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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9614902" data-attributes="member: 18">GoT is very "heavily inspired" by a number of sources, and tends to er... borrow... things from them with less alteration than you'd expect. Dune is absolutely one of those sources. I mean, credit where its due, at least GoT is inspired by so much different stuff that it ends up having its own thing going on rather than being purely derivative, but the Aiel are really pretty directly a borrowing of the Fremen.So far 3 episodes in I really like this season.The acting is again more confident and competent (just as S2 was from S1), and not just from the main characters (though particularly obviously there).An awful lot of the characters have really good and believable chemistry. This is partly skill on the actors, partly good casting, partly sensible writing, but it's also definitely significantly down to the showrunner making sure everything and everyone works well together.The budget is obviously pretty tiny compared to say, the giant waste of money that is Rings of Power, but they're coming up with frankly good uses of it, that make it kind of look like an ultra-high-budget BBC show (complimentary).The magic and fighting in general feels pretty brutal and real and also makes sense, like, the moment that spear got picked up, you knew both where it was going to be aimed, and what those Warders were going to do about it (RIP).I'm surprised at how good the fantasy landscapes and towns look. They're not perfect, but they're a lot better than I'd expect, and they don't have that "generic videogame" vibe that Rings of Power kind of does.Minor point but it continues to be very diverse without feeling like it's maybe forcing it a bit as some shows do - WoT's setting helps here of course, it's inherently less "Western" than a lot of fantasy - I also appreciated that we're able to have a little person just be one of the badguys (i.e. past both the bigoted "bad because different" or "saint because different" eras).Really? I'm not seeing that myself. Maybe I'm judging on a curve having watched other fantasy shows (including GoT and HotD, and god help us, RoP) and anime, but this strikes me as less wheel-spinning than I'm used to in a fantasy show (or indeed a lot of SF ones).</blockquote>

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