Hey Sup Forums would you consider game of thrones to be a political thriller?

Hey Sup Forums would you consider game of thrones to be a political thriller?

Not at all, it's a might makes right kind of world in game of thrones. The excitement of a political thriller comes from how the main character is able to get around someone or something while still following the rules in place, making their victory even sweeter.

Season 1 and 2 MAYBE, but only in King's Landing scenes. Not indicative of the show at large.

Na too sci-fi.

We have to keep in mind that most wars are grounded in politics. Except maybe for the Dothraki.

It might have some features of a political thriller, but not enough to be considered one.

It definitely has elements of a political thriller, especially with everyone involved in King's Landing and the War of the Five Kings, but it's definitely a fantasy show. White Walkers are coming to wreck shit up.

>political elements
>lots and lots of incest
Fantasy medieval political thriller at best

Honestly, Considering the time period and setting of the show, the incest is pretty tame.

Is this show good guys? Worth watching 5seasons behind?

oh definitely standard for the times

Being so far behind is probably a blessing considering you dont have to wait out periodic droughts of content.

>Dothraki
>take other people's stuff unearned
>Bernie politics

I consider GOT to be the less educated version of LOTR.

Oh yes, the land where they dont even elaborate on half of the series namesakes

Nope, more soap opera in a fantasy setting

Nothing like LOTR at all. Except Sean Bean

I think it certainly meets the criteria and should apeal to fans of the genre provided they can get past the setting and fantasy elements.

It isn't how I would describe it however as it is primarily fantasy, even if it's grim and adult oriented. So a medieval fantasy show meant for mature audiences... yes, if you lenghten the description it would certainly be accurate to say it contains many of the elements of a political thriller...

I wouldn't consider it any kind of thriller. Fucking dorky medieval shit.

Guess I need to start watching soaps. Particularly medieval sci-fi soaps. And porn, for that matter

Don't cut yourself

nope. it's all about family and houses, not parties and policy.

Did you go to law school?

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I wouldn't even consider game of thrones.

Less educated? I'll grant Tolkien went the extra mile of creating a fully developed theology/history with the Silmarilion, that it's a world that contains it's own language and that the work is basically the foundation piece for the contemporary interpretation of a whole genre, no small feat. But in terms of detail it can't beat GoT which really goes in depth in terms of world building; a fully fledged economic, social, political system, strategic warfare, scholarship, religious ritual... GOT goes into anthropological detail and beyond the barebones of an adventure story, or a collection of these, into a plot with objectively more literary merit and sophistication, nevermind narrative structure, character development, the use of complex literary objects but that there's actually meaningful female characters, nevermind they're superbly written... LOTR is going through three relatively lenghty sausage fests...Not shitting on LOTR but to say GOT is "less educated" is fanboyish and conceited, nevermind it borrows very little from it and actually subverts much of stilted elements with which Tolkien did in some ways burden the genre... Comparing to Sci Fi it's the equivalent of cyberpunk breaking the mold of golden age writers... Although in all fairness sci fi never degenerated like fantasy did, even if Space Opera arguably made a mockery of Asimov's Foundation... Fucking edgy pseudo-intellectual tripe... "less educated"...

yeah... minus the thriller...

HOLD THE DOOR

I'm calling BS, closed door negotiations, bklackmail, corruption, etc. are all stapples of the genre, could you fucking quote an example of a political thriller you would use as reference?

Also this is cuckery, Varys or Littlefinger are good examples of character who clearly subvert the might is right dogma, the Starks were beaten by political intrigue not military means, etc. The books deal with logistics and the raising of armies, might is a lot more com´plex tham knights jousting...

You're overestimating the importance of politics relative to military might. There's a balance.

The show is not a political drama because that is not its focus, in any season outside the first.

I absolutely would, the first few seasons especially are jam packed with political intrigue, it's become more focused on telling the fantasy story more recently though

btw GoT is not, and never will be sci-fi. It's fantasy, there's a difference