Surprised he didn’t talk more about Tolkien. The lord of the rings was basically just an excuse for Tolkien to play with languages.

Also, I love hearing Jason Momoa talk about Dothraki. He clearly enjoyed it and his description (fozzy bear being assaulted by Jabba the Hutt) is brilliant.

I am .... they're awful. I'm not sure if it's the writing or Jason Momoa's delivery. Maybe he should stick to speaking Dothraki?

This whole thing seems utterly devoid of any kind of original thought, even down to the "slow cover of 80s pop song" cliche.

Hopefully, it's better than it looks.

Dothraki: like a cross between Jabba the Hutt and Fozzy Bear.

Why does she speak perfect English while everyone else speaks Dothraki?

>> ^Enzoblue:

The bad: the scaling I think, the hands tourney was no bigger than a Ren faire sideshow as was the Dothraki wedding. In the book they were epic. Also that wedding was done during the day and so was the birth of the dragons, which was off-putting. I didn't feel Drago's army was anywhere near 30k.
All in all I was hoping for a breakthrough in cinematic skill, (like the Rings), but got the budget restrained version.


It's television, and you should compare it to other television shows, not movies. They don't have $300 million to spend on 10 hours of footage like LOTR. Scenes like Tyrion getting knocked out and missing the fight are there so that the producers don't blow half of the season's budget on a battle that wasn't even important.

My two bits:


Characters: All perfect with the exception of Catelyn(not pretty enough), Littlefinger(just a bit off), Hodor(was young in book, not 50+), and Danerys(too doe eyed, but growing on me), Ilyn Payne. The others, especially the Stark boys, Tyrion, Viserys, Cersei and Varys were exceptionally casted. Gems like Aemon, Florel, Bron and Septa Mordane blew me away.

Adaptation: Expected mostly, story offs are reasonable for the most part, (the Others are now called White Walkers, etc).

The bad: the scaling I think, the hands tourney was no bigger than a Ren faire sideshow as was the Dothraki wedding. In the book they were epic. Also that wedding was done during the day and so was the birth of the dragons, which was off-putting. I didn't feel Drago's army was anywhere near 30k.

The downgrading of the dire wolves is disappointing, (they were such a huge spiritual role in the book), but they require CG and that's costly I guess. I hope they're saving that money for the dragons.


The petty: Having Tyrion apparently knocked out during his first battle, in book he fought bravely. Having Danerys immune to fire.

The Unforgivable: Having the knight of the Flowers gay for Renly, including a scene of him sucking him off, even dubbing in the slurping sounds. Pathetic. In book Loras might have been gay, but Renly was a playboy and even married.

All in all I was hoping for a breakthrough in cinematic skill, (like the Rings), but got the budget restrained version. I'll take it though.

Looks rather awesome.

Only niggling criticism would be the Dothraki around the 0:40 mark.. I imagined them to be mostly naked oily Mongolian-looking men on very strong horses. They look a bit more like the Merry Men here..

Oh well.. other stuff looks great. I just hope they don't make it too pretty or epic, and bit raw and muddy.