{"id":2121,"date":"2008-11-13T21:01:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T21:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2008-11-13T21:01:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T21:01:31","slug":"naomi_watts_as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2121","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Watts As Cersei FTW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another reason to keep my HBO subscription: the network is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/news\/e3ie9098baec9eb95cdf64383a225032180\">ordering a pilot based on &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221;<\/a>, the first book in George R.R. Martin&#8217;s epic &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire\">A Song of Ice &amp; Fire<\/a>&#8221; fantasy series. I&#8217;ve discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the19thfloor.net\/archives\/2007\/01\/adaptation_1.html\">my enthusiasm<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the19thfloor.net\/archives\/2006\/07\/critic_at_large_5.html\">these books<\/a> in previous entries and I&#8217;m anxiously awaiting the fifth installment. While many familiar tropes of the fantasy genre can be found in the books (swords, feudal societies, dragons), their tone is quite dark. Combine that with healthy doses of explicit sex and the material seems like a perfect fit for HBO&#8217;s sensibilities. The books&#8217; cast of thousands might have to be pared down to accommodate the realities of a television series budget, but Peter Jackson has already demonstrated that it&#8217;s possible to adapt a literary work without slavish adherence to the text.<\/p>\n<p>Just one request: please don&#8217;t film it in British Columbia. It seems like every genre series uses BC for exterior shots and it&#8217;s getting old. When I imagine the land of Westeros, I don&#8217;t get a Pacific Northwest kind of vibe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another reason to keep my HBO subscription: the network is ordering a pilot based on &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221;, the first book in George R.R. Martin&#8217;s epic &#8220;A Song of Ice &amp; Fire&#8221; fantasy series. I&#8217;ve discussed my enthusiasm for these books in previous entries and I&#8217;m anxiously awaiting the fifth installment. While many familiar tropes <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2121' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-yd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}