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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 944181, member: 833"] If you want a lot of action, GoT will frequently disappoint. The books and the shows are much more about the characters than they are about action. One of my favorite HBO shows ever was Big Love when Harry Dean Stanton was on the show. I remember seeing an interview with the show's producer that an executive at HBO said him that the network likes shows about families in unusual situations. The Sopranos was ultimately a show about a family, just one in a very unusual situation. Same with Big Love. GoT is a show about families. The relationships are much more important than the action. Everything happens because a character is responding to some kind of family strain or motivation. Jaime, Cersei and Tyrion are constantly rebelling against their father. Theon, Roose Bolton and Jon Snow desperately seek their fathers' approval and it resulted in them making terrible decisions. Robb Stark went to war for his father, although in reality is mother started it. Stark is ultimately murdered for disrespecting Walder Frey's family. Robert's strained relationships with his brothers caused them to first, not be there to protect Robert (Renly abandons the hunt where Robert is killed), and then to turn on each other, resulting in Renly's death when he was the strongest of the 5 kings. The Martell's want revenge for murder of Oberyn and Doran's sister. Danearys experience growing up with the Beggar King completely influences her perspective. I know you already appreciate this, but this show is not Lord of the Rings with simple battle lines drawn between good and evil, this is much more complicated. Last night's episode was fine with me. - Tywin gets the best scenes in the show. His face offs with Arya, the Queen of Thorns, Joffrey and now Oberyn are awesome. He deserves an Emmy a lot more than Emelia Clarke does. - the show is doing a great job showing just how emotionally broken both Arya and The Hound are. - Tywin's speech to Tommen was great and wasn't in the books. Tywin is not one for sentimentality, and it doesn't seem like he is even a little upset about what happened. I liked the original Tommen better for the part, but it would get a little creepy on TV unless you made the actor at least an adolescent. - At least for me, it took me a while into the books and the show to get all that excited about what was going on with the Night's Watch. It is starting to get really interesting. [/QUOTE]

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