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\"Kings'<\/div>\n

Well, it’s gorgeous.<\/p>\n

Everything’s very handsomely art-directed and designed; the money (as they say) is on the screen where you can see it. Always a good sign. Though there’s no point in overstating the importance of the size of the budget. Our Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King,<\/em><\/a> for example, hour for hour, cost more ($24 million for four hours). What matters is what you do with the money.<\/p>\n

The point here is that the producers have plainly spent their budget carefully, and gotten good value for it — spending time and care on design, and in taking the cameras to places not so often used for shooting fantasy film. (P. and I immediately started analyzing what we saw to try to work out which scenes might have been shot in Northern Ireland.)<\/p>\n

As for the story, my main interest is in experiencing it without having any other background info except what’s been apparent from the months-long hype that’s preceded the first episode over here via Sky. (No, I haven’t read the books, even though George is an old buddy from way-back-when East Coast SF fandom. Much as I might like to have read all the books of all the writers I know, if I tried it I’d never get anything done around here. …But I’ll probably start reading George’s series after the miniseries is finished).<\/p>\n

So far it looks like fun. I think I’m seeing signs of things that are going to start happening: we’ll see if I’m right. This is where not<\/em> having read the books pays off. Now I can just kick back and have fun watching the plot unfold, while amusing myself with the eternally fascinating game of trying to second-guess a fellow writer and the people who adapted his books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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