Game of Thrones (spoilers)

[OumaFan]

alright, so I finally watched it. I'm glad they did what they should have done with Ned. It had to be done for the story.

But they are skimping things battle wise. Martin has a habit of having major moments be off screen but this was taking it to extremes. Don't want to be the book guy but Tyrion was involved in the fight and they knocked him out early in order to not have to portray the battle. The fight with Jaime was also ignored.

Its all about money I assume. The reason Rome was cancelled was primarily because of the huge budget so they're trying to avoid that by not having large-scale battles on screen. Its understandable I guess, but a bit disappointing.

its similar to them ignoring the direwolves. They're supposed to be huge so they don't know how to portray them. The only answer is CGI, and they're reluctant to do that so they've decided to cut them out to some extent

Still a great episode. TV is an inferior medium for a story like this but they've done well so far.