Game of Thrones, Season 3, Episode 1
Apr. 4th, 2013 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessJust realized that I failed to post my general thoughts on this. Gulp!
1. Good to see Julius Caesar back as King Over the Wall. Less good to see his terrible wig.
2. Speaking of terrible wigs, is it just me, or are the wigs they are putting on Dany getting worse and worse each season?
3. On the other hand, I can see that we are all going to be craving Margaery's wardrobe even as many of us keep craving for her to wear less of it. (Which, since this is This Show, will doubtless be happening next episode.)
4. So having gotten me to almost sorta kinda like Tywin last season (with his Arya interactions) the show has kindly allowed me to go back to hating him. Thanks, show! On a related note, the scene between him and Tyrion was nicely cold.
5. Another episode, another moment of Joffrey being an absolute coward as a "mere girl" (Joffrey's impression, not mine) has the courage (gasp gasp) to go and talk to poor people (gasp gasp gasp), followed by another moment of Joffrey being an absolute jerk to his mother. I mean, ok, I'm not overly sympathetic, but still.
Which leads to a major problem: I'm really not sure how long the show can keep Joffrey alive without alienating viewers, especially if they follow the timeline of Storm of Swords, which kills off several "good" (well, comparatively) characters first. The actor playing Joffrey is doing a superb job, no question, but he's if possible even more loathsome on screen than he is in the book, and I'm finding myself joining everyone in calling for his death. So, how long can HBO stretch this out?
6. Melisandre is still not working for me on screen. I don't know if it's that they are trying to play her "exotic" in a show that already has dragons and giants and weird bugs jumping out of sphere things to bite people, or her line readings, or what, but even after birthing the shadow babies, she's just not coming off as terrifying or competent or fanatical. Which in turn means that I didn't believe one word of her speech about how she could have stopped the wildfire or at least halted the damage -- and the thing is, I should have. It made sense.
And that's a problem: in the books she manages to come off as all three. And in the books she clearly thinks of herself as kindly and well intentioned (even if no one sees her as kindly and well intentioned.) Here, she's coming across as someone who knows she's being cruel. It's just wrong.
7. However, DRAGONS! I particularly liked the shot where the dragon was skimming under the water and the way the dragon has figured out how to crisp his own little fish to the proper temperature. Yum, dragon, yum. Yay dragons.
Here's to another season!
1. Good to see Julius Caesar back as King Over the Wall. Less good to see his terrible wig.
2. Speaking of terrible wigs, is it just me, or are the wigs they are putting on Dany getting worse and worse each season?
3. On the other hand, I can see that we are all going to be craving Margaery's wardrobe even as many of us keep craving for her to wear less of it. (Which, since this is This Show, will doubtless be happening next episode.)
4. So having gotten me to almost sorta kinda like Tywin last season (with his Arya interactions) the show has kindly allowed me to go back to hating him. Thanks, show! On a related note, the scene between him and Tyrion was nicely cold.
5. Another episode, another moment of Joffrey being an absolute coward as a "mere girl" (Joffrey's impression, not mine) has the courage (gasp gasp) to go and talk to poor people (gasp gasp gasp), followed by another moment of Joffrey being an absolute jerk to his mother. I mean, ok, I'm not overly sympathetic, but still.
Which leads to a major problem: I'm really not sure how long the show can keep Joffrey alive without alienating viewers, especially if they follow the timeline of Storm of Swords, which kills off several "good" (well, comparatively) characters first. The actor playing Joffrey is doing a superb job, no question, but he's if possible even more loathsome on screen than he is in the book, and I'm finding myself joining everyone in calling for his death. So, how long can HBO stretch this out?
6. Melisandre is still not working for me on screen. I don't know if it's that they are trying to play her "exotic" in a show that already has dragons and giants and weird bugs jumping out of sphere things to bite people, or her line readings, or what, but even after birthing the shadow babies, she's just not coming off as terrifying or competent or fanatical. Which in turn means that I didn't believe one word of her speech about how she could have stopped the wildfire or at least halted the damage -- and the thing is, I should have. It made sense.
And that's a problem: in the books she manages to come off as all three. And in the books she clearly thinks of herself as kindly and well intentioned (even if no one sees her as kindly and well intentioned.) Here, she's coming across as someone who knows she's being cruel. It's just wrong.
7. However, DRAGONS! I particularly liked the shot where the dragon was skimming under the water and the way the dragon has figured out how to crisp his own little fish to the proper temperature. Yum, dragon, yum. Yay dragons.
Here's to another season!