Post by whitewolfstark on Mar 1, 2017 18:30:36 GMT
And of course changing who argues what in that scene so that Ned's internal conflict is externalized for the audience... a change I'm not too upset about.
Post by silentmajority on Mar 3, 2017 13:23:59 GMT
Even after 6 seasons the opening shot of the Wall is still impressive. I imagine that for people who had been reading the series and imagining the Wall since the 90’s that it must have caused countless nerdgasms when they saw three NightWatch members trotting out from underneath of it. In a way opening the show up like this was kind of ballsy because the prologue is a blend of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, which really is the exact opposite of the rest of season 1 which is mostly a medieval politicking power struggle.
What I like about this episode is the subtle world building they do for people who are being introduced to Westeros for the first time. A conversation between Will and Royce sums up the Nights Watch in a nutshell. Royce tells Will after finding the dismembered corpses that if he’s scared he could run south of the Wall, but he’d be considered a deserter and would get his head whacked off, which isn’t as fun as getting whacked off. So right there we know that the Nights Watch is at the very least a military-style organization that doesn’t tolerate deserters.
We are also first introduced to the gray area that GRRM has strived for during the entire series. Royce thinks the Wildlings are barbarians who butchered the people that Will found, while Gared mentions how that is very unlike the Wildlings to randomly murder people.
Flash to the Starks and what a happy family they are and … It’s all downhill from there. That is the only shot of the series where life looks up after that scene it’s all death and destruction. Thanks Obama!
(I’ll comment more later)
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