GAME OF THRONES: THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON
TV SERIES adaptations cannot visualise novels. There are often too many themes, characters and subplots to keep track of during a weekly 50-minute show. Instead, novels are trimmed, minor characters are absorbed and themes are ranked in importance. The same goes for the series.
Game of Thrones Season five is an amalgamation of the last two books. George RR Martin initially wrote novels five and six as one, but separated them into approximately 700 pages each based on geography for the story’s many plots.
War plagues the seven kingdoms and Margery Tyrell and Cersei Lannister attempt to outdo each other’s sexual exploits. Daenyrs Targaryeon faces a revolting city and piling bodies in her desire to end slavery.
The season finale outraged many viewers, while those of us who had read the books giggled. The ending is accurate, but leaves out information that only the novel could explain.
Martin confessed in December that he could not finish the next instalment, “Winds of Winter”, so all Thronians will be biting their nails to see what the TV show will introduce.
With everyone wondering: “Is Jon Snow really dead?”
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Game of commentaries by the cast and crew, four deleted scenes and the new characters and locations. – Gemma Ritchie WE ALL love TV game shows, from the fun
where groups of friends fight Friends Like These for their honour through some silly games, to the more serious ones like where
Fear Factor individuals go through tasks like eating live roaches to jumping off buildings. In general, TV games, especially the South Africans ones, are focused on having fun and nothing beyond that. It’s not like we have or anything like
Jeopardy that on local TV. As long as you can sing or dance, you qualify for most of SA’s game shows. That’s why you need to watch
The Right to Win, an alternate show that shows you intelligent South Africans who know what South Africa’s democracy is all about. “What?” you may ask. Well, with all the “mustfall” demonstrations, the “paybackthemoney” saga and eToll defiance, there is a lot of unrest in South Africa today. This, then, begs the question: are we truly in a democratic state? In fact, what is democracy all about and is it something that we can achieve together? Hosted by Pabi Moloi, hosts
The Right to Win contestants who have a good knowledge of the democratic anatomy of South Africa and the local government elections, for example. In its second season, will
The Right to Win feature two celebrity-led teams that will compete for a grand cash prize by testing their knowledge of our democracy today.
The celebrity in each team is the leader and they have two other unknown contestants to help them out. The grand prize – a cool R10 000 – is won by the team that can outscore the opponents.
Some of the celebrities to look out for include actor Terence Bridgett, 5FM DJ Sureshnie Rider and singer Nomsa Mazwai.
This show could have been improved if the celebrities were to do it all by themselves. They are always opinionated and so it would have been great to see how they do in a real ‘know-it-all’ contest.
In the words of the SABC’s Group Communications chief, Kaizer Kganyago: “The SABC has a responsibility to fulfil our mandate of educating the public about our democracy and the importance of heading to the polls, communicating the message through our content.
The is one of the properties that we have Right to Win commissioned, aimed at testing the general knowledge of South Africans about our country.” The Right To Win airs every Saturday at 6.30pm on SABC2.