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#171 User is online   Werthead 

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Posted 02 March 2010 - 07:57 PM

Season 1 is officially commissioned on HBO

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Posted 02 March 2010 - 08:01 PM

Well I guess I have to get HBO again... :veryangry:
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Posted 02 March 2010 - 11:11 PM

And here was me just about to post the good news! :veryangry: I hope it gets shown over here across the pond sooner rather than later.
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Posted 03 March 2010 - 03:38 AM

Sweet, this means that if all goes well and the seasons keep getting picked up this means we will hafta get Dance sometime within the next 5 years!..lol ok that was a cheap shot, and I don't get nearly upset as some people about the whole wait thing. On a serious note I am pretty pumped it got picked up tho.
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Posted 03 March 2010 - 04:00 AM

Marvelous. HBO really is the one place that could do justice to this tale.
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Posted 03 March 2010 - 04:03 AM

The REALLY great thing is... HBO doesn't make bad series for the most part.

So, tie in a fantastic field for HBO to garner.... I'm looking forward to it.
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Posted 03 March 2010 - 05:05 AM

Awesome. Very awesome.
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Posted 03 March 2010 - 10:05 AM

Kick-ass! Lovin' HBO.
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Posted 03 March 2010 - 02:24 PM

Great stuff! Thanks Wert, very happy about this!
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Posted 03 March 2010 - 05:12 PM

Yes! I'm pretty confident HBO will be able to keep the books' greatness.
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Posted 03 March 2010 - 05:38 PM

It does strike me that people are heaping a whole load of pressure on this to be "great". Seems risky to me, because the more expectation, the more likelihood that it might actually be a bit disappointing. All I'm saying is, we ought to at least see the pilot before, like in that blog, it's referred to as fantasy's Battlestar Galactica...
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Posted 04 March 2010 - 03:31 AM

Nope, I'm goin in wide eyed stupid for awesomeness.
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Posted 05 March 2010 - 10:17 PM

View Postcaladanbrood, on 03 March 2010 - 05:38 PM, said:

It does strike me that people are heaping a whole load of pressure on this to be "great". Seems risky to me, because the more expectation, the more likelihood that it might actually be a bit disappointing. All I'm saying is, we ought to at least see the pilot before, like in that blog, it's referred to as fantasy's Battlestar Galactica...


Don't be silly, it's HBO. It's going to rock.
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Posted 06 March 2010 - 01:12 PM

Fair enough :band:
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Posted 11 March 2010 - 03:26 PM

Additional BBC report.

Love the bit where the producers admit they could find enough hairy Northman-looking extras for the Winterfell scenes, so logged onto a Northern Ireland heavy metal internet forum and asked for help :)
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Posted 11 March 2010 - 07:20 PM

Wait, I'm a hairy northerner! I should write in!
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Posted 12 March 2010 - 04:07 AM

I know its early yet, and "XXX should play such and such character" opinions are going to be a dime a dozen, but if this gets to season 2, I really hope they get Michael Ironside as Stannis. He was BORN for that role. What else is he doing right now anyway? It has to be better than starring in Mosquitocheetah 2 or whatever crappy SciFi Channel movie of the week he's in.


Anyway, here's hoping the series goes the distance, which also entails Martin getting the remaining books out in time.

Maybe Season 5 will consist entirely of footage of Martin writing blog posts about new miniature sets? Posted Image

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Posted 15 March 2010 - 05:06 PM

sweet.

Very stoked to see the ice wall realized in the show. It could be very cool if they do that right.

Also very stoked to see a fully-realized winterfell.

This thing's budget is going to be out of control.

I wonder if they'll do much filming in Canada too...

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Posted 15 March 2010 - 06:31 PM

Considering that the first book goes almost halfway before any stabby kicky action happens, I suspect they are going to either need some truly brilliant performances from the cast or else change the story at least slightly. Even Rome opened with a big Gladiator-opening-type siege scene to kick things off in the pilot. Iirc, Eddard has a flashback that would fit nicely.

I curious to see whether they take the 'gritty realism' approach to combat that Rome generally took, or go with an over-the-top Hercules/Xena/LegendsoftheSeecrap type. I'd bet on the former. This is HBO after all. As mentioned up thread, they don't make bad series'.

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Posted 15 March 2010 - 06:41 PM

I can see a scene setting flashback to the ending of the siege of K's landing.
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