In a way, it shows that you get what you pay for. There are umpteen amazing fantasy/s-f worlds that would probably make for equally great non-network tv watching, but the kind of balls and commitment (both artistic and financial), luck, talent and attention to detail that made this show, probably only comes together once in a blue moon.
It’s kind of sad that 90% of everything is crap, but it seems to be the way of the world. Stuff is just difficult to do and get right, especially when it involves co-ordinating armies of people.
hepcat
5522
Correction, it’s just difficult to do and get right so that everybody is happy. One man’s crap is another man’s treasure.
Teiman
5523
I think I am very neutral, because I don’t like medieval fantasy much (and don’t hate it either), and because Game of Thrones looks to me like pulp-fantasy, not high literature… but I don’t hate it either. I think that one man that think GOT is crap is wrong.
The correction is unneeded, because the original comment was about the difficulty to do correctly many things at the same time, good TV, faithfull to the material, good actors, good casting, … every new thing augment geometrically the difficulty to pull this correctly. Is not subjective, everyone that has tried to do 4 things at the same time can tell you that is much harder than doing 2 things a the same time, and most people can’t do more than 3.
hepcat
5524
Any time you’re discussing something like this, it most certainly is subjective.
From what I’ve seen, assembling the cast for the show you’re doing is trying to catch lightning in a bottle to start with. And casting is one of those things where you won’t know if you did it right or not until it’s too late. Imagine if they didn’t or couldn’t get Dinklage. Imagine if the actress playing Arya didn’t have the charisma in the role that Maisie Williams brings to it. This show might have died before the first season was over if not for its cast. Recently they brought in Pedro Pascal and that was a homerun.
I think that’s why it’s so hard to duplicate successful tv shows even when the formula is plain to see. If I were a producer or network exec that’s the part that scares me. I know we can acquire the rights to another fantasy series, but how do we assemble that kind of cast?
This discussion really makes me wish we could watch the un-aired scrapped version of the first episode.
hepcat
5527
The one in which Ned Stark was played by David Hasselhof and they used CGI for Tyrion with a voice over by Gilbert Gottfried?
I’m pretty sure they’ve buried that one in the vaults.
The Mountain deadlifting nearly 1,000 pounds.
— Alan
She can hold my lightsaber any time.
Tim_N
5531
It surprised me how comments about Sophie Turner had significantly changed in tone (i.e. more sexual) this season… until I figured out she just turned 18. Well done, internet.
Sophie Turner’s a pretty young woman, but the young woman playing Missandei is effin breathtaking.
rei
5534
olaf
5535
Insanity. http://nypost.com/2014/06/02/who-is-the-mountain-man-on-game-of-thrones/ The dude is 6’9" and 420 pounds. Someone should have given the Viper a scouting report.
Because it would be derivative and cheesey as all hell.
A better question is: Why can’t we get the Premium Cable series of The Black Company.
Answer: No good reason we can’t. And we should, too.
hepcat
5540
Some might argue that GoT is already giving us a realistic, gritty version of a fantasy series.
