I have been meaning to read this epic series A Song of Ice and Fire written by the great master storyweaver, George R.R. Martin. I even bought the art book. Unfortunately, I have to blame Tolkien for lost reading time. It actually took me ages to finish half of the Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring. I could not get my brain around the name of the places and characters plus the Elvish language. He threw a couple of poems and songs in there too which did not help my flailing interest. By the time I reached Misty Mountain, my brain battery went dead. I eventually gave up reading the book and decided to watch the movie instead. I kind of knew that if I could not hack Tolkien, it would be difficult for me to hack G.R.R. MArtin so I conceded. I decided to be content with the Song of Ice and Fire artbook and just peruse the beautiful illustrations.
Last year, there were rumours about G.R.R. MArtin’s novel being made into a tv series under HBO. It turned out to be true. It was named the Game of Thrones, which is the title of the first book. I saw the first episode and it was really good. It can be challenging to follow especially for someone like me who never read the fantasy saga. Just like JRR Tolkien, there were a lot of Characters and Houses ( i can only do four like in Harry Potter..ahaha!)
Armed with my artbook and my Game of Thrones Twitter Apps (Yes Virginia, it is available and I have two..lol), I watched the first episode and immersed myself in the land of Westeros filled with people being decapitated, names that were hard to pronounced or remember and some incestous love here and there.
All in all, it is a tv series worth watching and I survived the onslaught of unfamiliar names of the characters. There were probable minor changes from the original story but that happens all the time for cinematic purposes. This I can say, some of the scenes from the first episode resembled the pictures from my artbook 🙂
Check out the preview if you haven’t yet. Follow @GameofThrones on Twitter for news and upcoming episodes and let the winter begins….
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