It'll be dollars, definitely. For one thing, it's an American show; for another, £63 million is a hell of a lot of money, about $100 million, which is more than most films get. Season 2 should get a bigger budget because of the success of Season 1, and it's going to need it. The big battles in Season 1 didn't really need to be shown because the important part was the outcome; the battles in Season 2 need to be on screen. There's some seriously crazy stuff that happens in the second book. Should be very interesting.KiKiweaky said:I heard somewhere that the initial budget was 63 million (not sure what currency, anybody have any details?) or something like that? I reckon most of that was spent on set builing and costumes. Perhaps we can look forward to larger battles in the second series not that I really mind, any of the fight scenses they do have have been full of awesome
Frankly, given the fact that he's been writing it for 6 years now, if it were any shorter than that people would probably be quite annoyed. I'm really looking forward to reading it; I've not read much recently because of university work, and I'm excited to have a big huge novel to get my teeth into over the summer. Granted, I'll probably finish it in about three days, but the point still stands.Toaster Hunter said:
I've found that I got a lot more out of the TV series having read the books than I would have done otherwise. For one thing, it made it a lot easier to keep track of who all the characters were; for another, there were little bits of foreshadowing that I wouldn't have picked up on otherwise. There were a couple of sentences which foreshadow things which won't happen until Season 2 or 3, which was a very nice touch on the part of the writers.Greatjusticeman said:
In one of the episodes, the second or third, I think, Jaime says he'd "rather be dead than a cripple". Given that he later gets his hand cut off, this ought to be significant later on.
On a similar note, Bran, after learning that he's paralysed from the waist down, tells Robb he'd rather be dead, in episode 3, I believe. Book 2 ends with: "[Winterfell] was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either." If that line makes it into the TV series, giving the line from Season 1 the callback it deserves, that will be one hell of a moving end to Season 2.
On a similar note, Bran, after learning that he's paralysed from the waist down, tells Robb he'd rather be dead, in episode 3, I believe. Book 2 ends with: "[Winterfell] was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either." If that line makes it into the TV series, giving the line from Season 1 the callback it deserves, that will be one hell of a moving end to Season 2.
