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hian

So, in April, the first season, I.E The entire first book "A Game of Thrones"(of, hopefully, many more) in the "dramafication" of George R.R Martin's series, The Song of Ice and Fire, is due to air, and I'm stoked.

Finally som quality fantasy for the screen that is being properly handled, made in a format that doesn't force the creaters to jump through to many loops in order to keep most(if not all) of the substance.
So far, it's looking pretty good too.

For those who don't know:
A Song of Ice and Fire, is one of the bestselling, and most critically acclaimed works of fantasy there is(also probably one the best written if truth be told).
It's also one of the more harder, grittier, more "realistic" works of fantasy, so don't expect to see too much magic, elves and orcs, and so forth. Rather, be prepared for a tale filled with violence, rape, poverty, incest, depression and some pretty epic story-twists in a medieval/dark-ages setting.

Did I mention it's being made by HBO? Yeah, well, I'll mention it again.
Oh. and Sean Bean ftw.

Here's some teasers:

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And here's a lengthy video "behind the scenes":

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So any other fans(or would be-fans) here?

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k3lster

Cough cough. Did you remember to uncheck Automatically Parse Links?

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hian

Already did it. Didn't expect people to comment on it within the 2 minutes it took me to set it right though.

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tiger1526

OMG! i cant wait, ive been waiting for a good fantasy tv series for ever. and its by hbo, hbo always does amazing shows imo.'

ive never read the books, but do they have a lot of sex/violence? or if its only a single book then does it have a lot of sex/violence?

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k3lster

I think this answers your question tiger! Sort of.. But IIRC, the book did have quite a number of wordsex part.

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hian

So far 4 pretty lengthy books have been release. The series is estimated to total at about 7 books according to the author.

And yes, it's pretty violent and sexual - Not that I'd advise people to read it for that part of it. Most of the sex is disgusting to be honest, reflecting the nature of time periods like that, with incest and what we today would call pedophilia.
So if you're looking for the romantic/erotic high-fantasy sex, you're not going to get it =P

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tiger1526

ah, skipped over that entire part, i was on my evo when i read the thread


im totally fine with that, the one thing hbo does right is they rarely "class" the adult parts up. they usually show it how it should be.

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hian

^Yeah which is why I'm looking forward to it.

When the Sword of Truth adaptation was made, the producers totally raped it, and removed any and all adult themes in that could possibly be considered controversial, and thus also destroyed the entire theme and seriousness of the series. It was degraded into a newer version of Sinbad the Sailor/Xena.

I'm pretty confident this won't the case here.

I'm just really happy we're finally getting some serious fantasy, made by some serious people.

EDIT: Also, I'd recommend you grab the books as well(goes without saying though).

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Testeagle

Will definitely be checking this out.

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shadowsworn

now if only he'd finish that fifth book

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