Game of Thrones is massively overrated

yeah no yeah no yeah no wrote:

words to live by wrote:

nudity is pointless? for those of us in post-nuptial cutoff, I beg to differ: it is a godsend.

also it is all based on history so you can learn by watching it. It is pretty much the equivalent of a college degree in history if you read all the books.

Ahh what??? How is a fantasy series history....you must be high.....

To be fair it is based loosely on the War of the Roses. A civil war in England in the 1400s over the English throne

The first 2-3 seasons were very good.

It's gone downhill a bit, but most regular watchers are somewhat emotionally invested in the characters that are still alive and want to see how the story ends.

On Sunday night, there aren't much better options if your winding down from a busy weekend and want to veg out in front of the TV before heading back to work. (Unless you're too poor to have HBO, work harder and be less poor).

It's also an hour out of the week I can get my wife to watch something that's not an MTV reality show.

Ned Stark wrote:

The first 2-3 seasons were very good.

It's gone downhill a bit, but most regular watchers are somewhat emotionally invested in the characters that are still alive and want to see how the story ends.

On Sunday night, there aren't much better options if your winding down from a busy weekend and want to veg out in front of the TV before heading back to work. (Unless you're too poor to have HBO, work harder and be less poor).

It's also an hour out of the week I can get my wife to watch something that's not an MTV reality show.

This is 100% correct, by far the best post in this thread. I stood and applauded upon reading this.

I watch it for historic reasons, to try to understand what this world was based on before I got here. I like to know how we got from there to here, and the similarities between then and now. Just like then, kings still rule, and a bitch fvcked everything up in every situation.

benjamins wrote:

Ned Stark wrote:

The first 2-3 seasons were very good.

It's gone downhill a bit, but most regular watchers are somewhat emotionally invested in the characters that are still alive and want to see how the story ends.

On Sunday night, there aren't much better options if your winding down from a busy weekend and want to veg out in front of the TV before heading back to work. (Unless you're too poor to have HBO, work harder and be less poor).

It's also an hour out of the week I can get my wife to watch something that's not an MTV reality show.

This is 100% correct, by far the best post in this thread. I stood and applauded upon reading this.

Hi, Ned.

TAA wrote:

yeah no yeah no yeah no wrote:

Ahh what??? How is a fantasy series history....you must be high.....

To be fair it is based loosely on the War of the Roses. A civil war in England in the 1400s over the English throne

history is told by the winners, Game of Thrones is all history just the real history, the only reason we think it is different a bit is because history as we know it is garbled

Game of Thrones is about magic, dragons, knights, princesses, power struggles and this stuff is all real and happened. Raising from dead? Lazurus. This is all real stuff that is what makes it so good and scary. Even more real, we do not know what will happen until it happens, that is so real life that it is scary too. History isn't history until it has happened! THe show is fantastic - not fantasy - fantastic. All this stuff is real. Peter Dinklage REALLY is a dwarf. The dragons are CGI because of cost. People denied that Vikings settled America, but it still happened even if everyone forgot for a while. Now there is a show on the History channel called Vikings and it too is all real stuff. Game of Thrones has changed a few names and combined a few historical characters just for ease of storytelling and interest but make no mistake the show is all historical and real.

Is it just me or does everyone else still find Melisandre super hot?

0/10

All real stuff.

Ned Stark wrote:

On Sunday night, there aren't much better options if your winding down from a busy weekend and want to veg out in front of the TV before heading back to work.

Almost everything is a better option than Game of Thrones.

more like 1/10 because he got you to bite the first time

I miss Melisandre wrote:

Is it just me or does everyone else still find Melisandre super hot?

Redheads are my weakness, yet she does nothing for me.

Back in college a lot of my friends were reading this so I picked it up and concluded it was written for simple minded fans of comic books who want to feign the "sophistication" of reading lengthy fiction.

A character might be on the verge of entering into a secondary phase of development.... GRRM might have to flesh out an actual character's personality or develop an intriguing plot twist... nope let's just kill em off. Again and again, kill off any characters before you showcase your complete inability to develop characters or story-lines. This effect is magnified in the show as for some reason they cast the weakest actors as the ones who don't get killed off. Dinklage is awesome though.

jamin wrote: Show is way overrated.

I agree. My wife read the books, so we watched season 1 on netflix together. I grumbled & complained the whole season. The show is built on cheap poorly designed cliff hangers & cheap thrills.

We borrowed season 2 from the library, & I watched 1 episode & finally had enough.

You borrowed it from the library? How cheap/poor are you? Eating ramen noodles and owning a library card is sorta a pathetic existence. Do not let your wife try crossfit

History lover wrote:

I watch it for historic reasons, to try to understand what this world was based on before I got here. I like to know how we got from there to here, and the similarities between then and now. Just like then, kings still rule, and a bitch fvcked everything up in every situation.

Ignorant and mysoginistic.

For the record... wrote:

History lover wrote:

I watch it for historic reasons, to try to understand what this world was based on before I got here. I like to know how we got from there to here, and the similarities between then and now. Just like then, kings still rule, and a bitch fvcked everything up in every situation.

Ignorant and mysoginistic.

You mean "misogynystic". Ignorant you got right.

George RR Martin is a pedo bear, and the 2 Jew Producers have completely POZ'd the show.

And jamin is massively underrated. Ladies, you don't know what you are missing out on with him. Dude is a youtube genius.