User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/My hopes for Howard Overman's writing on his new show/@comment-4623180-20130219033406/@comment-5659316-20130219182617

@Dryuu: Oh, Game of thrones! I wanted to see that! I realize seasons one and two are over, but I've never seen a single episode as of yet. I have however read the first book and liked parts of it very much (I found it a bit too graphic and I wasn't fond of the f-bombs it got into the habit of dropping, but the story itself was very, very good, in a sad, brutal way); my favorite character POVs were Sansa's and Arya's, though I enjoyed that dwarf what's his name and Jon Snow's POVs a lot, too. Oh, and Dany's... I liked her character, too.

Anyway, after reading the book, I was going to buy the first season on dvd when it came out, since I didn't/don't get HBO, but as the ending chapters of the book were very graphic (or rather, I should say the chapters LEADING UP TO the end, as I didn't actually mind the ending itself) and then my friend who saw the show was telling me it was even MORE graphic than the novel so I was wary to spend a lot of money on something I figured I'd have to fast-foward and mute at least half the time, however much I wanted to see it. It was around that same time I got into Merlin, so I just wound up buying seasons 1 and 2 of that instead, since I already knew -from watching it on youtube- that I liked it and didn't have any unpleasant surprises waiting for me under the pretty packaging.

I'm very slow to buy something I haven't seen (I've made exceptions, like Katie Mcgrath's movie A princess for Christmas, which I'm pleased I bought since I really ended up liking it, but in that case it wasn't a fifty dollar purchase; it was ten bucks at walmart, so...); I wouldn't even buy Robin Hood season 1 (which I knew was fairly family friendly, at least to the extent that Merlin was, at any rate)  on dvd for the longest time, till I'd found it half price, since I hadn't seen -at the time- past the first two episodes.

In fact, that's the reason I haven't seen Starz' Camelot yet, even though I LOVE Arthurian legend. I don't want to buy an expensive dvd set when I've never seen the show...

So I'm waiting on a chance for Game of Thrones to be availble used or something at half price; then I'll probably get to see it.

@ Gwaine lka lake cenred: I agree that if Howard Overman writes like he wrote for Herald or Death song, it will be a load of rubbish, but I honestly think he can make a come back to his better, older writing, if he really wants to and realizes his horrid mistake(s).