Game of Thrones begins....

[Eddie Teach]

And Gunsmoke. And the Simpsons.

[grumbler]

Twenty seasons of GoT would be dreadful.  Six is the sweet spot for HBO (seven appears to be the producers' plan; they know better than me what's likely to work), so 20 would be far in excess of what has worked. 

I'd rather have 6-7 seasons of GoT, 6-7 seasons of, say, Honor Harrington, and 6-7 seasons of, say, Lensman or Tales of Known Space than 20 seasons of GoT.

[Zanza]

Watched the first two episodes. Well made again. Looking forward to the rest of the season.

PS: Dany must be the most annoying character on the show.

[Josephus]

Funny how they're ahead of the books in one or two story lines and far behind in others.

[spoiler]I wonder if Sam Tarwell and co. are gonna take that boat ride to the Free Cities.[/spoiler]

The books became incoherent in terms of chronology because of Martin's notion of writing two books which overlapped eachother.    The TV writers have to splice the story lines back together.  Judging from the first episode they are going to do a good job.     

I guess too they won't do [spoiler]Sam's trip to Free Cities[/spoiler] because it seems like we're going to see [spoiler]Tyrion's boat trip[/spoiler] and I guess they can't have two of those in one season.

[Admiral Yi]

PS: Dany must be the most annoying character on the show.

Of the ones who are not intended to be annoying I assume.

[Sophie Scholl]

PS: Dany must be the most annoying character on the show.

She's definitely my least favorite pov character in the books, as of the last one.  Her fall was incredibly swift after Daharis arrived on the scene.

[grumbler]

Yeah.  To tell the truth, the Dani scenes from the book have already just kind of blurred together in my mind.  Lots more words than the actual action required.

[Zanza]

The back and forth in Meereen seems rather inconsequential for the overall story arc.

[Berkut]

The overall Dany story is so fucking awesome, from about 10,000 feet.

Down where you are actually reading, you can't help but feel that it could have been told in about 1/3rd the time. Maybe less. It just goes on and on and on and on.

Does she have to fix the ENTIRE WORLD OUTSIDE Westeros before going back? If not, what the fuck is she waiting for now?

[Valmy]

To prove to herself she is a ruler. That is going great so far.

This is one plot that desperately needed that five year gap.

[crazy canuck]

The overall Dany story is so fucking awesome, from about 10,000 feet.

Down where you are actually reading, you can't help but feel that it could have been told in about 1/3rd the time. Maybe less. It just goes on and on and on and on.

Does she have to fix the ENTIRE WORLD OUTSIDE Westeros before going back? If not, what the fuck is she waiting for now?

Agreed, it was my main disappointment with books 4 and 5.  Her story line got lost in a jumble of detail.  Yes, governing involves hard choices.  We got it after the first 100 pages.  Can we get on with the story now?

[Martinus]

Yeah, Dani's storyline has some great iconic moment (like "Dracarys"; the "baby confused for a goat"; the "why the Unsullied go to brothels") but a lot of it seems like a filler. In the book especially all I can remember now is how she got shits.

[Habbaku]

From where things are headed, fortunately, book six won't have nearly the same level of boredom where Dany's stuff is concerned.

[Valmy]

From where things are headed, fortunately, book six won't have nearly the same level of boredom where Dany's stuff is concerned.

Well it sure ended in a tricky place.

I have just reflected on the fact I have been a fan of this series for almost ten years and only one book has been released in that time

[Liep]

It's been 4 years since book 5 was released? I can't remember much from it and certainly not from Dany's storyline, so what tricky place?