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.

@harry The more expectations you have the more you'll be disappointed. I'm a big fan of the books as well, but I know they're never going to get everything right. I'm less concerned about how things look and more concerned about how they handle the story.

The realistic thoughts and motivations of all the characters are the most interesting part, IMO, and so much of it is told in chapters through each character's eyes...sometimes you get a chapter from some character and suddenly their earlier actions make more sense. Their actions might still have been deplorable, but you start to understand why...I don't know how they're going to pack all that subtlety into the TV version, but I hope they do 'cause it's awesome.

The one complaint I agree with on the series is that it threatens to collapse under it's own weight. There's so much richness and so many characters in the books - no possible way to get it all on film when it's nearly impossible to get it all in writing. This said, I hope they capture the true feeling of the work and make it their own in the best way possible.


Very excited about this.

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