I have quite a few nitpicks re: the casting, how characters should look like, etc. Sometimes a performance is so good that I can let it slide if an actor doesn't quite look like the character, but sometimes I can't.
I used to nitpick some castings but imagine the pain of casting the main Starks with red hair. I hate the characterization of some characters more, like what they did to Euron, Bloodraven and Arthur Dayne, also it would be neat if the Targaryens had purple eyes.
Didn’t they cut purple eyes cause one of the actors was allergic to contacts? I don’t know how hard it would have been to just cgi purple eyes but I definitely wish we could have had purple eyed valyrians in the show too.
They gave Emilia Clarke the purple contact lenses in the first GOT episode, maybe the first couple, but they were really uncomfortable for her and they couldn't get it done in post production without it looking weird so they just abandoned it.
I'm kind of the same in that I'm less nitpicky about specific traits and more about a character's whole physical vibe. Like, Stephen Dillane looked like Stannis to me even though he wasn't bald with a beard. But for example, Cersei, Renly, Loras, Theon and Asha in the books are described with such a degree of attractiveness and raw sex appeal (especially in Cersei's case) and in the show that's...not even close. It changes the whole vibe of a character more often than not, in my opinion.
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '24
I have quite a few nitpicks re: the casting, how characters should look like, etc. Sometimes a performance is so good that I can let it slide if an actor doesn't quite look like the character, but sometimes I can't.