HBO's Game of Thrones. [No Book Spoilers]

[Oberyn]

Renly was really the worst cast so far imo. Given the way they've painted him as a whiny bitch in the first season (nothing to do with his homosexuality, the way the whole homo thing was approached in the books I got more of a ancient Greek feel to it, i.e warrior like and not effiminate, as opposed to modern perceptions), I'm looking forward to how it plays out with Stannis. 

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when they interact with each other Renly is supremely confident, smiling and joking and taunting Stannis, which is pretty much the opposite of the full of doubt unconfident whiner of the first season. Although I guess having a giant army at your back can prob change your attitude. Still didn't mesh with the picture painted of him in the book imo.
Also, unless I'm misrembering the book, isn't Jaime supposed to be in a cell in Riverrun? And they skipped the whole Catelyn's dad on his deathbed thing.

Stannis didn't seem miscast as far as looks, not a fan of his voice though.

[Angantyr]

Agreed Oberyn, that is how I see these characters too.

Concerning strictly sticking to the books then it seems palpable that Clash of Kings will see the results of a lot more hard editing than Game of Thrones did.

[Teeth]

Ahahaha, those foldable noseguards on the Lannister helmets, that makes too much sense!

[Angantyr]

Armaments of the City Guard and the Lannisters are really, really crappy, though wolves, crows and Kingsguard (minus the helmets, wtf are up with those) are pretty accurate, as is the armors of Loras Tyrell and the Mountain that Rides (and iconic items like Sandor Clegane's great helmet). But the occasional LoTR movie trilogy item has still sneaked in here and there.

[bosco]

Watched E02... damn cliffhangers 

[Bjarky]

yeah that was hilarious 

[Razzer]

Anyone got a link to a stream?

[Malaclypse]

Favorite part of the show is anytime a bunch of bearded men in puffy coats get together and yell, "THE KING IN THE NORTH" a couple of dozen times.

[bilwit]

Renly was really the worst cast so far imo. Given the way they've painted him as a whiny bitch in the first season (nothing to do with his homosexuality, the way the whole homo thing was approached in the books I got more of a ancient Greek feel to it, i.e warrior like and not effiminate, as opposed to modern perceptions), I'm looking forward to how it plays out with Stannis. 

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when they interact with each other Renly is supremely confident, smiling and joking and taunting Stannis, which is pretty much the opposite of the full of doubt unconfident whiner of the first season. Although I guess having a giant army at your back can prob change your attitude. Still didn't mesh with the picture painted of him in the book imo.
Also, unless I'm misrembering the book, isn't Jaime supposed to be in a cell in Riverrun? And they skipped the whole Catelyn's dad on his deathbed thing.

Stannis didn't seem miscast as far as looks, not a fan of his voice though.

To be fair Renly didn't get enough screentime for me to reach the same conclusion about him in the show as you did. He's only whiny during the Loras scene; he shows complete confidence when he tries to convince Ned to help him get the throne.

[Anal Bleeding]

any successful HBO drama has a little homosex. The Wire and Spartacus for example.

[Overdriven]

WTF...

First Chris and Now Cassie...what is the cast of Skins doing in Game of Thrones:

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And yes I'm watching the second episode  Is HBOGO premium and they get it a week early or something?

Sounds weird to have Hannah Murries as Gilly...more used to her in this roll: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HopCCzJO8NU

[Banok]

Renly was really the worst cast so far imo.

agreed. hes supposed to look like king robert before he got fat. hes supposed to be very tall, strong and handsome and a warrior. instead we got this wimpy, ordinary looking guy. I also seem to remember him having long dark hair, they coudln't even get that right.

[The_Bloody_Nine]

agreed. hes supposed to look like king robert before he got fat. hes supposed to be very tall, strong and handsome and a warrior. instead we got this wimpy, ordinary looking guy. I also seem to remember him having long dark hair, they coudln't even get that right.

All in all I couldn't care less about all these comparisons between how they did it wrong compared to the books. The only important thing is that they the get the story done as a TV adaption which is working/coherent in itself. Of course they shouldn't make a new story out of it, but so long as it stays a very good story and very good tv show (which it seems to be) they are free to do some changes to characters or leave some story-arcs out and invent others, imo.

[rebbrown]

Robb's wolf isn't cgi btw - they filmed a real wolf and digitally 'enhanced' him -> they made the wolf a bit bigger.

[Leesin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25KABvPbq-U