We signed up for HBO the other day. We saw that HBO GO was going to be available in the next ten days and plan to use that to catch up on Boardwalk Empire and Big Love, but in the interim have decided to watch Game of Thrones.
I have never read the book series the show is based on and am not a big fan of that type of book genre though there is a huge segment of folks who do. Still HBO has put much money into the show and they usually do things correctly so today I watched the first episode.
Never having read any of the books I have come into this blind and have come away from the first episode--very impressed. In the first episode we meet Ned Stark who protects the Kingdom of the North- Winterfell. Strange happenings are about...white walkers are seen, The Kings man, a right hand sort of figure has been killed and the King is traveling to ask Stark to replace him. Across the river in another kingdom a prince is seeking to weld an alliance with a group of savages by offering his sister for their leader.
Intrigue continues in Winterfell when the Kings Wife and her twin brother seem to have a very close relationship which leads to misfortune for Ned Stark's youngest son. All of this in the first episode.
More nudity than I think necceary but the show itself offers much promise and I am very looking forward to future episodes
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