TV TEASER: HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’

COMMENTS (15)

• The show looks phenomenal.

  Comment by Jack — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 11:53am PST  Reply to this post

• uhmmm…….WOW!!! THE WAIT SEEMS NOW LIKE IT’S BEEN WORTH EVERY MINUTE!!!

  Comment by raygunner — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 12:21pm PST  Reply to this post

• I haven’t read the novels, so without spoiling anything, could someone tells me why birds and their wings are so prominent in the promos?

  Comment by tazmaniak — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 12:21pm PST  Reply to this post

• Nerd fest.

  Comment by jl — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 12:34pm PST  Reply to this post

• The dark birds and their wings represent dark omens. Something bad is coming.

  Comment by Veelo2 — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 12:39pm PST  Reply to this post

• Tazmaniak,

  I read the pilot a,d I won’t spoil anything – because I have no idea. The symbol of the raven is used in the credits, but that’s about it. Curious to see how it develops.

  Comment by chris — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 12:41pm PST  Reply to this post

• Tazmaniak: Ravens are used in the books to carry messages from castle to castle; since they’re a finite commodity and can’t carry much more than a tiny scrap of parchment they only get sent out when there’s serious news. There’s a proverb someone quotes in one of the novels: “Dark wings, dark words”.

  Also, close-ups of ravens look creepy and ominous, which is the tone they were going for in the promo. And it breaks the flow up between shots of the various actors.

  Comment by Tim Lehnerer — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 12:50pm PST  Reply to this post

• Lord of the Borings

  Comment by Bob — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 1:01pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Sounds like someone is Lord of the Jealous

    Comment by youwish — Tuesday January 18, 2011 @ 9:59am PST  Reply to this post

• I thought HBO was trying to get back the audience it’s lost to AMC and Showtime. Instead, this looks like they’re trying to look like Starz.

  Comment by Wow! — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 1:02pm PST  Reply to this post

  • The critics loved what they saw of the pilot.

    Comment by Jack — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 1:10pm PST  Reply to this post

• Looks awesome. The books are phenomenal; hopefully the series will be just as appealing to the general audience as it is to fans of the books the series is based on. This has the potential to be a really big hit.

  I do think it’s interesting that Starz is premiering Spartacus in the same month as Game of Thrones. Both are fantasy series. Both filmed at least partly in Ireland. Honestly, I’m hoping both do really well because there aren’t enough -good- fantasy series.

  Comment by SK — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 5:50pm PST  Reply to this post

  • You mean Camelot.

    Comment by AIM FOR THE BUSHES — Tuesday January 18, 2011 @ 1:42am PST  Reply to this post

• The books are the best fantasy series out there. They are also the best books of any genre as well, imho.

  It’s great to see an original fantasy/historical series not based on Spartacus or King Arthur.

  Comment by mcguffin1899 — Tuesday January 18, 2011 @ 3:23am PST  Reply to this post

• The first three books of the series are great. The 4th book was a complete drag and I couldn’t finish it. The 5th book has been in the writing process for over 10 years (keeping in mind that the 4th and 5th books were originally one book before they were supposedly split into two volumes.)

  I wish the best for the show but I still have a feeling that some HBO executive is finally going to wake up and realize that this series doesn’t have an ending. If the ratings don’t come in high enough, that fact alone will be enough to cancel the show regardless of the outcry from the fans.

  “Even though the show has received high praise from the critics, it has unfortunately not found a large enough audience to justify the budget. Also given that the series doesn’t currently have an end in sight, we have made the difficult decision to move forward without renewing the show for a second season.” -or something to that effect.

  Comment by Fleshharrower — Wednesday February 23, 2011 @ 7:37am PST  Reply to this post