Game of Thrones begins....

[Josquius]

Except the accent

[Eddie Teach]

What's a Westeros accent supposed to sound like? 

Not that I'm defending his accent, as I haven't heard it yet.

[Josquius]

What's a Westeros accent supposed to sound like? 

Not that I'm defending his accent, as I haven't heard it yet.

Variable between the regions.
Consistency between people from the same place (family even) would be nice though.

[crazy canuck]

Sweet preview clip for episode 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2QwUIA8Puk&feature=player_profilepage

Tyrion is quickly becoming my favorite character on the show. Peter Dinklage is amazing.

Agreed.  The imp is my favourite character in the books.  I was prepared to be disappointed in the actors portraying the character but I think he is doing very well.

[Josephus]

I'm not sure, maybe 3 weeks. So that would be a couple of hundred pages a day, sounds about right. I really enjoyed the books btw, but see no reason why Martin can't churn his books out with greater frequency..........one can see now why his fans have been somewhat frustrated over the years.

He obviously has more of a life than you do.

[crazy canuck]

Consistency between people from the same place (family even) would be nice though.

The family lived different lives.  The imp didnt spend years in the King's guard rather he has spent most of his time in brothels.  If he and his brother had the same speech patterns that would have struck me as odd.

[Slargos]

What's a Westeros accent supposed to sound like? 

Not that I'm defending his accent, as I haven't heard it yet.

Variable between the regions.
Consistency between people from the same place (family even) would be nice though.

Despite growing up together, my accent is markedly different from that of my siblings.

Not everyone is a Chav.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Consistency between people from the same place (family even) would be nice though.

The family lived different lives.  The imp didnt spend years in the King's guard rather he has spent most of his time in brothels.  If he and his brother had the same speech patterns that would have struck me as odd.

Agreed. Also most of the aristos in Westeros will have spent at least part of their childhood in another lord's court. It's probably not something to get worked up about, especially if it risked the actors speaking in annoying cod accents.

[The Larch]

Considering that the actor that plays Tyrion is American, the one that plays Jaime is Danish and the one that plays Cersei from Yorkshire via Bermuda, it's already a feat that they speak anything remotely similar. 

[The Larch]

And another preview, this time of Sansa talking with Septa Mordane. It seems to me that Sansa's character is slightly deeper than in the novels, judging by that scene. Was it from the book or made for the series?

http://youtu.be/hvCxT9ku1LI

[jimmy olsen]

[Grey Fox]

Boromir is awesome.

[Sophie Scholl]

Boromir is awesome.

This.  Plus the overarching Sean Bean is awesome.

[Maximus]

I don't know. I don't dislike him, but when he plays a character I don't see the character, I see the actor. That says to me that he's not a very good actor.

I didn't see Boromir, I saw Sean Bean. And while I think he's doing better as Eddard Stark I still just see Sean Bean.

[grumbler]

I don't know. I don't dislike him, but when he plays a character I don't see the character, I see the actor. That says to me that he's not a very good actor.

I didn't see Boromir, I saw Sean Bean. And while I think he's doing better as Eddard Stark I still just see Sean Bean.

I've sen Sean Bean in a great many roles, and have never seen him as Sean Bean.  In fact, he was a character actor for a long time before becoming a "name" actor, and I think his ability to allow the role to dominate the performance is the reason for that.  People would mention his name to me, and I wouldn't know who they were talking about until they named some roles he played, and then I would ask things like "Are you telling me that the guy in Caravaggio was the same actor who played the bad guy in Patriot games?"

So I guess we just see different things when we watch him.