GoT, and being pleasantly surprised

[jencat]

 I  have to say, HBO have done it again... I was seriously unconvinced about whether Game of Thrones would actually be worthy of the staggering amount of hype piled upon it - not least because I've tried to read A Song of Ice and Fire about a dozen times over the past few years, and quit every single time.  Mostly because it was so freakin' depressing, and kept making me miserable (oh, the sheer scale of the slaughter.....!).

But it was kinda fun catching all the build-up.. the pic releases looking rather sumptuous, and then - dear god, the actual adverts for an actual fantasy show! Everywhere! (you have to take what you can get in the epic fantasy ghetto)

 

And I was getting  a little hyped watching the premier (bitching about Catelyn, who has since grown on me, and Sansa, who really has not. But that's kinda the point.).  And, knowing at least what was to come for the first... two eps I think.

 

And, of course, that's why I sat there watching the finale with a silly grin plastered on, chanting 'Dany got dragons!!'  Because it kinda rocked...