Game of Thrones TV Thread **HBO-Purists ONLY**

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Agree with Rilla; ASOIAF is more like Shogun or War and Peace than Lord of the Rings.

Martin has some absolutely incredible moments that LEAP off the page; I don't want to get any more specific than that, but he has serious skills as a writer. But after 4,000 pages or so, I lost my appetite for finishing the series and just want it to be over.

What the TV show has is absolutely incredible casting, the best I've ever seen for any show. Not in terms of sheer star power, but the opposite: getting every single character absolutely perfect. If, 20 years from now, someone else does this, can you envision anyone else playing Tyrion, or Ned Stark or Cersei?

Yeah, up to this point, there really hasn't been one miscast imo. Except maybe the second mountain. But that could just be the bias of having been introduced to the character through a different actor-- and even so, they were put in a tough spot, and didn't do all that poorly.

[BennyLaRue]

Yeah, up to this point, there really hasn't been one miscast imo.

Cat Stark

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Cat Stark

Elaborate.

[BennyLaRue]

Elaborate.

Her physical look, and her acting range, is pretty limited to "constantly bitchy and worried". Plus, even though irl she's younger than Sean Bean, she looks a lot older than him and way too old to be Mom to Robb et al.