
Imagine if they'd tried to do it on a budget...
( , Sun 27 Apr 2014, 15:26, Reply)

Is it any good at all? Or do you need to be a nerd to enjoy it?
( , Sun 27 Apr 2014, 15:33, Reply)

Some good acting makes it watchable though
( , Sun 27 Apr 2014, 15:36, Reply)

Yeah, you watch it for the fine acting.
"How Stanislavskian of Drogo, bravo."
( , Sun 27 Apr 2014, 21:41, Reply)

but then degenerates into dragons and wizards and all that shit.
( , Sun 27 Apr 2014, 15:42, Reply)

Sets, locations, actors and costumes look stunning. There are multiple protagonists, most of whom are neither wholly evil or completely good, and since this is a brutal Mediaeval-style world, any one of them could die suddenly and horribly (and they do.)
The fantasy elements are secondary to the complex plot, and used sparingly, so that when they do happen we share the characters' awe and fear.
I'm not a sword n sorcery fan, but I'm totally hooked on it. We're 3 episodes into the 4th series, and already a major character has died horribly, setting the plot off on another tangent. I bloody love it!
( , Sun 27 Apr 2014, 15:54, Reply)

It's been a long time, but wasn't the first 5 minutes actually quite good - people getting chased and killed by scary things in a forest ?
"Do the dead frighten you?"
I love it, but it's not for everyone obviously...
( , Sun 27 Apr 2014, 16:02, Reply)

but pretty hard to follow until you fully understand who's who and what family they're in and who their enemies and friends are and why that pretty blonde girl seems to love fucking the big guy who looks like Bernard Breslaw in Carry On Follow That Camel. www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsB/2039-2984.gif
( , Sun 27 Apr 2014, 16:20, Reply)