tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4505812700967330296.post1729040236055339912..comments2023-10-30T11:46:43.284+00:00Comments on Musings of the Cosmic Calamari: Game Over, Man, Game Over!SpaceSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09760939592584995876noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4505812700967330296.post-16350390382935695602011-06-16T19:48:59.364+01:002011-06-16T19:48:59.364+01:00I too felt a little bit cheated by lack of WAR! Bu...I too felt a little bit cheated by lack of WAR! But if the loss of seeing those two battles is what the cost was of making the rest of the series spot on then all I can say is, I pay it gladly. <br /><br />Sure it would have been nice to see, but no part of it was actually important beyond it happening. So if it was for budget reasons, my hat is off to the producers for picking substance over style.Dan Edmundshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419304749760959902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4505812700967330296.post-68394406854177016532011-06-14T22:57:48.444+01:002011-06-14T22:57:48.444+01:00Nice point about the pigeon :) Certainly a better ...Nice point about the pigeon :) Certainly a better metaphorical use of the Columbidae family by Benioff and Weiss than by <i>fucking Ron Moore</i>.<br /><br />I know what you mean about the Battle of the Green Fork, it was disappointing (although one wonders how on Westeros they would have fitted all the other incidents needed into the episode had they had an extended battle sequence). However, I'm not sure it was solely a decision based upon the twin time/money factors. A suggestion from Ran's review over at westeros.org (http://www.westeros.org/GoT/Episodes/Entry/Baelor/Book_Spoilers/) is that Peter Dinklage, around whose character the scene in the book revolves, simply isn't as suited to fighting as his fictional counterpart. However, that being the case, it doesn't mean that they couldn't show the battle at all, the omniscient camera perspective having a wider scope than that of the book's individual chapters. Still, I will be interested to read the interview with the show's VFX producers that is promised in the review.<br /><br />One of the things I was surprised about, which I thought was a strange choice, was the altering of Robb's plan, so that the force left behind at the Twins was not still the greater part of his forces (just the majority of his cavalry heading towards the Whispering Wood), but this time a much smaller force. I'm getting worried about how exactly they'll introduce Roose Bolton in the second season (as introduce him they must...) if the forces he has commanded are essentially massacred now. <br /><br />I agree absolutely that they are going to have to properly show some war at some point; that point at the very latest better be Blackwater, as that takes up almost an episode's worth of chapters by itself! (6 chapters, out of a total of 70.) Heaven knows how they'll be able to depict that well, especially with Martin going crazy on the screenplay.Jamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15210812771765182815noreply@blogger.com