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(Anonymous) 2019-05-01 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
No offence, but that throne looks really tacky. Plus it's like unnecesarily large, it'd make shooting scenes and moving to and from it look really odd, I think.

(Anonymous) 2019-05-01 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
The throne is supposed to be large and menacing. It is also supposed to be horribly uncomfortable to get into and sit in. The show one doesn't do any of that.

(Anonymous) 2019-05-02 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Huh, didn't know that... Unfortunately now I have the image of Snow or someone tripping halfway up the steps and face planting in front of the entire court;; Though I would say the throne of the show is intimidating in it's own way, with all it's pointy bits?
(obviously I haven't watched GoT)

(Anonymous) 2019-05-02 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
That's what it's supposed to look like.

The Throne itself is described as having steps. It's not supposed to be comfortable. It's supposed to make reclining hard, with jagged metal on the back, because 'kings should not rest easy'. People cut themselves on it (and a king's tendency to do this is supposed to indicate they aren't worthy of sitting on it -- Aerys, in his madness, had cuts on his hands and arms from the throne and Maegor the Cruel was said to have been killed by it), it's plot significant that it happens. It's supposed to be a hideous, asymmetrical monstrosity.

The TV show throne is even lampshaded as such by ... I think it was Littlefinger and Varys? Where they discuss the fact that legend says it was made with over a thousand surrendered swords of Aegon the Conqueror's enemies, but one (I think it's Littlefinger?) points out that there aren't even two hundred.

It made sense to take it down a notch, they did it with literally everything else, and at least the show version is iconic looking, but I'd love to have seen the horrible dragon-forged thing of the books.

(Anonymous) 2019-05-02 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
While it doesn't exactly make things right, at least they lampshaded it;; And what better way to keep people from dethroning you by making said throne notoriously uncomfortable...

(Anonymous) 2019-05-02 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
you know, i keep seeing a person commenting with the unspaced;; after like half of their statements and it makes it pretty obvious which comments are all yours

just saying

(Anonymous) 2019-05-02 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I've been told that before. It doesn't really bother me tbh, but thanks for letting me know;;? I'm sure I've seen other people do it every once in a while too, maybe, possibly?

(Anonymous) 2019-05-02 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly the show version seems a lot more plausible to me as a throne that is actually used. The book version sounds like something a ruler would come up with because it sounded cool, and then after a week tops of sitting on the thing, he'd come up with some super symbolic reason why it should only be used for coronations and demand a normal chair for everything else.

(Anonymous) 2019-05-02 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Plot significant in the books, but little to none of that made it into the show anyway.

(Anonymous) 2019-05-01 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I wish they had hired better writers and showrunners.
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[personal profile] 11thmirror 2019-05-01 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
That design does look really cool, but it's also a bit awkward, and would be difficult to arrange a scene around
But yeah, I can see why GRRM likes it

(Anonymous) 2019-05-01 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I do enjoy how theatrical it is and how uncomfortable and dangerous it looks.

It amuses me that the most powerful person sits on that thing just to look intimidating. Has nobody even demanded a cushion?

(Anonymous) 2019-05-02 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
That throne reminds me of film!LoTR throne, which looks as though it's at the top of a stepladder. Do directors not research actual thrones?

(Anonymous) 2019-05-02 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
The pilot cost $5-10 million dollars and the first season was $50-60 million. It may not be the season six budget of $10 million per episode (I'm not sure what it is for the final season), but the first season didn't have a cheap budget. I'm sure they had the budget for the iconic set piece to do whatever they wanted, but they also had to think about the practicality of moving and storing it and, you know, actors not hurting themselves on it.

(Anonymous) 2019-05-02 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
And also cleaning it! Imagine trying to dust that thing.

(Anonymous) 2019-05-02 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
ayrt

Now I'm wondering what they made it out of and if you could power wash it -water would go everywhere, but it would be a blast.

(Anonymous) 2019-05-02 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
You probably could, but íf it's iron it would rust unless you blow-dried it as well.

(Anonymous) 2019-05-02 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
It looks a bit like a run over porcupine.
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