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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5540218" data-attributes="member: 59506">I still can't get over how perfectly this has been cast.  And Peter Dinklage's Tyrion is just outstanding.  I just keep finding myself constantly commenting just how much this is "the book" come to life.  Simply amazing. I liked the attention to detail that's being put into the production also.  Like when Jon Snow, his Uncle, and Tyrion split at the crossroads to head north, you can see the mud on the riders cloaks. The show is dirty, gritty, and real - with no black/white characters (just like the books).  My wife, who hasn't read the books, is seriously digging it. So far, the small but necessary changes made to adapt a written narrative to a visual medium, have been mostly transparent to me.  Even the differences I've noticed haven't been jarring or ruined the experience for me, as they've seemed quite necessary and done in a natural, intuitive manner.  There's such incredible respect for the material and characters, and meticulous attention to detail, I just can't praise the team doing the show enough. As this progresses though, it's more apparent to me that there's no way they're going to get through the entire first book in this season.  I had assumed it was going to be one book per season, but I just don't see how that will be possible with what they are able to cover in an episode.  But that works for me.  I'd love to see this go on for years and years. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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