Padraig O'Sullivan Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 Were the right actresses cast for the Sand Snakes? I think they got it wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hol Horse Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Aside from Oberyn, nothing concerning Dorne was done right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattnj81 Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 I don't think the actresses are bad. The writing, the dialogue, story, etc. were the real issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tianzi Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Ellaria is a very good cast. Otherwise On 13.05.2016 at 5:43 PM, mattnj81 said: I don't think the actresses are bad. The writing, the dialogue, story, etc. were the real issue. This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattnj81 Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 On 5/16/2016 at 0:37 PM, Tianzi said: Ellaria is a very good cast. Otherwise This. At least somebody agrees with me. The Sand Snakes get a lot of hate, but it is misdirected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dornishdragon Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Indira Varma was a good cast for Ellaria the other three were not so good specially Nymeria and of course Tyene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nymeria's pack Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Seeing as they decided to write Ellaria as a vicious vengeful murderer, Indira Varma probably was an ok cast, although they still wrote her dialogue badly. Sand Snakes, well again they wrote characters that were vicious, immature, illogical, and gave them a ridiculous plot and very bad lines so the casting isn't the worst part of the sand snakes, although not very good either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loranza Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 They seem too precious. Like handmaidens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lockjaw of House Boltagon Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Meryl Streep herself couldn't have made this thing work. It takes a very very very talented actor to sell this kind of dialogue. In terms of looks, I think Ellaria, Obara and Nymeria (for some reason I actually had pictured the Volanteene as Asian when reading the books) are a pretty close fit. Tyene looks different than the book version but it's not a deal breaker. Of course, there's so much that went wrong with the Sand Snakes that it's not worth mentioning it. But I think it was a missed opportunity to improve on what I think were really poor characters in the books. Shame (Shame! Shame!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bran Snow Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Obara is the only one I really have issue with. Its not so much her appearance (she is suppose to be big-boned), its the way they have Keisha Castle-Hughes playing her. She always has this mad dog look on her like someone just pissed in her cheerios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rory Snow Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 On 7/16/2016 at 7:39 PM, Bran Snow said: Obara is the only one I really have issue with. Its not so much her appearance (she is suppose to be big-boned), its the way they have Keisha Castle-Hughes playing her. She always has this mad dog look on her like someone just pissed in her cheerios. Whenever she's on screen, all I see is Buttercup from the PowerPuff Girls. Overall I think the Sand Snake casting is fine, the short one (bad pussy) in particular is gorgeous. As many have said, the actresses aren't the problem, the entire Dorne story line was just horrifically written and terribly ill conceived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon's Queen Consort Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Indira Varma was the perfect Ellaria. I don't think that they could find a better actress. However she was a victim of poor writting. The SandSnakes were bad, the casting was off and the writting was even worse. On 18/7/2016 at 10:12 AM, Rory Snow said: Whenever she's on screen, all I see is Buttercup from the PowerPuff Girls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byfort of Corfe Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 On 7/15/2016 at 11:33 PM, Ser Lockjaw of House Bolta said: Meryl Streep herself couldn't have made this thing work. It takes a very very very talented actor to sell this kind of dialogue. In terms of looks, I think Ellaria, Obara and Nymeria (for some reason I actually had pictured the Volanteene as Asian when reading the books) are a pretty close fit. Tyene looks different than the book version but it's not a deal breaker. Of course, there's so much that went wrong with the Sand Snakes that it's not worth mentioning it. But I think it was a missed opportunity to improve on what I think were really poor characters in the books. Shame (Shame! Shame!) Yes, IMHO they're bad characters in the books and while the series did them no favors I don't really think it could be helped. For me nothing Dornish ,except Oberyn, is worth a hoot, in the series or the books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodsteel bitterraven Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 The actresses were not the problem, but the fact that those two morons that run the show made them identical. In the books they all have different personalities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titantron91 Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Good cast. Bad direction. Bad scripts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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