Game Of Thrones After watching the fourth episode of 'Game of Thrones,' I won't lie to you, I was feeling downcast. As I indicated in my reviews of episodes 2, 3 and 4, and as I indicated in my overall review of the first six episodes, I saw problems in this adaptation, despite a strong cast, frequently handsome settings and excellent source material.Here's where things stand now: Episodes 5 through 9 have gained in strength week to week; each hour has been better than the last. It may not surprise you to learn that the ending of 'Baelor' left tears in my eyes.There's one big question that faced this TV series from the start: make it? Sure, it was always an exciting idea, but we have a series of books.
R.R. Martin's 'Song of Ice and Fire' epic, which begins with 'A Game of Thrones' -- that puts us deeply inside the psychological, political and moral dilemmas of a host of well-drawn characters. Martin's novels do many things well -- we know that. Could the TV show do those things as well? Or even betterAround the middle of the season, the show began to do things more or less as well as the books had done them. But by this point, we've seen several instances of the show asserting its right to exist by doing some things even more effectively than the novel did.
By shaping the material more aggressively in thematic, visual and character-driven ways, these final hours of the season have made the story come alive in the ways that I'd hoped it would. It's not that the show is better than the books, it's that, by now, this version of 'Game of Thrones' is able to more consistently take advantage of what a visual, live-action medium can do. It's given us ways into this world that are different, but no less powerful.
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