Game of Thrones is what I call a slow burn story. It is taking its time and slowly building up to the action. I haven't read the books so I don't know what is coming, but I am enjoying the suspense and how things are slowly coming to a boil.

It is hard to compare it to LOTR for a lot of reasons, but one of the main ones is that they don't have 300 million dollars to make this so they have to cut some corners somewhere.

For me the story is like putting together pieces of a puzzle so I can see how some people may not like that and could have trouble getting into it.

My only qualm with "Thrones" is at times I do feel like I better read the books to figure out what is going on because the dialog involves discussions of things that are presented as almost random asides about deep histories of things that haven't been established in any way, (kind of like that crazy voice over narration recounting 25% of the plot in the space of a minute or so in the movie version of "Dune")the back stories are rich and hard to keep up with as a result, like names of people or events that obviously will have great bearing on future actions, so I find myself asking someone that has read the books tons of questions. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing because it does seem to unfold more and more of those plot details through on screen action.

I sometimes feel the same. I have been wanting to read the books for a while, but I want to make sure he actually finishes the series before I start it. When he releases the last book in the series I will start reading it for sure.

The first book, if I remember correctly, doesn't go into deep background info either.. All that sort of stuff dribbles out over time.. Keeps you wanting to read more...

I think one of the problems some people have with the show is all the sub plot intrigues that are going on.. All of it comes out slowly over time.

The scene where Starks son gets thrown out the tower window by the queens brother cause he saw them fucking may have seemed a bit overblown, the sex part just for "shock"... But given this last episode, a bunch of things should have fallen into place for people... i.e. why the murdered Hand was tracking down all the Kings bastards, reading thru the book of ancestry, and of course why he was murdered.

Good luck with that... He's notorious for taking forever to get the next book out.

I like it, just wish the title credits weren't so fucking long!

Yeah that seems to be the case. I remember him posting on his website about a year ago that he was almost done with book five which at the time he thought would be the last one. Then a few months later he posted that it was around 3,000 pages long so he was splitting it into two books. Now many months later five is about to come out and supposedly he will be writing two more to finish the series off. HBO has said that they would love to do all the books in the series so maybe this will light a fire under him.

Still, I would rather wait and have them be good then have them rushed, I just worry that he will never finish it like that Robert Jordan guy.

This show must be awesome if you're 18 - 20 years old.

I didn't check before I started the series, and talk about being pissed when I found out it wasn't done. I re read the whole series last month, so I'm back up to speed when the new novel comes out.

There is a lot being left out from the book to the mini series. While still good, the books as always, are better.

Said out of total ignorance.

not fan of sean bean..reminds me of boromir too much..one does not simply star in another movie with the "same" look!

One does when he needs a paycheck :)

A friend of mine was the same way. He got the first book, loved it, got the second book and couldn't stop raving about it. So I check amazon to see how many there would be. He, like you finished the four that were out and assumed the fifth (which he thought would be the last) would be out soon. Three years later it comes out and we find out there will be at least one more and maybe two. He is re-reading it all now because it is so complex from what I hear that you need to get a refresher.

I bet that was the selling point for the mini series, the twists and turns of every plot, and sub plot. Unfortunately, the nuances of the book does not translate fully to the small screen. I mean Rob is 16, John is 15, the dire wolves being left out, and so many other things, small but important. I'm looking forward to the big battles, to see how they bring it to life. Tyrion on the other hand, is perfect due to the actor.