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Will definitely give the books a try then. Agreed there there was some stilted dialog and testing the limits of character believability for purposes of plot mo
by ethbro 9y ago
Will definitely give the books a try then.
Agreed there there was some stilted dialog and testing the limits of character believability for purposes of plot movement. But all in all I still enjoyed the pacing. (Trying to word this ambigiously) I think the political side was better done than the micro. (Also,
Shohreh Aghdashloo is a great actress)
- throwanem 9y agoI agree - and she is! It's always a pleasure to see her in something that lets her show off her chops. I think I can skate up to the edge of spoiling, but not cross over the line, in saying: the character beats, especially late in season 2, are clearly drawn directly from the novels, and in the novels they work - but in the show, the way that they're misordered, compressed in time, and exaggerated in intensity to the point of excess makes them really hard to take. It's not that the show does everything wrong, by any means - up until roughly mid-season 2, it did enough things well enough that I was willing to excuse the missteps. Since then, though, while they haven't started doing more things right, they sure have started doing more things wrong, and at this point I'm all out of forbearance - I only watched to the end of season 2 out of an urge to finish what I'd started.