06-13-2011, 09:25 PM
Knowing "A Song of Ice and Fire" ( the George RR Martin series of which "Game of Thrones" is the first book ) I'm surprised that HBO would take on such a series ..... the Ned Stark character will be far from the last main character to bite the dust... over the course of the books there is a hardly a last man standing, new characters coming in from the wings to replace the original cast of characters that end up dieing vile and grisly deaths.
As far as Sean Bean being the face of the series as Ned Stark, I feel that HBO used him to create interest in a show with a cast of the UK's "B" listers with the hope of getting a core audience... My thought is, how many people will watch a show from season to season where the main character dies at the end of each season.... Soon enough Games of Thrones will be like trying to watch a series best described as the "Reservoir Dogs" meets "Willow"
Personally, I don't see this HBO original surviving Season 2 ..... The pending deaths of the main cast will create more characters in the graveyard than will be on the stage....
As far as Sean Bean being the face of the series as Ned Stark, I feel that HBO used him to create interest in a show with a cast of the UK's "B" listers with the hope of getting a core audience... My thought is, how many people will watch a show from season to season where the main character dies at the end of each season.... Soon enough Games of Thrones will be like trying to watch a series best described as the "Reservoir Dogs" meets "Willow"
Personally, I don't see this HBO original surviving Season 2 ..... The pending deaths of the main cast will create more characters in the graveyard than will be on the stage....