Just so you all know, I watch the Game of Thrones.

[LanternWaste]

48. I finally watched seasons I & II about a month ago.

So many of my friends were going on and on about it (more specifically, the books, but the series too) that I caved and bought seasons I & II and spent a few Saturday mornings watching them. Also, I think Sean Bean is a wonderfully minimalist actor (check him out in the Sharpe's War television series in which he plays a Napoleonic-era British soldier raised from the ranks to officer status)


Maybe, like Lord of the Rings, one has to first read the literature to find the broader appeal in the film because to be perfectly honest, I'm not enthralled with GoT. It's certainly not bad-- I don't feel as though I wasted the money picking up the set, but my appetite was whetted by Band of Brothers and Rome-- two of the best series I've ever seen and also produced in part by HBO; and I was expecting that same... ambiance which I didn't find.

I'll say this-- the last two episodes of season two *were* what I was expecting, and if season III is more like those two episodes, I will indeed be hooked.