of the seven kingdoms on the inside surface of a hollow world. If it weren't for glare from the artificial sun, you could see land on the other side of the sky. The most recent episode ends with the birth of the smoke monster from Lost. The vivid birthing scene was designed weirder than any other show could afford.
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Season 1 was a gem, as good as tv gets. Season 2 though... is slow rolling. I think plot logistics and writing have dropped + the producers/hbo have decided to double up on the nasty bits. Too bad that comes at the expensive of story telling time.
Hmm, Ive yet to see episode 4, but the first 3 seemed to me to have less sex. Of course, I don't think of them as "nasty" so perhaps we have differing persepctives.
I also don't see how it comes at the expense of storytelling time. Every sex scene they've done has been there just to give some visual spice to an expository speech filling in some backstory or other detail. Thus the term "sexposition" coming into prominence. Never has any sex scene on that show been just about sex...
Roz flashing her muff... Theon and his sister on horseback (godz!)... Little Finger wiping *something* off one of girl's faces... Joffrey's beating sex scene in ep 4 with what I'm sure the producers/writers want us to thing is a giant dildo that may be used for something else, we're relieved to hear him say, "beat her"... there's plenty of nasty that doesn't propel the story in my opinion. It's like others mention, people expect it from HBO and they can get away with it, "we want you to know your not watching network tv."
I did think the sex scene where Roz and one of Little Finger's girls where being instructed by him while he narrated about himself and his clients was a great scene, and the sex added necessary context. It was very revealing of his character. The Red Lady isn't working for me yet either and that could be the writers - I thought her nude scene with Stanis seemed tacked on and rushed.
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
It really could do with a bit less of the gratuitous sex, though; there are many times it just doesn't seem to add anything to the story or move anything ahead, it's just there because they can do it on HBO.
Yes, because they can. I thought the same for True Blood as well. Not just the sex, but the overt violence and gore. The story is good enough to be shown in PG-13 fashion, yet they've decided to go with full R mode.
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Well, the latest ep was interesting. I didn't catch it the night 'of', and had to watch tonight. I'm a bit underwhelmed, what with all the fuss and such. Some were saying it was the best ep of the series!
Meh... It was good, no doubt. And it certainly set up thing big time for the next episode, but I'm still a bit iffy on some of the things I saw. Or 'think' I saw. Will have to wait until next week to find out for sure.
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The 2 charred remains of the young boys, presumably the Stark kids...? Not sure they were actually them. I mean, why burn them ? Theon even said he wasn't going to kill them, but might hurt them. He seemed genuinely shocked at what he saw, as if it was more than he had expected. Which leads me to think , even if they were caught, someone pulled a switch. But I think maybe he didn't catch them, and only made the folks from Winterfell think those bodies were the 2 young Stark brothers.
And the sacking of the Council of Qarth... that was a nice twist. No shocker that the dragons were in the keep of the Warlocks, but wow... such a bold move. Didn't quite see that coming.
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" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
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Just finished watching Season 1 on Amazon Prime. It is one of my fav programs on TV. Well-written, well-acted and briskly directed. Peter Dinklage is fast becoming one of my fav actors on TV, it is almost Shakesperean in tone and flavor, yet dark and forboding at times.
I'm a big fan of sword and sorcery epics, and this is a perfect example of one. I heard that George RR Martin was greatly influenced by J. R.R. Tolkien. The sex, for the most part, usually is a back drop to the story and is used to spice up a seen, but I get the feeling of being a "fly on the wall." I really like the way they shoot the scenes and give it a movie-like quality.
I don't have HBO so I'll wait for the DVD set to come out. Bravo to HBO and the writers for such quality work.
SGG
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