[Ronmar The Only]

Strong Belwas is the man. Some amazing. Better not cut him. I personally really like a lot of the people that Dany surrounds herself with.

Jorah is definitely one of my favorite characters. Very sad guy.

[Fnorg]

Can you believe Jorah was supposed to be ugly in the books?

[elanman]

QUOTE (darthYENIK @ Tuesday, Aug 7 2012, 17:33)

QUOTE (SIKKS66 @ Tuesday, Aug 7 2012, 04:48) Dany first meets him as she's fleeing Qarth, on the dockside. Someone tries poisoning her and Arstan and Belwas (who I hope they don't cut!) save her. Seeing as she all but fled Qarth at the end of last season, I bet we'll see Artsan pretty early in the forthcoming season. I hope Strong Belwas isn't cut. He is such a badass in the siege of Meereen, when he fights the city's champion. But I can see them giving Arstan or Jorah his moments.

Jorah's excellent. Sad and regrettable past.

Oh, and about Belwas--he's already been cut--he's a eunuch .

Sorry, couldn't resist. I agree Dany's guards/protectors. They're all great. I just hope Belwas isn't dead from those locusts.

ADWD spoilers: Does anyone else get a strong Assassin's Creed feeling from Arya's chapters? With all the courtesans and canals, I imagine Braavos as Venice as depicted in AC2.

[SIKKS66]

QUOTE (elanman @ Tuesday, Aug 7 2012, 21:41)

ADWD spoilers: Does anyone else get a strong Assassin's Creed feeling from Arya's chapters? With all the courtesans and canals, I imagine Braavos as Venice as depicted in AC2.

Oh aye, I agree. Braavos definitely has a Venetian, Renaissance vibe to it. I am immensely worried about Arya though, she seems to be throwing a lot away for the sake of revenge. A revenge she will probably never achieve if she's going to be under the thumb of the guild leaders.

[elanman]

QUOTE (SIKKS66 @ Tuesday, Aug 7 2012, 22:39)

QUOTE (elanman @ Tuesday, Aug 7 2012, 21:41) ADWD spoilers: Does anyone else get a strong Assassin's Creed feeling from Arya's chapters? With all the courtesans and canals, I imagine Braavos as Venice as depicted in AC2. Oh aye, I agree. Braavos definitely has a Venetian, Renaissance vibe to it. I am immensely worried about Arya though, she seems to be throwing a lot away for the sake of revenge. A revenge she will probably never achieve if she's going to be under the thumb of the guild leaders.

Major ADWD spoilers.


I'm not even totally sure of her motives now mind you. You are right though; if she's still intent on vengeance, the only way she'd get it would be through being assigned to kill one of the people on her list. I do like her chapters a lot though.

[darthYENIK]

f*cking hell. A couple weeks ago, I thought it was almost set that the ADWD US paperback release was the 26th of August. Now I look, and all the online shops are stating a March 2013 release? Guess I'm going to Barnes & Noble later today.

[SIKKS66]

We have our Mance Rayder...



Source.

Lots of folk amongst ASOIAF fandom moaning that he's too old but I love this casting. Loved Rome, loved Hinds' Caesar... awesome!

Would have still preferred Dominic West though

[Fnorg]

I don't get the feeling he's too old at all. This has the potential to be a great casting choice. And hey, who knows, maybe Edmure Tully will even get to kill him at some point .

[darthYENIK]

They complain about that when half the cast is at least five years older than the characters in the books.

[SIKKS66]

More casting...

Ed Skrein is Daario (yeah, seriously)



...and Jacob Anderson is Grey Worm.



Source.

[Fnorg]

Eh...

[SIKKS66]

QUOTE (Fnorg @ Monday, Aug 20 2012, 18:52)

Eh...

Pretty much my initial response to the Daario casting.

But watching this interview...



...I cannot help but think that the guy is a right arrogant bastard who could do with a good slap.

He's perfect!

[Chunkyman]

I don't like who they cast as Mance, he doesn't look anything like how I imagined him.




Also...

[ajbns87]

LOL

If anyone else is like myself, and watched the show first, and now reading the books, I can't recommend them highly enough. Really, really good to read, Tyrion's character in the book is even more wittier and funny.

I personally think the casting of the first seasons has been spot on. I obviously can't comment on the characters I don't know yet though !

[darthYENIK]

My theory about the casting, in terms of why they cast most of the children as adults, is for one reason. The creepiness of Dany marrying Khal Drogo. Even if she grew to love him, she was (in the book) only 13. And why would we want to see that, when we can have the most realistic sounding ass slapping doggie style on TV, featuring a cute grown up actress.

[elanman]

QUOTE (darthYENIK @ Tuesday, Aug 21 2012, 17:50)

My theory about the casting, in terms of why they cast most of the children as adults, is for one reason.  The creepiness of Dany marrying Khal Drogo.  Even if she grew to love him, she was (in the book) only 13.

You're spot on there mate. Emilia Clarke does a great job of conveying Dany's character, looks almost as I imagined her in the books and being older doesn't detract from the theme of her entering womanhood because of how she's made to appear on screen.

I do, however, have problems with other casting decisions (general spoilers) and character changes:

Outside of her appearance, Shae is nothing like I imagined her in the books. She's just seen as too feisty, and, quite frankly, an unlike able character. I usually like strong, independent female characters in the series because they defy the stereotypical maiden archetype, but Shae just comes of as antagonistic and lacking the affection she (at least supposedly) bears for Tyrion in the books. Shae isn't really that much of a problem though because at least she looks like the book character. A more worrying casting decision is hiring Nathalie Emmanuel to play Missandei. I mean, Missandei's meant to be 10, but Nathalie's 23. There's no way they'll be able to transfer Missandei as we know her in the books into the show. I mean, Nathalie's a very attractive actress, but I fear that they've hired her primarily for that reason and will end up having her in another gratuitous lesbian love scene--now, that would be undeniably entertaining, but would completely misrepresent Missandei, who's meant to be an innocent, intelligent little scribe for Dany, not a fit, 20 something chick. I guess I just fear that these casting decisions will impact the story in some way. I certainly know that Shae's betrayal of Tyrion will have less of an impact because loads of people who would like the book's version of Shae hate the version of her in the show. We're also unlikely to see Dany in her big sister/maternal role with Missandei because Nathalie Emmanuel and Emilia Clarke are around the same age.

With all that said, however, GoT is still an excellent show in its own right and a very good interpretation of the books, and I think it just needs to be accepted that cast members need to be older for them to fit into what is essentially a raw, adult world without appearing distasteful. Not sure why they've left it so late to introduce the Reeds and the Tullys--it's not going to be easy writing them into the show. At least they're confirmed though.

GoT Season 3 new cast members.

[Tyler]

The only problem I have with the show is the way they treat Jon. All of his heroic moments of character development and triumph are turned into jokes at his expense for sh*t and giggles. His entire time on screen amounts to moody stares and fart jokes, and it's quite annoying.

[Cuban Warlord]

QUOTE (Tyler @ Wednesday, Aug 22 2012, 22:37)

The only problem I have with the show is the way they treat Jon. All of his heroic moments of character development and triumph are turned into jokes at his expense for sh*t and giggles. His entire time on screen amounts to moody stares and fart jokes, and it's quite annoying.

I agree with you on Jon but one thing I think the show gets right is Dany's story. I hate her chapters in the books but the show seems to make it more interesting even if it does differ from the books a bit.

I'm excited to see some Edmure Tully in S3 because I thought we should have seen him at the end of season 2 and we didn't. He's my favorite Tully, him or the Blackfish.

[darthYENIK]

QUOTE (elanman @ Wednesday, Aug 22 2012, 14:49)

GoT Season 3 new cast members.

Clive Russell as Brynden Tully looks exactly like what I imagined from the books. And I agree with you about Missandei. But maybe they couldn't find a young girl that had the chops for the role, in time.

It's good to see those characters that I have been bitching about not being in the second season getting in finally. Especially the Tullys and Reeds.

[Bellic 4 life]

Had a Season 1 marathon with my friends last night. I think this is one of my favorite scenes, without Tyrion.