Game of Thrones Thread

Feline Supremacist said:
Too bad D&D left this scene out of Charles Dance and Julian Glover doing great acting and giving their characters depth.
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I think that's the problem with GoT, they killed all bar two of their legit good actors off, and the two that are left, well one's clearly hamming it up and the other is being wasted.
 
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Judge Holden said:
Speakin of Charles Dance...
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And so he shook
And so he shook
dat ass of Castamere


Jokes aside Charles dance is one those guys you can rely on to do his job even when you hand him a pile of total Garbage. Even if a film is terrible he'll do his best with whatever he's got.
Nobody does "I'm a fill in for your Dad..... You're a fucking idiot and I'm tired of your stupid shit." like Charles Dance
 
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CWCissey said:
Hence why she's clearly hamming it up.
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Ahh I thought the idea was The Dink was hamming it up. Eh, what can I say, no one is served well by the material they're being given now. I really can't blame the actors.

However, when they start claiming this is on the fans because their expectations were too high, well, fuck those guys with a nail-studded dildo.
 
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cecograph said:
It's original to the show. So is this:

Every chapter in the books is written from a character perspective, and Jaime wasn't a chapter character until book 3. Tywin was never a chapter character. Robert Baratheon was never a chapter character. Barristan only gets chapter characters in book 5. We didn't get to see this stuff because we didn't get these characters' perspectives.

And that made me slightly concerned, since one of the points of the books is to make a distinction between how a character is perceived and what's going on in their heads. As a reader, I thought Jaime was just a preening arrogant, child-murdering dickhead until book 3, when suddenly we got to understand things from inside his skull, and how he changed from possibly the greatest Westerosi swordsman to having lost his sword hand. The change isn't as dramatic in the show, because both of these scenes give the impression that Jaime has another side to him, and that the story told about him might not be the whole story.

Even so, when I first saw these new scenes, and the quality of the dialogue and performances, I felt super confident that one of my favourite book series was in very safe hands.

It's widely held that the books drop in quality after book 3, and I've been fairly sure for a very long time that Martin has no fucking clue how to wrap up the story. He claims to have an ending, but he's got no fucking idea how to get there. So the show was always going to be in trouble as the seasons went on. I was happy enough to see what I'd read adapted to screen, and that was awesome for the first four seasons. After that, it was an inevitable clusterfuck.

But damn, I could never have predicted just how bad things would get. This season is something else. It's now some of the trashiest television going, in a supposed golden age of television. And that's fine, I guess. I'm not too high-brow to not enjoy a bit of trash television. But considering where we started, it's tragically and hilariously impressive how much potential has been squandered.
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There's nothing wrong with book 4 that isn't a flaw in the other books. It's Dance that's the real drop in quality.
 
Feline Supremacist said:
I read somewhere the actress who plays Melisande was to play Cersei, which was the better casting choice. She's also married to someone on the show I forgot who that is though.
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It would have been a very different take on the character for sure. I think Headey's performance was one of the better ones, though, at least until they sent Cersei into full-on Wicked Queen mode in Season 7.
 
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Mola Ram said:
It would have been a very different take on the character for sure. I think Headey's performance was one of the better ones, though, at least until they sent Cersei into full-on Wicked Queen mode in Season 7.
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It'd be an improvement, Lena Headley seems to have this constipated look in every film/TV show she's been in. Like there's a butt plug she forgot to take out and she suddenly remembered and is trying to push out without anyone noticing.
 
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Fuck it. I'll be gutsy and say it.

I LOVE Lena Headley as Cersei and her constant smugfuck smirk. I dunno, I just enjoy her performance even when she's acting like a cartoon villain.

I think most of the performances on the show are totally fine. It's just shitty fanfic material they have to work with.
 
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Headey's fine in my book. Cersei's the queen of bitches from beginning to end, and I get that from her performance.

I actually struggle to think of an actor who is actual dogshit and not just stuck with bad material/in a bad role.
 
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Marco Fucko said:
Headey's fine in my book. Cersei's the queen of bitches from beginning to end, and I get that from her performance.

I actually struggle to think of an actor who is actual dogshit and not just stuck with bad material/in a bad role.
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I think Harington can be a bit one-note sometimes, but the only genuinely awful actors were the Sand Snakes. Even then, though, it's hard to know how much to chalk up to the direction. Indira Varma was fabulous in Season 4, and as bad as the rest of the Dornish plot in 5 & 6.
 
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Mola Ram said:
I think Harington can be a bit one-note sometimes, but the only genuinely awful actors were the Sand Snakes. Even then, though, it's hard to know how much to chalk up to the direction. Indira Varma was fabulous in Season 4, and as bad as the rest of the Dornish plot in 5 & 6.
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That's fair but when you get an actor that can really breathe life into a performance even if its a minor role, like Peter Vaughan (Maester Aemon) it starts to matter. I agree it depends on source material/direction-good actors can't save the last three seasons (Euron/Jack Sparrow for example).
 
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Your Weird Fetish said:
There's nothing wrong with book 4 that isn't a flaw in the other books. It's Dance that's the real drop in quality.
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Both books are fine. Some of my favorite chapters from the series are in Dances with Dragons, like Asha's march to Winterfell, Davos in White Harbor, Bran training with the 3-eyed Raven.. basically everything in the North was solid gold. Dany was boring, but eventually she fucked off to shit in a field and we got some awesome chapters with Barristan as he tries to forestall a coup in her absence.
 
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Joining the Charles Dance party train! I love the original scenes he has with Arya. They made a good choice putting him in them instead of Roose like it was in the books. It goes the show the writers are capable of writing good original scenes. Also I loved Dany’s dysentery hallucinations.
 
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