I still haven't started the show.
I don't want to start the show until I get into further into the books, like, at least through book three.
That said, all the anti-popular nerds are cracking me up with their distaste.
If you boil down ANY TV show, or any epic, it's a fairly fundamental and, when stripped of character, utterly boring.
How many of you who rag on GoT were drooling over the BSG remake? Okay, you might have grown annoyed with season 3 and the ending, but aside from that, the basic serialized style is incredibly similar at the fundamental story-telling level.
It was a space-opera, for crying out load. AKA a sci-fi soap. GoT is a fantasy/epic soap.
More fundamentally, it reads/plays out a hell of a lot like a dramatization of Medieval Europe. If that is something you can't handle, what with all the back-stabbing, plotting, and whoring (and incest), then it quite likely will not be a show you'll enjoy.
And for the guy who said the books were poorly written and the characters two-dimensional.... LMAO. Go back to your Young Adult literature if you want your overly-emotional and plainly-written characters that only appear to have depth. Just because things are spelled out does not give them depth.
It sometimes takes a little intelligence to actually understand the characters and what drives their motivations and plots.
I have gotten not even 100 pages into the first book (since moving from a security/guard shack job, where I read more than exerted effort, I've rarely found the conviction to read... damn internet addictions and modern age and instant everything).
I didn't get the ebook THAT long ago, and keep thinking of it so I'll pick it up again. I was liking it, but thought the pace was boring.
I accept that, usually.
I mean, I love most of what I've read from Neal Stephenson, and talk about a man who loves who drone on forever before getting something going. I'm not really sure anything every really "got going" with the System of the World books - I gave up on the second 1000 page compilation book. His other equally-as-long books I ended up loving, they just needed a good stretch o' the legs before kicking it into gear.
I digress. In the end, sure, I've only read a little of the first book, which is generally the driest when it comes to plots and weakest in character development when it marks the start of a multi-volume epic (and even in the case of simply long stand-alone novels, as described above).
