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Joe Obenberger · 06-05-2012, 12:43 PM

It seems to have everything.

I've never been any fan of fantasy until seeing Game of Thrones. With respect, Lord of the Rings and all the lesser fantasy epics bore me.

This one is different.

Characterization - Tyrion Lannister (the Imp) is simply an incredible and memorable character and the actor who brings him to life deserves an Emmy. We all started out sympathetic to the Starks, whom all the Lannisters oppose, but he won us over by strength of his character, wit, and self-effacing charm. The character of Eddard Stark was magnificently heroic and conjured up Thomas More to me; it was hard for me to imagine how the plot could continue without him, because he was great, believable, and noble, but the writers have pulled that off, too, and replaced him with other characters just as interesting. The Khalissi, Daenerys Targaryen, the Mother of Dragons is the stuff of dreams. The brotherhood of the Black Watch, the intrigue at Joffrey's court, the simple nobility of Winterfell, have all been made believable, three-dimensional places that could be real, and which draw us. The whole world of the Dorathi invites, no compels, interest and attention.

The visuals - except for underportrayal of The Wall - is magnificent.

The plot - complex and sometimes it is difficult to keep all the locales and minor characters straight - is approximately believable.

They have hit on a formula that uses "magic" mainly to tantalize here and there rather than to always function as a deus ex machina that saves the day outside the laws of logic and reason, and they have used enough themes and allusions to comparable events in the real history of late antiquity, the middle ages, and the early rennaisance and its intellectual development to make all of the events close enough to real history so that it all seems strangely familiar.

This series deserves five stars because of that blend of excellent writing and acting, great imagery, and a plotline that is close enough to real history to make everything sort of familiar rather than entirely alien to us.

06-05-2012, 12:43 PM
Joe Obenberger Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 466	It seems to have everything. I've never been any fan of fantasy until seeing Game of Thrones. With respect, Lord of the Rings and all the lesser fantasy epics bore me. This one is different. Characterization - Tyrion Lannister (the Imp) is simply an incredible and memorable character and the actor who brings him to life deserves an Emmy. We all started out sympathetic to the Starks, whom all the Lannisters oppose, but he won us over by strength of his character, wit, and self-effacing charm. The character of Eddard Stark was magnificently heroic and conjured up Thomas More to me; it was hard for me to imagine how the plot could continue without him, because he was great, believable, and noble, but the writers have pulled that off, too, and replaced him with other characters just as interesting. The Khalissi, Daenerys Targaryen, the Mother of Dragons is the stuff of dreams. The brotherhood of the Black Watch, the intrigue at Joffrey's court, the simple nobility of Winterfell, have all been made believable, three-dimensional places that could be real, and which draw us. The whole world of the Dorathi invites, no compels, interest and attention. The visuals - except for underportrayal of The Wall - is magnificent. The plot - complex and sometimes it is difficult to keep all the locales and minor characters straight - is approximately believable. They have hit on a formula that uses "magic" mainly to tantalize here and there rather than to always function as a deus ex machina that saves the day outside the laws of logic and reason, and they have used enough themes and allusions to comparable events in the real history of late antiquity, the middle ages, and the early rennaisance and its intellectual development to make all of the events close enough to real history so that it all seems strangely familiar. This series deserves five stars because of that blend of excellent writing and acting, great imagery, and a plotline that is close enough to real history to make everything sort of familiar rather than entirely alien to us. __________________ Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice. . . Restraint in the pursuit of Justice is no virtue. Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964 Last edited by Joe Obenberger; 06-05-2012 at 12:45 PM..