The First Fourteen
Exactly two weeks away from the seminal first episode of Game of Thrones, HBO allowed its viewing audience a sneak peek into the fantastic first fourteen minutes of episode one, titled appropriately enough, “Winter Is Coming.” Folks in the EST got to see it just a bit before folks in other parts of the country (and the world), but thanks to HBO’s Making Game of Thrones site, we snagged it up soon after.
In it, we see our beloved story, lovingly crafted and beautifully wrought, with—
Oh, bugger the words. Here:
Fire And Blood: Only the hardest of hard-line ASoIaF fans could possibly find fault in some of the changes that were made. I hold the novels as a separate entity, however, and other people find that harder to do. In the case of added scenes that weren’t in the book, I see those as pieces of a “director’s cut” of GRRM’s work; scenes that could have happened but simply weren’t seen by any of the PoV’s we were given.
This is brilliant stuff. I can’t freaking wait for the rest.
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