The NY Times review

[The Imp]

I think I'll be able to talk her into watching it on Demand. She has to be at the thesis performance of one of her students at 7 PM

At 2 minutes of 9 she announced that she was going to watch it with me. I was kind of shocked, but delighted. She enjoyed it enough to say she MIGHT watch it again next week. She was able to follow along pretty well, but there were many points where i had to explain what was going on, who was who (during dialog pauses/breaks). She instantly figured out that Illyrio is a slimebag, which i thought was neat. She didn't like most of the male characters, which at this point is understandable.

I rate the pilot as a B+. I think it can get better, and will.

 

[TK-421]

I don't need some Greenwich Village snob telling me what I should like or not. Good thing you have to pay for the Times online now. Fewer people to read this drivel.

My wife watched it and loved it.

 

[Connavar]

I dont even like GRRM series but i can never stand literary elitist.

Even in gaming forums i had to defend the ide of HBO doing a fantasy like all fantasy books,films,tv are terrible,trashy lit.

She is so full BS with the whole Mad Man analogy. Heck they spend too much billions on brain dead films like Transformer but an epic fantasy series tv money is too much?

 

[Needle]

At 2 minutes of 9 she announced that she was going to watch it with me. I was kind of shocked, but delighted. She enjoyed it enough to say she MIGHT watch it again next week. She was able to follow along pretty well, but there were many points where i had to explain what was going on, who was who (during dialog pauses/breaks). She instantly figured out that Illyrio is a slimebag, which i thought was neat. She didn't like most of the male characters, which at this point is understandable.

I rate the pilot as a B+. I think it can get better, and will.

Yeah! Mrs. Imp! Glad she decided to give it a try, her perceptions are right on too! Most of the men are not likable, the women have most of the good stuff here! to Ms. Bellafonte!

 

[The Imp]

Yeah! Mrs. Imp! Glad she decided to give it a try, her perceptions are right on too! Most of the men are not likable, the women have most of the good stuff here! to Ms. Bellafonte!

Most of the people that I've gotten hooked on ASOIAF have been women. I've always said that it's in part a story about empowering women. I think I'll start a new thread

 

[Chel]

That "review" said more about the reviewer than the series, and what it said about her was as negative as she tried to make the show out to be.

Now, I could do what she did and make all kinds of assumptions about her and anyone who gives her any credit, but then, that's what she did about the show, and I honestly have better things to do with my time than write drivel about things I know nothing about, and insert into said drivel some completely irrelevant buzzwords.

One of those better things is check that I've still got all the girly parts, as apparently I'm not really a woman if I read this kind of books or enjoy the TV-shows based on them.

...I wonder what that makes J.K. Rowling?

 

[Tansy]

Oh dear, I think she just tuned into the sex scenes lol says more about her in my book, I'm a woman and I will take ASOIAF over Sex and the City any day

I think the show is going to need viewers that can concentrate for more than 5 minutes at a time and can remember story lines and characters without being reminded what just happened in the last 5 mins and what is coming up in the next 5 mins every ad break The reviewer obviously can't

 

[The Imp]

Oh dear, I think she just tuned into the sex scenes lol says more about her in my book, I'm a woman and I will take ASOIAF over Sex and the City any day

I think the show is going to need viewers that can concentrate for more than 5 minutes at a time and can remember story lines and characters without being reminded what just happened in the last 5 mins and what is coming up in the next 5 mins every ad break The reviewer obviously can't

I was just saying to my wife that this is not a show for the "lazy" or those who don't want to be challenged intellectually. you're not going to be able to play World of Warcraft and have GOT on in the background and expect to be able to keep up, unless you already have read the books.

The series will suffer from the same problem the books do. IMO, AGOT is a difficult book to get going on becuase of the complexity of the pltlines and just the sheer number of people, places and things you have to remember. After a while you get it, but it can be tough going at first. GOT will lose people for the same reasons. it can't be helped. The big problem with this reviwer is her disingeniousness, not her likes or dislikes.