Created by
David Benioff,
D.B. Weiss
While a civil war brews between several noble families in Westeros, the
children of the former rulers of the land attempt to rise up to power.
Meanwhile a forgotten race, bent on destruction, plans to return after
thousands of years in the North. - IMDB
I've not really been interested in watching Game of Thrones since everyone started the hype about it... until now. I've never been in to Lord of the Rings or that kind of genre of film/tv but after watching Once Upon a Time (review to come) the idea of starting GOT has appealed more and more to me. What pushed me over the edge was dedicating a good 5 hours of my life to playing GOT Risk. I felt like after that commitment I needed to know more.
That's where it all went wrong.
Well, not wrong, but almost ruined my life. All I want to do is come home from work and watch it. Why? I do not know. All I know is that I've caught the bug. And I hate that I love it!
We're currently halfway through season 2 so I can only review up to there but I shall write a part 2 when we've watched it all.
So my initial thoughts were that series 1 was very slow and season 2, not much has happened.
I feel like, with season 1, I could have edited it myself and made it half the length (not trying to be bigheaded, I just felt like it was poorly edited). I guess that they didn't have a big budget in the first season, it's quite slow paced and not a great deal happens in the long space of time. There's a lot of scenes that don't really need to be in there and it seems like they've just added some shots in to kill the 50+ minutes.
Again season 2 doesn't have a lot of things happen in it. I get the impression though that the season is a big build up to something big, followed up by the end of season 2/season 3.
I'm terrible for getting caught up in TV series though so I'm definitely sticking with it.
To say it seems like a big budget, the locations and sets are pretty awesome though; they definitely went to town there. To be fair, the whole mise en scene is pretty special and you can't tell that it was filmed in the early 2010's at all! I like how the style of each family changes too. You can look at a character and put them straight into which family they belong to.
It's pretty cool to look at the behind the scenes photos. Having a degree in film I find it so interesting to look at and to see how much work goes on behind the camera, and I thought they'd use a lot more green screen/use it in different places. It makes you appreciate what the actors and post production team have to do.
I still feel like I'm in the early stages and there's a lot more to learn about the story. There's a lot to keep up with and I was painting my nails while watching it the other day and I feel like I missed some stuff. I'm excited to catch up with the series, I've heard a few things so I want to see how it plans out (and be able to get excited with everyone in the office on a Monday).
I was worried it was going to be too much 'swords and sandals' but it's so much more!
Definitely worth a watch if you like a good TV binge.
We're currently halfway through season 2 so I can only review up to there but I shall write a part 2 when we've watched it all.
So my initial thoughts were that series 1 was very slow and season 2, not much has happened.
I feel like, with season 1, I could have edited it myself and made it half the length (not trying to be bigheaded, I just felt like it was poorly edited). I guess that they didn't have a big budget in the first season, it's quite slow paced and not a great deal happens in the long space of time. There's a lot of scenes that don't really need to be in there and it seems like they've just added some shots in to kill the 50+ minutes.
Again season 2 doesn't have a lot of things happen in it. I get the impression though that the season is a big build up to something big, followed up by the end of season 2/season 3.
I'm terrible for getting caught up in TV series though so I'm definitely sticking with it.
To say it seems like a big budget, the locations and sets are pretty awesome though; they definitely went to town there. To be fair, the whole mise en scene is pretty special and you can't tell that it was filmed in the early 2010's at all! I like how the style of each family changes too. You can look at a character and put them straight into which family they belong to.
It's pretty cool to look at the behind the scenes photos. Having a degree in film I find it so interesting to look at and to see how much work goes on behind the camera, and I thought they'd use a lot more green screen/use it in different places. It makes you appreciate what the actors and post production team have to do.
I still feel like I'm in the early stages and there's a lot more to learn about the story. There's a lot to keep up with and I was painting my nails while watching it the other day and I feel like I missed some stuff. I'm excited to catch up with the series, I've heard a few things so I want to see how it plans out (and be able to get excited with everyone in the office on a Monday).
I was worried it was going to be too much 'swords and sandals' but it's so much more!
Definitely worth a watch if you like a good TV binge.
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