HBO has not yet announced where or when they will begin production on Season 2 but the Belfast Telegram reports that Northern Ireland Screen is campaigning diligently to get HBO to return to Northern Ireland for production of Season 2. Reports indicate that filming of Season 1 injected over 20 million pounds into the local economy and created more than 800 local jobs.
Reviews of the series have been mixed - with the vast majority of geekdom absolutely loving it, a slightly smaller set absolutely loving it but a bit disturbed by the harsh sex, multiple beheadings, and overall massive amounts of violence and nudity in the first episode alone. Those few reviewers (the NYT) that posted negative feelings about the first episode were harshly trounced on Twitter and the blogosphere shortly thereafter.
circumstances dictate that I'm going to wait and see the episodes on DVD when they come out - but I did find some of the reported deviations from the book curious. I'm told in episode 1 the Others cut the wildlings up and made a pattern with the parts. This doesn't make much sense when you consider (as in the book) the Others use the dead as wights for shock troops...
ReplyDeleteIt looked like they split the difference. They did make a pattern out of some body parts but there were some whole bodies pegged to trees as well - which later chase the deserter (can't remember his name) back to the wall.
ReplyDeleteThe deviations thus far that I noticed were extremely minor... overall, I'm impressed at how closely it's following the book so far.