A Game of Thrones: Books / TV series

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Scoobes said:

WereKitten said:

Zlejedi said:

You could say that whole book is already almost custom made for episodic content with all the cliff hangers beetween chapters and jumps to other characters.

I'd have thought that what works in the books (characters abandoned in a limbo for hundreds of pages at a time) would be hard to translate in weekly episodes without losing the spectator along the way.

But maybe I have a skewed impression of the books' pacing because I read the lot of them front to back in an intensive fourteen days or so, thus I can't really imagine the same content of a single book paced over many weeks. I'll refresh my memory as soon as the next installment finally arrives.

I don't think it'd be that bad, especially for HBO who aren't so concerned with each episode being watchable as a standalone. Pretty much all my fears were sated when I read the pilot ends with the line "The things I do for love!"

Well it's a 12 show season covering a book with 30-odd chapters, there's got to be some collapsing of chapters, and probably having 2 or perhaps 3 character POVs per episode. Probably meaning only a one week hiatus between seeing a particular character's POV. Then there's the "Previously on..." 2 minute lead in to each episode trick.

I'll have to check out this Malazan thing, see what all the fuss is about. I wasn't too impressed with the inside cover description of the story though. Reading JV Jones Sword of Shadows series at present, it's aiight but nothing brilliant.