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<blockquote data-quote="AnotherGuy" data-source="post: 8901883" data-attributes="member: 7029930"><p>So as always I'm late to any series - I just want to add (I suspect) to the appreciation of the show.</p><p>Most importantly besides all the other great casting, spectacular performances, writing, special effects, directing and what not, my ABSOLUTE favourite is Paddy Considene so I was REALLY happy to see the below excerpt of an article (dated 7 September 2022) about him in this show. It articulates far better than I would how amazing he is in this.</p><p></p><p></p><p><em><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"><span style="font-size: 18px">“In some ways, I think they’ve made some improvements. I’m particularly thinking of Paddy Considine’s portrayal of King Viserys,” he (GRRM) told the podcast Game of Owns.</span></span></em></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>“Viserys, when I wrote Fire and Blood, was I guess not a character who particularly engaged me. I saw him as … I kind of liked him, but what Paddy Considine has done has, to my mind, made him much more of a tragic figure and less of an amiable guy who doesn’t really realise what’s going on around him.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>“This is not the first time this has happened to me with adaptations. Sometimes you get an actor, director or screenwriter who changes your stuff in a way you like. You kind of wish you could go back and do that version.”</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>A month earlier, Martin wrote something similar on his personal blog, saying he was “hugely impressed” by the show’s version of Viserys, and Considine had given the character a “tragic majesty that my book Viserys never quite achieved”.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>The Viserys originally crafted by Martin is a bare bones version of what we see on screen. He’s a personification of the idea, which pops up several times in Martin’s literature, that a good person is not necessarily a good ruler.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>Viserys is a conflict-averse, indecisive people pleaser. He isn’t evil like Joffrey or ruthless like Cersei, but in the wrong circumstances, his haplessness can do just as much damage.</em></span></span></p><p></p><p><em><span style="color: rgb(41, 105, 176)"><span style="font-size: 18px">The show has taken that outline of a character and added an astonishing amount of depth, turning a person who readers of the book may have expected to be forgettable into someone equal parts maddening and sympathetic.</span></span></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnotherGuy, post: 8901883, member: 7029930"] So as always I'm late to any series - I just want to add (I suspect) to the appreciation of the show. Most importantly besides all the other great casting, spectacular performances, writing, special effects, directing and what not, my ABSOLUTE favourite is Paddy Considene so I was REALLY happy to see the below excerpt of an article (dated 7 September 2022) about him in this show. It articulates far better than I would how amazing he is in this. [I][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)][SIZE=5]“In some ways, I think they’ve made some improvements. I’m particularly thinking of Paddy Considine’s portrayal of King Viserys,” he (GRRM) told the podcast Game of Owns.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/I] [COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)][SIZE=5][I]“Viserys, when I wrote Fire and Blood, was I guess not a character who particularly engaged me. I saw him as … I kind of liked him, but what Paddy Considine has done has, to my mind, made him much more of a tragic figure and less of an amiable guy who doesn’t really realise what’s going on around him. “This is not the first time this has happened to me with adaptations. Sometimes you get an actor, director or screenwriter who changes your stuff in a way you like. You kind of wish you could go back and do that version.” A month earlier, Martin wrote something similar on his personal blog, saying he was “hugely impressed” by the show’s version of Viserys, and Considine had given the character a “tragic majesty that my book Viserys never quite achieved”. The Viserys originally crafted by Martin is a bare bones version of what we see on screen. He’s a personification of the idea, which pops up several times in Martin’s literature, that a good person is not necessarily a good ruler. Viserys is a conflict-averse, indecisive people pleaser. He isn’t evil like Joffrey or ruthless like Cersei, but in the wrong circumstances, his haplessness can do just as much damage.[/I][/SIZE][/COLOR] [I][COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)][SIZE=5]The show has taken that outline of a character and added an astonishing amount of depth, turning a person who readers of the book may have expected to be forgettable into someone equal parts maddening and sympathetic.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/I] [/QUOTE]
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