HBO's [i]Game of Thrones[/i]: Debut likely in March/April 2011

[Blastin]

i'm sorry arya, i see through you, you homicidal psychopath!

lol!!

 

[Felon]

LOL....true...but will it even stay completely true to the books or go slightly off on its own like other tv-from-book shows?

It kinda has to go off-track, doesn't it? We're talking about huge sections of the novel allocated to kids that are 4 (Rickon), 6 (Bran), 8 (Sansa), 10 (Arya), and 13 (Daenerys) years old, right? Maybe I don't have all the ages right, but these kids are pretty horribly abused.

It's easy to look past in the novels, because you can visualize them as a little older. Take all of the preceding comments about Sansa and Arya, for instance. Go back and read them in the light of what you should rightfully expect from a little girl who, in our world, would still be playing with Barbie dolls. Sansa's gullible and naive you say? Arya thinks mean people should all die and doesn't think of herself as one you say? Well, what do you expect? They're just little girls.

 

[Fast Learner]

Spring of 2011? Oof. I thought I was being patient.

 

[Dausuul]

Excellent. Now GRRM will have a hard deadline. If the first season is 2011, that means he has to have book 5 out by 2015 at the latest.

 

[El Mahdi]

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[Felon]

I dunno, I think Martin realizes that the show can't last that long sticking true to his story. Remember Walt on Lost? Here we're going to have a half-dozen kids, any one of them primed for a massive growth spurt in-between 13-episode seasons. If they have any sense at all, they'll actually keep the show running parallel to real time, with six-month gaps in the story to correlate with the gaps between season finale and season premiere. To do that, they have to deviate from Martin's story well before Dances with Dragons.

Or maybe Martin hopes the show is such a runaway hit that it will just take over for the novels, so he'll basically have the ghost writer that he couldn't get away with otherwise. But one's thing seems pretty clear to me: Martin has lost too much interest in the series.

 

[hexgrid]

It kinda has to go off-track, doesn't it? We're talking about huge sections of the novel allocated to kids that are 4 (Rickon), 6 (Bran), 8 (Sansa), 10 (Arya), and 13 (Daenerys) years old, right? Maybe I don't have all the ages right, but these kids are pretty horribly abused.

It's easy to look past in the novels, because you can visualize them as a little older. Take all of the preceding comments about Sansa and Arya, for instance. Go back and read them in the light of what you should rightfully expect from a little girl who, in our world, would still be playing with Barbie dolls. Sansa's gullible and naive you say? Arya thinks mean people should all die and doesn't think of herself as one you say? Well, what do you expect? They're just little girls.

I think a bigger problem is that if they stick with the "one season per book" idea and don't change the timeline, the child actors will age out of their roles too quickly.

 

[Dausuul]

I think a bigger problem is that if they stick with the "one season per book" idea and don't change the timeline, the child actors will age out of their roles too quickly.

Would it really be all that difficult to tweak the timeline to make each book approximately one year?

 

[coyote6]

I believe GRRM said on his blog that the makers of the TV show were making most of the kids older, for the various good reasons mentioned.

Indeed, I'm pretty sure GRRM said he now kind of wished he had made 'em older to start out.

 

[Remus Lupin]

There are plenty of things you just CAN'T portray from the books unless you make the children considerably older.