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I know this was already posted in the other thread, but this thread needs the love too.

So are they not going to use any of the book titles?

They might for episode titles, but the show is just 'Game of Thrones'.  From a marketing standpoint, changing the title is generally not wise, and accomplishes little except messing with brand recognition.  The only time you'd want to do that is if the image of your show was so poor that you're going to cancel it anyway (changing the name is sort of like cancelling the show, since people not very familiar with it might think the new title means a new show.  The problem is then you still have the same old show that people didn't like, plus anyone who's familiar with the show past a certain point easily sees through the ruse and your show becomes an even bigger joke.  I remember there was a comedy on Fox in the mid to late 90s that I kinda liked (one of their gags was the "self high-five") and they had a contest to pick the new name of the show, and I think they never aired another new episode.  The new title they picked was 'New York Daze', I think, but I don't remember the original title).  A show like 'Spartacus' used a subtitle (they changed the subtitle with the second season to help separate it from the first since the second season was a prequel season (I think)), and some fans wanted them to do that with GoT, for some reason.  What they thought it would accomplish is beyond me.

I typed "New York Daze" into Google and I got an IMDb link to a show called Too Something. Apparently, Portia de Rossi was in it, as well as that guy who played Jimmy Olsen on Lois & Clark.

I don't see Justin Whalin among the cast members of Too Something.

I still think of him as the guy who took over the Andy Barclay role in Child's Play 3.

That always bugged me.  I didn't know if it was because they wanted an older Andy or because they were done with Alex Vincent.

In retospect, maybe they were taking a cue from what they did with Tommy Jarvis in the Friday the 13th series.

What else has Justin Whalin been in--besides the Dungeons & Dragons movie?  I guess I could just go to IMDb, but I just went there to look at the Too Something cast list, and the strenuousness of that journey put a real Ips on me.

I was so pissed when they changed the actor who played Jimmy Olsen to Justin Whalin.

Mal Shot First wrote:

I typed "New York Daze" into Google and I got an IMDb link to a show called Too Something.

Yeah, I think that's the one. I need to check and see if I can download some episodes and see if they seem at all familiar. I don't think I saw very many episodes before it was cancelled.

I loved Too Something/New York Daze. There were some funny gags in it, but it just never caught on.

I remember Saved By The Bell: The College Years. Is that similar?

I haven't been posting all of the GoT news, since nobody was responding to any of my posts in the other thread, but, since this thread seems to demonstrate some slight renewed interest, I'll post this link to the makinggameofthrones site where one of the special effects guys (a data wrangler, apparently) talks a little about the FX work for season 2 and he mentions the effects guys will be helping to create the direwolves for S2, allowing them to get to the size they were in the books.  I would've preferred they stuck with dogs, since I'm generally wary of CGI outside of backgrounds and objects or things like dragons where there isn't really another way except for CGI and animatronics (and maybe some other stuff like models), and I also just don't think TV budgets (even one as large as GoT's) are really up to this sort of thing, but I am curious to see what they are able to do.

The reason I don't get into all the preview stuff is because I feel like it makes waiting for the show to continue only more unbearable. I feel that way with movies, too. I don't want to know anything about the latest developments from the set of The Dark Knight Rises because in addition to finding out possible spoilers, I will probably just get more impatient for the movie to come out and I'll build it up way too much. Call me old-fashioned, but I like to be surprised. This is also the reason I don't like to watch extended trailers for most movies - the teaser trailers are usually enough for me.

Basically, most of what CCA is supposed to be for is not for me.

New promo video focusing on location shooting in Croatia seems to dash hopes of one-breasted gowns. Croata is serving as exteriors for King's Landing, and also for Qarth, an eastern city that Daenarys visits, and we see Dany and other women with their breasts firmly fettered in silks and other fabrics. For shame, HBO!

That is BULLSHIT!!!

At the end of last season, they talked about not doing that. I'm PISSED!

To be honest, all the nudity of the first season started to get on my nerves after a while. It was kind of fun at first, but then it started to look like they were just looking for excuses to show nudity without any real purpose to it. It felt like they were pandering to the audience in a way that they didn't have to, in my opinion, because the show has enough other merits without having to try to lure in viewers by showing some skin.

You go to hell. YOU GOT TO HELL AND YOU DIE!

Mal Shot First wrote:

...but then it started to look like they were just looking for excuses to show nudity without any real purpose to it.

Who ARE you? Real purpose? Who ever needs a real purpose? They're BOOBS!

 Boobs have a purpose.  They look nice.  That is their purpose.  They are also a key reason why the slo mo running scenes in Baywatch were such a triumph.

Also the only reason trampolines are ever on tv.

Tru dat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgZpXOiDF-g&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Daltons chin dimple wrote:

 Boobs have a purpose.  They look nice.  That is their purpose.  They are also a key reason why the slo mo running scenes in Baywatch were such a triumph.

Boobs serve about as much purpose in Game of Thrones as 3-D serves in most movies these days.

That seems like a convoluted statement. Let me depict it using a SAT-style analogy.
boobs : Game of Thrones :: 3-D : blockbuster movies

We've lost him boys.