A Game of Thrones

My husband and I just finished a marathon of Season One of HBO's impeccable adaptation of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones. We were literally up until 4am this morning, watching all ten episodes and would've probably powered through ten more if there'd been additional episodes! 

I read the book A Game of Thrones (A Song of Fire & Ice, Book 1) about a year ago now and I absolutely loved it. The characters and the intrigue presented in the novel were so lush and amazing that I didn't want to put it down. That translated so perfectly to the screen I was astounded.

The casting was spot-on. Peter Dinklage, in particular, is a standout to me as Tyrion Lannister. Tyrion was my undisputed favorite character in the book (with Arya Stark as my second favorite and her father Eddard close behind) and Peter knocked his performance out of the park!

Sean Bean was a fantastic choice for Lord Stark. I was highly pleased to see that not only had he kept his Lord of the Rings sword skills, but he seems to have improved on them. 

Lena Headey was beautifully evil as Cercei and the casting of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as the handsome but wicked Jaime Lannister was a coup as well. Sophie Turner turned in a great performance as Sansa, maintaining the level of foolish naivete that had me wanting to crawl into the book and smack the crap out of her in the novel. And then there was young Jack Gleeson who was perfectly horrible (in a good way, in terms of acting) as Joffrey.

I could easily go on about the book and the series for hours, and there will, no doubt, be some lively discussions in the Reasby household… particularly as my husband has okay'd us picking up books two and three for our kindles to hold us over until the next season comes out on dvd!

HBO has another winner on its hands and I can't wait to see what happens next!