Game of Thrones begins....

[Berkut]

Daenyrs was not as thin as I imagined her, but in a rather good way.

[Eddie Teach]

A fair point, yeah.

Though I think someone like Hayden Panettiere

She's too young and she looks like a (hot) peasant.

[The Larch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7L2PVdrb_8

I must say that the opening credits are stunning and nerdgasmatic. I hope they're specific for every episode. 

[Martinus]

In short, this is HBO at its best. Great story (courtesy of GRRM) plus lots of gratuitous, graphic sexiness and violence.

[Valmy]

FUCK.

THAT SHIT MOTHERFUCKING ROCKS.

Hehe that is pretty much word for word what I said when it ended.

[Valmy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7L2PVdrb_8

I must say that the opening credits are stunning and nerdgasmatic. I hope they're specific for every episode. 

I hear they are.  They show you all the key locals for the episode.

[Martinus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7L2PVdrb_8

I must say that the opening credits are stunning and nerdgasmatic. I hope they're specific for every episode. 

LOL no kidding. I've been listening this on loop since I finished watching the first episode about half an hour ago. 

I heard it's going to change each episode, focusing on the locales being featured at the time.

[Slargos]

A fair point, yeah.

Though I think someone like Hayden Panettiere

She's too young and she looks like a (hot) peasant.

Peasant? Maybe.

Larter would work though, I think.

[Slargos]

She's got that je ne sais quois. 

Smug, self-confident, "I could murder puppies and babies without losing any sleep". 

[Martinus]

Viserys kind of sucked. He came across as petulant the way you expect, but there wasn't anything else to him - you certainly never got any feel for his being driven or obsessed. Just kind of a bitch. And creepy.

Frankly, that was my impression of him from the books - nothing but a creepy crazy bitch. In all honesty, they probably did not  have enough time to do enough exposure on him - the part about him having Danny be fucked by 40,000 Dothraki and their horses was supposed to convey the message, I guess.

Considering this was the "exposure" episode (read: "let's introduce all the 100 major characters") I think it went pretty well, and on top of that it has great promise for the rest of it.

[Sophie Scholl]

I just got the books and plan on knocking them back shortly.  I also read the two Hedge Knight Graphic novels as a semi-intro to the series.  Should I watch the first episode while reading the beginning of the book or wait till I've finished the whole first book before watching the show?  Also, as I was reading some intros to characters, a thought popped in my head:  Is Jon Snow actually Lyanna's son with either Robert or Rhaegar and that is what she made Ned promise?  To claim him as his own son and to promise to raise him?  Just curious if I totally misread the short character background or not about him.

[Sahib]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7L2PVdrb_8

I must say that the opening credits are stunning and nerdgasmatic. I hope they're specific for every episode. 

I liked Rome and John Adams credits better. Looks a bit too steampunkish for Asoiaf 

[Slargos]

I just got the books and plan on knocking them back shortly.  I also read the two Hedge Knight Graphic novels as a semi-intro to the series.  Should I watch the first episode while reading the beginning of the book or wait till I've finished the whole first book before watching the show?  Also, as I was reading some intros to characters, a thought popped in my head:  Is Jon Snow actually Lyanna's son with either Robert or Rhaegar and that is what she made Ned promise?  To claim him as his own son and to promise to raise him?  Just curious if I totally misread the short character background or not about him.

Though if you got that from the bios, I think they are too damn revealing. 

[bogh]

On the Sandor Clegane question;

http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/FAQ/Entry/Is_Sandor_dead/

I think its a fairly convincing argument. In general I can't think of a major character killed without the reader being a direct witness through a POV character.

[Sophie Scholl]

I just got the books and plan on knocking them back shortly.  I also read the two Hedge Knight Graphic novels as a semi-intro to the series.  Should I watch the first episode while reading the beginning of the book or wait till I've finished the whole first book before watching the show?  Also, as I was reading some intros to characters, a thought popped in my head:  Is Jon Snow actually Lyanna's son with either Robert or Rhaegar and that is what she made Ned promise?  To claim him as his own son and to promise to raise him?  Just curious if I totally misread the short character background or not about him.

Though if you got that from the bios, I think they are too damn revealing. 

Yeah, I was browsing a bit and thought so myself, so I stopped after a few.  I suppose if it were true, it'd allow him to have a claim to the throne.