I do see where you're coming from, and I think we mainly differ on a matter of degree and - until I see how she/the makeup artists pull this off - we'll probably just have to agree to disagree. It's actuallly the fact that George said she came in looking like Brienne that gives me hope they'll go in the right direction with her.
I do see one crucial different between Brienne and Tyrion, and yes, I admit I'm partly affected in this by my longstanding admiration for/attraction to Peter Dinklage. But even now, dwarfism is considered so far from the norm that it's covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, so as a viewer I'm willing to overlook the missing mismatched eyes and accept the possibility that he'll probably keep his nose (though I hope get the crosswise scar) and still accept that he was looked down on and considered repulsive by the general run of people in Westeros - particularly Tywin, with his rigidity, and Sansa, with her worship of perfect knights and their ladies. Brienne's got to be more than just tall and plain for me to buy into the degree of prejudice she faced, even in that world and time.
But...we'll see. I want this to work. I want to really feel Jamie's shock when his body responds to her in the bath. I'm just wary of HBO, knowing their penchant for sex and nakedness and pretty people.
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Date: 2011-07-09 01:36 am (UTC)I do see one crucial different between Brienne and Tyrion, and yes, I admit I'm partly affected in this by my longstanding admiration for/attraction to Peter Dinklage. But even now, dwarfism is considered so far from the norm that it's covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, so as a viewer I'm willing to overlook the missing mismatched eyes and accept the possibility that he'll probably keep his nose (though I hope get the crosswise scar) and still accept that he was looked down on and considered repulsive by the general run of people in Westeros - particularly Tywin, with his rigidity, and Sansa, with her worship of perfect knights and their ladies. Brienne's got to be more than just tall and plain for me to buy into the degree of prejudice she faced, even in that world and time.
But...we'll see. I want this to work. I want to really feel Jamie's shock when his body responds to her in the bath. I'm just wary of HBO, knowing their penchant for sex and nakedness and pretty people.