I was blown away by how awesome the first episode was! And yeah, the title sequence was frakking incredible.
HBO, we need a 2nd season confirmation asap!!!
HBO, we need a 2nd season confirmation asap!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!
I never doubted this but glad to see some confirmation!
Karazax wrote:Great character cheat sheet here: http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/up ... -101-f.jpg
Even more impressive is its ratings success in the UK. Thrones is airing on Sky Atlantic, a new channel which only launched eleven weeks ago. Furthermore, whilst Sky is in a lot of homes in the UK (just over 10 million, or about a quarter of the total number of households in the country) its television drama ratings have historically been pretty low: Battlestar Galactica typically got 100-200,000 viewers on the far better-known and more-established Sky One and was counted as a success. Also on Sky One, Lost got about 400,000, rising to 600,000 for the finale, and was counted as a big hit for them. Boardwalk Empire got 400,000 when it debuted as Sky Atlantic's flagship show in February (dropping down to 200,000 within two weeks) and was counted as a success.
So all of these factors mean that Game of Thrones getting 743,000 viewers for its first hour has sent Sky representatives into paroxysms of happiness on Twitter. This is a huge and unexpected success. I expect to see a big drop-off for the second week, as that always happens plus it's a holiday weekend, but even so this bodes well for Sky's future coverage and sticking with the programme.
Thanks, that's indeed very useful for someone who is not familiar with the books. I found it a bit hard to keep up with all the introduced characters and their relations. The pilot was definitely very intriguing and I'll be watching the next episode. But I hope it gets a bit more streamlined, that each episode focuses more on one or two story arcs instead of covering all of them.Karazax wrote:Great character cheat sheet here: http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/up ... -101-f.jpg